I bet that I can assemble a cooking team from Texas/Louisiana Campfire Members that can beat any cooking team from any other region...North, South, East or West.

I bet I'd be willing to serve as a volunteer judge.

You won't get any takers. With the exception of ND, yankees can't cook.

Gonna depend on who and what you are cooking for.

Kinda got a feeling you fellas down there would screw up a good pasty and I am doubting us up here could pull off whatever it is you eat.

Why should we?.....we have your wives do it for us.

She do feed dogs at the pound.

Thinking that folks from the Carolinas might give a good run for the money where BBQ is concerned, although I'm sure the style is different. teal makes a good point. That said ... ... I am fond of the grub available in Texas and from our talented neighbors in Louisiana.

We don't know how to cook haggis.

Pasty ain't haggis.

will there be beer?

How else would you do the brats then?

I'm thinkin' somewhere in the center of the country. How 'bout near a military installation? Judges come from the military, food goes to the military. If we can figure a way to make a couple of bucks, it goes to the troops.

Dave my money's on you if the plate needs painted

Does the sun rise in the morning? ... you must have already had a few too many to be asking that question .

Don't be scared. (Can you eat a pasty? )

Pasty? Michigan roadkill, wrapped in some kind of dough.

no, no, no. Pasties is good food!!

Damn it, now I want a stupid Pasty and I'm 300 miles away from the iron range where I can actually get a decent one.

I thought pasties was the part you spit out.

Okay, I googled pasty. I can do that...

i honestly forgot now what a pasty is.....

i like the first pasty better.

I'll do ribs and brisket for the NW corner of the country.

Thinking I'll give you southern boys a run for your money at minimum.


Travis

And pasty's suck. On strippers and dinner tables...


Travis

A Campfire Benefit Cook-off?

Fort Riley would be a good place for it, center of the country.

Just watch "Escanaba in da Moonlight", and it'll come back to ya.......................

That movie takes some 'getting used to', the 'tuckians I've loaned it to, don't like it at all. I've been around enough friggin' yankees to halfway understand some of it.

If a "benefit" means we get drunk and eat good food?


Travis

...for a good cause.

I know. I would think they are neck and neck on the tasty scale.

Thanks Les, but that may be a little to far for our Eastern brethren to go to get their azzes handed to them...

Hell, you boys from Texas wouldn't know which end of a Salmon to cook

Can't be no harder'n sheep guts.

They'd be eyein' the vent fer sure.....

Yeah, what the hell are we cooking for this competition anyway?

I just thaw the salmon from Wal-Mart and chow down. Is that bad?


Travis

What's the entry challenge?

Pizza over an open fire?

How 'bout dutch oven pizzas?


Travis

Good question. What would we cook? They don't have real barbecue anywhere but Texas, so that's out.

Could make it fair and only allow gumbo and sauce picante (is that how you spell it?).


Travis

Both are excellent table fare dammit!

Only if you like to eat salmon...which I'm pretty sure isn't what China-Mart is selling as "fish"...

When are we talking about for this event? If the NW quarter wants to serve some salmon and other real fish...would love to be engaged...

It do sound like a good idea...

Dennis

Dude - put me down in the "toast" division. I can't cook well. My grandmother can cook, my brother can cook - I can drink and eat.

I know my role...

BBQ'd goulash?....over Willow of course.

Brats is my high point!

That sounds like a pig in a blanket.

Pasty's rock, if ya ain't had some made by a good polish woman yer missin out!

Beer or no? If so what kind? Onions with the beer?

Hell,..here in Oklahoma I would. Deep fry that sucker and cook up some fried taters and okra with a squirt of ketchup. Just send all that salmon my way.

Well, I grew up in Texas but even I know you don't cook them from the ends.

DanAdair does a pizza in a OD that will knock your socks off. he added KC's Black bear sauage to it. about as good of pizza as I ever ate.

I don't care if we cook hot dogs. I can feild a team that can whup anybody. Hmmm....American as hot dogs. I bet my team can cook better hot dogs than anybody else.

Beer, they have to be boiled in Beer(The cheaper the better, I find Schlitz Malt Liquor to be best), and sweet vidialia's are a must, some garlic cloves, and a small handfull of chili's, all boiled together! Anyone that buys those cheap ass beer brats don't have a clue as to what they are missing.

