Your favorite Camp cooks and meals?

[Krex1010]

I’m pretty much the camp cook at our club...On our small game trips the number one meal everyone requests is the “buffalo squirrel wings”......after a few days of hunting we have a mess of squirrels that I piece out and simmer until tender, then let cool. Dredge in flour and fry them up crispy and toss in my buffalo sauce....serve hot with a cold beer or three. Happy hunters that night!

[Krex1010]

Ron LaClair.......awesome pics! Those meals look outstanding.

[smokin joe]

Ron,
Absolutely! Wild game cooked over wood outdoors is a real treat -- especially when the weather is cool and the fire is a welcoming place.
Joe

PS: How is your shoulder coming along? Mine is really great.

[TattooDave]

My favorite camp food by far is the Scotch eggs I make for Spring turkey camp! They're great to throw in the back back and eat in the field cold, or throw them wrapped in foil on the fire and heat em up. A close second is the antelope fajitas my friend John Halverson made for turkey camp in the Black hills of South Dakota. He put out a heck of a spread!

Tattoo Dave

[Ron LaClair]

How is your shoulder coming along? Mine is really great.

I saw my surgeon day before yesterday, her said I was doing great and he'd see me in a year

[Macatawa]

Of coarse it's hard to beat butterflied venison backstraps fried in a cast iron pan, the aroma of the cookin meat mingling with the smells of the fall woods.....you'll think you died and went to Heaven.

Absolutely!!!
Been at that Northern Michigan feast many times with my brothers...good memories

[23feetupandhappy]

The Myth, the Legend, BowDoc, the one and only Camp Cook Iv had the pleasure of knowing....
His 30 egg omelet was something to behold.....AND he was the first one to come out and give you a big oll huge when you got your bear!
Oh, and he had a few stories up his sleeve too

Bear Quest will never be the same with out him, RIP BowDoc.....







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[ron w]

I'll agree......Ray Hammond and Bowdoc........both did a great job!!!!!!!

[T Lail]

Bill Millers cooking anything while we were in Texas........but his home made biscuits ....WOW !!!!!!

[amicus]

This tread really brought back a lot of memories of some of meals I have had while hunting different places. I've really been blessed. Sometimes what makes a meal special is the meal, sometimes its the people that your with and sometimes its the place and sometimes its all 3. I can truly say the best meals I've had have always been while hunting. No restaurant can compare. The best PB&J sandwich was on the side of a mountain, the best steak was under the stars by the fire. I would gladly eat another MRE if I could go back to where I ate my last one. If I had to pick one meal that I loved, it would have to be Alaskan King crab that we pulled up while hunting on Kodiak for Black tail. That's a meal I will never forget because of the place, people I was with and of course the crab was excellent. The following day we had crab salad sandwiches on fresh home made bread. Oh man, I'm getting hungry.  Thanks Terry for bringing this up.

Gilbert

[Pine]

What a great thread, sure takes me back.
I'm remembering the best Thanksgiving meal.
We were at a friends rustic cabin in upper Michigan.
Aunt Nina as we called her cooked a very large Turkey in the wood fired kitchen stove along with sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, fresh bread and I think four different pies.
That cabin smelled wonderful coming in from a day of deer hunting.
That was in the mid 1970s.
Sure do miss all of them......

[CRM_95]

Randy Madden cooked some pretty dang good ribeyes on our trip to Colorado this year. Food wise this was definitely the highlight of the trip.

He made some breakfast burritos that were awesome too!! I was eating them for several days after the point that they were probably no longer safe to eat but they were still good and I didn’t die.


