If you’re ever lucky enough to holiday in southern India and stay in someone’s home, breakfast will probably involve Anda Bhurji—curried eggs made the way Indian families actually eat them, not the way they appear on laminated restaurant menus. Back home in Big Bear Lake in 2026, I make them as cottage-cheese-packed curried egg bites, …
Are you ready for some football?What? No?Same. Are you ready to read a really good book while your boyfriend yells at the television and you quietly shove cheat-day appetizers into your face like a raccoon with standards? Now we’re speaking my love language. This is not a football snack. This is a coping mechanism for …
Here in 2026, we’ve apparently decided that cottage cheese belongs in everything. And honestly? I’m not mad about it. Mainly because, as 2026 dawned, I became obsessed with cottage cheese egg bites But let’s not pretend we haven’t been here before. Remember the 1990s, when every dinner involved low-fat sour cream, low-fat cheese, and meat …
Watching the news lately has been surreal, especially for someone who has spent a lot of time traveling through Minnesota and the Midwest. In my mind, those places have always represented calm, kindness, salt of the earth small town charm and a certain grounded, neighborly decency. God-fearing, friendly Americans. The kind of places where people …
These Black Bean Bagels are my morning love letter to everything Tex-Mex, but keep it healthy. After snowshoeing all morning long in the deep woods of Big Bear Lake, I’m so ready for a late Sunday brunch. And nothing says you deserve this, you long-distance hiker, like coming home to my mountain cabin and putting …