nice little overnighter!!

[Canotrouge]

My wife teaches grade 10 experiential/outdoor ed program and she did an overnight trip with her students in preparation to there 8 day trips coming up, and I was part of the trip as a technical chaperon/ lasagna cook!! We did the trip on a local river where we both teach canoeing and run for pleasure many time in the summer, there is a rock garden section and a class II-III rapid closer to the end. It was great weather and the river had comme up since the week before so the rapid was a bit more challenging or the students... It was fun!!

 

[Rippy]

Thanks for the pictures red canoe.

 

[Muskrat]

That's great. I love the double Dutch oven setup you have going there.

 

[Sturgeon]

Great pics! Love the patterns swept out by the blades of grass. Is this Yukon somewhere?

 

[Canotrouge]

it is the Yukon... Some where

 

[Odyssey]

Tabernouche! When I go, I get away from it all. When you go, you get away from everything! Beautiful place Rouge!
Lasagne Cook, now there is a job description I'd love to have for a trip like yours.

 

[Jim Dodd]

Cool !

 

[Canotrouge]

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That river is less than an hour drive from town, it is really busy(5 to 20 canoes) on weekends. It is a really nice river to teach on, fish and have fun!!
It was my first time using dutch oven in that matter, but not my first time cooking lasagna in them, it is kind of my signature meal. At Solstice, we have appalling fest on an other small river, and we do a dutch oven cook off, and I will try lasagna on the bottom, and apple crisp on the top...

Cheers

These are from a few weeks ago with my 7 years old daughter.

 

[clemency]

I love dutch ovens, but lack confidence or skill enough to really use them. So are the lasagna noodles raw, and then cooked by steaming/simmering in the sauce? Can you share the recipe?

 

[Canotrouge]

Dutch oven cooking is the same as oven cooking... As for the lasagna, I use the "express" pasta, so I don't have to precook the pasta before putting the lasagna together. Really simple. Pasta on the bottom, sauce(made at home before the trip, could be vacuum pac or dehydrated) and then spinach and then some mozza, repeat until you don't have anymore place in the dutch. I make a depression in the gravel, maybe 4" and set a few coals that I took from the fire box, maybe 6 to 8 golf ball size, then set the dutch on top and put 4-5 coals on top of the lid... one hour later it is ready. If you want the cheese on top to be broiled, set more coals for the last 5 minutes of cooking.... It works every time. Really, every thing you cook in the oven at home can be done in the dutch oven. pizza, bread, apple crisp, stew, pie, cakes.... Name it!!

 

[clemency]

Thanks. This year the wife and I will be at the family camp with no kids for the first time ever, so maybe I'll give it a try as a cranky, hungry wife is a lot easier to appease than a cranky, hungry wife and three or four cranky, hungry kids.

And fyi, I lack confidence or skill with the regular oven at home too.

 

[Canotrouge]

Just bring enough that is you mess it up you have some thing else to fall back on!
A good bottle of wine, like a GOOD bottle of wine can save anything!!

 

[redoleary]

Great photos, looks like a lot of fun and definitely a beautiful place.

 

[Robin]

Nice pictures, I can only imagine what it must be like to canoe in scenery as beautiful as that. Your camp cooking is impressive, looks like a good time.

 

[ppine]

Splendid photos, as good as any I have seen anywhere. Dutch ovens make eating outdoor an event. Lasagna is a great dish to make for hungry canoeists. One of my other favorites is stacked enchiladas. You can use the same technique as the lasagna, just stacking the ingredients in layers. Buffalo meat is really good.

A few years ago I ran a river in NE Oregon in flood. I brought my old Dutch Oven that was given to me by my great uncle from the 1930s. It was in my friends boat since he was paddling solo. He swamped in some big haystacks and we had to rescue his boat and equipment off the bottom of the river. I threw him a rescue rope and pulled the DO and the lid about 40 feet across the bottom of the river. It will never be in anyone else's boat again.

 

[southcove]

I showed my born in Italy wife the pics and what did she get out of the lovely scenes...?...that looks like ground meat in the lasagna sauce...! That might explain her tossing and turning all night long. I had to gently remind her that she had never thought to even try lasagna on any of our trips...ever!

The Yukon might be sweeter than Alaska.

 

[memaquay]

Beautiful country! Can't wait to retire and get up that way!

 

[Canotrouge]

It was ground meat indeed... Moose meat at that!!
Mem, when you are ready, come nock at our door it will be open for you for sure!! I was using the pack I got from you... Love it, so much easier to fit stuff in that those stupid Sealine huge dry bag pack...
Thank you

 

[Canotrouge]

It is always fun to be on a trip... That said to be on a trip with 12 teenagers, I'm not sure!! I think I'm done with the teaching/ guiding, I need to paddle for me and my family, not for others trying to teach them/ entertain them...

Thank you Robin, The camp cooking is really simple, just like at home. As for the scenery, it is fantastic up here, every where you look!!

I'm teaching this weekend, and on sunday it will be on the same river, but we do the section in one day.

Cheers

 

[ppine]

I have only driven through the Yukon once, but it could be the most beautiful place on Earth. Moose meat is one of the great things to cook with. I used to be able to get moose in Wyoming, since people were pretty good about sharing it. I bought a mule from a guy north of Reno that had just come back from a big deal hunt in BC. He gave me some moose meat that I cooked in a Dutch Oven and made chili out of. I used a recipe that had won the Oklahoma State Fair. People still talk about that chili 9 years later.