This authentic biscochitos recipe teaches you how to make New Mexico’s official state cookie using traditional ingredients like lard, anise seeds, and cinnamon sugar. These crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth cookies are a holiday classic, especially during Christmas celebrations in New Mexico. Also known as bizcochitos or biscochos, this traditional New Mexico cookie has been passed down for […]
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The Turquoise Trail – Enchanted Weekend Part 1
Hello! This post is part 1 of a (so far) 8-part series dedicated to a weekend trip we recently took around northern NM. Check back soon for the following 7 (or so) parts. In northern New Mexico, highways and byways have names, not numbers. Well, they have numbers too, but their names are much cooler. […]
Read moreSt. James Tearoom: A Sweet Respite from a Hectic World
St. James Tearoom Life can be crazy these days. Between work and a somewhat hectic social life, I’m bombarded by all kinds of extraneous noise. I mean how many snarky tweets, Facebook postings of cute animals and Google alerts on Channing Tatum can a girl wade through before just needing to run away for a […]
Read moreSurfing (and occasionally eating) Pavement in New Mexico + 8 Tips for Beginners
Insights from a “forty-something” rookie skateboarder… This is a story about longboard skateboarding and some things I’ve learned about it over the last year. Before I jump into the skateboarding part though, I need to share a little back story about why, at age 48, I feel the need risk broken bones and road rash […]
Read moreNew Mexico’s “Musical Highway” Plays America the Beautiful
A small stretch of road along old Route 66 / Hwy 333 near Tijeras, NM has been enabled with a musical ability. If you drive over a special rumble strip at exactly 45 miles per hour (no, not 40, not 50), you will be serenaded with a slightly asphalty rendition of the last few bars […]
Read morePie Town Festival – Pie Town, NM
Pie Town is a tiny little community located about 20 miles west of Datil, New Mexico. The town was named after a baker in the 1920s that made pies. Pies so good, the town was named after it. So you can bet when I heard this town was holding its annual Pie Festival, I was […]
Read morePie Town – Pie Eating Contest
Ever since my seven-year-old nephew, Little Trickster, learned he would be returning to the Pie Festival in Pie Town, New Mexico, he talked about nothing but winning the children’s pie eating contest. Turns out, last year he lost due to a hand raising technicality. A similar travesty was the fate of Sir Leopold Chestnut, SECOND […]
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