Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Category: Home Management

  • The Maker of Indian Cuisine: Trevor’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    Trevor has a degree in Physics, is a bit of an inventor, more than just a dabbler in the maker movement, and he takes his tinkerer’s inclinations to the kitchen. “How does?” and “What if?” are part of what makes us human, so they are naturally encouraged in our training program.

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  • It’s Going on! Jackson’s Mini-meal for Fifteen

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    Dan Burke

    Planning, preparing and serving a three-recipe meal to 15 people is no small matter. Jackson admits at one point he was getting nervous, but he tried to treat the process as a “regular day in class”. He definitely had it going on with his mini-meal!

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  • #BreakingBlind: How a Blind Person Makes Fudge, @WEFitwellness @MBassmaster

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    Dan Burke

    What could be more fitting on the shortest day of the year than a video about making fudge? Here’s Maureen with another Breaking Blind video with a holiday theme!

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  • #Breaking Blind: How a Blind Person Makes Sugar Scrub, @WEFitwellness @MBassmaster

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    Dan Burke

    Here’s the first of a couple of holiday videos from our own Maureen’s Breaking Blind channel. Because … well, there might still be a few people who haven’t run across it yet!

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  • Not Exactly Winding the Year Down

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    Dan Burke

    A group of CCB students pose around a cart with six large trays of goodies to give out

    We’re in our final week – final days, really – of the 2016 year at the Colorado Center for the Blind. It’s not exactly like winding down, but more like an all-cylinders-open surge for the finish line. Alejandro went on a support drop yesterday, and is cooking a big meal tomorrow. Ryan served his mini-meal…

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  • It’s All About That Pie: Crable’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    “I cook all the time now that I’ve been here as a student,” Chris says in this mini-meal video. He took his first shot at baking a pie – three pies actually, sour cream apple pies. He graduates next week! “Crable” is his CCB nickname.

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  • Perez’s Mini-meal & the Mushroom Thief

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    Dan Burke

    The kitchens at CCB are just a few steps away from the lobby where Robert mans the front desk and management offices are located. Because our students are constantly cooking up amazing things in the kitchens, the odors filling the lobby area are sometimes maddenly wonderful. That was certainly the case a few weeks ago…

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  • Belted Kingfisher, Orange Belts and Yoga’s Doggie Down: A Typical Tuesday at CCB

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    Dan Burke

    Allie Blanca C.G Dan andMike walkingaround the pond at Sterne Park during Birding Class

    So this is how Tuesday goes at CCB sometimes. First thing this morning Alie Mays came for our “Birdying by Ear” class. Seven of us reviewed recordings of local bird songs, then walked over to Sterne Park, where we heard mallards, doves, goldfinches and of course Canada geese. Today’s mascot was the belted kingfisher, an…

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  • #Thanksgiving Turkeys and Structured Discovery

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    Dan Burke

    Three sets of hands work on a Fully Cooked Turkey

    Before learning to carve a turkey, a blind person can greatly benefit from learning the bird by touch – how things are connected and how they will come apart. Since our students and Home Management staff started preparations for our own Thanksgiving meal (held a week before the actual holiday) Dishon Spears led students through…

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  • Thankful for Each Other: Our 2016 #Thanksgiving Together

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    Dan Burke

    We were more than ready by noon last Thursday! we’d been waiting for this meal for two weeks, smelling the roasting turkeys and the pies and so much more! Of course, all of our students had a part in preparing it, so they’d been right in the kitchen smelling what we were at last all…

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