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Quinoa and Kale? CCB and BLVS Partner Under Shades to Make it Tasty!
We were pleased to have three professionals from Blind Low Vision Services, part of Colorado’s Dept. of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) at the Center for training this week. We spent four days together exploring every topic we could think of, including cane travel and cooking under sleepshades. We’ll let them introduce themselves and the meal they…
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A Long Way from Where She Started to Confidence: CG’s Mini-meal
CG admits she’d done very little cooking before starting her training at the Center. Now she enjoys it, enjoys sharing with friends. Watch how calm she is as she prepares her mini-meal for 15 guests.
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18 Onions & What do You Get? Ryan’s Mini-meal & the Inside of Your Sleepshades Are Wet
Ryan admits he was pretty happy to be wearing sleepshades as he chopped the 18 onions it took to make his French onion soup. He is also now excited about cooking something other than “meat” since he came to the Center.
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It’s all ready: Brittany’s Mini-meal
Shrimp and French bread … Britanny is cool and in charge of her mini-meal for 15!
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The Maker of Indian Cuisine: Trevor’s Mini-meal
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
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
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
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
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
“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.