After stirring up a ‘slaw hits the fan’ moment last week on that other fly fishing blog with our left coast inspired riff on the slaw dog, and given the fact that we’ve endured another week of summer like temps here on the South Sound (pushing the low 70s already, dammit), I figured it was [...]
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When you’ve been married as long as we have (we were both mere children…), it’s actually damned rare when your spouse says something that induces genuine shock and awe. Nonetheless She Who Must Be Obeyed shocked me yesterday when she said, in reply to my query about a Mother’s Day dinner this weekend, that she’d [...]
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Partly in deference to friend KB and partly in honor of the summer like temps gracing the Pacific Northwest today and through the weekend, it’s time to break out the smoker and do some ribs low and slow. Our collective hearts go out to you poor bastards who had to clean snow and ice off [...]
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We’re all been told that you need to man up and play the hand that’s dealt you in life – like it or not. Sometimes that hand sucks. Sometimes that hand is a winner. Sometimes that hand is a major winner. For those of us in the sun-starved Puget Sound lowlands, we’ve been dealt a [...]
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There are a gazillion and one innovative fly patterns out there today. Fly tying geeks savants geniuses keep turning them out by the gross every year and earnest feather merchants vow sure success on their waters if you’ll buy two dozen of the latest creation in assorted sizes and colors. Yet peek into most fishers [...]
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This week’s Friday’s Feast will be posted tomorrow on Saturday; after loosing a couple of days in Bozeman this week and a bit of road rash I’m still not sure what day it is.
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The aroma of buttermilk-soaked Texas 1015 onion rings and hand-cut sweet potato fries bubbling in the dutch ovens of hot oil was too much for even the high-rollers from Boston to resist. The high-faluting guests were supposed to be impressed by the views of Lake Austin. Instead they clustered around the prep tables where catering [...]
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Speaking of happy hours, a couple of weeks ago I had one of those hyper-realistic dreams that leave you wondering what the hell you were really doing last night by the time conscious reality resumes the next morning. The setting was either Savannah or Charleston (I could recall a few landmarks from both of these [...]
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Fully recognizing that this holiday weekend should feel awfully spring-like across most of the country I had to squeeze in this hearty braised beef short rib recipe before the end of the ‘hot comfort food season’. (The forecasting savants are even forecasting sunny skies and temps near 70 – gasp – here in the Puget [...]
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A flush of winter has blown (perhaps better said ‘is blowing’) through home country in southwest Montana late this week and perhaps even into the weekend. Talking with friends and neighbors back home it’s hard to ignore the long sighs that precede and follow any discussion of the weather, even when we agree that building [...]
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A friend back home in Bozeman is hosting a little shindig this weekend and is planning a Greek inspired meze menu – flavorful ‘small dishes’ served simply and without pretense. That ‘sit around the table with great finger-food and abundant adult beverages’ approach to gatherings so deeply ingrained in Mediterranean culture seems to fit most [...]
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We’ve been accused on more than one occasion of being knuckle dragging, drooling carnivores when it comes to the Friday Feast. Part of that criticism rings true; we’d no doubt choose the side that argued ‘man could live by meat alone’ even if, deep in our hearts, we knew well that tasty proteins ain’t everything. [...]
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Got off a thought provoking call yesterday afternoon with Sinjin in Colorado (enjoyed it dude) and turned to ponder and stare out the window at the falling rain. The rain still falling here in the Puget Sound lowlands. We’d been talking (mostly) about the engagement of younger folks with the greater world of fly fishing, [...]
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It’s amazing how a single glance at an old photograph can bring back a flood of memories. A friend recently fired over some scans of old snapshots taken during our Salt Lake years in and around what I called ‘the boat shop’, which in the cold light of day was just a shoddily constructed one-car [...]
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Musings from Jess at Fire Girl Photography