Bear roasts cooked with peppercinis for tacos !!

So, someone got a bear and you have no idea how to prepare the thing. How about shredded bear for tacos? Its very easy any beginner chef can do it. Take your bear roast and a jar or two of peppercinis. We like to use the already sliced ones in a jar. Add the peppers your bear roast to your favorite crock pot. Sprinkle in some pepper and maybe some water.

Last time we had 2 bear roasts and used 2 jars of peppers and my big crock pot. We cooked them for two days but only one day is necessary to accomplish shredding of the meat.

If you do two days then the meat should just shred up in the crock pot. Strain out the meat into a bowl.

We like to use the small 6" thin Don Pancho white corn tortillas. Heat up a pan and then throw in your tortillas and heat them up. Usually you can do two at once. Put some cheese down on the hot tortillas put your bear meat on that and add your favorite pico de gallo maybe some guacamole or any combo of taco toppings.

ENJOY your bear !!

This is the kind we use !!

Cedar Plank Salmon

Wow, this is just quite amazing and you wont be able to stop eating  !! Get yourself a hunk of salmon or steelhead first off.

One cedar plank and any size for a big hunk of fish.
Soak cedar plank in water for about an hour.
Start up your BBQ. We use a charcoal BBQ'r

Seasoning on your salmon:
I poke the salmon with a fork and then pour over some soy sauce
Johnny's Seasoning Salt
Smoked parika
chopped garlic
dill ( i will put some of the dill on like half the salmon just to have to flavors)

Put your seasoned salmon on your cedar plank and place on BBQ grill and use your lid to the BBQ. I cant say for how long cause it depends on how hot your BBQ is and you will just have to use a fork to see when it is done. We dont cook ours all the way as we put the plank in the oven until ready for dinner so by then its just perfect.

Happy cooking !!!

Marinated Planked Pork Tenderloin

Pork can be prepared on a cedar plank or under the broiler in your oven. Both are fabulous.

Pork:
2- 3/4 pound pork tenderloins
Sauce:
1/2c Hoisin sauce
1/4c rice wine vinegar
1tbsp sesame oil
1tbsp soy sauce
1tbsp chopped garlic
1 1/2tsp grated ginger
red pepper flakes to taste

Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan and simmer and stir till it just gets warm. I then use some kind of a bag and add pork then pour in sauce tie the top and mix the meat around in the bag so it marinates. I put in fridge and mix the meat up and around in the sauce bag off and on for awhile.

Now if your using a cedar plank make sure you submerge your plank in water for about an hour or longer if you have that time. When its time to cook on the BBQ I add my pork on to a wet plank and then add to the grill. Takes about 15-30min or until the internal temp is 145 degrees.

If you are broiling the tenderloins then broil away and enjoy !!!

Slice and enjoy !!!

Photo courtesy of Cooking Husband Blog

Mark Macedo Green Enchiladas

Had to share this green enchilada recipe Mark Macedo shared with us. It was so good and easy to make. I think I may like this better than red enchiladas !!!


1lb hamburger or ground deer or elk or if your feeling ambitious we have done it with shredded chicken too.
half onion
mushrooms
chipolte seasoning
salt pepper dash of red wine
Las Palmas Green sauce
tortillas
cheese
can of chopped jalapenos 

I sauteed my onions and some garlic until the onions were caramelized and then added my hamburger Jalapenos (half of small can) and mushrooms cooking everything. Then put in strainer to strain off the fat. I get my tortillas and green sauce warmed up and I use a brush for basting and I coat the whole tortilla in a thin layer of the green sauce and then I add some hamburger mix and some cheese in the center and roll up the tortilla. I place on a pan that has a generous amount of green sauce on the bottom. Repeat until the pan is full of tortillas and then pour green sauce over the top and spread out some cheese and jalapenos. Have fun mixing up different things to add to it too !!!

Cook at 350' for 45min.

Thanks Mark !!!

Crock pot beans with homhocks.

This is a very easy and cheap dinner to make and have ready the next day. 

Ingredients:
one onion
one bag of navy beans (you will use half the bag)
one bag of pinto beans (you will use half the bag)
one to two packages of hickory smoked pork ham hocks by Cook's from Safeway.
OPTIONAL:
carrots and celery cut into small chunks
or shredded carrots
bacon cooked and cut into small chunks

Cook half a bag of each of the beans in a pot with water generously covering the beans. You may have to add more as the beans cook. I precook my beans this way until they are soft. Also depending on how small your beans are you may need more or less for larger beans. At the end you can always add in some canned beans. I have done that adding some big white kidney beans because the original beans were kind of small.

Get your crock pot out and cut up one onion and add into the pot with some garlic. Then add one or two of your hamhocks. Add beans and the water that they cooked in half way then add the rest of the ham hocks. Add the last of the beans and water.

Now I just add some all purpose seasoning and a salt free garlic herb seasoning. I'll add a bit of sea salt also and or Johnny's seasoning salt plus some parsley.

OPTIONAL veggies you can add are celery and carrots. I have done that before. Also have added shredded carrots to it and cook up some bacon and chop into small pieces and add to the mix.

Let your crock pot cook till the next day stirring occasionally. The ham hocks will flavor and salt the bean soup so you really dont have to add anything else for seasoning depending on ham hocks. I still add some salt. Using the water that you cook your beans in will naturally thicken the soup too. At the end I use a slotted spoon and spoon out the fat and bones from the ham hocks. The meat will have fallen off and you can easily shred it up with your spoon and stir through the soup. Now you have meat with your beans.

ENJOY your crock pot of beans.

HOBO breakfasts then soup.

Ok so I made two packets of hobo dinners for the guys breakfast. Same ingredients as Hobo dinners I just tweeked things a bit for breakfast.

Use your ground meat and make small meat balls. Nothing fancy they dont even have to be round. Place in a bowl. Cut up your potatos very small like square hash brown style, dice up the carrots, celery and onion very small too. Cut up some bacon in pieces and add to the mix. Season and mix in the bowl. Add to foil and wrap in pouch. Cook as you want. You can get really creative with these too with breakfast items. Like maybe cutting up the small link sausages, maybe ham also.

SOUP:
Now when you have left over not cooked hobo breakfasts when you have used a ground meat we took our packets and added some beef broth into a big stock pot and cooked them all together. Then pour over some rice and it makes a really nice warm hearty soup for a cold night.

HOBO dinners

This is about the easiest meal to make for camping, the grill at home, or you can make this throw it in the fridge and pull it out to add to the oven for a quick dinner.

HOBO dinners recipe

Ground meat or chicken breast

carrots

celery

onion

potato

Optional: mushrooms, bacon

Seasonings:

Garlic Salt

Seasoning Salt

All purpose seasoning salt free

pepper

You can use almost any meat. We have used just beef, chicken and elk/deer.

If you decide using a ground meat just make a large thick patty. Or if you choose chicken a nice large chicken breast is good to use.

Place you meat in the center of a large long piece of foil. Season it top and bottom. 

Cut up your veggies into slices. Not too large cause it takes longer to cook.

To make it easy you can cut up all your veggies and place them in a bowl and then add your seasonings and stir it all together.

Add your veggies to the top of the patty. Season if you havnt already. Cut up a couple slices of butter and top it off. Wrap up in a foil pouch.

If your cooking over a camp fire I recommend wrapping in foil a few times making a thick pouch. If not then just throw the packet in a pan and in the over 350-375'. Poke small holes on both sides for air ventilation.

When its done open up your hot packets and eat away.