What time are you coming over tonight? We are having pizza. I have sauce, mozzarella cheese pepperoni and mushrooms. See you this afternoon. If anyone else received this text from their father they would probably assume they were being invited home to dinner, right? Not in our household. I was driving half an hour to …
You really never notice how blue the sky is until you are at 13,000 feet. It’s such an amazing dark blue against the white of Mt Whitneys switchbacks. It’s such a phenomenal sight as I rested my back against a boulder, my heart feeling like it would explode in my chest. This hike, is beyond …
I didn’t want to go to Venice. I know, I know, everyone says it’s the most romantic and one of the most beautiful cities on earth. All I could think about was, I do not want to eat Italian food for four days. I grew up eating nothing but pasta. When I was a young …
I have been cooking with so much turmeric recently for the anti inflammatory agents found in turmeric root. Not surprisingly my finger tips are dyed orange, my dishes are dyed orange and most of my cats contain a light dusting of turmeric. This is the cats damn fault. They should know better than to be …
I was planning to write a post about how to harvest nopales. I don’t actually care for nopales but I saw so many juicy succulent ones today on our hike on the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) that I thought to myself, how hard could it be to take those big quills out of the cactus …