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[Tedd]

My dad and uncles "invented" "Mountain Burgers" at the hunting camp out of necessity about 40 years ago when we were kids. They had a bunch of mouths to feed in turkey season one evening. It has been a ritual ever since.
 Nothing fancy, ground beef, deer or elk or any combination of the above made into about 3"x 1-1/2" thick "burgers". Brown the burgers in a big skillet, cover completely with onions and continue cooking, pour in several cans of store bought gravy. Simmer for an hour or so. Serve mouth scalding hot on top of mashed potatoes and canned corn. (the amount of mashed potatoes must be debated with enthusiasm usually ending with "just make all the f-ing potatoes, they are cheap!"). The original was made with a box of instant mashed potatoes found in the cupboard. Some argue it's not right unless we use instant.
  A buck on the pole, mountain burgers simmering, glass of makers mark in your hand. That's good stuff.
Tedd

[Cory Mattson]

Lucky for us MOST of our crew are fair cooks in camp. That is a serious compliment. We have so many but a few honorable mentions. The Battens are all good cooks with a wide understanding of technique. Always a great meal when we share a camp. Don and I have a years running back and forth cooking chicken thighs one of the few meats we actually buy. Don is one of the best cooks I have ever worked with running hunt/fish camps.
Monty Browning is a very good cook in and out of camp most notably he’ll stay in half a day and turn the back leg of a doe into cast iron skillet steaks mashed potatoes green beans with gravy for ten people. It is a real treat.
Dean Torges was an excellent cook with a strong knowledge of cuisine, ingredients and methods. We ran many camps together for at least a ten year period and he had a requirement for new invites - they had to produce one meal for the group. If it was not good they got uninvited! The goal was to get us out into the woods and it worked out mostly and I would say to all bowhunters they should learn one meal they can do well that all will like and bring that to camp.
Marty MacMahon is and has always been “host extraordinar” Marty probably hosted more hunters than anyone we know maybe even more than most outfitters. His go to was pot Roast always perfect!
We have more like Joey Buck when he is coming to your camp tell him to bring a pork butt (shoulder)
Schuster has really come into his own as a cook since he went new age modern diet - his chicken thighs with fennel onion criminally mushrooms sun dried tomatoes is awesome! And he does it in a bag in a croc pot makes it look easy.
Phil Muller does a  Linguini meal with stingray clams some veg and a cream sauce!! Hard to believe it is stingray camp.
A life long friend Bill Burbride came to our mule deer camp and cooked mule deer potatoes onions peppers in a cast iron skillet for me and Phil and I never bought another freeze dried for the rest of my life that was mid 80s.
Sam Roberts dad cooked fish for us mid 90s it was delicious and he made it look easy!!!
Matt Quick puts on a good meal too - best hunting buddy - and tell you what that Dude is ON time EVERY time LOLOLoL

[TIM B]

It was probably 20 years ago....mid February we left an ice storm in southern MO and drove south to the king ranch for a hog javelina n snake shoot.  A day or so later we were eating fried rattlesnake in camp and enjoying the mild temps.  I think it was the atmosphere n people that makes me remember that so well.
Tim B

[Terry Green]

Says Cory Mattson.....

 The guy whose cookies went for $6,000 on the St. Jude's auction

[finkm1]

My favorite cook is Jerry Richard. I won the Michigan Traditional Bowhunters Bobcat hunt and he put me up in his cabin and was the cook. With all the hunting and hiking I did I still managed to gain 3 lbs on his delicious meals.

[Scott E. Thomas]

Great post.

[Roger Norris]

The meals at ShrewHaven have been legendary. It's hard to pin one down. Greg and Ray are amazing cooks that work HARD to keep us full and happy.

But I have to say that some of my memorable meals were pretty simple...red beans and rice, with ground venison over a fire in Wyoming with Mike Vines. Ground venison thrown into a skillet with a can of baked beans while turkey hunting with my boy Danny.

Heck...Danny and I have had some pretty good lunches, sitting in the woods with a couple bologna sandwiches and a package of PopTarts.

[Matt Quick]

Cory’s cookies are the best. After eating one you’ll never look at a store bought cookie the same. On a similar note Cory gave me a smoked snack stick that Dean Torges had made from wild pig. This thing was so good I refuse to eat a store bought slim Jim style meat stick. That was like fifteen years ago.