{"id":25723,"date":"2025-08-14T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=25723"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:19:57","slug":"colorado-harvest-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/colorado-harvest-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado harvest recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_25739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25739\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25739 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny.webp\" alt=\"Boxes of fresh Colorado peaches\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070453\/CO-peaches-tiny-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking for Colorado harvest recipe ideas? Start with the famous Palisade peach. Photo courtesy of Colorado Proud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado became a state back in 1876, when President Ulysses S. Grant converted the territory into the 38th state in the union.<\/p>\n<p>Around that same time, farming and ranching had begun to eclipse mining as more profitable enterprises for those living here. Growing food began to make both more sense and money than digging for silver and gold.<\/p>\n<p>Markedly Colorado foodstuffs such as the sugar beet, the Palisade peach and Rocky Ford cantaloupe, all trace their lineage hereabouts to this period of the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25742\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25742 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny.webp\" alt=\"For Colorado harvest recipes you can use fresh tomatoes like this colorful array of purple, red, yellow and green tomatoes at a farmer's market.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny-150x113.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070504\/tomatoes-tiny-200x150.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Build your meals this time of year around Colorado&#8217;s freshest ingredients, like juicy, just-picked tomatoes. Photo courtesy of Colorado Proud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nowadays, Colorado agriculture is huge: $40 billion a year grown, raised, and produced over 36,000 farms and ranches and 32 million acres of land. We eat but one of the officially designated state critters \u2014 the greenback cutthroat trout \u2014 although moves have been afoot since 2014 to entitle the Palisade peach as the official state fruit.<\/p>\n<p>(The debate has been both rancorous and difficult, a not entirely unique cocktail for a purple state. On the one hand, folk from Rocky Ford dearly love and promote their melon as a foremost Colorado fruit, deserving of honorifics over and above the Palisade peach. On the other, Colorado is the only state in the country where it is a crime to malign or disparage a fruit or a vegetable.)<\/p>\n<p>Other foods come to mind when thinking Colorado: bison meat, Olathe sweet corn (always use the entire three-worded name, please), Pueblo green chiles, and, of course, those \u201cswingin\u2019 steaks\u201d called Rocky Mountain oysters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25740\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25740 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny.webp\" alt=\"An array of colorful purple and green peppers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070458\/Peppers-tiny-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">August and September are peak season for Colorado produce. Photo courtesy of Colorado Proud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some of the reasons all these foods of Colorado taste so very good are themselves distinctly Coloradan. We\u2019re dry; we\u2019re high in altitude. Our growing conditions are marginal, with large day-to-night temperature fluctuations and relatively poor but mineral-rich soils.<\/p>\n<p>Abundant uninterrupted sunlight \u2014 the \u201chigh\u201d part \u2014 and minerally soils help develop both color and flavor intensity in fruits such as peaches and cantaloupes. Diurnal temperature swings slowly ripen and augment fruit sugars but also at the same time retain fruity acidity (meaning that that peach is both sweet and tangy, a combination superior than being either alone).<\/p>\n<p>And even lack of water can be a benefit. The father of the Rocky Ford melon industry, George Washington Swink, found that watermelons and cantaloupes grown in the dry climes of southeastern Colorado were more concentrated in flavor and fruit sugars, and less prone to melon burst from excess rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading a recipe the other day for a \u201cfarmer\u2019s sandwich,\u201d the kind of noonday meal farmers might pack for themselves to eat for lunch out in the field, or that anyone might assemble from fresh farm produce this time of year. The thought occurred: \u201cDuring August, in honor of Colorado\u2019s statehood, let\u2019s make it from stuff just from Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey by the Colorado Department of Agriculture found that 85 percent of Coloradans buy, or try to buy, Colorado products when shopping or dining out. It\u2019s easier this time of year, than in the colder months, to locate foods grown in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a stab at an all-Colorado farmer\u2019s sandwich, with shout-outs to some proud farmers, cheese makers, winemakers and bakers that call Colorado home.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>An All-Colorado Farmers\u2019 Sandwich<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25741\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25741 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny.webp\" alt=\"Colorado harvest recipe features fresh bread, onion jam and slices of fruit like apple or peach\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny-1024x684.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03070501\/Sandwich-tiny-200x134.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Create your own Colorado farmers&#8217; sandwich with onions, cheese and sliced fresh fruit. Photo: Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>1 large loaf of well-crusted bread, locally made, in the form of ciabatta or baguette<\/p>\n<p>Whole grain mustard<\/p>\n<p>Sweet onion jam (recipe follows)<\/p>\n<p>Slices of firm or semi-firm Colorado cheese (Haystack\u2019s Buttercup or Fruition Farm\u2019s Cacio Pecora)<\/p>\n<p>Thin slices of tart apple (A Braeburn from FirstFruits Organic Farms or Bolton\u2019s Orchards)<\/p>\n<p>Soft-leafed, sweet lettuce (Petrocco green or red leaf)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Assemble the sandwich in layers: Slices of bread, mustard, sweet onion jam, slices of cheese and apple, and lettuce. If saving for later, wrap the sandwiches in waxed paper or plastic wrap and keep in a cool, dry place.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sweet onion jam<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/\">foodandwine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>1 tablespoon unsalted butter<\/p>\n<p>2 medium Colorado sweet onions cut into 3\/4-inch dice (about 2 1\/2 cups)<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup sugar<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 cup dry red wine (such as 2016 Colterris Malbec, Grand Valley CO)<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 cup grenadine<\/p>\n<p>Salt<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Melt the butter in a medium skillet. Add the onions and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until soft and just translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the sugar, wine, vinegar, grenadine and a pinch of salt. Cook over low heat, stirring, until the liquid thickens and coats the back of a spoon, about 35 minutes. Transfer the onion jam to a bowl and let cool.<\/p>\n<p>This recipe, that easily can use Colorado foodstuffs this time of year, comes from Gabrielle Langholz\u2019s \u201cAmerica: The Cookbook\u201d (Phaidon 2017). It contains more than 800 (mostly home cooking) recipes from all 50 U.S. states.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25745\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25745 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny.webp\" alt=\"Fresh Colorado chile peppers and basil\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny-1024x684.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/03072225\/Basil-and-peppers-tiny-200x134.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Start with the fresh Colorado-grown ingredients for the perfect recipes this time of year. Photo courtesy of Colorado Proud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Palisade peach and basil salad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Serves 4<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>6 Palisade Colorado peaches<\/p>\n<p>1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved<\/p>\n<p>1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>1 tablespoon honey<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup very thinly sliced red onion<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n<p>8 large basil leaves<\/p>\n<p>2\/4 cup crumbled sheep\u2019s milk feta or plain goat cheese<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Slice the peaches and toss with the tomatoes, lemon juice, honey, red onion and salt. Tear the basil leaves into small pieces and add to the salad. Top with crumbled cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Bill St. John has written and taught about restaurants, food, cooking and wine for more than 40 years, locally for Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post and KCNC-TV Channel 4, nationally for Chicago Tribune Newspapers and Wine &amp; Spirits magazine. The Denver native lives in his hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado became a state back in 1876, when President Ulysses S. Grant converted the territory into the 38th state in the union. Around that same time, farming and ranching had begun to eclipse mining as more profitable enterprises for those living here. 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