Autumn Solo Camping & Trout Fishing Cooking Show / Testing New Gear.
On this camping trip I cooked fried egg breakfast sandwiches, lemon pepper trout with broccoli and rice, a wonderful cinnamon swirl cake, I roasted a whole chicken then fried another egg to test my pan seasoning's no stick properties.
This was a fun camping trip to some familiar places where I know the fishing is good and the fall colors are magnificent! I try to come here every fall.
I also brought some new gear to test:
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Beautiful spot to wake up.
Fall colors are in full swing.
Fish are jumping.
I'm going to go ahead
and put out this
alcohol burner.
Nice beans, huh?
That looks good.
Cook those eggs a little bit
faster.
Oh yeah.
Alright, so I'm just going to do these with English muffins.
I'm going to try to keep them
as separate eggs.
I think I might let them cook
just a little more.
I'm going to set this to the side
so that it can continue melting.
Oh, look at that.
Goodness.
How's that for some breakfast sandwiches?
Let's see how that yolk turned out.
This is where the
spring water flows
right out of the mountain
and down over these rocks
into the lake.
Nice, I got one.
Rice with broccoli.
Fully open.
We'll let it simmer for another 5 minutes.
This is going to be
perfect.
We'll get it covered up with salt.
So moist.
So tender.
That's what fish are supposed to
taste like, huh?
Such a lovely meal.
You know, the fish and potatoes is really good,
but there's no vegetables.
Let's see.
Look at that.
Coat the inside of this pan.
I'm just going to put a little bit
in here.
I have extra cake mix anyway.
And then I'll just throw the rest out.
Half a cup
of water.
We'll add the rest of the cinnamon
stuff.
Let's go ahead and get this cake baking.
I'm going to clear off that rim.
And put the cover on.
And I'm going to put these little paper clips.
I'm just going to put 3 of them
on there.
I'd rather put more coals
up on top.
So there will be less heat coming from below.
And I'll set
my timer.
And let it cook.
This has been running for about
10, maybe 15 minutes.
It smells like cinnamon.
Wonderful yumminess.
I just want to make sure
I'm not burning it.
I have to try not to spill those coals.
Oh, it's raising a lot.
Look at that.
Hey, that's looking awesome.
It looks like it might
be a little bit dark on the bottom.
Okay, so I'm just
going to blow on these coals on the top.
I'm a little bit worried
that it's getting too dark on the bottom.
So I'm just going to
take it off of the heat.
And just let it work from the top
for a little while.
Let's see what it looks like.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, it turned out perfect.
Get a piece of this out
for us.
Look at the bottom.
Oh, the bottom is just starting to get
a little bit dark.
I wish you could see that better.
The edges are golden brown.
I'm glad I took it off
the heat when I did.
It's definitely cooked all the way through.
Mmm.
Wow.
It's good. It's moist.
It didn't get overcooked.
The bottom is just like
crystallized.
Wow. That's really delicious.
I wish my family were here.
I'm going to block the wind
and get some coffee
made.
I'm at a new lake this morning.
This one doesn't look like it's going to be good
for fishing.
Dribble some fuel around that rim
to help get this thing
going. It's a little cool this morning.
That's what I like about this size
of water bottle. 16.9
ounces.
Pretty much what you need for a lot of different
projects.
This stuff is really
good.
Really turned out nice.
I'm going to try to cook a whole chicken.
So before I start
the chicken cleaning process
I wanted to
get my pan ready.
What I will need
is the
frying pan and
one of these
pie pans.
I'm just going to prepare these with a little bit
of extra virgin olive oil spray.
Oh, just barely.
But I think it will fit.
I've got fire coming out of all kinds
of different places on that.
So that should get a lot of charcoal
going. This is a big job.
So I'm going to need a lot of fuel.
I love this dromedary for
washing your hands. It's perfect.
It's the perfect amount
of water. You can manage
it all yourself.
Always feels good to
wash your hands really good.
Take advantage of the heat
that is going on right now.
And just get that bird
warming up.
It's sizzling pretty good.
I'm going to load up the top
with hot coals.
I'm trying to dig down in here so I can get the
coals that are actually going all the way around.
I've been running for about 15 minutes.
That big whole chicken
is going to actually draw
the heat out of the hot coals.
So you can
see it's turning black.
It's still contributing
but not as much as it
once was.
That little bit of steam coming out of the side
just tells me that it's working
and that it's still hot enough that it's cooking.
So I'm going to take
this off.
And then I'm going to take these hot coals off
so that they can get
kind of refreshed.
They can get re-lit.
See if the bird's getting brown.
Exactly what's happening.
Ooh, brown.
Right in the middle where it's touching.
Looks like we're at 103.
So we've got quite a ways to go
but we are rising.
I'm just going to put it back on the heat
for a while.
Let those coals get going really well.
So let's just see what
we've got going on.
It's a cooking though. You can hear it just
bubbling away.
It went in a little further and it went up.
So I'm going to come back a little more.
But it'll be better
than having it resting on this table.
Because that table
will actually draw heat
out of it.
Okay, it's been an hour and 15 minutes.
Let's check it's temperature
again.
And see if we're getting it brown.
Ah, it's about
the same amount of brown.
That didn't brown it really anymore at all.
It's going up fast.
Yep, I think this
chicken's done.
Wow, that is so juicy.
Wow, look at that.
That is so juicy.
Moist.
And that's the white meat.
So those legs are going to be
wonderful.
Mmm. Wow.
That is very tender.
Very moist.
I want to try a leg.
See if I can just get the drumstick.
That is nice.
You can see
it's just tender and moist.
Very delicious.
In this video, I fried an egg.
I cooked fish and rice.
I
baked a cake.
I roasted a chicken.
All in this same pan.
So now I'm going to clean it up.
Wipe it out.
And I'm going to fry another egg.
Okay, I'm going to start off
with a little bit of this extra virgin
olive oil spray.
I'm going to turn this down now.
Just let it cook a little more
slowly.
It feels pretty good.
Just a little sticking in that one
spot right there.
Let's see what else we have. A little bit.
I think it's sticking to that
chicken residue.
I didn't get clean. But
all in all, pretty dang good.
A little cheese.
Oops.
I didn't mean to drop that.
Nice little Sammy.
It's amazing how those aspen
leaves just light up in the sunshine.
This is a nice
little reservoir I wanted to just fish
real fast.
I'm going to head home everybody.