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, …
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 …
Here in Big Bear Lake, California, are our high school students sitting in class today, learning algebra, writing essays, or at least pretending to care about either? Nope. They’re standing on “Freedom Corner,” shivering in twenty-degree mountain air, wrapped in kaftans, Doc Martens, and the unshakable confidence that comes from having never paid a utility …
One thing that six days of being on a liquid diet has taught me is that Bone Broth is life. Experiencing a colonoscopy is no joke. I knew there would be two days of a liquid diet, including one day of chugging basically lemon-flavored Pledge directly on the toilet, but I had no idea I …