For years as a small child we’d make an annual pilgrimage to the Mason Rouge, my grandfather’s ramshackle eclectic beach house located about a mile off the beach right where the Colorado River empties (before the re-routing into the bay) into the Gulf of Mexico. It was a humble structure, in reality what most of […]
Friday Feast
Now and again folks claim our Friday Feast recipe selection is too “carnivore-ish” and skewed to the tastes of “barbecue eating, beer swilling, fly-over country, knuckle-dragging rednecks”. Our response is typically to say thanks for noticing and don’t let the screen door hit you in the ass behind on the way out. On the other […]
Still on the hunt for the greatest fish tacos possible, I had a chance last week to chat with Chef Libby in Austin about plans to chase redfish together in Rockport sometime during the grand month of October. We talked about schedules, weather, tides and flies before I got around to the most important question […]
Chi Wulff’s Friday Feast 18 September: No Bake Coconut Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Toasted Oat Bars
Like all outdoorsmen (and women) who like to play with our food, we’ve fiddled around over the years with different recipes for snack or food bars to take along on various adventures. When She Who Must Be Obeyed and I were more deeply immersed in the downhill ski culture of SLC years ago (several lustrum- […]
Several weeks ago I was asked to contribute a recipe to a guide’s book-in-progress, supposedly in a chapter to be about great river lunches; appropriately flattered, the request prompted some deep recollection. While we tend to admire greatly those folks who lug along a camp kitchen, replete with tables, chairs and a stove to prep […]
Pending where you might live, if you’re in the northern hemisphere (and more specifically in the States), there’s something very traditional about the Labor Day weekend marking the end of the summer season. Back home in the Northern Rockies, Labor Day weekend always presents an array of hard choices – participate in the various hunt […]
We fell hard for Argentinean-styled chimichurri in Austin a few years ago eating at the Buenos Aires Cafe in Lakeway; it was dangerously close to She Who Must Be Obeyed’s work and never failed to bring a smile. Their chimichurri was simple yet offered layers of flavor, from the herbal parsley to pungent garlic to […]
It seems nothing short of impossible that today is the 21st of August. The fall equinox is a month and two days (September 23 this year) away. Jake said it was 41 early yesterday morning on the upper Yellowstone River below Gardiner. We have compadres already out chasing antelope (900 series archery) and the archery […]
I’ve spent the better part of the last week in Texas, in fact driving all over hell and back round the northeastern parts of the DFW metroplex and the surrounding countryside. It’s been hotter than hell’s kitchen most of the time with nary (just about anyway) a cloud in sight. As much of a pain […]
Recently two things conspired to change the plan for today’s Friday Feast post. First, I was asked to participate in a panel discussion / interview with a major ‘adventure’ magazine about meals for folks to eat on the run when fly fishing, chasing bigger game fish offshore, hiking, skiing, hunting or doing what ever it […]
We’ve been fiddling with the mighty fish taco all spring and summer, sharing a fair amount of our trials and errors with our Chi Wulff friends on Instagram, and for the most part enjoying some kick ass food along the way. Fish tacos, to no one’s surprise, remind us a bit of gumbo – everybody […]
Finally – it’s time for the final critical component in our Summer of 2015 Fish Taco Project: Homemade Corn Tortillas. Until you’ve tasted for yourself, you’d never really guess a freshly made tortilla could be that much better than the mass-produced, limp version sitting bagged for weeks at a time on the supermarket shelf. She […]
As we continue the march this summer to chase down the perfect fish taco, we’d be remiss if we passed over what has become one of She Who Must Be Obeyed’s favorite condiments – a genuine Tex-Mex style crema. Have you ever noticed how the sour cream on your enchiladas or adorning your fish tacos […]
Continuing our march down the path to the perfect fish taco, we’ve been asked a number of times lately to share our recipe for our Cajun-inspired Never Fail Blackening Spice Mix. There are hundreds of blackening spice recipes out there, and you’ll need to fine tune yours to suit your clan’s palate, though we really […]
While it’s our heartfelt wish that all of our Chi Wulff friends spend as much of the next three or four days on the water as possible, we also hope that you’ll be grilling up some delicious veggies (grilled corn, we’re thinking of you) and protein at some point this holiday weekend. I’m helping with […]
