works of wanderlust

Category: tucking in

  • Backyard Ribs: Part One, The Rub

    It’s the first Saturday in May and I woke up to a clear blue sky and a weather forecast that was begging for a day outdoors. It’s always a gamble, of course, to plan twelve hours ahead of your cooking time for a backyard grill, particularly something as elaborate as a fire smoking some pork

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  • Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Five Roses

    There was a point in time about fifteen years ago when I would have told you that the best way to make pancakes was to follow the directions on the box. And see, everyone who dabbles in more advanced cooking techniques than as-per-manufacturers-instructions likely has a story of that one recipe that upon discovering it

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  • Tech Help: Fixing a Photographer’s Nightmare

    I turned on my computer this meta Monday morning and was greeted with the following message in the black and white boot screen: WARNING: Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail. It seems that my life never fails to present me with timely

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  • Caged Flame

    It was Saturday afternoon and for the first time in a week there was nary a spot of snow in my backyard. We had some pork loin marinating in the refrigerator and my wife was all “I was just going to cook it in the oven but if it’s nice enough out there you could

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  • A Gift of Bread

    Since the pandemic began I’ve been baking a lot of sourdough. In fact, on my way home over a year ago from my last day in the office and even as we transitioned into working-from-home mode, I stopped at the grocery store and restocked my flour supply. Then as I checked into my kitchen and

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