A couple of weeks ago we posted on Instagram one evening that we had lucked into a fresh Gulf Red Snapper and were making blackened fish tacos (with Zatarain’s Blackening Seasoning – hot damn). The post sparked a bit of discussion that weekend evening and we promised a fish taco recipe here at some point […]
Friday Feast
For years we’ve been huge fans of skirt steak given our penchant for home grilled fajitas (with our honest-to-goodness, best-you’ve-ever-tasted-ever, better-put-this-on-Chi Wulff marinade). You could buy skirt steak years ago in San Antonio’s HEBs for under $2.99/lb., though with beef prices up so insanely in the past year and skirt steak now being quite fashionable […]
To do so reveals our Texas (and Montana) roots, but we’d argue that one of the finest things you could cook up for Father’s Day (or any celebratory shindig) would be a batch of what we named for the kids’ sake years ago Smoked Dinosaur Bones (aka Beef Ribs). These ribs are the big boys, […]
This weekend we’re now only two weeks away from Father’s Day and at She Who Must Be Obeyed’s suggestion, we’ll be posting a few weeks of recipes that you (we) dads out there can point to and say ‘I want that for dinner’ at the upcoming famdamnly celebration. We’ve adapted this Spicy Salt-Roasted Shrimp recipe […]
Friend Ed pestered us a few weeks ago for a new set of burger ideas to serve at a party he was planning (coming up this weekend actually, and I don’t think Ed had any idea yesterday was National Burger Day). He threw us a bit of curveball in that he insisted we find him […]
Despite a pretty danged busy weekend on tap, we’ll at some point join millions around the country and fire up the grill for some Memorial Day charbroiled goodness over the next few days. The mere thought of Memorial Day food conjures up images of hand-formed (be gentle), freshly ground 80/20 hamburgers, flame-kissed and dripping cheese […]
While we find ourselves missing the chilly spring mornings and the ever-more-busy May hatches back home in Montana mightily these days, we’ve learned to ease our longing a bit by occasionally enjoying a mess of boiled fresh Gulf shrimp, immediately iced and slathered with a sinus-clearing, New Orleans inspired cocktail sauce. We’ve found a place […]
Ever since our days in San Antonio we’ve been suckers for street tacos, no matter if fish, pork or beef. Cinco de Mayo week always makes us miss San Antonio. We grew spoiled back in that day (1980-84); there were taco stands and shacks that sold freshly made carne asada or guisada tacos for a […]
She Who Must Be Obeyed spent her earliest childhood years in a Houston suburb and was, by report, something of a persnickety eater. Back in the day there was a classic Houston-based Tex-Mex place called Ninfa’s, it was down on Navigation (it’s still there) and Mama Ninfa is credited with the creation of a number […]
Back a few years ago when were living in the Flathead between Kalispell and Columbia Falls we had sort of a Friday ritual that involved fish tacos. I was still grinding away in medicine back in those days and we were running a horse farm operation as a family on the side (‘on the side’ […]
Last week we extolled on the many virtues of a fly fishers’ spring in the Northern Rockies. And the joys of a hot shore lunch savored on a chilly day chasing blue wings and other assorted spring hatches on (insert your favorite water here) river. Here’s another way-better-than-it-has-to-be warm shore lunch to pack in a […]
Spring in Montana is a spectacle to behold. Often (but not always) the first persistent blush of the spring green-up has taken hold by this time in April (if the snow has melted out enough), it might be 65 one day and 25 the next, and fishers’ heavy winter coats have given way to transitional […]
The Easter season brings to mind a number of things around our camp, not the least of which is spring fishing with Blue Wing Olives and Skwalas in a good year, coupled with some of the grilling season’s early bounty. Finding it hard to shake the Southern from our pedigrees, we often lean to serving […]
I’ve never met an onion I didn’t like. – Jim Bowie, Mountain Man, Fur-Trader, Old West Guide and Aspiring Chef Ask your average American fly fisher what picture comes to mind when you say the word ‘onion’ and they’ll most often describe, I’d venture a dozen Montana spring mayfly ties of your choice, a big, […]
Just when we’ve settled into the routine of eating like cavemen and feeling a hell of lot better overall (inspired in part by this bullshit), Chef Libby in Austin fired this email and recipe over a few days ago. …I know you guys are eating Paleo these days, but when you have that overwhelming craving […]
