Date:         Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:26:01 -0600
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: camp cookery --was various
Comments: To: Rob <becida@comcast.net>
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---- Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> I can't remember much in the way of recipes for camp food on this
> list...  this one for Chicken Fried Steak sounds great!
>
> For a list like this I think recipes have a place... Thanks Dave for
> putting this one up!
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
> Let me see if I can write up that one pan rice-bean-meat-vegie that
> we did this last trip, the vegies were from a road side stand and the
> sausages from a local supermarket lasted the 2 of us several days.

Rob, I'll look for your recipe.  I mostly just cook with whatever I have or can come up with locally when traveling or camping in the van.  That means I'll figure out what and how to prepare whatever is available, rather than following recipes.  I can usually properly season and choose an appropriate preparation method for most things I find, most places in the U.S. anyway.  I try to keep it pretty simple, but unlike some, I don's shy from frying, or cooking with loud smelling ingredients in the van.

I have wondered at times about the bear-worthiness of cooking inside one's quarters when in bear country, especially where there are brown bears.  But, the camper is, as the park rangers say, "hard sided."

Now, around Yosemite, with its car-wise and camp-wise black bears -- would they break the windows?  I'd think that is in the park itself, and I usually steer away from such people dense places.  Even if I were visiting there, I'd likely camp outside, as I did last time I was there some 15 years ago.  Get a few miles away and as high as you can get with whatever transportation mode you're using, and there are relatively few other folks.

mcneely
>
>
>
> At  1/26/2011 06:37 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >Since this is camp food prepared in or near a VW camper, I assume it
> >is legit for commentary.  Both my parents were cooks in Texas diners
> >in the 1940s and 1950s.
>
> >The original cfs was a piece of thin cut round steak, tenderized
> >with a steak hammer, salted and generously peppered, dredged in
> >flour (no eggs, or other contaminants, milk MIGHT be allowed), and
> >quickly fried in a pan or on a grill in fat that did not cover the
> >steak, one side, then flipped and finished.
>
> >This is written by the son of two old time Texan diner cooks.
> >mcneely
>

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David McNeely