Post by longtrail on Feb 16, 2008 1:00:49 GMT -5
We use to attend the Fort Vancouver Rendezvous in Washington. The rendezvous was open to the public so there were always tourists to gawk and enjoy all the goings on. I won a couple of cooking contests there for some unusual, traditional items. It was always fun to try to out do eachother every year. The cattail pollen cakes are pretty ordinary, just the pollen, egg ( duck of course), salt pepper, and some bear fat in a fry pan. When the pollen is out on the cattail you just put a bowl under the yellow and shake or run your hand over it. They taste really good.
The chinook olives are a little more bazzar.
NW is known for it's fish eating, especially salmon. One of the delicacies(?) was to take the eyes from Salmon, sqewer (?) them onto a stick and smoke them by a fire until they are done. The reason they are called olives, it the eyeballs have a sort of pit inside them. They are actually quite good.
Speaking of Eyeballs. Do I dare share this next story? Well since there is no one here to advise me not to, I guess I can't help myself.
We use to have a 40 gallon copper still that we used. We blended the shine, the 190 and 60 proof together to make a nice, very very effective elixor. We use to take quarts to rendezvous to sell. trade and of course drink while we were there. One of the camps was roasting a whole pig and had taken it off the spit and the head was sitting there on the table checking out the tourists who were disgusted by the whole scene. I guess they buy their pork in neat little plastic packages.
Well one woman, very neat tidy and proper asked how we could eat that pig like that, having had just enough shine, I immediately wanted to totally gross this woman out, picked up the pig head and proceeded to suck an eyeball out, chew it up and offer her the other side. She screamed and I roared with laughter. It just doesn't get any better than that. Ya, Im crass, but I love it.
Cant think of any other recipes or food related stories you'd want to hear, thats if youve read this far in the first place. Later.
Oh one more, actually a moonshine victim story. funny as hell.
We lived in a cabin with a few other people, one guy had several pigs. We were always running off a batch of shine and one day while the pig owner was gone, we decided to give the pigs the corn mash that was left. Well of course they ate it like it was strawberry pie, all seemed well and we headed to town.
When we got home the pig owner had shot all his pigs, fearing they had caught some horrible, uncurable disease because they were laying on the ground moaning and couldn't be moved to get up. Boy was he pissed. Hell, even pigs cant party anymore!!
The rendezvous at Fort Vancouver was pretty neat. The camp closed to tourists about 6pm and we were left to enjoy doings. On saturday, the Fort employees would spend all day preparing a feast for all of us. They used vegies from the fort garden and cooked vineson and breads and deserts. They usually hunted up some sort of movie that portrayed the fur trade era ( you can imagine how few of them there are) So we would eat their wonderful supper, then everyone would visit and give wonderful speaches and tell stories. During that time the Fort would give us rations of Hudson Bay Rum. They were shinning times for sure. Waugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The chinook olives are a little more bazzar.
NW is known for it's fish eating, especially salmon. One of the delicacies(?) was to take the eyes from Salmon, sqewer (?) them onto a stick and smoke them by a fire until they are done. The reason they are called olives, it the eyeballs have a sort of pit inside them. They are actually quite good.
Speaking of Eyeballs. Do I dare share this next story? Well since there is no one here to advise me not to, I guess I can't help myself.
We use to have a 40 gallon copper still that we used. We blended the shine, the 190 and 60 proof together to make a nice, very very effective elixor. We use to take quarts to rendezvous to sell. trade and of course drink while we were there. One of the camps was roasting a whole pig and had taken it off the spit and the head was sitting there on the table checking out the tourists who were disgusted by the whole scene. I guess they buy their pork in neat little plastic packages.
Well one woman, very neat tidy and proper asked how we could eat that pig like that, having had just enough shine, I immediately wanted to totally gross this woman out, picked up the pig head and proceeded to suck an eyeball out, chew it up and offer her the other side. She screamed and I roared with laughter. It just doesn't get any better than that. Ya, Im crass, but I love it.
Cant think of any other recipes or food related stories you'd want to hear, thats if youve read this far in the first place. Later.
Oh one more, actually a moonshine victim story. funny as hell.
We lived in a cabin with a few other people, one guy had several pigs. We were always running off a batch of shine and one day while the pig owner was gone, we decided to give the pigs the corn mash that was left. Well of course they ate it like it was strawberry pie, all seemed well and we headed to town.
When we got home the pig owner had shot all his pigs, fearing they had caught some horrible, uncurable disease because they were laying on the ground moaning and couldn't be moved to get up. Boy was he pissed. Hell, even pigs cant party anymore!!
The rendezvous at Fort Vancouver was pretty neat. The camp closed to tourists about 6pm and we were left to enjoy doings. On saturday, the Fort employees would spend all day preparing a feast for all of us. They used vegies from the fort garden and cooked vineson and breads and deserts. They usually hunted up some sort of movie that portrayed the fur trade era ( you can imagine how few of them there are) So we would eat their wonderful supper, then everyone would visit and give wonderful speaches and tell stories. During that time the Fort would give us rations of Hudson Bay Rum. They were shinning times for sure. Waugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!