Am I the only one who uses my bowie to cook?

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or am I just "weird"? AND?! I was also wondering.... If you guys had any favorite "survival recipes" or any favorites you could make while camping that did not include anything pre-bought. I don't care about cook books- I'd like to know what are the REAL favorites from guys who like to spent alot of time in the bush. Thanks in advance for reading and contributing!
Doc
 
Nothing prebought? Are you talking to foraging and hunting and fishing as the only means of food collection? If so, I like fresh fish cooked over the campfire and I'm big on milkweed pods when they are small and not filled with latex. I also like Pigweed (wild spinach) and sheep sorel. Of course any segmented berry is usually pretty easy to identify as non-poisonous. Leeks are delicious if you know how to find them.

There are just too many wild plants to mention. This past summer, I attended the Wilderness Learning Center Wild Plants Intensive course and we covered a multitude of wild plants. We prepared many and got to sample more plants in one week than I did in all the years woodsbumming before that. Really an awesome course.

Oh, as far as my favorite way food can be prepared? You can't be a rock oven. Here are some bisquick cakes done this way.

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This is one of my favorite Jungle Recipes for when I am camping out on Banka Island in Indonesia - it does include one store-bought item (the chicken cubes) but I suppose you could replace them with fish bones

Young Coconut Chicken Soup in the Shell

Ingredients:
  • 1 Coconut with the milk still inside
    1 Chicken stock cube or packet
Tools:
  • Knife, machete, axe, sharpened rock or any chopping or cutting tool, a large knife, Machete or Axe works best
    1 Spoon (or anything curved, like a seashell, stick broken at an angle or small broken rock)
Instructions:
  • Chop the top ¼ off of the Coconut shell, be careful not to spill the milk

    Scrape the meat free from the inside of the shell, do not remove the meat, leave it inside the shell

    Add the Chicken stock cube or packet into the coconut shell

    Toss the coconut onto the fire or some hot embers until it begins to steam

    I like to add some fish or snake meat but you can pretty much add anything else that you have handy


~JITW
 
Well much more pre-bought then above but here is a couple stables I always like to bring along:

Ramon noodles, kippers and cayenne pepper. Only use half the salt/stock packet they give with the ramon noodles. Lots of horse power - protein and carbs and light weight. If I'm feeling a little gormet, some dehydrated chives and onions make it much more hearty. Usually I carry the mixture of chives, dried garlic and onions in a little film canister as it is my all around veggie/spice. Somtimes I also add in the seaweed that is used for making Sushi or dulse crushed up with the mixture.

The instant rice, again pre-bought. But very easy and fast to prepare in the bush. Pair it up with some curry powder, dehydrated onions and chives and cut in some bit of peperoni stick (like the original hot rods - salt + protein). Not so bad. Sometimes I bring in some pitas as well. If you toast them a bit on the fire, add some of the above curry rice and pretend your are eating some genuine naan bread.
 
awesome. let me restate my question. how about favorite recipes when you camp? -maybe store bought- but no freakin oscar meyer weiners;)
 
Hmmm... wrap a tater and a yellow squash in foil and put them near the coals. Then wrap biscuit dough around a stick and set it up to bake. Then thread venison tenderloin butterflied steaks and bacon on skewers and set them up to bake while the coffee or tea pot bubbles. My fixed blade hunting knife prepares it all. Sometimes I forego the biscuit dough and make cornmeal johnny cakes (pones) on a greased fireside stone.

Codger
 
for me a survival recipie is what we find to eat , best we had I can remember right now was freh water crayfish and fresh fish , followed by mangos fell from the tree that morning and green coconuts .
Usually tho its roo , goat , or maybe pig , with some greens , if we are in desert country and the seasonis in , saltbush berries go well with meat , being like a salty grape they go with anything pretty much
Along the South Australian coast on the westernparts anyway , we grab a bucket of oysters , whiile other collect the saltbush berries , then we sit the oysters near the fire till they relax and are easy to pry open thats got to rank up there with the fresh cray and mangos ... top stuff

FWIW , someone mentioned earlier in this thread about chopping the top off a coconut , if the nut is anywhere near green still , chopping isnt needed , the shell is soft , and you can slice it open with an opinel or similar thin bladed knife , tho using a machete does have that manly thing going for it ... I take a triangle plug out of the nut , drain it , slice the nut upen , eat the meat out with a spoon ( green coconuts are like jelly inside ) take the husk off the shell and carve it into something or just shave it and make a cup .. if you get a pretty green one and the shell is still realy soft , you can carve and shape it easy , and even flatten it out a lot and let it dry in the sun where it hardens up as it dries .

just my 10c ... Im going back to where all this is in a couple months ... Im ready , just waiting for school to end so the kids can come too
 
Labrador tea is wonderful. It is a nice mild gentle tea. Bring water to a boil at home or over the fire even in a tin can. Pick a handful of leaves, (they are plentiful in the boreal forest) break them up with your fingers into the boiling water and remove from heat to steep. This is a great drink on the trail, or at home, and is great for releaving a bad stomach or the flu.
 
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