That is a hot dog.

Yer fulla schit, most Texans I know think ya smoke a brisket by burning that bastard. Seem to do that with a lot of beef.

You guys are too fancy for my tastes. Mine run to pan fried steaks, country gravy, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob with lots of butter.
Maybe a big chunk of watermelon for dessert.

Schit no, a hot dog is on a long kaiser bun, covered with onions, mustard, chili, and sweet relish!

Ditto - we do them Bud Light or occasionally Miller High Life (2.50 a can)

That's what Texans call Brats - I got to San Antonio. Saw the menu said "brats" and got a damned hot dog.

Pretty soon somebody is going to suggest some girley French stuff

Try the Schlitz Malt Liquor once, seriously, All I ever used was Miller High Life, til the wife had me use SML one night.

Steak....I'm game.

I can make a mean Quiche!

You're smokin' bat schit sir! Texan's wouldn't know a good hot dog if it...ummm... in the ass!


Travis

Get a razor and oj. I had to look that word up just to see what it meant.

I don't doubt that, as you make a badass cocktail sauce.

Wet burritos with boiled pork, green Chili and rice, Salsa and Tortilla chips, washed down with a six pack of Coors

For the uneducated... Pasty

How about a kick ass stroganoff




Though I'd likely so something seafood related.

I hate it when people puke in the plate.

Looks damn good Scott, specially them mushrooms, try makin it with Morels once.

Just gave me an idea for Sunday dinner. Thanks SH.


Travis

Is there some reason why we can't use wild game?

Pard's mother makes a mean meal like that Steely. Crockpot all day - perfect for after ice fishing.

Hey Pat, I think you should do chicken and dumplings, lots of folks [bleep] that one up.

past�ies (pstz)
pl.n.
A pair of adhesive patches used to conceal a woman's nipples and worn principally by exotic dancers or striptease performers.
Pasty, singular, as applyed to a woman with one breast.

I got a better Idea, send Itppowell and me down to the Baha and we'll bring back Dorado,

Paste Rees- the act of gluing together two Koreans

I'm good with that. Four divisions, fish, fowl, large and small?

I could put together a team from SD, NE, MT and cook up steaks like you wouldn't believe. Throw in ID for the potatoes. I'd just as soon have some whiskey or bourbon with my meal.

I have been to Texas, and what you all call beef down there needs to go to counseling for bulemia, and all those other eating disorders.

But what kind of site is this if you don't make it a wild game mandatory cook off. Then TX may have an edge with Axis, Nilgai and some of the other exotics that taste so darn good.

Betcha I don't. True though, often [bleep] up dish.


Travis

Wolf burgers....

I would beg to differ with the North South thing. I'd do my part.

The competition is already unfair, just with us being there, that would be hideous.

No they don't.


Travis

No mutton.

I agree 100%, unless it is one the parts of a sheep slam.

Thinking Redfish Courtbouillon and Shrimp Boulettes.

Cheating/bribing is allowed right? I'd like to keep this fair...


Travis

hot damn now I'm in!!

I said Wolf burgers - not fur burgers....

I'm sure someone will throw this cusine in.

Speaking of bribing, good luck beating Pat's brisket..

Funny Dude... Fort Riley Kansas, home of the Big Red One, smack in the center of the country. Anybody got a better idea?

Huh? I missed your written words...


Travis

LLHonda wins this contest hands down! He'll make your Texass cooking look like cheap TV dinners!

Kansas? Sounds good. Gotta be next year though. And it has to be labeled a "cook off". I ain't cruising cross country and telling folks I'm going to meet some dudes I met on the internet.


Travis

We'll see, I reckon. I hear some folks like eatin' minners and such.

Smelt fry?

I'm thinkin' March -May 2011? Nice weather and shouldn't interfere with hunting.

lutafisk!

Can we do teams? I wanna bring a partner in to help:

Yes I have. The hush puppies smelt best...

LOVE that video.

I showed that to my wife the other night while shucking corn for the kids' party.....she laughed but she did it the right way...

Someone once asked me what I was doing for Thanksgiving - this was right after my divorce, I wasn't doing much.

I replied "Sitting on the couch, TV on mute and watching Rachel Ray fist turkeys" - I didn't get the invite over for dinner.

