Good Evening
8~9~25 7:30 80f Clear, blue sky with the sunning dropping low in the west, casting golden beams of light through the almost invisible haze of fire season. I painted the back decks yesterday, and soaked the soft spots with Minwax wood hardener. This morning I filled...
Good Afternoon
8/5/26 2:30 83f (28.3c) , mostly clear with a light breeze. Apparently , I don't have the contagion. Guess I will run some errands before I run out of ooomph. ...
Good Evening
7/29/25 9:00 79f (26.1c) No wind. Mike, Walter and I took a short walk this evening. The smoke from the wildfires tinted the sky at sunset.
Camp Tittyhahaha – Day 5
Monday was another beautiful, sunny day at the coast, our fifth and final day of camping with the family. ...
Camp Tittyhahaha 2025 Day 4
7/ 27/25 Walter accompanied Andrew and me on an early morning walk on the beach. ...
Good Morning
5/19/26 5:30 45F (7.2C) In the soft light of dawn a gentle breeze sways the willows as orchard sprayers whine. ...
Good Morning
5/18/26 6:00 43F (6.1C) Overcast with a flutter of breeze. It's a soft, gray morning. Doves coo and birds chirp. The rooster is awake. Walter, having concluded a minor disagreement with the dog across the way, continues making his rounds. All is well....
Good Morning
5/17/26 6:30 41F (5C) Clear, windless, beautiful. It rained last night. It rained hard most of the day yesterday and off and on all last week. The sun is rising in a clear, blue sky. It is calm. The birds are singing as if the storm had never happened....
Good Morning
5/16/26 6:00 42F (5.5C) Overcast, gray, raining lightly. I believe it rained all night. It has been a damp week. I don't know how long it will last, but it has got to be good for the immediate future. The woods need the moisture. We have already had...
Book Club
Book club was at mom's house tonight, so Andy brought mom up here for dinner while our wives were otherwise occupied. I spent the day scouring the house and cooking. We had pork loin and cornbread. Andy brought a salad, wine and beer. After dinner we had drinks,...
Camp Rice & Mushrooms
https://vimeo.com/421069177 I cooked this on my Biolite Campstove2, using pellets for fuel. Any campstove will work. The trick is to fashion a double boiler. I broke up several small branches and tossed them in my large camp pot to form a trivet. I put...
Take & Bake Pizza with Wild Mushrooms
https://vimeo.com/419668102 Of course, take and bake pizza is a cheat but this is, after all, Cooking For Guys. Besides, this post is as much a brag about a successful mushroom hunt as it is about pizza. Amy, Andy and I took the sidecars up the ridge to...
Crab-Stuffed Morels
I returned to a favorite patch of morels for a third picking the other day. Holy Smokes! They weren't just plentiful, they were giant! These were some of the biggest morels I've ever found, several of them were 7" tall with caps hovering between 4" and 4.5", one of...
Mushrooms on Toast
For a simple, quick breakfast it is hard to beat mushrooms on toast. In the spring I use morels, in the fall, chanterelles. Other mushrooms can be substituted. Ingredients toast fresh mushrooms - whatever is in season onion or shallots minced garlic...
Asparagus and Morels
Several years ago, a local timber company locked down the woods behind my house due to fire danger. One of their fallers set fire to the ridge the very next day. It burned for a week. The following spring, we went up there and harvested morels from the scorched...
