Unbelievably it’s already mid-November with Thanksgiving less than a week away. Tempus fugit. For a host of reasons we’re gathering with other Montana and other north country refugees for Thanksgiving this year once again. (The top reasons for the above include the fact that She Who Must Be Obeyed manages a retail establishment here in […]
Friday Feast
With the advent of much more seasonal weather back in Bozeman (snow and some genuine cold), we’ve been moping around our southern base and longing earnestly for the holiday season back home. Somewhat easing the pain, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting several displaced Montanans and other pedestrian mountain folks like us during our exile […]
On three consecutive days this past week emails have come in asking for our go-to biscuit recipe. Truth be told (a genuine rarity these days), we actually have two tried-and-true, light-and-flaky, can’t-fail biscuit recipes we use all the time. We like ‘em both and so does Ed. This recipe for ME’s Buttermilk Biscuits is our […]
Ed called us a few days ago wanting a recipe. Ed loves to eat and appreciates fine food though he has a decided preference for what he calls ‘plain folk food’. That’s probably one of the reasons that we get along so well with Ed, we too have a decided preference for what some of […]
For those of us with a bit of the south in our pedigree (for better or for worse as it may be) mention ‘crab’ and we’ll immediately conjure up an image of a big blue crab fresh from the Gulf. Long time Chi Wulff readers know that we’re a fan of the pedestrian things in […]
During a chat with friends this week, during which we adroitly solved several of the world’s most pressing socio-economic-political dilemmas, we optimistically agreed that the best things in life are actually quite often good for you. What made our ‘best things in life that are good for you too’ list? Fly fishing, sex, great literature, […]
Back in the day a group of friends and I would skip out of the office early on a Friday and high tail it from Salt Lake City north to either Swan Valley or Irwin (Idaho) on the South Fork of the Snake. Rarely did we make the 4ish hour run in time to get […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about our burgeoning love affair with the lowly lime. Well, the love affair continues, and we’ve made a major breakthrough in our lime related research. For several years now we’ve been on the prowl for an exceptional Key Lime Pie recipe. Yep, Key limes even make it as far […]
Now and again I’ll actually take a shower and shave, put on a clean shirt, scrape the muck from my sandals, wash the truck and head to one of the over-the-top uptown grocers that dot the Lone Star landscape. Grocers back home in Montana tend to be a lot more pragmatic and utilitarian; visiting […]
There are a truckload of reasons to look forward to fall every year. Brisk cool days, gorgeous color on the mountainsides and along the rivers, running brown trout and the promise of hunting to come just to name a few. There’s another reason to love late summer and early fall – the green chiles of […]
The lowly lime. Diminutive. Sharp. Puckering. A peculiar, if not noteworthy, shade of green. The lowly lime has become one of our most treasured kitchen friends during this past year in exile. At first it was simply a matter of necessity. As soon as we landed here outside of Austin just over a year ago […]
The town I lived in until I was 10 was so small we could walk from our house on the edge of town all the way downtown to the single ‘movie house’ on the town square. Even as a kid with short legs it didn’t take more than 15 minutes or so to make the […]
Still fishing with the same flies you were 30 years ago? Much if not most of today’s ‘modern’ tying materials were but a wisp of imagination then; my go to nymphs for little Utah freestones way back in the day were Zug Bugs and variants of a cased caddis tied sans synthetics. The humble Zug […]
In honor of IFTD this week we thought we’d offer up some pure bayou goodness. [Dammit to hell I had planned to be down in NO this week for IFTD. My fricken knee just won’t cooperate and my surgeon friends have said if I don’t manage this one by the books they’ll be scraping bone […]
The risk of opening with a trite platitude duly noted – life has it’s ups and downs. One doesn’t have to look very for examples this week. It’s still hotter than hell’s kitchen in much of the country, it’s already mid-August and not nearly enough fishing has been done, the domestic and world equity markets […]