It's great that they can learn how to do things the right way from the internet

Round these parts,we call the one who stays in camp to cook, the Camp Bitch.

Wash a lot of dishes, do ya?

Well, I'm goin' to bed. I'm looking forward to hearing from more of our members, particularly those who fancy themselves as chefs, and those who don't mind toeing the line. If it's a bad idea, I'd like to hear that too. It sounds like a good idea to me.

'Yankees can't cook', ay? Pardon me while I snicker.

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Pretty much proved the whole "yankee cooking" theory with that post...


Travis

We don't cook in our camp. If it can't be eaten over the sink on your way out the door to hunt - it don't get et.

Lets go somewhere we can go pig hunting,Ill let you southern gentlemen show us how to cook 'em.
I got no problem with that.

I would love to take that challenge with only one condition, Everything has to be cooked outside over an open fire.

And, I would have to win a sizeable lottery to be able to afford the trip to Texas to make sure you all don't cheat.

..."Over the Sink"..."a camp"...and "hunt" should not be in the same sentence.

Sinks have no part in any "hunting camp".ymmv

Indeed. Never ... EVER disrepect the one who takes the time and effort to cook your meal. Unless they are no good at it, that is. Then be sure not to eat the food they cook.

Rugby, North Dakota claims to be the Geographical Center of North America......I just went through there monday, they have a monument and everything.
And it is close to 2 airbases, it even includes the Canadian part of the fire, (not sure what they cook tho) And there is a RV dealership right up the road from the monument, just find an open camper and live in it for the night.

Yes, I do. Do it at Fort Leavenworth. You've got easy access to Kansas City International Airport which is at the extreme north end of Kansas City proper. Leavenworth is danged near in the Kansas City metro area itself.

In fact, I just mapped it and the north edge of the airport is about ten miles from Leavenworth. You've got not only the fort itself, but a big VA hospital there. You might be able to feed some patients or something. Command and General Staff College. Not as romantic as the Big Red One, but there it is lootenant. I've still got my set of Nam Jungle Fatigues my Sarge got me at the PX there.

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i wanna be on your team.

I'm impressed lhonda. Looks good there yankee ... with a tip of my hat .

I wanna' be on lhondas' fishing team.

I'll eat (when I'm done drinking) but catching and cooking for friends is so rewarding.

By the bye, in the pics above, maybe 90% is wild game and seafood that I've brought home from the field/waters. Moose, boar, antelope, duck, goose, lobster, scallops, deer, bluefin tuna, king salmon, razor clams, snowshoe hare and others are represented. Deal me in, and name the odds. And don't try to get silly with the juice/vig; this ain't my first BBQ... Barkeep?

Call. A ham sandwich is OK, but my tastes are slightly more exotic, and refined. Vanilla is plenty okey dokey now and then, but a sundae with all the toppings is where it's at. And no, I won't be needing more than one spoon...

That is not a picture of your wife is it ?

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Pat wouldn't want to cook something he frequently orders at reastaurants.

Chili fellas. Soldiers pick the best chili and put this Tejas myth straight to bed.

Cops on peyote.....so sad!!

After seeing Honda's pics, I think we have a winner. If you knotheaded Texass boys still insist on getting your butts handed to you, well..........

shoot, that sounds really good to me

I know we could put a team together that could make that hike.

ok lhonda's on our team!

or we're on his or what ever lol!!

Yeah, it is!! Having seen a few shots of lHonda's mug I have come to the following conclusion:
1)His wife is a Major League cutie
2)She is EXTREMELY nearsighted
3)She is VERY kindhearted to take in such a stray
4)She has great forebearance to put up wid a hunting and fishing bum like him
4)The S.O.B. can COOK!!!

Reminds me of when I was in the AF many years ago, somebody opined that when they screwed up the fried chicken they blamed it on the south, and when they screwed up the pot roast they blamed it on the yankees.

A lot of this "better" comes down to tastes. I have lived in a few different places, and found that my tastes and preferences evolved.

Some folks are adventuresome, and others, even if they have a choice, get locked into same old - same old.

Paul

I hope its not him!

I'm a lousy cook, conflicted 'bout the Yankee/Reb thing (born North, live South), but, I am eminently qualified as a Judge in such a contest.

