My Job, My life, My Horse
Dear Senator Feinstein, Good morning mame, It’s me again, one of the nameless seventy-seven thousand workers in the horse racing industry here in Southern California. Let me tell you just the cliff...
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Acorn Squash Gluten-Free Waffles
To some people, autumn might mean sports ball and pumpkin spice lattes (maybe not at the same time.) If you ask me, autumn tastes like acorn squash with the smells of wood fires in the chilly air....
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Keto and Gluten-Free Ruben Coleslaw
I seriously have a love affair with Ruben sandwiches and a love hate relationship with carbs and gluten. Eat a whole pizza with all the cheeses? Sure! Itch for three days straight and be covered in...
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What the Hell’s a Chaffle?
The first time I heard the term chaffle it sounded like something that would happen if I rode my mountain bike too long. Let me tell you, a chaffle has nothing to do with chaffing and everything to do...
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Mascarpone Sweet Potato Pie with Candied Ginger and a Gingersnap Crust
Once upon a time, I worked until eleven-thirty at night. Then I drove forty minutes home. Then I stepped in cat puke. Than I got in bed. Than I realized I had stepped in cat puke. My alarm was set for...
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Seared Scallops and Mushroom Keto Cauli Risotto
It may be the day after Thanksgiving but it’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas outside our snowy mountain door. Yes, yesterday was thanksgiving I did gorge myself on Butter Chicken and Sweet...
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Jalapeño Popper Chaffle
We eat spicy delicious treats like jalapeno poppers in our household most every day. So that means heading to India for ten days has us upping our spice content and getting ready for some seriously...
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The Hungry Mountaineer’s Anglo Indian Slightly Healthier So Cali Fruit Cake
Baking an Anglo Indian authentic fruitcake is no easy task. It’s way more complicated than whipping up a pan of American style brownies or baking a Food Network-ish cheesecake. But getting drunk on rum...
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Merry Christmas from the Family; Cat Version
It was the winter of 1994 in the mountain hamlet of Running Springs, California. I might not have known it as I was only a fourteen year old but ore teen romping through our mountain forest most days....
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India Spiced Chex Mix
In India, they would call me the snack walla, the creator, the maker of the snacks, a Hindi word used by the Anglo Indians for those who sell or create a thing. Like delicious India inspired Chex Mix....
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Santa Baby, what are the best Donald Trump Christmas Gifts?
Happy holidays from the Hungry Mountaineer! It’s thirty degrees outside our mountain town at almost seven thousand feet. The winds are gusting, the sky is a steel grey and there is a storm brewing on...
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How to Blow a Gasket; Adventures in the Jungles of India
Here it is almost 2020, four years after I almost blew a gasket in the jungles of Tamil Nadu, India and in just a few short days we will be headed back out of Bangalore and south to the foothills of...
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Curried Shrimp Soup over Riced Broccoli
I used to buy store-bought curry powder like everyone else. Hell, I have even purchased store-bought curry sauce once or twice. But that was before I got myself a hot Indian boyfriend. And beyond being...
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The 20 Best Keto Recipes of 2020
The year 2020 has dawned with snow glittering like diamonds in our pine forests as I hauled my fat ass up mountain passes and through the snowy forest. I was a sweaty mess and trying desperately to get...
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Lungis and speedos; How to be at your fashionable best while on Holiday in Goa
“Has anyone seen my lungi?” There is clothing scattered all over our beachside cottage, toiletry bags overflowing with sunscreen and hand sanitizer in our cramped bathroom and I can’t seem to find my...
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Holcomb Creek and the Beavers
It seems crazy to me that I only knew Johnnie for ten years. I only had ten years of friendship, so many laughs, drinking beers at Hollywood Park and watching Zenyatta run, eating tacos at Los...
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Surviving the Venice Bird Flu of 2020
When we planned our trip to Venice in 2019, I was envisioning plates of hot Cicchetti Tapas filled with eggplant and hopefully some goat cheese. Or maybe delicious espresso coffee drinks and raisin...
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BLT Salad with a Creamy Meyer Lemon Avocado Dressing
Every perfect spring morning should start with the smell of bacon filling your kitchen. Some people think that fresh morning rain or the smell of wildflowers means spring is finally here. No. Those...
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How I Survived the Coronavirus. I mean a Night with my Family.
Most people right now are very paranoid about the Coronavirus. Some individuals have just now learned, at thirties years old that yes, you have to wash your hands. Even more folks are flocking to...
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Keto and Gluten-Free Ruben Coleslaw
It’s just days away from the true begining of spring, St Patrick’s day and corned beef everything! Until you ingest green beer and a ton of corned beef has spring really sprung? My hot pastrami or...
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