We had a very pleasant dining experience last week. Nancy and I decided to go to our usual last-minute restaurant – Bonefish Grill - where we sit at the bar, get great service and often order the same-old, same-old. We love their Kobe Beef-type burgers and their Fish & Chips, but this time Nancy surprised me and ordered the Crab-Crusted Cobia and was it ever good. You don’t see cobia on … [Read more...]
Tomato Pie
So we’ve got our green veggie for dinner – broccoli, green beans, maybe asparagus – and we need a starch or extra vegetable, maybe something with a little color. How about Tomato Pie – tasty, healthy, easy to make and attractive? I made one last week and it was very good in spite of the fact that vine-ripe, fresh tomatoes aren’t yet available. For this recipe you want fresh tomatoes, not … [Read more...]
Striper Run Underway
Every spring, beginning in April, striped bass by the thousands make their way from salt water up through the fresh waters of the Roanoke River for their annual spawning run. These fish migrate to the area around Weldon, NC and provide anglers with a chance at a fishing trip of a lifetime. The stripers stay in this area throughout the month of May. The average catch will be from 20-100 per … [Read more...]
Strawberry Season is Near
Is there anything in this world as good as a red-ripe strawberry plucked from the vine? Well, soon it will be that time. Strawberries are coming into season. Liberty Mills Farm near Somerset has a nice patch of strawberries and they open their doors to avid pickers each spring. “Our strawberry plants are busy growing, flowering and producing small green berries,” they say, “And it won’t be … [Read more...]
Great Fan Sale Underway
Nancy B’s is at it again. Charlottesville’s Premiere Lighting Showroom is having a Fan Sale through August, so you can keep cool and save money at the same time. Says Nancy B, “We offer Monte Carol, Minka Aire, Regency, Fanimation, Progress, Quorum, Sea Gull, Craftmade and Vaxcel fans. And as if these weren’t enough lines, I saw a new line of fans in Dallas, Wind River, and decided we couldn’t … [Read more...]
Be a Better Putter
Mark Marshall, PGA Professional, Lake Monticello When it comes to practicing, the first thing that we can all improve on is putting. I would like for you to own putts 6 feet and in. Putting accounts for forty percent of your overall score and working effectively on the practice green can be time well spent. The first part of your practice should be skill building with a drill … [Read more...]
A Cooking Tip for BBQ
I have been cooking barbeque chicken for a thousand years. Well, maybe not a thousand, but at least eight-hundred and fifty. It was the first thing I cooked dating back to my bachelor days. After all that practice, I more or less have it down to a science. The only time I bombed is when I once slammed shut my Weber Grill and tipped it over on our patio – chicken, sauce, ashes and coals - all in … [Read more...]
Cobia Hit Nags Head
They arrived about a week ago – in force. Cobia are all over the OBX beaches and headed our way. “We landed 16 cobia last Friday afternoon,” said Capt. Reese Stecher of Beach Bum Fishing (www.beachbumfishimng.com). Most fish were short, just under 36-inches. But we landed enough keepers to keep everyone happy. There are lots of fish!” Also on the Outer Banks, sea mullet, bluefish, blow toads … [Read more...]
The Golden Age of Fine Clothing
I moved to Charlottesville on the first day of February in 1967. Bill Leggett had hired me as Men’s Buyer for the new Leggett’s Barracks Road Store with the idea that Leggett’s would no longer be a work clothes and $3 white shirt store. They were looking to enter in the world of fashion, to sell better clothing. My background included an intensive education in clothing at the University of … [Read more...]
Babies on the Way
“Hello? Fulker Farms? This is the guy in Virginia who buys all those meal worms from you and I’m going to need more. I have three families of cardinals nesting in my yard!” That was more or less my conversation this afternoon with the Fluker lady who ships my worms. The cardinals’ baby food should be arriving in a couple days. Our first cardinal family had built a nest in a … [Read more...]
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