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After moving north 2 years ago & working as sous chef at a new fine dining restaurant in town for a year, I began working at mining camps; & while being away from home was never easy, it paid the bills. One of the hardest things with being away from home for 4 weeks at a time was knowing that Erin (who at one point in time, exploded Pyrex all over the kitchen) was left alone to fend for herself wi
th very limited cooking skill. On my weeks home I tried to get a greater understanding of what was keeping Erin from making herself meals that weren't triscuit nachos or pierogies while I was away at camp. The toughest part for her was trying to figure out what to do for the protein component and often the confusion about 'what went with what' was enough to overwhelm and she would revert back to what she knew (see triscuit nachos and pierogies). Therefore, on my weeks home I began spending my time preparing a variety of foods for Erin in flavour combinations I knew she already liked and then I vacuum sealed these, labeled them up & froze them. Then, when I was gone, I could still take care of her in some way and the only effort that was required of Erin was to transfer the protein of choice from the freezer into the fridge in the morning before heading to work & then once home at the end of a long day, Erin simply cut open the vacuum seal bag & placed the marinated meat onto a pan. Usually less than 20 minutes later (depending on the protein) & with some simple sides like salad, some frozen veggies & rice – a delicious, healthy, simple meal for 1 was ready. From this beginning I have had a strong desire to provide this experience beyond my home since everyone that Erin has ever bragged to about how great I am, has said how great it would be to have their own freezers and cupboards stocked with items high in quality & convenience without sacrificing health or needing a dictionary to figure out what one of the 60 ingredients in their chicken breasts is. Throughout my life of cooking, I have always enjoyed connecting with people (strangers and family alike) through food. The connection people have to food is incredibly powerful & I feel more and more frustrated that generally speaking, the foods that all of us are putting into our bodies, are filled with ingredients that have no place in food at all. Through this business venture, I'm hoping to empower & encourage people to realize that just because you don't have a lot of time to cook, it doesn't mean you have to eat poorly or unhealthily. I want people to eat food with ingredients that they can read, understand and pronounce; and where possible, I aim to highlight local, northern flavours. In today's world, most people's ability to cook at home is impacted by children (furry & non), work, lack of time & ability. You shouldn't have to sacrifice quality of food in order to be able to cook something quickly, conveniently and simply – something that is good on all levels for you & your family. Thank you for your time & continued support - Luke, Erin & Colby (The Wandering Bison)
It's finally starting to feel like a farm around here! Errbody, meet Sawyer's new best friend and reason why I washed my truck, Huckleberry. He's about 6 weeks old and is still mainly on milk so Sawyer will be learning all sorts of things about how to give really good ear scratches and who can run fastest in the tall grass. And yes, he definitely tried to lay on the back seats during the drive home...
Happy birthday to my favourite.
Goodnight to me 30's and holy s**t what a close out
Today is the first rest day I've had since April began and the polysporin hand cream, and is definitely helping the body feel back to its usual cranky self.
In mid April, for 12 days straight, we had the honour of feeding the 2024 batch of recruits with and while I shouldn't have been surprised, I'm still in awe about how much those kids ate. Each day breakfast consisted of 10kg of potatoes, 4kg of bacon, 4kg of sausage, 10kg of eggs (always from of course) 5kg of fresh fruit, yogurt, granola & a rotating extra such as pastries or muffins. That's approximately 32kg of food (about 70lbs) just for breakfast and for only ~40 people.
All told, these recruits consumed approximately 4,000lbs of food and while we were a bit short on local pineapples, the pork came from the beef from the salmon and halibut hailed from and thanks to
starting extra early this year, we were able to provide some local cucumbers as well.
Huge ups to my team of .monstera.moves.xoxo
Ryota and Zura without our whom this could never have been as successful and of course to who held down the homefront without complaint. And this is even with me being rediculous and booking two other events during this crazy time as well. Thanks to all these lovelies and more, I can say that for the month of April alone, we cooked and served over 2600 meals and 99% of those were cooked in a wall tent in a parking lot...
I don't always tractor but when I do, I tractor extremely slowly and definitely not according to HAACP guidelines.
Also, big keepy uppies to for the truck as I don't know how I would have moved this fridge w that lame ol' SUV I had before...
One week ago, right around the time when we all forgot how to take a picture, The Yukon Convention Bureau honoured our team with an award in recognition of us being pretty good at being ambassadors to The Yukon. Its always a privilege to cook Yukon food for Yukons' guests and if it weren't for our illustrious group of farmers making it so easy for us to get all the credit, we wouldn't have a shiney picture of fishes for our wall
Huge thanks to for the high five, for sharing the podium, for supporting my craziness and of course, all our amazing farmers without whom there's no way that we would get even half the credit we do.
