Tag: hiking
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Perfect Brownies: Protein Packed with Black Beans!

This is one of my favorite snacks to bring to fuel me through a hike! What, I bring brownies?! Oh yeah! Not just any brownies – flourless fueled by PROTEIN packed black beans!! The reaction when I tell people these are made from black beans is a gaping- mouthed look of pure astonishment and disbelief!
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Shepherd’s Pie with Gratifying Gravy

I ventured for my first time to Balsam Mountain in the Catskills (http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/ViewTrip/1325324). Boy, did the weather forecast get this one wrong! That morning you could certainly tell Autumn had left us; as we got closer to the mountain we could see everything above 3,500 ft elevation was covered with a fresh sprinkle of snow. …
