I find food with pumpkin in it this scary. As someone who really can’t stand pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice anything I sure do love to grow pumpkins in my garden. Watching my baby pumpkin plants slowly emerge from the soil in our front yard brings me all kinds of autumn joy. When I …
I love all the smells of fall. Autumn days mean breathing in the scents of cinnamon, cardamon and fresh leaves under my hiking boots. And then I drive home to our cabin full of farting pets. I love the scent of those cinnamon pinecones, cloves and orange essential oils. What I don’t love is all …
Late October in California will usually find us exploring the eastern Sierras in our motorhome. Autumns falling aspen leaves really don’t have a lot to do with cooking Morrocan food but a spicy Moroccan stew is a perfect supper for a chilly night camping with your closest friends. I am now newly obsessed with cooking …
I’ll always remember the last week of September 2020 as so much noise; Planes and helicopters so loudly flying over our house all day and night as a massive wildfire roared through the mountains to the south of us. The wildfire was burning down one of our favorite mountain peaks to hike in the San …
Autumn days in the eastern Sierra mountains mean ruby red leaves falling out of aspen trees onto dusty trails. The weather gets cooler and so pleasant to hike in. I mean until that old high elevation wind picks up at above six thousand feet. The weather can go from pleasant to blustery real fast, especially …