Summer Linguine – Cover to Cover Cooking
Summer Linguine is the first recipe in our Cover to Cover Cooking series, where Denise & Jacquie cook the entirety of Hedi Swanson’s ‘Super natural every day’ and share their experiences. Denise’s Review: I got to pick out our first recipe. Meaning, I told Curtis that I wanted to use our the summer squash and zucchini in this recipe… which he kind of took over. I helped! Plus, it wasn’t…
Little Yosemite Valley to Glacier Point – Backpacking Red Peak Pass Day 5
Curtis realized that each day of our trip we had managed to leave earlier than the one before. Needless to say I was pretty excited to get started on our last (and shortest?!) day, thinking each step we took would be one step closer to getting home to Basil & Herman…
Merced River to Little Yosemite Valley – Backpacking Red Peak Pass Day 4
On day four we awoke to flick the last 8 or so sleeping mosquitoes off the screening to the tent and start off the longest hiking of the trip. The goal: Little Yosemite Valley… or wherever we would give up at.
Ottoway Lake to Merced River – Backpacking Red Peak Pass Day 3
We attempted to get an earlier start today, as leaving Ottoway lake and hiking up red peak pass was to be our first longer hiking day. We were also anticipating it to be our most scenic day…
Illilouette Creek to Ottoway Lake – Backpacking Red Peak Pass Day 2
From our camp along Illilouette day two would again take us 8-9ish miles, but with considerably more elevation gain , to lower Ottoway Lake…
Glacier Point to Illilouette Creek – Backpacking Red Peak Pass Day 1
Curtis & I hiked Red Peak Pass in Yosemite for 5 days and 4 nights. It was 50 miles of mountains, lizard push-ups, rivers, and lakes. Check out the blog post detailing each day’s ups, downs, and tips: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 Or continue on to read of day 1’s adventures… Something Curtis and I are really horrible at is getting starting hiking early….
The ‘Cover to Cover Cooking’ Experiment
Exciting news – My very good friend Jacquie is going to join me in blogging! Together we are starting a great experiment in which we will attempt to cook one cookbook cover to cover, every last recipie. Why? Well, The reasoning is twofold: (1) to explore some healthy vegetarian cooking, and (2)to force us to use one of the beautiful wonderful cookbooks that are cluttering up our cupboards. You see,…
Visiting Lake Huron, the Au Sable River, & Oscoda Michigan
The shores of Lake Huron along Oscoda, Michigan is one of my favorite places. Growing up I was lucky enough to visit almost monthly with my parents. My favorite things about Oscoda as a child?: Swimming in the cold waters, relaxing on the sandy beaches, eating innumerable amounts of banana splits and barbecue, pretending to help my parents canoe down the Au Sable River, and in general tracking sand absolutely everywhere I went. Now living in California I do not get to…
3 Mile Camp to Rock Harbor: Isle Royale Backpacking Day 5
Waking up on the 5th and final day I could not believe we were already leaving the island. Sad stuff really, but we hadn’t time for that, there was more hiking to do to get arrive at Rock Harbor to catch the boat!
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