Posted by John Lambert on February 13, 2008 at 22:18:48 from 64.59.144.85 user Benedict.
In Reply to: Re: Buttered eggs (was fancy foreign food) posted by Peter Ceresole on February 13, 2008 at 19:45:42:
The best meal I ever had was loosely called Hunter's Stew. Some years ago I worked on a three man survey crew with the B.C. Forest Service. After a long, wet soggy day spent lugging a surveyor's chain through heavy coastal stands of cedar, spruce and fir, we made camp about ten pm. in the pouring rain. Under the shelter of our tent, I got busy by throwing a handful of oatmeal into a saucepan, dumped in chunks of Spam, some instant soup and anything else I could find. The result was a hot, steaming absolutely delicious stew that aroused the other two from their exhausted slumber to share it with me. Hunger makes the best relish, we all agreed. I have never anything to compare remotely with that wonderful stew. Althugh I have tried making it in a modern well-lit warm kitchen, it never tasted anything like that magnificent stew all those years ago. I suppose the only way to recapture it is to tramp all day uphill and downhill in the pouring rain, and after nightfall, coax sodden firewood into a campire, and brew that magical stuff under the right conditons. That would work, I think. Maybe the S & As would know what I'm talking about.