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Huerfano's Happy Heart

Favorite Green Chile Recipes and More

A unique and tasty collection of recipes and stories from Southern Colorado featuring the iconic green chile. Fire roasted green chiles hold a special place in Colorado culture and this regional cookbook captures the essence of that delightfully smoky fall flavor. Full of recipe stories and food memories, as well as favorite, every day entrees, side dishes, and sweet treats, Huerfano’s Happy Hearts Cookbook, the first in a series of Legacy Cookbooks, speaks to the heart of the hearth and captures the voices who hold our food memories dear. Huerfano’s Happy Hearts Cookbook is the result of a grant received by Artist in Residence Annie Toro Lopez from Think 360 Arts for Learning to the Huajatolla Heritage Foundation as part of a Creative Aging Initiative that improves the lives of our elder community. The aim of the book is to capture and honor the recipes, stories, and food memories that are an integral part of our food culture, and to honor the traditions of regional ingredients. Food unites us. The Legacy Cookbook Series allows us to share in family and regional food traditions, and make those important connections to the past a part of our everyday lives and dinner menus.

Legacy Cookbook Journal

Save your family’s cooking traditions

Food connects us. It connects us as families, at special gatherings with special people, and it connects us as a culture through shared experiences. Food memories are some of our strongest memories, and they are among our favorite to share and relive. 

The Writer's Handbook

An Indispensable Grammer and Style Guide

Learning to apply time-honored techniques of writer’s craft can transform your writing. This concise handbook offers a valuable resource to better understand Grammar, how the English language is used, and how to navigate the writing process.

Designed to be slim and concise, this small book is packed with information that can help you become a better writer in a short amount of time. It can be slid into your notebook, your backpack, or computer bag as a handy reference that is at your fingertips whenever you need it. Written with the writer in mind, this helpful book will become your go-to for a valuable guide to English language rules and conventions, as well as usage, writer’s process, story elements, structure, and more. “The Writer’s Handbook” offers wordsmiths a well-organized guide that can help them achieve a better understanding of how great writers apply their craft, and can assist in your application of important techniques and writer’s devices like active voice, figurative language, symbolism, imagery, and much more.

Written by a long-time, professional Reading and Writing teacher, “The Writer’s Handbook” is a great resource for students, aspiring authors, English Language Learners, and anyone who finds writing to be part of their daily lives. Easy to navigate, and organized to be intuitive to use, you will reach for this Indispensable Grammar and Style Guide again and again.