North Wins:

potato dishes
steaks/chops/processed meats
freshwater fish
cheeses
beer


South Wins:

Ribs/brisket
bean dishes
saltwater fish
Mexican dishes (just no contest here)
iced tea

Draw:

Seafood (other than fish).

The North would have a slight advantage here, but Gulf shrimp even things up.

It's not so much about birth, but about blood. The location may change but the blood runs true. Anybody whose ancestors served the Cause knows what I mean.

There is good cooking everywhere. Lots on here like to BBQ and some have different tastes in it. For classic BBQ though, it is hard to beat the center of the country. In the north you've got like, Famous Dave's. In the Kansas City area you've got KC Masterpiece, Gate's, Arthur Bryant's, Quick's, Jack Stack's...the list goes on.

Tell me, Iron Chef Lhonda, whacha gonna do when they open up that box and today's secret ingredient is a woodpecker and a pinecone and you gotta feed them three judges? That stuff you posted practically cooks itself. Good thing too, 'cause I want yankees to be able to eat. Heck, some of it wadnt even cooked. Wuz you scared to put the heat to it?










(Beautiful fare, by the way!)

95% Lard

Didn't help much, my Great Grandfather immigrated here in the late 1800's - the "cause" was over.

By extension, it would also be impossible for me to be a Yankee, yes?

I think the competition should go like this


Category 1. Ribs

Category 2. Brisket

Category 3. Beans

Category 4. Open to any side dishes.



Travis

Rugby, ND may be the geographical center of NA.
Belle Fourche, SD is the geographical center of the USA.
Someplace in KS is the geographical center of mainland US.

Does that help? Growing up land bound in South Dakota my whole life, I am not very good with seafood, or fish for that matter. But I am getting better.

But red meat is right up my alley....

ok i would love to be in on something like this , i will add my .02 i think we should keep the location in one of these three states kansas, missouri, or nebraska , so far i like the kansas city suggestion best , keep us updated please .

oh and i think our categories should run something like this. 1, ribs and/or steak ,2 brisket and/or loins, 3 seafood ,4 beans and sides,5,open to type of casseroles, gumbo dishes, crock pot specials

Find out when one of the units are returning from the Stan to Fort Riley and have it there, trust me, soldiers appreciate a good BBQ/Cook Off, especially if they get to sample. Les

You call it a vent if you want to... We know what ass is, don't matter what it's on

Lhonda,

All that looks great. You don't happen to have high cholesterol do you?

What is the 1st dish pictured?

Homemade wild boar gyoza, or potstickers, as some refer to them as. Filling is ground boar with garlic, finely chopped scallion and spice. Even the wrapping is home made. Boil 'em up until they float, then toss 'em in a pan with hot peanut oil until the wraps crisp up. Serve hot with a shoyu, rice vinegar and hot pepper oil sauce. Fine, fine groceries, they are. Lots of prep, but worth it.

Thanks for the food comments. One of my great pleasures in life is cooking and eating great vittles. When the main ingredient is something I've dragged home, all the better.

To the poster asking if that's my wife: sure is. And yes, she'd probably have my liver as an appetizer if she knew I'd posted it, though it's hardly playboy material. Just my wee wifie getting ready and trying to choose what to wear to head off to NYC to work. I was on the couch snapping pics (thus the dark, no-flash first pic). That last one had the flash going off, and so ended my little 'photo shoot'.

Not for nothing, but when's the last time you've been to the beach and seen ladies lounging in bikinis? 1956? JK. No offense intended.

Hey OP, the meals cook themselves, do they? OK, now I know I've got a live one. Where's that gaff?

I think we need to cook something simple and indigenous to the entire country. I'm still thinking hotdogs, as there are thousands of ways to work around them and the main ingredient would probably be donated for the right cause. (You can cut a raw one up in little strips and serve it with mustard.)

Here's what'd be the basis of my seacoast hotdog entry.



And yes, some tourists actually PAY for this thing (with a wink to PT Barnum). Guy behind the counter said they sell lots of them. Pic taken in a little fried fish shack on the southern Maine coast. I got a heckuva' giggle looking at it.

I should get my BIL to sign up on the campfire. He won the Gonzales, LA jambalaya festival 3 times now.

I agree....best turtle sauce picante wins, or maybe best garballs.

