The Catchatarian™ Cookbook & Lifestyle

Those of us who live in the Rockies generally like to think we are living a pretty healthy lifestyle, but at my first two checkups after I turned 40 my cholesterol was borderline high and then officially over the high mark of 200. Since my blood test last year I have really only made one [...]

This weekend as we were plucking and beheading and otherwise somewhat unpleasantly processing a wild turkey it occurred to me that Americans have become far too detached from the actual source of their meat. The majority of meat eaters I know believe that the cows they eat live on large rolling farms, happily munching grass [...]

I have been to Lake Powell a few times, twice in the dead of summer, and other times in the fall. Lake Powell is known for a phenomenon called the striper boil, which is when the baitfish (shad) become very abundant near the surface of the lake, and the striped bass literally whip themselves into [...]

Recently converted vegetarians and even some veterans are sometimes surprised to find that some of the most unlikely foods contain meat or meat byproducts. Until I met Barney I never thought much about marshmallows. We went camping one summer and I was so excited to make s’mores. Who doesn’t love s’mores, right? well, it turns [...]