Utah Fishing ReportsThe National day is a good one today! National “My Buckets Got a Hole in It”!
That brings a whole lot of conjured up things to my mind. Singing, Dancing and everything else we do today, and always carrying a bucket around that has a hole in it.
Oh Ya! I can dig it!
Enjoy your day of holy buckets! But go out and buy up some beer and don’t cry like old Wilie is doing!
Bears Butt
May 30, 2012
Today I thought I would let you in on a little secret I learned while on the youth turkey hunt a few weeks ago. Wapiti and I were assigned to assist the cooks, Chef Dave and One Lisa. We were pleased to be a part of that team. I learned a whole lot that weekend and so I wish to share one of my learned lessons with you on this site.
This is a recipe for “Breakfast Burritos”, I had never had a breakfast burrito in my life until that weekend and to be a part of putting them together for the hunters, guides and other guests was a real thrill.
I don’t claim to be the quickest of learners, but there were subtle things happening around the cook shack that I did pick up on and now I will share them with you. Some of you reading this will say “DUH”! And that’s ok. Others will say “I never thought about that! That is a good idea”! (so there DUH people)
To begin with, you are the master of this creation. So get creative. Just because I chose to use bacon and sausage in mine today, you can use whatever you like. For instance, bologna, vienna sausages, tuna fish, steak, Limburger cheese…it’s all your choice.
If you choose to use bacon, I strongly suggest you fry (cook) it until it’s crispy. Otherwise your guest (and you) will be pulling out strings of bacon as you eat it. First off Emily Post would not approve in her eating etiquette book and secondly, it just is not appealing even to a mountain man to see such a grotesque scene so early in the day. Ok, cripsy bacon!
So here goes: You will need eggs, meat, cheese and flour tortilla shells (12 inch) and aluminum foil. Of course you will need a bowl and a couple of pans to cook in.
Plop those eggs in the bowl and give them a good whippin! Make sure all the yolks are broken, on the hunt, Wapiti missed one.
Did I say CRISPY bacon?
Here I have crumbled up the bacon and am in the process of breaking up the sausage. The sausage is cooked, but not crispy, just done. These two meats were my choice for today and they will be put in with the eggs and mixed well.
I’m a lazy guy at times and I chose to use pre-shredded sharp cheddar cheese this morning. You can shred your own or leave the cheese out if you wish. Here is an idea, slice the cheese and have it ready to put into the wrap at a later time…good idea Bears Butt!
I plopped in cheese until I felt it was enough. Who measures? Go with your gut feeling and then mix it all up. Next it will be poured into a frying pan and scrambled until done.
MMMM. Looks good don’t it? Depending on how hungry you are at this point you might just grab a fork and start eating. To heck with the tortilla shells. But I did not do this and so, we will continue with the recipe.
For my meal today, I needed two wraps for breakfast, but with the upcoming weekend camping trip I needed four more since we will be enjoying two breakfasts while at the rendezvous. I did mention we were going to the Cache Valley Mountain Man rendezvous this weekend didn’t I?
And so, I pulled out 4 sheets of aluminum foil, each about 15 inches long. Trivia: When did “tin foil” change to “aluminum foil”? Answer: For a very short period of time in the mid 1950’s tin foil was available to the general public, but most of us were very poor and did not ever use it. About 1955, Renolds Metals Company started producing sheets of aluminum foil, which was a lot cheaper to make and therefore we could afford to buy it. A lot of folks today call aluminum foil tin foil out of habit. Most of us who lived with tin foil will be long gone and folks will have to read something like this to even know it existed. Let’s get back on track.
These sheets of “luminum foil” will be used to wrap up my breakfast burritos so that while camping I can just lay them on the grill and heat them up. Coffee at that point will mean more than eating and after the coffee I’ll be hungry.
So now it’s time to heat up the tortilla shells. You do this because when they are hot you can fold and roll them and they won’t break apart. You aren’t actually cooking them, just heating them. Flip them over and make sure they are good and hot and pliable.
Place the heated tortilla shell on the aluminum foil sheet.
Add a portion of the egg scramble. Notice how I have put it on the shell toward one edge and made sort of a long line of the egg. Long line of egg? Well in relative terms it’s sort of a long line of egg, at least it’s toward one edge.
I might add while being instructed by Chef Dave, he never said to put the egg toward one edge, he just instructed us to put egg on the shell. Perhaps Chef Dave thought we knew about such things. He gave us a lot of credit, but we had no clue.
Next is the wrapping of the shell. One Lisa was there to assist us with the proper way to wrap these bad boys up and she taught us well. I think she could see in our unguided ways we did not have an inkling of a clue as to what we were doing. And so, what you are about to see is One Lisa’s method. It holds a lot of credibility and lends itself well to the eating of this meal.
You start by folding the edge closest to the egg over and around the egg. Next you fold the bottom of the shell up and over the egg and begin to roll the whole thing up until it’s completely wrapped. (Thank you One Lisa for this lesson).
