As Big Bear Lake’s overly caffeinated outdoor adventure guide and culinary storyteller, I usually try to keep the trailside hysteria to a minimum. I would much rather talk about alpine sunsets, wild burros, campfire recipes and tourists wearing flip-flops on hiking trails. But here I am, living my so-called best life in a Southern California …
Let’s face it. If you are a long-distance hiker like me, then your hiking days probably start at 5:00 a.m… Did you use the porta-potty beforehand? Don’t fear, long-distance hiker, high fiber Trek mix is here! The only thing you need to worry about this autumn is which leaf peeping trails to hike, not whether …
If you are creating an Indian feast this summer season, this Bollywood Lemon Rice — Extra Drama, Extra Cashews, is so delicious and easy to create in your rice cooker! You don’t even have to turn on your oven when it’s so hot out in late May! If I’m spending my days sweating in May, …
Pork sausage and pork butt should not be considered “boujie ingredients,” but welcome to life in California over the past ten-plus years, where basic groceries have somehow become a financial commitment. Back in 2012, California voters passed Prop 12 — essentially giving farm animals more real estate than most West Hollywood studio apartments and promptly …
I have spent the last twenty years being deeply suspicious of tofu. Not a casual “meh, not my thing” kind of suspicion, but a full-on side-eye from across the grocery store level of fear. After having non-tumorous breast lumps removed in my twenties (TWENTIES, Wow, so long ago) and watching several women in my family …