If there is a blizzard raging outside your cabin then dear Lord I hope you have a hot pot of tamarind-infused pepper water simmering on your stovetop! Who needs cheap canned chili when you have pepper water? Well unless it’s Elk Chili with Adobe Peppers of course of course. But back to this savory rasam-like broth. …
I just survived a blizzard. Or what southern California refers to as a blizzard anyways. It was a rough couple of days. I burned close to five hundred calories a day shoveling over four feet of snow in this southern California blizzard. That obviously led to some gluten-free baking and possibly some low-carb deep-fried shenanigans. …
When I think of California’s central coast I think of camping along the chilly Pacific Ocean and evenings spent enjoying the most colorful sunsets at our beachfront campsite. A few days camping and adventuring along California’s central coast means miles of sand dunes. Or hiking through a eucalyptus grove forest all with the crash of …
This isn’t my first rodeo. I mean blizzard. Our 2023 southern California blizzard, dropping seven to ten feet of snow from Crestline to Big Bear and everywhere in between has made international news. We had long-lost friends in the UK calling this morning (They are obviously on London time) to inquire if we were defrosted …
After four days of blizzards, shoveling so much snow and more blizzards and shoveling I might need to sit in my backyard on my snow couch with a hot toddy. After so many years of drought, some may call it a March miracle. Some may call it the great Big Bear blizzard of ’23. I …