Colorado
4 dishes from Colorado, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Pan-Fried Rocky Mountain Trout
Whole trout dried, rolled lightly in flour and fried fast in hot butter until the skin is a delicate brown — the method a Central City newspaper printed in 1894, with the quantities worked out for this page.
- Total
- 20 min
- Serves
- 2
- Calories
- 370 per serving
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Pueblo Slopper
An open-faced cheeseburger on a split bun, drowned in Pueblo green chile and raw onion and eaten with a fork — a dish with no printed ancestor, no trademark and no datable founder, built here on a federal griddle card and the city's own advertisements.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 2
- Calories
- 815 per serving
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Denver Omelet
Diced ham, onion and green pepper cooked down in butter and set in six eggs over moderate heat — the filling a Denver columnist got out of a chef in 1954 and the Army printed as a sandwich card in 1957, with the quantities worked out for this page.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 2
- Calories
- 406 per serving
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Pueblo Green Chile
Roasted and peeled Pueblo chiles cooked down with cubed pork shoulder, onion and a little flour into something between a stew and a sauce — built on a pepper with a documented pedigree and a man's uncle's name, with the quantities worked out for this page.
- Total
- 2 hr 40 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 415 per serving