Zazu wrote:You should try to make decent tea or coffee at altitude! I finally resorted to using a pressure cooker to brew decent tea at 6000 ft. Once I figured out the recipe, it works at any altitude!
Yeppers! Pretty much every recipe or cooking time and heat has to be changed at altitude. The only thing I really like about living here is that when we come down to Florida or California, I can go and go and go, because my blood is so rich, kinda like blood doping! That is why the Kenyans win the marathons. They run at 10,000 feet and can go forever when they run in New York or Boston or any low altitude city.
The worst part is when we get back after being away for 3 weeks. I get really tired very easily and short of breath until we re-acclimate to the altitude.
Life is different living at a mile high! We got snow last night but it is pretty much melted off when the sun came out this morning and now this afternoon it is clouding up again and we are supposed to get 3-8 inches of snow depending where you are in the city or the foothills. At least it is not supposed to be a blizzard! And this after a pretty pre-Spring week of sunshine and shorts weather, for a couple days. It goes back and forth every day.
So if you ever end up living in the Rockies, you will need to readjust every recipe in your file or cookbook! And wear lots of warm clothes!
I just want to live in my tank tops, shorts and flip flops again all year round!!!!
susi
