manitoubass2

So we are getting ready to go for a walleye fish on the rainy river today. My son and I are going through the mental checklist and all is well. He says "what about tobacco dad"?

 

Ah yes we'll have to stop and get tobacco to lay down(typical ojibwe offering to the creator before taking from the earth)

 

He says "well I finish breakfast and go get us some tobacco, ok dad"?

 

Im thinking what the????

 

"Yeah dad I was out back in the bush and I found some red willow. That can be offered as tobacco. You can also smoke it too dad you know, its good for your lungs and its used as a sign of peace offering in war times"

 

So Im a little baffled. I mean my boy is smart but what kind of knowledge bomb is he dropping on me here? He's 11 lol.

 

So I make a call to an old friend that is a well respected elder. I tell him the story and he says your son is absolutely right! Please bring me some if you can.

 

Okay, so know my son goes off in the bush and shaves some red willow.

 

"Ooops dad I forgot, we cant use this today. It needs a few days to dry"

 

Anyhow I just thought I'd share this moment. Pretty knowledgeable lil boy we got here hahaha.

 

Cansasa by the lakota. Ill have to learn the name in ojibwe but i think they'd call it giniginige

I do alot for my local fishery, or at least as much as I can. From selective harvest/walleye and northern pike, to catch and release/bass sturgeon and musky.

 

My kids and I clean up the shoreline. We remove alot of snagged line from the water too.

 

Every spring we volunteer at the sturgeon hatchery(amazing experience for the kids).

 

Im not bashing the river steelheaders. Heck if I could find a place in the bush where I was totally sucluded it sounds like a great time/experience.

 

but all the talk and stories of people fighting and littering and lopping fish up on the bank to die, its all just such a major turnoff.

 

In the boat I can control whos in it, and where im going. Nice and scenic, quiet and great fishing. No one to bug me but great company

 

Im all for us anglers protecting the resource.

Eh I think ill stick to lake trout

Now all the sudden I cant change the skin to mobile? Am i missing something?

Ive talked this over with many COs about sturgeon. Not one said youd be fined for possession of a quickly released fish. Targeting them yes.

Salad shrimp, baby scalops tossed very lightly in butter just hot enough that it doesn't smoke for about 90 seconds then added to the cream of roasted garlic soup.....oh never mind now you know why I am called Big Cliff. Oh how I wish it was for another reason

I forget who even gave me the recipes of yours?

 

We tried I think 4 maybe 5 different dishes cliff and they are all very very very good!

Ohhhh I have got to try those breads... Just showed the wife the pictures and she says she will try making some up! Sweet!

 

This is my weekend off work, so naturally we did our shopping. No frills had Brussel sprouts and green beans on sale.... I have been prepping and blanching them for the last 2 hours.... (I bought a lot) getting them ready for the freezer...

 

Lyndsey was busy making soup... We had some leftover ham from the other night, she was busy simmering the bone and left over meat.

 

so tonight's supper is split pea and ham soup, we picked up a nice baguette, as well as a salad... I will post up some pictures if I get the chance later.

 

G

Gerritt, is the better half gonna make frybread and or bannock?

 

To me frybread is better but I still make alot of bannock.

 

Let me know if she wants to make loafs of bannock and ill put the recipe up here. Its unreal easy but I have a few tips as well(like bake it on parchment paper so it dont stick to the dish lol)

Oh but until you have had the cream of roasted garlic soup you ain't had nothing yet!

Ummmmmm.

 

Yeah, your right its fantastic???

 

I prefer it with the scallops?

Oh no, on that one, the bowls just get a little smaller LOL and in a pinch I can always whip up a batch of French Onion soup followed by an apple crisp for desert.

I stole your french onion soup recipe via top secret methods.

 

Its unreal good!

 

In fact it was requested by the wife for her birthday a few weeks back?

Blue lk, they visit are RRFN powwow every year and they are very good! A "bannock" burger, actually a frybread burger lol is super good but boy are the filling! My favorite is making breakfast sandwhiches with fry bread, super good!!!

 

Bigugli, frybread and bannock are both super easy to make and yes, its even tastier on a shorelunch or camping trip?

 

Im telling ya though frybread is pretty addicting. Its a heavy bread and hold up very well to soups and chillis etc.

