Many of you know that I have a penchant for wild huckleberries. Red, blue, it doesn’t matter which variety. I just want to eat them. We pick these wild, tart berries every year, up on some property near Index, WA. You may have read my last year’s post called Huckleberry Sweet and Sorrow Tart. This […]

I’m embarrassed to admit this. Back in April, in April, our oven elements at home went out. I tried out the self-cleaning function on the oven, and apparently four years of grime was too much for the thing, so it quit. It was right before the book tour, and then I went to Memphis, and then […]

We went to the Seafair Pow Wow last weekend at Discovery Park in Seattle. I’ve been wanting to go to this Pow Wow for years to see the traditional dancing, and because they do a salmon bake. To those of you on the east coast, this is our answer to the clambake. I have a […]

OK, break’s over. Let’s get back to some food on this barbecue blog. You may have noticed I haven’t posted a recipe for awhile. June and July are our busiest catering months at Smokin’ Pete’s BBQ, and I’m lucky to have two matching clean socks, let alone cook something worth photographing at home. This post […]

To continue with the musical theme this month (grin), I saw this on Huffington Post today. I love this. A fine young man named Drew Landry got up and sang to the politicians. Drew, like so many people, has lost more than just his livelihood from the BP oil spill, he’s lost his way of […]