from the smoker & the garden

TRIED RECIPES WORTH KEEPING

Real food from a real family kitchen — smoked, grown, canned, and butchered. We’ve made it, and made it with success. Now it’s yours.


What we cook

FROM FIRE TO JAR TO GARDEN BED

BBQ & Smoking

Rubs, brines, low & slow.

Game & Fish

Venison, birds, salmon.

Preserving

Canning, curing, storage.

Gardening

Eastern-Washington growing.

Baking

Bread, crust, from scratch.

Butchery

Whole-animal, cut cards.

LATEST RECIPES

BBQ Game Birds

Brined overnight, rubbed with the no-salt blend, finished over charcoal.

Fresh Salmon Patties

Fresh, not canned — with a rainbow slaw on a toasted sesame bun.

Homemade Salmon Stock

Sweat the mirepoix, simmer the frames, strain, freeze in quarts.


Who's cooking

MANDI & JEREMY BOND

We'd been talking about a food blog for the better part of ten years — the idea sparked late one night packing up the kitchen, sorting through our sacred stacks of notes and binders.

Bond Bites is where we bridge the pristine and the primitive: farm-to-table, whole-animal, garden-to-jar. Every recipe here is a tried recipe — we've made it, and made it with success.


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