Friday Feast

Being a child of the South and spending time in Mama’s (mawmaw) kitchen I grew up with the absolute understanding that hash browns were indeed one of the ten major food groups one consumes at breakfast. No discussion. It might as well been carved into the cast iron tablets handed down from on high years […]

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Walking through a local grocery a couple of days ago I had ‘an apostrophe’. My apostrophe / epiphany was quite simple. I was to take that very nice looking two pound bag of whole pecan pieces screaming at me from the shelf and construct a genuine, make-your-Southern-Grandmother-proud pecan pie. My apostrophe might have been seeded […]

In honor of National Hamburger Day this past week (it was the 28th in case you missed it, at least on most calendars) and the fact that May is National Hamburger Month, it’s high time to talk nuts and bolts about what makes a great burger. In doing so, I fully recognize that: (a) foodies […]

Funny how the mere mention of certain foods will take you back to a special place and time. This last week I was reminiscing with some guys about trips we used to make from SLC up to the South Fork of the Snake in Idaho. This was back a few years when the South Fork […]

After stirring up a ‘slaw hits the fan’ moment last week on that other fly fishing blog with our left coast inspired riff on the slaw dog, and given the fact that we’ve endured another week of summer like temps here on the South Sound (pushing the low 70s already, dammit), I figured it was […]

When you’ve been married as long as we have (we were both mere children…), it’s actually damned rare when your spouse says something that induces genuine shock and awe. Nonetheless She Who Must Be Obeyed shocked me yesterday when she said, in reply to my query about a Mother’s Day dinner this weekend, that she’d […]

Partly in deference to friend KB and partly in honor of the summer like temps gracing the Pacific Northwest today and through the weekend, it’s time to break out the smoker and do some ribs low and slow. Our collective hearts go out to you poor bastards who had to clean snow and ice off […]

We’re all been told that you need to man up and play the hand that’s dealt you in life – like it or not. Sometimes that hand sucks. Sometimes that hand is a winner. Sometimes that hand is a major winner. For those of us in the sun-starved Puget Sound lowlands, we’ve been dealt a […]

There are a gazillion and one innovative fly patterns out there today. Fly tying geeks savants geniuses keep turning them out by the gross every year and earnest feather merchants vow sure success on their waters if you’ll buy two dozen of the latest creation in assorted sizes and colors. Yet peek into most fishers […]

This week’s Friday’s Feast will be posted tomorrow on Saturday; after loosing a couple of days in Bozeman this week and a bit of road rash I’m still not sure what day it is.

The aroma of buttermilk-soaked Texas 1015 onion rings and hand-cut sweet potato fries bubbling in the dutch ovens of hot oil was too much for even the high-rollers from Boston to resist. The high-faluting guests were supposed to be impressed by the views of Lake Austin. Instead they clustered around the prep tables where catering […]

Speaking of happy hours, a couple of weeks ago I had one of those hyper-realistic dreams that leave you wondering what the hell you were really doing last night by the time conscious reality resumes the next morning. The setting was either Savannah or Charleston (I could recall a few landmarks from both of these […]

Fully recognizing that this holiday weekend should feel awfully spring-like across most of the country I had to squeeze in this hearty braised beef short rib recipe before the end of the ‘hot comfort food season’. (The forecasting savants are even forecasting sunny skies and temps near 70 – gasp – here in the Puget […]