Food Crimes!

I'll post pictures of Hamfist's performance at Britt when they become available, but meantime, let's talk camp out food crimes, shall we?

As always, Sequoia and I will buy a keg. Here's the short version of the menu:
Friday night pizza. We'll fire the oven, Sequoia's making a ton of dough, y'all bring sauces, cheeses & toppings of all varieties plus salads, sides, drinks, desserts.

Saturday night Siskiyou tacos. Dogboy's overseeing the fry bread, pulled pork and coleslaw. Rumor has it that a couple of competitive barbecue champeens may attend the camp out this year and oversee the meat. Regardless of who's doing the cooking we're going to shill for donations because those pork butts ain't cheap. (Lowell suggested putting out a "pork barrel" as a cash receptacle.) We also need side dishes, drinks, desserts.

Here's an excerpt of an email Lowell sent to Dutch & Cat's friends Karen & Terry:

"Over time the campout menu has evolved into indulging camper's favorites: Friday night is pizza night (a few years ago a wood fired adobe oven was built in the hoohaw area for this purpose. After some tweaking it works pretty good...); Saturday night is Siskiyou Taco night. A Siskiyou Taco is a piece of fry bread topped with pulled pork and a southwestern style coleslaw with a sweet/sour dressing. Last year, on two Webber Kettles, 38 pounds of pork butt (before cooking weight) was slow cooked. The event was not particularly well attended (I plan for 50 and have, off those plans and on occasion, fed about a hundred. Last year, there was less than 50 in attendance for Saturday dinner.) The pulled pork was gone in 20 minutes. Imagine that...

"From what I gather from your email you all plan to bring down your competition BBQ. Is this correct? If so, can we do at least 50 pounds of pork on it at a shot? Knowing this, do you even want to mess with the endeavor? If not, no worries. It will happen anyway one way or another...

"Ooops! Silly me. There are some ground rules: The food cost for the BBQ fodder is, in the worst case, reimbursed to you in full before you leave the campout. Just let me know what you spent. If you want me to pick up the meat down here I can do that too. I'm not sure what your customary prep is and how that works into the time we will share together. Second, if your BBQ needs fuel, there is Oak and Red Alder available on the property. If you give me an idea of what you might need I'll see what is seasoned and available so you don't have to haul wood and let you know."


Please feel free to send me any questions you have after reading the above. I'm happy to answer them all.