This is the “open end” of the wrap. And One Lisa went on to say we are going to “guide our guests into eating the open end”. I did not understand what this meant until we wrapped the whole thing up in aluminum foil. You will see shortly.
It’s a wrap!
You could pick this up and eat it right now and life would be good. The folded end keeps the contents all captured up in a nice tortilla roll and off your new shirt or out of your lap. Pretty cool huh? (DUH!)
Now let’s save this one for camping. We will wrap it up in aluminum foil.
One Lisa said to follow the same guidelines to wrap them in the aluminum foil as we did to wrap the tortilla shell around the egg. So, fold the close edge over the wrap, roll one time, fold up the edge (same edge as is folded on the wrap) and roll the whole thing up. Simple! (for you others DUH!)
And to finish off what One Lisa said, “we are going to guide our guests into eating the open end”…..simply fold over the open end of the foil! How cleaver!
One Lisa, you are amazing!
And we continue doing this until all the tortilla shells are wrapped around all the egg. These four breakfast burritos are going to rendezvous while these other two are going to be todays breakfast.
As for how to heat the camping ones up well it’s quite simple (DUH), just place them on the grill and heat them up. Don’t forget to turn them a couple of times and remember THEY WILL BE HOT!
A word of caution….DO NOT PLACE THE ALUMINUM WRAPS IN A MICROWAVE….to heat them. All heck will occur inside and it will fry the unit up, probably causing a fire, certainly would not be good for the food and your butt would be in very serious trouble.
This recipe is a “Thank you to Chef Dave and One Lisa”! Both are members of the United Wildlife Cooperative organization, check them out, membership is free and you can join today! http://www.unitedwildlifecooperative.org
Bears Butt
May 24, 2012
Just for your information. Some of you probably know this, some probably not. But with the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend we should know that the reason for the holiday is not cooking hot dogs and having a weekend of fun outdoors, it was set aside as a time to remember those who have passed on ahead of us.
The holiday started as a remembrance of all the Americans who passed away during our most troubling of times, the civil war. Hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers and non-volunteers who died believing in what their cause was.
The holiday has since become a time to remember all who have passed on, not just from wars and foreign struggles, but everyone who has passed.
The American Flag always comes to mind when I think of Memorial Day. With that the name of the person who made the first one…Betsy Ross.
Next comes the “Pledge of Allegiance”. All of the words of that pledge come to mind, but who was the author of that wonderful pledge? Most people in American don’t know, and that is a sad thing. Why is it we remember Betsy Ross, but not Francis Bellamy?
Just something for you to ponder.
Bears Butt
May 23, 2012
For all us coin finders this is a great day! It’s National Penny Day! So when you are walking into or out of Walmart today, look down and hopefully you will find a penny! And if you do, pick it up and celebrate like it was a million dollars. People who watch and hear you will think you are nutso, but so what? You are celebrating the finding of someone elses loss and the wonderful National holiday it is!
WOOOPPPPEEEE! I FOUND A PENNY! (dance around) YAAAAHHOOOOO! A PENNY! I FOUND A PENNY! IT’S YOUR DAY PENNY! (keep dancing and working your way to the car or to the front door of the store). And then tuck it in your LEFT pocket! Left pocket so you keep it separated from the rest of the coins in your pocket. After all it is a very special penny. You found it on National Penny Day and it should be kept separate from all the others.
A secret I have found about coins, especially pennys. If you really, really, really, really want to find a penny, go to a McDonalds drive through window area, those kids who drive through there picking up their big meal, fries and a coke, toss those bad boys all over the ground! Almost GUARANTEED you will find a penny around that window. Maybe look on the passenger side of the car and perhaps a bit toward the outer curb where then tend to roll once dropped. Oh Ya!
National Penny Day! Put one in your shoe for good luck. But as a word of caution don’t do that if you are in a marathon race or hiking any distance.
Enjoy the day! National Penny Day! I knew a girl named Penny when I grew up.
Bears Butt
May 23, 2012
It’s that glorious time of the year when the state of Utah announces who can hunt big game in the Fall. I’ll let you know right now that I, one of many, have drawn a muzzleloader deer tag and I’m a bit pumped to think I will be hunting and carrying a weapon of choice.
It is a nice feeling to be “in the circle of winners” for this lottery. But what about those outside the circle? A bad feeling for sure and we have one of our group who’s credit card has not been hit as of this writing. Sorry Crock! I hope it’s just a fluke and your credit card will show a deduction before bedtime tonight. Even if it doesn’t don’t give up hope. Someone who did draw may opt out of the hunt and open up the tag just for you!
One of my favorite forum web sites is the Utah Wildlife Net .net and there are a great bunch of guys that post up on that forum. One even put a thread out there for the “unchosen” and there are a lot of tears on that thread. One guy came on with a winning lottery statement and was chastised severely for it. Rightfully deserved.
