Standing in the fields at Joshua Creek was a special kind of experience. There is a mystical quality in the rooster pheasant as he shoots into the air like a feathered arrow, in all his green and red and purple, and speckled brown-black. The long spike of his tail feathers taper for aerodynamic flight and…
As you may know by now, based on the affair I've been having with sriracha, and my infatuation with chicken wings... I like spicy foods.
I love spicy foods.
I would make sacrifices for spicy foods.
I think I've run out of hot sauces to try. Well I thought I did, but then my friend…
This is a delicious little dish I made while bird hunting in Montana. You should really try it. Even if you don't have a partridge handy, it will work with other bird meat... like chicken for example. I recommend keeping the bone in whatever meat you use so the meat doesn't dry out.These are the…
There's an old gnarled apple tree hovering over the well at Tulipwood. My great-grandfather built the well and he probably planted the apple tree too.It is a very moody apple tree. Some years it is full of low and high hanging fruit and my brother and I shake it and throw sticks at the branches…
If I was sent to that proverbial island and there was one food I could take, it would be liver mousse. I can hear your collective gasp. Most people are reviled by the stuff, but I call it God’s pudding. It’s slightly sweet and very rich and I could eat it endlessly.It serves as the…
So as you've probably heard by now, I have this new friend named Julia.Julia has a Meyer lemon tree.Julia also has a plum tree.Julia also made that lovely lemon tart for the Tuscan photo shoot we did not too long ago.Want to know how to make it?Well, you'll have to ask Julia. But this is…
A few weeks ago I went on a strawberry binge. I was intent on making a strawberry rhubarb pie and my strawberry estimating skills turned out to be terrible, and thus I was left with more strawberries than one pie could hold. So I proceeded to make approximately 1.6 trillion recipes from strawberries. There was…
Last night I dreamt about rhubarb. What does that mean?I took it as a sign that I should show you how to make my favorite pie. Any dream interpreters out there can speak now or forever hold your peace.Anyone?Great! Pie it is.Once upon a time there was someone named "The Pie Lady" in my hometown.…
I’m 34,000 feet in the sky again. I seem to be up here a lot. I’m hoping to have a lull again this summer before I embark on a whole new book that I’m about to write, which will require travel which means many more posts from up here. Did I tell you about the…