A compadre down South in Port Isabel, Texas fired me a link yesterday announcing the upcoming opening of the fall Texas Red Snapper season come the first of October; he was uncharacteristically very nearly giddy in sharing the news. We ended up chatting back and forth about how much he missed steelheading in the Northwest […]
Friday Feast
Doughnuts, Dough Loco–Style from Tasting Table on Vimeo.
Sometimes, when you least expect it, life deals you a good hand. Like that unexpectedly cloudy afternoon that brings the blue wings out a bit early on the Firehole, Madison or the Missouri. Last week after posting the Friday Feast recipe for Drunken Habanero Hens I dropped into my favorite fruit and vegetable stand on […]
While at least some of our friends have been enjoying the early harbingers of fall, summer weather has returned with a glaring sneer to the South Sound region. It was 91 (record setting) on Wednesday and mid-80’s yesterday. It’s been hot enough to induce a bit of panic in the neighbors, keep beer sales humming […]
Back sometime in June a fishy conversation with the marketing guru for a large rod manufacturer turned from a possible ad placement for Swing the Fly magazine to chatting about several recipes he’d taken from the Friday Feast here on Chi Wulff. Seems he’s a big fan of grilled chicken recipes (as we are obviously) […]
A new friend here in the rainy (yesterday anyway) Puget Sound lowlands is hosting a shindig this holiday weekend and has been pestering me to help him get things put together. Thankfully he’s a hands-on guy and will do his own cooking, but he’s needed me on a consultant-type basis (for lack of a better […]
Friend and working chef Libby called the other day to discuss a potential rendezvous in Bozeman this fall. We chatted about work, fishing, life and other odds and ends, agreeing that we’ve both had enough summer and were ready for fall. Libby then giggled and asked if I’d been getting my ‘three B’s’ lately. I […]
There just might be more to Oregon than you think. Sure, Oregon holds some of the niftiest freshwater on the planet – the Columbia, Willamette, Deschutes, Snake, McKenzie, Sandy, Umpqua, Grand Ronde and Metolius to name but a few – and a pretty impressive coastline too. I hear there’s better bird hunting than most ever […]
Spiderman Peter Parker may have been born with his spidey sense, but it has nothing on the foodie sense friend Ed and offspring Fire Girl Jess have when it comes to the first pickling cucs hitting the farm stand in August. This unlikely duo, for reasons that are well beyond my simple-minded ability to comprehend, […]
Last week when Jake was out on his left coast / Puget Sound tour we grilled up a fresh sockeye salmon after a soak in one of our favorite spicy soy – brown sugar marinades. There’s really nothing like fresh salmon sizzling over hardwood coals. While it was on the grill a neighbor poked his […]
It never ceases to amaze me how hanging around with people with ‘above average creativity’ tends to yield opportunities one might miss otherwise. Fly fishers who fish on their own (and by that I’m thinking more of fishing ‘un-guided’ or ‘un-mentored’ ) and those who fish for non-traditional | non-trout species (Singlebarbed a great example […]
High summer has arrived. It’s hot around most of the country. Damned hot. I was bitching about it yesterday – it hit all of 76 here in the South Sound and the neighbors were out squirting one another with the hose in their front yard. Not the kids….the parents. Yikes. High summer otherwise means it’s […]
A little different spin on the Friday Feast today. I’m in Cascade, Montana for a few days this week, working on a film project here on the Missouri (more to come), staying with Jess in her efficiency ‘apartment’ a block off Main Street. Her place is what appears to be an ancient converted garage, now […]
She Who Must Be Obeyed and I served our ‘I’d tell you but then I’d have to kill you’ super-secret fajita recipe at a little soiree last night. It was mouth-wateringly delicious as always, demanding a Thanksgiving-level overeat, though for the first time in quite a while my fajitas weren’t the most amazing thing on […]
Yesterday as part of an anniversary celebration She Who Must Be Obeyed whipped up one of her signature desserts – this (don’t tell anyone it’s this simple) Big Girl Chocolate Mousse. We’ve taken to calling it that as we’ve tweaked the amount of bittersweet chocolate in the recipe upwards over the years. This mousse isn’t […]