But for us lucky dogs who drew the coveted “whatever” tag we wanted the most for this falls hunting it is a wonderful time. Just before rendezvous and we have bragging rights at the camp. The unlucky probably won’t even show up to the camp…all hung dog and sad you know. I would not blame them. Why throw yourself in front of a bunch of happy faces and bragging dudes and dudetts who lucked out . Stay home and be comforted by the spouse about how much money you will save etc.
As for me, I’m glad I drew out, but I would have still gone on the hunt, just to be in camp and maybe get the chance to gut someone elses deer. But at least be out there gathering up the smoke from the fire into the fabric of my clothes and stinking of the stale smell of beer. I love the hunt! I love the camp! I love the cold beer! I love the outing and the friends and the animals and the mountains and watching the first of the leaves to begin to fall. YES!
And then there are the ULTRA lucky! The ones who put in for the “general” hunt stuff, but also put in for coveted tags that limit the entry of people into a given area of mountain turf and only they can carry a weapon and hunt the game. THEY are the luckiest of the lucky! And talk about bragging rights! They outshine the lucky general tag winners by MILES! And their smiles show it.
Whenever someone around the fire says “did you draw out”? They break out into the big old smile that comes with being so very lucky and they hesitate just a moment before speaking about the quest that took them decades to finally draw. We have two of them in our group who drew such a tag. No Grimace and Baby Boy! The Lucky Lucky ones.
With such a feat of luck, they now have choices to make. What should their shirts say? A few years ago the shirt read “The Chosen Ones”. Last year the shirt said “The Chosen ONE”! Does this years shirt read “The Chosen Pair”? “The Chosen Two”? “Dos Elegido, the two chosen”? Only they can decide.
Yes folks, we are going back into the Crawford Mountains to once again try and educate some of those Wyoming deer.
Bears Butt
May 22, 2012
Making my lovely wife breakfast this morning got me thinking about eggs. As I smacked two eggs together and one of the shells broke, I separated the shells and the egg plopped out onto the pan, I did it again with the same result and after three were in the pan, I had only one left and so I smacked it against the counter top. I could have used the edge of the pan, but chose not to. So there I had four eggs resting in the pan as it heated.
My mind races sometimes and this time it was really going strong. Thinking to myself, I wonder if there is a world record for the number of eggs one egg has cracked before its own shell cracks? I’ll bet that one has not been attempted yet. If this gives you an idea to get the Guiness guys together go for it. I’d like to see the results. I’ll bet a beer you won’t get 10 eggs cracked before the one doing the cracking cracks. Are we on?
So, of course after breakfast I attacked the internet to find out my answer. Now, you must consider I am doing this for you as much as for myself because I seem to have more time on my hands than you do for such important things such as this.
I did not find anything that talked about using one egg to crack a bunch of other eggs. So, I’m fairly certain you could easily get into the record book. What I did find was these useful bits of information.
In order to enter into an egg cracking exhibition you have to know some basic rules. You need to use both hands if you are going for a record of the number of eggs cracked in one hour. However, you can use just one hand if you are going for the record of eggs cracked in one minute.
In both events, NO EGG SHELLS can enter into the pan/bowl or whatever during the time.
Pretty simple and straight forward rules. I would expect the same to be true while using one egg to crack as many others as you can. Just keep that in mind.
Ok, so back in 2011 the record for the total number of eggs cracked in one hour was broken by Bob Blumer. That guy was an egg cracking sucker let me tell you. He cracked a total of 2,318 eggs in one hour! Of course using both hands and cracking without getting shells in the bowl. When the judges got together they tossed out 248 cracked eggs because of shells and so the record stands at 2,070!
Also, in 2011, (it must have been the year of the egg) a man named Ross McCurdy broke the record of eggs cracked in one minute. He cracked eggs in one hand and then in the other. Like a machine he cracked eggs and plopped them into a bowl. Like a young Dry Dog at the Red Baron Cafe making breakfast for the threshers, he cracked eggs! 32 eggs fell without so much as an inkling of an egg shell! Now that’s crackin!
So, there you have it and you don’t even have to go anywhere else to seek out this information. I have done the research for you and you are certainly allowed to quote this in any assignment you may have in your future.
I think you really should proceed with the record of the most eggs cracked using one other egg. I found no record of that anywhere!
Bears Butt
May 22, 2012
Today is a weird national holiday, National Buy A Musical Instrument Day. HMMMMM. I suppose all the music shops around the country will be flooded with folks looking to buy a jaw harp or a violin, but not for me. I have all the musical instruments I think I can play.
Duck call, goose call, rabbit in distress call, 3 different turkey calls and of course my air guitar. That’s enough.
Wanna hear me play? Quack, Honk, wwaaahhhaaahhaaaaaa queealllll, yelp, yelp, yelp, yelp, well she broke my hort at wallgreens and I cried all the way ta sears!
Boy howdy, THAT IS ENOUGH!
Have a great day and don’t forget to visit the Deseret Industries store, they usually have a boat load of musical instruments for sale, and cheap too.
Bears Butt
May 22, 2012