Friday Feast

Perfect timing for this recipe sent in just yesterday by new friend Jim P. from San Antonio and Aransas Pass – his AP (Aransas Pass) Jalapeno Corn Fritter. …Love the recipes you guys have been posting and have been wanting to share this one for a while now. Some buddies and I have a little […]

A not so terrible consequence of being interested in food is that you tend to become a repository of recipes that are memorable to friends, food often shared during some excursion to an enviable place, chasing some worthy finned or four-legged critter. A couple of years ago I shared in this The Slaw Hits the […]

The past few weeks have granted very little fishing time and required a fair amount of time on the road. It’s a more or less cyclical sort of thing a business I’m a partner in requires; it leads to exploring quite a bit of less-traveled territory, often driving backroads through little towns and burgs off […]

It’s been a while since we mentioned friend, mentor, and all around rapscallion Ed. For a guy who’s been running around on the planet for something close to eight decades now he’s still putting men (and women) half his age to shame in terms of overall zest for life and daily activity. He very well […]

Isn’t it ironic that some of the greatest discoveries in life come by way of serendipity (at least they have for us it seems). There are a plethora of examples from the annals of history – the discovery of penicillin, the microwave, coca cola, velcro, teflon, hell – even viagra. Think back how as a […]

I don’t know about you, but it’s been a crazy week post the 4th. The gates of hell – otherwise known as high summer in Texas – have opened fully on our little hideout in the countryside, SWMBO has been buried alive at work and I’ve finally had all the ducks align in a project […]

Several years ago, back in Montana’s Flathead, we had the good fortune to meet Lisa, a dessert-sous chef / farm wife who lived with an absolute son-of-a-bitch down the hill from us. She was a delight, fell in love with our huge garden on the hillside, and taught SWMBO and the family a fair number […]

In honor of the courageous vote by our friends across the pond in Britain yesterday (Brexit wins!) we’ve shuffled our rotation this morning to post an Americanized version of Beer Battered Fish and Chips. Since I was a wee child eating fresh fish fried in cast iron over the ancient gas cookstove in my grandparent’s […]

After a short respite while enjoying our time back home in Montana last week, the blast furnace of summer has running wide open around our camp the past few days. It is perfect weather for firing up the grill and smoker, icing down a cooler of beer and finding a nice shady spot in the […]

In the spirit of having never met a salsa we didn’t like, here’s a story from the road this week. She Who Must Be Obeyed and I are on the road this week, back home in Montana for Jake’s wedding this weekend. On the way up, we stopped for the gas and dinner in Cheyenne […]

You simply can’t wander into any seafood or catfish joint south of the Mason Dixon line and not find hushpuppies on the menu. Hushpuppies will be offered by the basket as bar snacks and appetizers and will come in piles of three to five as a bonus side on every self-respecting catfish and seafood plate, […]

If you’re entertaining over the upcoming holiday weekend and still need a dessert to knock your guests’ socks off, look no further than this Brown Butter Apple Currant Galette. We stumbled across this back in January when working on a little cooking project and have come back to it again and again this spring; it’s […]

There’s something about the floral, fruity heat of the habanero pepper that’s damned near irresistible. We’ve long been fans of the fruit-based, fiery hot sauces from Central America, Belize in particular, based in large part on well-guarded recipes highlighting habaneros, carrots and onions, with a host of other components added to tweak flavors in one […]

Having never met a plate of sweet corn, fresh from the fields, dripping with butter and topped artfully with a sprinkle of good salt and fresh ground pepper I didn’t like, the past few years we’ve re-discovered the wonder that is grilled corn. She Who Must Be Obeyed still prefers the old standby, plumped up […]