By Chef Knecht on May 16, 2011
Born and raised in Montana. Grown from the love of my grandmother, mother, uncle, aunts, cousins and friends. They watered me with love and praise. Kindness and honesty fed my soul while I grew up learning: ‘Work Hard and You Will Succeed’ and ‘Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right.’ All [...]
Posted in Slices of Life | Tagged Flawed and Amazing, Montana Chef, Mrs. Individuality, The Cottonwood Grille, The Grove Hotel, Yellowstone Valley Guest Ranch
By Chef Knecht on August 26, 2010
Summer is winding down and the buzz of busy bees in our lives is fading to a calm hum in the background. As we find the time to smell the flowers they are wilted and as the sunset catches our eye it fades to darkness. This summer has been a whirlwind of clients, weddings, parties, [...]
Posted in Destination Weddings, Entertaining Family, Party Time, Slices of Life | Tagged audrey hall, Family, Fly Fishing, Friends, Montana, Montana Food Stylist, Nashan Photography, Vacation, Weddings
By Chef Knecht on July 12, 2010
Amazing. Beautiful. Breathtaking. My family and I went to Alaska this spring.My son Kelton and daughter Dawn loved Alaska.
Posted in Slices of Life | Tagged Family, Southeast Alaska
By Chef Knecht on June 12, 2010
Montana’s capitol paper was kind to feature me in an article. Below is a excerpt and a link to the article, hope you enjoy! “I remember sitting on a chair and watching her cook,” Knecht said from her home in Livingston. “She was very involved with her church, so it wasn’t unusual for her to [...]
Posted in Press and Media, Slices of Life | Tagged Cooking Classes, Grandma, Helena
By Chef Knecht on June 1, 2010
Best job in the world! Me and the love of my life on the ocean, working together from 3:45am to 11:00pm. Northern lights and sounds of humpback whales as we fell asleep with one eye on the depth sounder and one ear on the wind. Coffee, lots of coffee in the morning. Sharpening our hooks [...]
Posted in Romance, Slices of Life | Tagged Hand-trolling King Salmon, Southeast Alaska, writings
By Chef Knecht on May 3, 2010
30ft by 9ft by 4ft deep. That was my home for years. Our Dickinson Bristol diesel oven barely fit an 8×8 cake pan and the stove top could hold a 1 quart pot and a small coffee pot. No microwave, no freezer or refrigerator. Just a cooler full of ice. Shopping with that knowledge and [...]
Posted in Kitchen Tips, Slices of Life | Tagged Dickinson Oven, Maximize your kitchen space, Organize, Storage
By Chef Knecht on April 12, 2010
I met my husband in the infamous ‘Kidos Cave’ of Alaska. Across the room I saw him, he wasn’t even looking my way, but I found the space between us gone moments later. He turned around and I introduced myself and less than an hour later we were holding hands. I was literally drawn to [...]
Posted in Slices of Life | Tagged Nobody's Perfect
By Chef Knecht on March 31, 2010
If I had a dollar for every one of my kitchen disasters I would be in Alaska right now on my own private yacht! Waking up in Red Bluff Bay to the sound of nature and the smell of my sweet life! Casting my pole out and watching my husband pull up our king crab [...]
Posted in Slices of Life | Tagged dreaming, Hollandaise, King Crab Benedict
By Chef Knecht on February 22, 2010
Shortly after I met my husband, he told me “You got to spend time out in the middle of no where with somebody before you really get to know them.” Then about two days later his friends Jim and Gail asked if we would watch their fjord horses and huskies for a month…out in the [...]
Posted in Romance, Slices of Life | Tagged Alaska, Farragut Bay, Mouse Steaks, Muskeg, personal, Romance
By Chef Knecht on February 1, 2010
“Sail ocean wide and blue, green wave on the island that’s name is Sarah. Hold so tight I will my life, wonderlove strum my soul all night.” -9/19/02 (I’ve always written a journal of emotions, or realizations. There is an Island named Sarah in British Colombia and twice a year I would sail by with [...]
Posted in Slices of Life | Tagged personal, wonderlove
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