Recent content by bufo55

There's a secret lake in the Sierras where I catch Golden-Rainbow hybrids. They get FATTY and RED from gorging on Copepods (crustaceans kind of related to krill - if you know any cartoon-watching kids, they might know that Plankton, one of Spongebob Squarepants' friends, is a copepod of a...

When I moved out of my house I thought my BBQ days were over.  My daughters even bought me one of those little smoking guns that burn a pipe-bowl of chips to add a little smoke flavor to food.  But that wasn't nearly enough. I tried combining that with stovetop grilling, infusing more smoke with...

So for a couple of decades I have been the designated meat cook for my extended family's Christmas dinner.  I settled on turkey and rib roast a while ago, and perfected the art of cooking both on a bbq with a side smoking box. Unfortunately I had to give up the bbq a few years ago when I moved...