Today amongst the falling fall leaves floating in the mountain breeze, I voted for the first time in the city of Big Bear Lake and I also made the most unbelievable mint chutney. I tried to do my civic duty with my mail in ballot but I filled out one of the state propositions very, …
After a gorgeous fall day of hiking mountain trails and splitting and stacking half a cord of wood a big dish of hot delicious carbs sounds fantastic. But we try to ignore those amazing carbs in our household so how about serving up a a big bowl of southern Indian inspired cauliflower rice instead? If …
Three years ago every step I took was agony even on a gorgeous autumn day such as this as I trekked my favorite leave covered trails in our national forest just steps out our back door. My sciatica was back and it was killing me. Three years ago, not quite so healthy and holistic Amber …
Pasta sauce is not really my thing. Which may be slightly surprising as I used to be a runner, and runners love to carbo load, right? Not this ex trail runner. I liked my cheese and veggies and when it came to carbs, well, I could take those sugar and white flour filled babies or …
This autumn fall came early to our neighborhood. What I mean by that is Labor Day weekend it may still have been eighty degrees in our neighborhood but we lost a quarter of our apple tree in one snap and we had a plethora of apples on our hands. Oh, poop. “Who wants to take some …