Smoke in the Cedars: Winter is Coming... and fortunatley I have Coffee and Bannock
Winter is Coming... and fortunatley I have Coffee and Bannock
I've had to rethink my long-standing tradition of taking a day off on each and every Monday from the opening of squirrel season to the week before Christmas. When I started writing here, about all I gave a crap about was hunting. It was the only thing I knew to do outdoors. Then I got lost, started learning skills because being lost scared the raisins out of me, and then there was a long transition. Now we're someplace new. The Wednesday after Veterans Day really drove it home for me.
It was cold. We went from highs in the 60's to a high of 36 with a 20 mph wind in three days. I decided to go anyway because I hate working in cubes all the time and I had the day to burn. I hiked around in my woods a while. There are still a couple of places where I haven't spent a lot of time so I went to visit one of them. I rigged up the 5.11 pack and headed out. No rifle. No shotgun.
With the cold starting to wear me down a bit and some hunger creeping into my tummy, I figured it was a good time to press on and make some fire, and hot drinks, and some bannock.
As the name here would imply, the cedar fire is almost obligatory...
It's only real drawback is weight. For the cost difference to do titanium, I can carry the extra pound...
Something I have been working on fire a while, off and on, is making good campfire bread. Bannock is just the best free-form expression of outdoor cooking I have found. I love the idea of something simple and sweet that takes some skill to make but is still hard to screw up beyond being usable. I'm sure at some point I'll graduate to harder stuff but for now, making this well is my goal.
A while back, I went looking for a better way to cook. Like so many things I go looking for anymore, the military surplus market really offered a great option. This is my second outing baking in this mess kit.
This time I think I nailed it. By far, the best I have ever made and once I applied the Maple Syrup, it was gone in a hurry.
A glamor shot of my knife... just because I love these things.
Posted by Joel Pearon at 12:52 AM
Labels: bannock, Bushcraft, Bushknife, mess kit, racoon, Spoon Carving
Smoke in the Cedars: Winter is Coming... and fortunatley I have Coffee and Bannock
Winter is Coming... and fortunatley I have Coffee and Bannock
I've had to rethink my long-standing tradition of taking a day off on each and every Monday from the opening of squirrel season to the week before Christmas. When I started writing here, about all I gave a crap about was hunting. It was the only thing I knew to do outdoors. Then I got lost, started learning skills because being lost scared the raisins out of me, and then there was a long transition. Now we're someplace new. The Wednesday after Veterans Day really drove it home for me.
It was cold. We went from highs in the 60's to a high of 36 with a 20 mph wind in three days. I decided to go anyway because I hate working in cubes all the time and I had the day to burn. I hiked around in my woods a while. There are still a couple of places where I haven't spent a lot of time so I went to visit one of them. I rigged up the 5.11 pack and headed out. No rifle. No shotgun.
With the cold starting to wear me down a bit and some hunger creeping into my tummy, I figured it was a good t
ime to press on and make some fire, and hot drinks, and some bannock.
As the name here would imply, the cedar fire is almost obligatory...
It's only real drawback is weight. For the cost difference to do titanium, I can carry the extra pound...
Something I have been working on fire a while, off and on, is making good campfire bread. Bannock is just the best free-form expression of outdoor cooking I have found. I love the idea of something simple and sweet that takes some skill to make but is still hard to screw up beyond being usable. I'm sure at some point I'll graduate to harder stuff but for now, making this well is my goal.
A while back, I went looking for a better way to cook. Like so many things I go looking for anymore, the military surplus market really offered a great option. This is my second outing baking in this mess kit.
This time I think I nailed it. By far, the best I have ever made and once I applied the Maple Syrup, it was gone in a hurry.
A glamor shot of my knife... just because I love these things.
Posted by Joel Pearon at 12:52 AM
Labels: bannock, Bushcraft, Bushknife, mess kit, racoon, Spoon Carving