Spaghetti with Clam Sauce
Back in the day before the Internet cookbooks were the primary source for new recipes. For me, anyway. An early and reliable favorite was Fannie Farmer. While I derived endless …
Walleye or Pickerel?
Julie and I escaped the 2019-20 Midwest winter by house/pet sitting and traveling on the West coast. We started this West Coast respite in Washington, north of Seattle, with back-to-back …
New Year’s Eve and Oysters
As a kid growing up on the American prairie in the mid-20th Century, seafood was a rare and exotic commodity. It’s a long way to either coast from South Dakota. …
Crossing Georgian Bay
I awoke to the first strains of Carlos Santana’s dulcet guitar intro to his duet with John Lee Hooker on The Healer. It was pitch black in our berth at …