I returned home to Tahoe and started working at the high school I attended soon after. By November the snow flew. Girls bundled in hoodies, puffies, and Vans. In sickness or snow, their hands wrapped thermoses. The contents – Pozole.
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Coconut Cream Pie
Before coconut, I was lost. And so were the legions of others who initially denied this sweet baby.
Vegetable Stuffed Red Pepper Soup – Instant Pot
Whoa; hold up Spring. Five snows and four rains. When seeing these heavenly symbols, Dave and I act like kids at Christmas. While apart and to a sick degree, we text the forecast back and forth. I’ve noticed something strange about living in Tahoe. People moan about the snow. A silent reminder, “you live in…
Spiced Cherry Berry Pie
Berries and I have a checkered past. When first making pie, I battled them. A harsh lesson loosened my grip and delivered a realization, control is an illusion. But then I’d make a berry pie. Out with the phrase and in walked the control freak. I wouldn’t bat an eye at the monumental, but the…
Cardamom Ginger Lemon Cream Pie
Avi Pie without a pie? Mother’s Day is the perfect week for pie. How is Mother’s Day for you? The day used to be only good. As time passed, the day changed. Now there’s pain too. Quiet in our home for one becomes quieter. To combat the still, I divert my attention on the mother I…
Chilaquiles Verde
I dive head first into the skillet and declare, “chilaquiles are my favorite Mexican dish!” The crunchy texture upon coated layers grab me by the tastebud and once again remind “we’re easy to make too.” And they are.
Green Onion Guacamole
Have I been hiding under a rock? Before January 13th of this year, I’d never heard of such a recipe. I thought I’d been hip to every iteration of guacamole. Is this the song thing? Someone asks, “have you heard the new Alabama Shakes song?” You hadn’t, but now “Joe” plays in the gym, the…
Salsa Verde
My whole life I was red, you were green. I remember the first time. A day wake boarding on the brown murky of Camp Far West. My head splitting from a migraine. Freddy (who to his family goes by Raul, so if we call, they have no idea whom we’re speaking of) was cooking, which is…
Rainey Day Birthday
Today you are nine. The truth is, you may already be nine. We chose April 24th as your birthday. Like many other days of the year, I look deep into the brown of your eyes and remember the first time we met.
