Wings – Keep Wings Crispy from Oven to Sauce to Table
Wings. Hot, saucy, delicious…you inhale the aroma of cooking wings. Let them cool barely enough to take a bite and you get a mouth full of – disappointment. The skin isn’t crispy. They taste good but wings should have crispy skin. Nobody likes soggy chicken skin. Following this two-ingredient recipe…
Apple Cider Hot Toddy – Adult Beverage
Apple Cider Hot Toddy Oh Autumn! How do I love you? Let me count the…adult beverages that I turn to when the leaves begin to change, frost shimmers on the rhubarb, and flames dance in the wood stove. First – Apple Cider Hot Toddy. I haven’t been a fan of…
Campfire Skillet Vegetables – On The Fire
Campfire Skillet Vegetables Campfire cooking is one of my favorite ways to spend time outdoors. Combined with seasonal eating and cleaning out the summer garden, this recipe for Campfire Skillet Vegetables excites me. I chose vegetables from what I had ready to be picked as well as what is already…
Maple Cinnamon Whiskey Sour – Adult Beverage
Maple Cinnamon Whiskey Sour While you’ve got the whiskey out to make the Apple Cider Hot Toddy, how about a Maple Cinnamon Whiskey Sour? This drink is fun to make for guests when you’re campfire cooking. You fill a pint Mason jar three-quarters full of ice, add the ingredients, screw…
Young Bull Moose, North Maine Woods
Steve and I had an almost repeat of the weekend before last year’s moose hunt in the North Maine Woods. Governor Mills signed the Cast and Blast weekend into law last May. It allows hunters and anglers to bird hunt (except woodcock) and fly fish in the same weekend. Fly…
Fisher (Martes pennanti) on the Homestead
The fisher is back. I think this is probably the fisher I watched last year. It was nervous then, unsure of the barrel, and careful in how and where it moved. It returned often last year and drastically pared down the red squirrel population. The bear situation is dismal. One…
I Turned the Heat On – Personal Change
2019, the first year I turned the heat on all 12 months of the year. We have cooler periods in the summer, and so a few years ago I burned the paper trash and added a small, dry piece of firewood to keep the fire burning. This happened a few…
Fisher vs Skunk – Wildlife Isn’t Always Pretty
The smell hit me as soon as I opened the truck door Saturday morning. Skunk. “Ew. Something happened. I hope it’s on the camera.” Occasionally a skunk, of which there are a lot, and a raccoon, of which there are too many, want to be in the bait barrel at…