 

Soon, like me, youll be making a batch or two a couple times a week. If you save your oil, i cant think of a cheaper bread to make

Thats exactly the one im buying?

The wife makes that same casserole bigugli. Its very good and easy?

When I was in my early 20s I caught a 42" pike while crappie fishing. Had 4lb mono on a lil 5'6" light action rod.

 

I felt horrible after landing that fish. Even though it was incidental It bummed me right out.

 

Thats fish swam away, I hope she made it but I bet she didnt.

 

Use proper gear when your targetting these gnarly predators.

 

All these musky guys know exactly what they are talking about

Ok shag and others in this thread, here is a frybread recipe?

 

4 cups all purpose flour

2 tbl spoons of baking powder

2 teaspoons salt

 

Mix dry ingredients good

 

Add 2 cups of milk and stir into a dough(it wont look like the prettiest dough lol, kinda flaky) let the dough rest maybe 5 to 10 mins

 

Heat up about 2" of veg oil in a frypan on 4-4 1/2, make sure its as hot as itll get.

 

on a good surface(i use a plasic cutting board) add just abit of flour to keep dough from sticking. Add abit to your hands as well.

 

pinch off a piece a little bigger then a gold ball. Roll gently into a ball. Flatten it on your surface lightly. Just a few pushed down dont overwork it or itll cook like a hockey puck lol.

 

add to the oil until golden on one side then flip and repeat. Remove and add to a papertowel to rest.

 

you can also poke a whole in it before adding to the oil to make sure the inside cooks through(you wont need to once you get the hang of cooking frybread)

 

This recipe makes about 10-12 pieces

m2b2, how about a recipe for that fry bread?

 

I have a very good bannock recipe, using lard, always turns out well, but I don't think I ever had fry bread. Looks sinfully delicious.........

 

Doug

Yeah no prob, just let me think for abit lol. I dont follow a recipe, so I might actually have to make some lol.

 

Ill get on it soon here. If you like bannock you'll love frybread. And it goes so good with sooo many dishes

 

Rick

Uh oh Hammond being brought down to earth

All because they asked the fans not to throw hamburgers on the ice

back to m2b2, yes I forgot about cracked pepper, I for sure put that into the recipe too.

 

Fry bread = bannock? that would be very good I am sure, as it is so nice and sweet. With real butter!!!

 

Doug

Bannock is oven cooked or traditionally over a fire. Fry bread is fried and crispier.

 

Yes, all we use is real butter lol.

 

I havent had margerine in my whole life

 

This is bannock. Crispy on the outside and light and fluffy one inside

 

 

more bannock

 

 

 

 

here is frybread

 

Ok shag im cooking this tomorrow. Ill let ya know how it turns out.

 

Ill def be adding cracked black pepper and garlic.

 

Ill serve it with some fry bread. Im running low on bread making supplies right now

LIVER

Cook in large pot of water with a big rock.

When the rock is done,eat the rock & discard the liver.

Liver is evil landfill imho

Omg im dying here???

What the heck is waboose?

 

And what the heck is a recipe?

 

 

 

Doug

A recipe is a bunch of food thrown together loosely to make a dish edible.

 

waboose is ojibwe for rabbit. Or it can also describe a a drunk individual that wants more beer but missed the beer store

i would use 20 foot long cedar poles as a rod and tow truck cable for my set up.

c'mon really--- 100 lb braid -- we catch anything and everything including muskies

with 30 lb braid and a spinning reel ( yes a spinning reel) -can you believe it

-set your drag properly and play the fish !! --Enjoy the moment !! Trust me you will.

Oh no, there you went and did it....

 

???

Glad the pictures actually showed up.

 

So that was rabbit, off the bones, done up with some Vidalia onions and apples, with Korma sauce and raisins, on Basmati rice. It was very good, even if I do say so myself.

 

We had enough for leftovers, and like most similar dishes, the flavours improved with a couple days in the fridge.

 

But if I take any more food pictures it will be when my wife is NOT readily on the scene..............

 

Doug

Ok now I want some..

 

Pm me the recipe as I have some fresh waboose just waiting to be eaten

The question is...

 

Is there a meal gerritt wouldnt destroy?

 

???

That looks great shag!!!

 

Looks like a meal that would stick to the ribs!

On some hockey show i watched two nights ago thats exactly what they were talking about. Word on the street, lol was boycotts