I wanted to get out of the house a while and go check out the Autumn colors so I rode up to Davis pond to spend the day. It was relaxing just walking around and sitting by the pond for a while enjoying the serenity.
Having not eaten Breakfast before I left...knowing I was going to eat pretty well later... it wasn't long till my stomach started growling. Time to gather firewood and get the food going. I used the Fiddleback machete to down the dead top of a small Maple. Man that was some hard wood and chopping at eye level is a pain.
but the machete sure did a fine job of sectioning what I couldn't easily break.
I wanted to check out the little TOPS kneck knife I've been carrying around in fire craft. It's a little knife called a Ferret. It has a 2 inch blade and a three inch handle. It is a three finger knife but handles pretty well, made some nice fuzzies.
Didn't take long to get a nice fire going, and get the first part of the meal cooking.
As the little Cornish hen cooked I walked around the immediate area checking out the Autumn colors.
I found a nice appetizer.
After an hour and a half or so the hen had been steaming a good while...
...it was time to go put on the rest of the meal, some Uncle Ben's Rice in a pouch. Just heat it up good and simmer a bit and it's done. I like how the Eat n tool is stainless and I can stir hot foods in a pot sitting on coals without melting my tool scraping the bottom of the pan.
Soon everything was done and time to eat.
The little eat n tool made a good serving spoon.
I threw a little more wood on the fire and enjoyed my meal in the great outdoors under an azure blue sky, listening to the leaves rustle in the breeze and falling to the forest floor, the birds calling around me, the crackle of the fire, and the occasional fish jumping in the pond.
I definitely need to do this more often...pity Autumn comes but once a year.
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Having not eaten Breakfast before I left...knowing I was going to eat pretty well later... it wasn't long till my stomach started growling. Time to gather firewood and get the food going. I used the Fiddleback machete to down the dead top of a small Maple. Man that was some hard wood and chopping at eye level is a pain.
but the machete sure did a fine job of sectioning what I couldn't easily break.
I wanted to check out the little TOPS kneck knife I've been carrying around in fire craft. It's a little knife called a Ferret. It has a 2 inch blade and a three inch handle. It is a three finger knife but handles pretty well, made some nice fuzzies.
Didn't take long to get a nice fire going, and get the first part of the meal cooking.
As the little Cornish hen cooked I walked around the immediate area checking out the Autumn colors.
I found a nice appetizer.
After an hour and a half or so the hen had been steaming a good while...
...it was time to go put on the rest of the meal, some Uncle Ben's Rice in a pouch. Just heat it up good and simmer a bit and it's done. I like how the Eat n tool is stainless and I can stir hot foods in a pot sitting on coals without melting my tool scraping the bottom of the pan.
Soon everything was done and time to eat.
The little eat n tool made a good serving spoon.
I threw a little more wood on the fire and enjoyed my meal in the great outdoors under an azure blue sky, listening to the leaves rustle in the breeze and falling to the forest floor, the birds calling around me, the crackle of the fire, and the occasional fish jumping in the pond.
I definitely need to do this more often...pity Autumn comes but once a year.
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