re: Weekend 1 of 10; hunting camp cooking

Awesome thread, TH. Those duck breasts looked great, as did everything else.

Damn fine bacon you got right there.

excellent meals ham

Got to be a commercial camp with all that set up?

You should recognize it count, you've been there but probably not in the kitchen

He's been in the kitchen if he's been out there. Every swinging dick goes in the kitchen.

Gueydan

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Yep, thought I recognized it.

I think we need to redefine the meaning of hunting camps. These places i see people post about are not camps. These are lodges.

Growing up, our hunting camp was located in the woods, along with 3 others. They were spaced out about 5 miles apart along the bayou bank. THey were accessible by boat via a 30 minute boat ride down the bayou, or via a 1 hour drive, and 30 minute ATV ride through the woods.

The camp was a wood frame tin shack with 8 - 3 tier bunk beds, and a wood burning stove in the center for heating. The only bathroom was an outhouse. There were 2 gas stoves, and 1 gas oven located outside under protection of the tin roof. The meals for breakfast consisted of shitty camp coffee, and a biscuit. Maybe bacon if you were lucky. Lunch was usually a sandwich or something you packed with you. And if you stayed for dinner, it was usually beans, and whatever was killed. Either squirrel, rabbit, deer, or even coon (never ate the coon).

These mansions people call camps now, are the furthest thing in my mind, from a camp. These are grand lodges, and there is no "roughing it", like we did growing up. (FWIW, i'm 31).

Not saying i wouldn't love to stay at one of these lodges and feast, but i think we can stop calling them camps.