Your favorite Camp cooks and meals?

[Terry Green]

I'm going to name three that stand out over the years that I've been hunting in camps, leases,  safaris, yadda yadda yadda....

One that stands out is the salad from Ray Hammond at Ray's Hog Heaven. Totally outstanding.... it didn't really matter what was the follow after that salad the meal was already complete.

Another is Matt Schuster's Dutch oven hog recipe.
Absolutely insane to have that kind of taste Brewing while you're out hunting during the afternoon.

And Andrew Harper's anything.... he knew Bobby Flay for God's sakes.... and I did say anything but his mashed potatoes would make you commit crimes.

Let's hear some more about meals in hunting camp....

[reddogge]

My buddy, Russ Kness, at our deer camp. He does all of the cooking and we eat good food and lots of it. Dinners, thick pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, limas, or the best spaghetti sauce I've eaten with sausage and meatballs. He even bakes scratch biscuits. He does make me grill the steaks though. For breakfast (in the middle of the day), SOS from scratch over homemade bread, puddin' gravy over hominy and homemade bread, eggs, homefries and onions...and homemade bread. He's a great cook.

Once I came home and raved about Russ's cooking to my wife and she suggested I go live with Russ. I don't talk about it anymore.

[Trenton G.]

My favorite meal of the year is the night before opening day of rifle season. Every year we buy half a steer from my uncle and when we have them cut up we have him cut three extra big steaks specifically for my dad, my brother and me on that night.. We grill those, along with the biggest potatoes we can find and make a big salad. It's nothing super fancy, but I look forward to that meal every year!

[bear mike]

My favorite meal of the year is the night before opening day of rifle season. Every year we buy half a steer from my uncle and when we have them cut up we have him cut three extra big steaks specifically for my dad, my brother and me on that night.. We grill those, along with the biggest potatoes we can find and make a big salad. It's nothing super fancy, but I look forward to that meal every year!

That's what its all about we do kinda the same thing. But at bow camp there is a different chef for each meal and there aint been a bad one yet chili steaks stew big ol breakfasts man getting hungry just thinking about it and camp isn't until the 3rd weekend in october

[beemann]

Bear camp in northern Saskatchewan with Rob Nye.  All time favorite is fresh caught northern pike fried with french fries.  I dream about that all winter.  Second is what he calls poor mans lobster.  Its cubed northern pike that he boils and serves with a butter dipping sauce. Im drooling just thinking about it.   Never had a bad meal with him but those are the two that I request .  Could eat it all week.  Bear camp isn't just about the bears. 

[Sam McMichael]

Some of these descriptions make drool and cry at the same time. I developed Alpha Gal allergy (caused by a tick bite), so now I am allergic to all mammal meat, including some dairy. Nobody in the world likes meat more than me or gets sicker from eating it. It ain't fair, I say!  But fish and fowl are just fine, so please toss in some of these recipes, too. It sounds like some of the hunting camps qualify as 5 star establishments.

[Terry Green]

beemann..... that northern pike sounds like a crime I could commit for also. so be prepared when I crash your Camp next season

[Nole]

My brother in law's dad is an amazing cook.  When I go to visit them in MS he is known as Food & Beverage and every meal is amazing.  He is Greek and their family grew up in the restaurant business so every meal is just awesome in hunting camp.  It doesn't matter what he cooks its just good!

[Ray Lyon]

Oh my, the Shrewhaven meals have been legendary over the years.  Prime rib and twice baked potatoes that would make a first year cardiac med students cringe.  Leg of lamb on the grill with rosemary oven roasted redskins. Bacon wrapped wild duck breast cooked medium rare on a grill served with fall vine ripen squash and 100% wild rice.  All you can eat walleye and bluegills deep fried in a light dusting with coleslaw. Fresh baked apple pie with butter crust and tree ripened northern spie apples. 

[Matt Quick]

My good friend Cory Mattson cooks up some great camp meals that will pretty much ruin you for "normal" camp fare.  Three of my favorites, in no particular order, are tuna steaks with ginger sauce, braised deer shank and red beans and rice.

Beeman, I've been in Rob Nye's camp and had the poor man's lobster. You can definitely eat that until your sick. I've also had it with lake trout and it's excellent as well.

[glenbo]

I have to agree with Terry regarding Andrew Harper. I have never been fed better.

[rainman]

My buddy Gerry Beckerman is a dutch oven genius.  My favorite is Chicken Cacciatore.

[Terry Green]

Yes Cory Mattson cookies went for $6,000 on the st. Jude's auctions once.



Tuna steaks with ginger sauce, yeah I'll have to commit another crime.

[elk nailer]

Last year at Wild Things, Don Price feed us well!

[beemann]

Terry them lakes are full of fish Im sure there is enough for both of us...      Matt Im glad someone can vouch for me.  Suddenly Im hungry.....

[Flingblade]

Andrew Harper's Sunday morning Shrimp-n-Grits!!

[Kopper1013]

Man could Harper cook!!

[smokin joe]

I have to agree about Andrew Harper's cooking. He took great pleasure out of cooking terrific food. His chili was the best I have ever tasted, and his bean soup and ham is historic.

A also agree about Ray Hammond's cooking. Anything Ray makes with pork is crazy delicious. That man can really cook pigs.

Then there was one meal years ago for an opening day hunt with a bunch of people. Fried catfish was the main course. I cannot remember the name of the cook, but the catfish was the best I have ever tasted. If I could, I would transport myself back to that day and beg for the recipe.

[Ron LaClair]

Some of the best eaten you'll ever wrap a lip around, venison ribs roasted over hardwood coals....larrupin!



Venison haunch is mighty good too, with bacon strips pinned to it. slice off some meat and keep the spit turnin till its cooked to the bone.....lip smackin good

[Ron LaClair]

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.