This being St. Patrick’s Day and all, I trust you’re ready to pull your corned beef(s) out of their briny soak today and cook up a couple for your feast, corned beef hash for weekend breakfasts and some corned beef sandwich heaven too (a grilled fontina-corned beef on Texas Toast is on schedule here for […]
Friday Feast
Little did we know that the skinny little girl with knobby knees, braces and glasses – Katie was her name – would become such a big part of our lives when we first hired her to babysit way the heck back in what must have been 1989 in Salt Lake City. We were madly hunting […]
One thing She Who Must Be Obeyed and I have been fascinated by during our most recent foray in Texas is the diversity of damned good table salsas, and I mean freshly made in-house table salsas, that show up in Tex Mex and BBQ dives around the region. We’re living in a little town just […]
Like seemingly everybody this time of year, now and again we finding ourselves reaching for a pork tenderloin or two when the weather isn’t cooperating in terms of grilling or smoking some delectable protein outdoors. Pork tenderloins can be the kitchen masters’ best friend – they’re typically perfectly sized for a family or a couple […]
Last weekend we had the chance to dine with new friends here in town; it ended up being one of the more interesting food experiences we’ve had in a while. Turns out the hostess grew up traveling around the Caribbean; her grandparents owned a small, Caribbean-based sail touring company with two large double-masted ships that […]
Two things conspired to put this simple but oh-so-good Tzatziki Sauce in today’s Friday Feast post. First, a good friend from SLC emailed a couple of days ago for the recipe; he’s a fishing compadre from years back. We had a memorable first meeting on the Green below Flaming Gorge; we rounded a corner to […]
Ah, the winter grind of January is now behind us, heralded (on one hand anyway) with the arrival of one of the best fishing days of the year – Super Bowl Weekend. With a fair portion of the developed world watching the game, if for nothing else than the commercials and an excuse to hold […]
We’re obviously biased as hell, but we’re big fans of Cajun cuisine around our camp. Some might argue that Cajun cuisine is truly an acquired taste, for that matter what regional cuisine doesn’t fit into that category? Our personal exposures started decades ago, clinging to the skirts of grandmothers chopping the ‘Cajun Holy Trinity’ (onions, […]
If I had to choose just one food (food mind you, not beverage) to take with me when exiled to a remote cabin high in the backcountry, it would probably be a never ending supply of various dried red chiles. Most red chiles, after gently toasting in a cast-iron skillet, soaking in warm water and […]
The holidays are done and the stark, cold reality of January has finally sunk in. It’s the dead of winter. In fact, for much of the country this year, winter has arrived in earnest with cold and snow (at least in the Northern Rockies) not seen in a while. Jake and I were just talking […]
One of our last camping runs into Yellowstone prior to the birth of our first child involved a sojourn with a couple we called L & P (rafting and whitewater maniacs, above average fly fishers, damned talented camp cooks) and a few nights at the Madison Junction campground working the September runners moving up the […]
New Year’s Day food traditions in the South always bring a smile around our camp. She Who Must Be Obeyed and I were both raised in Southern homes, which meant the New Year’s Day menu always included blacked eyed peas at a bare minimum, and usually the full court press Southern menu to ring the […]
In the spirit of Christmas now just two days away, She Who Must Be Obeyed convinced me we should share this Best Damn Gingerbread Cookie recipe with our Chi Wulff friends in time to crank out a batch or two for the weekend. These really are the best gingerbread cookies we’ve ever seen – not […]
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the country it was cold enough to freeze the… make Santa feel right at home. Hells bells, they’re even talking snow in Texas tomorrow. With a week of holiday frenzy coming up, we often reach this time of year for warm, relatively simple to prepare, comfort-inspiring foods […]
Seems last week’s Retro Brown Sugar Bacon Bow Ties launched a few other strolls down holiday-themed memory lanes for our friends out there. Friend Drew in Idaho Falls sent me scurrying to days long ago with this email – …so as soon as I read your food post about the Bacon Bow Ties yesterday I […]