Debated about sharing but it's a good opportunity for a PSA and I'm incredibly grateful for my circle.
A couple of months ago I found a lump and so this past weekend we decided to see the snowy palm trees of Vancouver and make some new friends at UBC. All things being equal, surgery went extremely well but it's also a good reminder that when something doesn't feel right, talk to someone before embarrassment changes life forever.
Huge thanks to for sitting through many hours of Bluey & with Sawyer, & for being our amazing chauffeurs and to for taking such good care of Colby while we were away.
where you don't need to get off your couch to get the good views
Big fan of the suggested pairings at our local liquor store.
"Great with beef" is so passe and it's always nice to see an embrace of the northern palate and acknowledgement that not all hunters just want a garage can of beer with their dinner.
Thursday was a 20hr day, Friday was a 17 and Saturday was a 12; which meant Saturday night dinner was a frozen pizza cheese fest courtesy of . However I would like to think I redeemed myself in eyes with a bit of a fancier situation on Sunday night w scalloped & . Yes, granted I was told where I fell short (and even missed the mark entirely) but I'm still proud of myself...
Say hello to my little friend!!!!
Always a good reminder at this time of year to keep an eye out and learn who your neighbours are. No concern about this chonky beast as it seems like the Fabulous Mr Five Fingers Frankie has already moved on and will ideally be heading to sleep very soontime.
Love living in the but friendly neighbours like this is why both Colby and Sawyer don't play outside unsupervised.
It's finally happening!!!!!
For years now, fantastical wife #1 has talked about & refined this phenomenal concept for how to just simply be there for someone in need. While this may be taking shape in the form of a children's book, this is definitely a situation where the lessons are geared to the adults doing the actual reading.
New beginnings are definitely scary but I'm super proud of the many new first steps taken and yes, a different artist will be needed for Arrow's family & friends, crayons have officially hit paper and it's time to start polishing!!!
Now go tell Erin how great she is and get ready to buy something from our family that isn't bacon or BBQ sauce!
Posted • A concept I've dreamed about growing for years.
Here I finally am today, 2.5 weeks into this official process.
Scanned and about to be sent out for some first round feedback.
An artist I am not, but the concept and story of the work, I'm so stoked for!!
Been a crazy couple days including rocking out an incredible wedding for two of the most lovely people and then coming up with creative ways to stay cool during this incredible summer.
Giant shout out to my team for making everything look so easy and especially to for the lessons and amazing flavours. Not nearly enough photos were taken of the event but it's always an intense pleasure to showcase so many local products and ensure that everyone sees what we already know and that is that The Yukon is an incredible place.
Bit of a crazy sky this morning but at least it's cooler and hopefully bringing rain. Last night we got the update that the fire doubled(ish) in size again and is now north of 1400h in size. This is about 50x the size of our farm but the crews on the ground and in the air are champions and have done an epic job keeping it away from homes and the highway.
Our ash "snowfall" isn't too bad so we can still do lots of outside time & yell at the birds who dare to perch on our deck so at least our time is still being spent productively.
Countdown to no more vacation is on so it's time for water toes & glasses of rum.
Happiest of all the birthdays to my favourite little dude in the world! It's been 3 years since you exploded into our lives and you are continuing to set the record as the coolest dude I've ever met.
Big shout out to too as she kinda played a small roll into bringing you into this world & making sure you get your KD quotas met and to Grandma Price for insisting today be all about your fancy self vs sharing.
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Ironically, the person who eats my food most often has UC and that's not awesome...
Dear Family and Friends, Did you know that every hour, someone in Canada is diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Not only that, but did you know tha
Yesterday we celebrated not having to celebrate.
As we get older and have a little monster of our own, I really hope we never have need of but it's good to know they're there if something terrible happens.
Playing around w a new menu item. Smoked a local striploin to be served with a green peppercorn bechamel & topped with some manchego cheese. Needs some work to balance the ups and downs but hoping to get this one into a solid rotation (with pics of the end product) very soontime.
Brown grass = sand
White snow = waves
Welcome to my beach office on this bluebird day
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Ended up discovering a solid new bathtime ritual while mom's away. Follow me for more
Next time I think I'll go for rum instead though. It's more tropical and matches the rocket pop flavour profile a bit better...
