My Fall / Winter Favorites
A few of my family favorites, some I love to prepare, and all that I love to share!Grow Your Own
Don’t get ahead of me here unless you live in Colorado, ok? By growing your own, I am suggesting grow your food or at least enough to supplement what you can get at the grocery store or the farmers market. I know that a lot of us simply don’t have space for a...
When I Got Serious
When (and how) I got really interested in food, flavors and my creative passion for cooking.
Intimidation to Inspiration
Sometimes you find inspiration in wild places, lately mine comes first from intimidation.
Right now: On My Nightstand
I generally have a good stack of books on my nightstand. Which one I choose, depends entirely on my mood. Sometimes it’s History. Other times its social commentary, but often it’s cookbooks. I love reading recipes and looking at pictures and wondering “How could I...
Stuffed Pork Chops with Cinnamon Apples
This is one of those entrée’s that is autumnal in nature. But trust me, it tastes great any time of year. This is not difficult and don’t let the thought of “butterflying” the pork or making the stuffing from scratch discourage you. Heck, you can use a box of...
A Winter Storm Warning and Breakfast for Dinner
This is not news to anyone by now. I’m sitting in my office gazing out the window watching the sleet and freezing rain come down and feeling grateful to be inside. I actually enjoy winter. I like snow, but I hate an ice event. With a little patience we can...
Christmas Traditions – What's Yours?
It’s really interesting how things evolve over time. Most of us tend to repeat what our parents did in order to keep family traditions alive. We all loved Christmas so much when our kids were little. Then, even after our kids started having babies, our adult sons...
The Things That Make Us Human
Some of you may remember the overnight radio host of Coast to Coast, Art Bell. About 15 years ago, he wrote a book called, “The Quickening”. Love him or hate him, it was an interesting read. I spotted it on my bookshelf a few days ago and remembered one of the...
Mexican Lasagna
We love Mexican food. We also love Italian food. Sounds like a good marriage. Instead of lasagna noodles, substitute corn tortillas or my family’s favorite…taco shells.Ingredients:1 pound ground beef1 pound chorizo sausage-Optional (careful-can be sorta hot)1 pound...
What Thanksgiving REALLY Is, A personal message
We’ve been planning and shopping and chopping and stressing and Thanksgiving is finally here. Thanksgiving for me has always brought memories of comfort and warmth. The holiday was always spent up north with my grandparents. We’d pile into the car when school got...
Snowed IN
There is not much chance of that on the immediate horizon but all of our local meteorologists are pretty excited about our first snow, which is predicted for this weekend. The first snow of the season is always interesting because it seems like most people have...
Chicken in Hunter Sauce
This dish is a French classic. "Chicken Chasseur" which literally means “Hunter’s Chicken” combines chicken with mushrooms in a tomato-white wine sauce and comes from a time when wild game birds were plentiful and combined with wild mushrooms from the forest.The...
Beef Stroganoff
Beef Stroganoff 1 ½ lbs beef tenderloin (use stew meat or cubed sirloin if you prefer)Olive oil & butter3 tbs eachOnionMushroomsGarlicBeef stock or consumme’3 tbs flourTomato pasteHeavy creamEgg noodlesThyme This was originally a Russian dish using mustard. You can...
A Wonderful Discovery
We found an apartment to live in while we build our little place up north. I can’t wait to start cooking. There’s just one problem. The tiny one butt galley kitchen in our rental is full of cardboard boxes and I don’t have a clue where anything is.I guess there are...
This looks like a good spot
I found a spot!
Just Do It – A First Draft
I’m getting started, and this conversation is about to get interesting…
The Fall
Who doesn’t love autumn? I guess there are some among us who hate the thought of saying goodbye to summer for an extended period. I get pretty excited about the change of seasons. As an avid hunter, this is generally when you get to head to the woods to begin...
The Transformation Continues
I mentioned in my previous blog post that there were many changes coming in my life. The first of which is the launch of this website, but there are more to come. I wrote of my love for the outdoors. I have a fondness for simplicity. I love to hunt, fish and grow...