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Camp Rice & Mushrooms
https://vimeo.com/421069177 I cooked this on my Biolite Campstove2, using pellets for fuel. Any campstove will work. The trick is to fashion a double boiler. I broke up several small branches and tossed them in my large camp pot to form a trivet. I put...
Take & Bake Pizza with Wild Mushrooms
https://vimeo.com/419668102 Of course, take and bake pizza is a cheat but this is, after all, Cooking For Guys. Besides, this post is as much a brag about a successful mushroom hunt as it is about pizza. Amy, Andy and I took the sidecars up the ridge to...
Mushrooms on Toast
For a simple, quick breakfast it is hard to beat mushrooms on toast. In the spring I use morels, in the fall, chanterelles. Other mushrooms can be substituted. Ingredients toast fresh mushrooms - whatever is in season onion or shallots minced garlic...
Asparagus and Morels
Several years ago, a local timber company locked down the woods behind my house due to fire danger. One of their fallers set fire to the ridge the very next day. It burned for a week. The following spring, we went up there and harvested morels from the scorched...
Good Morning
10/6/25 Good Monday morning to you. 7:30 38F (3.3C) but it feels colder. Heating water for tea while my brother and Robert sleep. ...
Good Morning
10/5/25 Good morning. 6:00 and cold enough to see my breath but comfortable by the fire. I am not sure if I hear Walter or Jason, but someone is snoring in the tipi, loud enough to scare the bears. Sipping my tea and listening to the brook babble stories to me,...
Good Evening
10/3/25 8:30 Clear sky cool, temperate weather, The moon waxing gibbous and approaching full. Just got home from the deep, dark forest. Mike and I drove north, looking for someplace we hadn't camped before. ...
Outhouse Camp August 2025
My brother Andy, my friend Jason, and I all had our birthdays within a week of each other. Obviously, a birthday camping trip was in order. It would take some effort to work out the logistics. Jason is employed at an orthopedic clinic, with weekends off. Weekends are...
Good Afternoon
Walter accompanied Michael and I into the woods to look for mushrooms. Even though we have had recent rainstorms, it was too dry and we didn't collect many specimens for the amount of ground we covered. We did find a few rubbery chanterelles, a small chicken of the...
Good Morning
9/15/26 4:30 47F (8.3C) AQI 16 Dark. Heavy dew. No wind. No hot tub this morning - going fishing with Bill. ...
Good Morning
9/14/26 6:00 51F (10.5C) AQI 21 Cloudy , calm, and dry. The little black banty managed to get herself locked out of the henhouse last night and is wandering around the chicken yard complaining loudly. Hopefully Walter's presence will deter any predators her...
Good Morning
9/13/26 6:45 50F (10C) AQI 24 Overcast and still. The ground is soaked. It rained yesterday afternoon and most of the night, but it has stopped for now. A squirrel is chattering in the oaks. A quail picks at grass sprouting from the mud. Overhead, a buzzard...
Good Morning
9/12/26 7:00 50F (10C) AQI 20 Overcast, no wind. Rain is predicted for later in the day. Amy left clothes hanging on the line last night; there is no dew this morning, so they may still be dry. The jays are squabbling. Their raucous squawks drown out the cheeps...
Good Morning
9/11/26 7:15 52F (11C) AQI 26 The sun is up and the sky is pilled with clouds. Birch leaves flutter in the breeze. Last night the coyotes were singing. This morning the birds have taken up the chorus. Walter stands at the gate like a sentry demanding a...