Cheers to tomorrow and the lucky few who got their tickets
Shout out to for pointing out how rude I was to do a neat video and then not show that the cross is even prettier than the whole. Turns out that when makes a whole brisket, it's just about enough for two...
Also, that ring is 100% natural in that we used lump charcoal from hardwood chunks and a lone piece of super aged out wood. Mr Douglas also hates celery so much that we didn't even put any seeds on it so all that colour is straight outta
T minus one hour and some minutes till you can buy tickets to this incredible event. I will cook you mediocre food, twobrewerswhisky will pour you incredible drams and we will all cheers to the new awards they're adding to their wall.
Cheers to the first fundraiser of 2023!
Come taste and learn about Two Brewers award-winning single malt whisky paired with whisky-infused amuse-bouche from The Wandering Bison.
Since my graduation from in 2005, I've put in approximately 40,000hrs into this epic industry. If you count the time I spend just cooking for friends or goofing around in the kitchen, I'm guessing we can add at least another 15,000. Since August of 2022 when my forced downtime started, I've been working hard to articulate what's made a success so far and what's needed to propel us into the future. As of this afternoon some incredible people will have some inspiring reading to do about how we plan to grow bigger, purchase even more local food and build a place focused on agritourism and education that showcases the awesome farmers and artisans that I get the privilege of engaging with.
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In addition to firing my social media manager for terrible photo cropping skills, we snagged a quick visit to finally visit The Wick for a & followed that with a Yukon dram of #36 w the epic Zane & Willa (and Archie) on the beach. After we had a phenomenal meal eating most of the menu at .tofino where I was so focused on the food & company that no pictures were taken. As recompense, have a photo of Erin on the swings w Sawyer and know he spent the entire half hour drive back letting us know what happens to the wheels on the bus and what was in his pants
Just doing our part to ensure the days are all seized and properly embraced. We've even been able to have a couple hours doing adult things thanks to quality internet and baby monitors. Now though, the tide's in and the sun is cresting so it's time to leave our pillow fort & do some more exploring.
The plastic is all ripped off, the dials and nobs have been properly inspected and while it's not in its forever home spot just yet, to be able to cook with this is a dream come true.
Cheers to wife #1 for supporting my crazy desires and to for making something as beautiful as it is functional.
For serious, 2022 wasn't all that bad of a year. Got to meet a whole lot of new awesome people, lots of visits from friends and got me some new hardware to boot. Plus, the forced downtime made it so precious computer time could be had for planning the next steps in TWB and all its epicness.
Obviously there were a couple unmentionable hiccups along the way but as long as we stick to our motto of "Surgery free is the way to be" then 2023 is going to be pretty damn incredible for the bison family.
Cheers to being able to reach the cookies on the top shelf again and the resolution to purchase a fancy riding lawnmower.
This yeah I'm remembering how 7 years ago, Colby was due to get double knee surgery so we headed out as a family a few days before that happened and got ourselves an awesome tree that she promptly fell asleep guarding. This year, at -36° Sawyer and Erin Face lead the charge and broke the trail to find us another epic tree (from our very own tree lot) and I helped Colby supervise while the lights and decorations magically appeared on it. However, I feel I do get deserve a little credit for doing the choppy chop and then carrying it home so please don't be surprised when you see me walking around town with my "Best Tree Geterer Ever" medal displayed proudly.
Not sure what this week will bring, but being able to sit in a warm & quiet house with a gorgeous tree, a sleepy pup and a loving family makes me care about the future a whole lot less.
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Rolling smoke at a balmy -30 #
3hr cold smoke. 4hr cook. Salt, pepper, coffee, done
#filecabinetsmoker for the win! Made us a couple briskets, candied pork belly and some harissa short ribs @erinlegs said it was tasty so I might need to build another one for us on the farm... #ilikefood #candiedporkbelly #workingvacation
Brisket #1 was nothing short of jiggly wiggly epicness! Congratulations to Mr Matty D on maintaining an incredible fire, figuring out flavours and trusting the process. #brisketlove #eatthenorth #lowandslow #nopellets #mattandlukecookincrediblefoodwhilethewiveswatchshirtlessmendanceonastage #dadlife #wigglejiggle
1st stop is coffee, 2nd is to the beach and 3rd is to the hardware store for a squeegee to clear the pesky fog off the glass so I can properly enjoy tomorrow morning's view
Epic grazing platter with local awesomeness for an incredible company.
The littlest of all the awooos! #yukon #puppylife #babiesareweird #awoo #bestfriends #traininghard #firstwords #thewanderingbison #whitehorse #howl
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