As I said a few days ago honda.... she's gonna shoot yer ass

Nah, she's pretty easy. Wait a minute, that didn't come out quite right. OK, you're right, I'm a dead man walking...But I'm gonna' enjoy the hell out of life before she takes me out!

Ya musta missed my observations post l. I said forebearance, but easyGOING will work Put me in yer will for the shotguns

Dude, that ain't right .

Aren't you the one who started an entire thread picking on your better half for saying things that came out "wrong"?

George

Um, guilty. I'm also the guy who took apart a 160lb bluefin tuna in her bathtub when she was away in Tokyo. And I've made certain she knows how to lock, load and shoot every arm in the joint. I also made sure she knows the combos and how to work the safes. Yep. I'm farking doomed, boys. If youse guys see my obit with 'an apparent self-inflicted gunshot suicide', make sure the truth gets out!

ET, you can have one of my scatterguns, sure. But then, I keep them in the safe, and, well, you're going to have to get the combo from my wife. If she ever does read this thread and you show up here, you're going to have a 'suicide' too!

Ya must have borrowed Les' target revolver

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Yard bird....million different ways! Or,fowl of your choice.

sage grouse..........

It seems to me that folks using native/indigenous ingredients are going to know how to put the magic on better than those using ingredients different from what they are used to where they're from. As such, I vote that some day we critter cookers get together somewhere with stuff we've brought from home. Then, with a dozen pits, smokers and whatever going, everyone cooks several of their best dishes with whatever they choose. Then, we set up a panel of judges. Over the course of a weekend, everybody present gets totally rocked, lets their guard down, belly laughs, shoots the breeze with folks they thought they hated and would never get along with, and of course eats to-die-for vittles until about popping. The judges burn their scoring cards to get a 4:00 am impromptu firepit going. The winning team will be....









































Everyone.

Hmm....

on a stick.

How dare you go and post fighting words like these while I'm on vacation. . Just bring StanV with you and any team I assemble is a shoe in to win.

Bring those gals too!!

I do like your idea of feeding the troops. We've been doing the below for years. It's a big deal, however. You're feeding a ton of people. Maybe somewhere in Alabama?

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I say:

Butts
Ribs
Brisket
Chicken
Anything Butt
Dessert

I was wonderin' where you were. That was just for you. I'm not afraid of big deals, as long as we have time to prepare. I'm working rght now and only have a minute, but we'll talk more, okay?

We were shark and flounder fishing at Garden City, SC. Even soaked a crab pot with some menhaden/mullet which yielded about 20 nice blue crabs and netted about 4 lbs of shrimp. We never paid for any seafood!!!!!

Talk at you soon!!

David

You have obviously never tried to cook or eat a sage grouse....especially an old bomber Anyone that could make one edible would be a magician!

That's the beauty of coon ass cooking. Cooking something and make it great that normally you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot stick.

I have tons of recipes handed down that start off

Take one..

gasper goo
buffalo
gar
turtle
shoepick
nutria

You get the idea.

Come on up to camp, or my house JM.... You'll be fat as me in a week. I can cook some, but my Yankee wife is something else. You won't want to leave.....Hell you, stay, I'll leave.

I'm heading up the shore to swat grouse this fall. I plan to stop and get me some in Two Harbors. Might have to stop at Betty's for a chunk of pie too.

They never can figure things out in Texas.

Just wait til the Skins show up for the first Superbowl in THEIR new dome! That will have them scratching their heads..

I can fix a Finish 7 course meal, pasty and a 6 pack

My pig in a pit would be right up there with the best.

Surely you can't expect that words alone will buy any props with this crowd. We need pics, otherwise it never happened, Spano...

I don't see any losers in a cook off like this....especially the judges and troops. That being said if its down to hot dogs/brats or whatever ya wanna call them, Michigan will be tuff to beat with some of the best polish/german markets in the country plus Kogels Brand hot dogs....surely Les remembers Kogels.....

Does it count if I get my cajun Mom and MawMaw to cook for me?

If I posted pictures I would have everyone of you at my door holding me at gun point until I did a pig for you.

Maybe I'd even have to throw in sides of my Tripod Leg of Pork and a cauldron of my world famous baked beans.

he was right! the part one spits out to get to the goodies!

My dog can hock up better than that. Musta been made from something the cat drug in.