It is time to start the October 2008 Photo Contest. We are going to do a timely and yearly favorite.

The theme for this month's contest is "Canoe Country Cooking". Post your best photos which capture some great canoe country cooking.

Monthly Category: Canoe Country Cooking

There is again a special reward for this months contests. Along with winning a hat, Wilderness Passages Magazine, created by long time member QPassage, is giving a free copy of their great magazine and a 2 1/2 hour DVD of Quetico footage to the winner of the photo contest and trip report contest. For more information about Wilderness Passages, you can visit their website at WildernessPassages.com

Remember 1 entry per person please. This helps us vote accurately.

Rules:

- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).

- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.

- You must be the photographer of the photo.

- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.

- Please describe in the message where the picture is from.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this message by 11:59pm on Oct 31st.
- Photos must be in jpg or gif format to be uploaded to the site.

Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.



Thank you for participating!

Adam P20081201

Your always cooking in the winter!

My son Cooking Darkey River Walleye Fillets at Cedar Point Camp on McIntyre Lake, Quetico, June 2008

Secret Recipe
Yum Yum!

qp

Fresh trout for lunch ~ Cherry Lake.

B Dub Pizza on reflector oven- Mountain Lake

Baked fish in butter, onion and garlic salt; cuscus and peas and a three cheese biscuit baked fresh in camp, Yum! - Lake Saganagons, August 2008

Bacon anyone?

ensign walleye with butter and lemon pepper

Gutting the fish for a snack (it was very tasty) - Thumb Lake, June 2008

Sterling Lake Crayfish Boil -- July 2006

Steak and potatoes on the fire grate. Does it get any better than this?

Bread making. Lake Insula. 9/16/2006

First night anticipation on Lake Polly August 2008.

makin breakfast in the rain at the site under silver falls 2006

Chili on a cold rainy Sept night!

Home-made bread cooked in a Dutch oven over a campfire.

starwatcher

Yum, yum, yum... gotta love Alice Lake clams!

No delivery ? No problem !

I do not thnk I have EVER had better pizza than this one baked in an Old Scout refelctor oven! I was absolutely delicious!

Baking-

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finished product-

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Try this again-

Baking-



Finished product-

Lake 3 tortillini with dehydrated peas and chicken yum yum life is good

Heavy Duty Eggs and Rice--
i don't really cook on canoe trips--no pizza or deep fried fish.
a one pot rice and something or a Mac and Cheese with a MRE rib or chicken pack is about it.bannock as a filler and thats just a biscuit fried in peanut oil..above is one of my two breakfasts,the other is pancakes made with waffle mix--panwaffles??
the egg and rice is one half a Wakefield egg mix pack with about half a cup of Minute Rice..i put dry onion and tomato in with the rice while it's covered.a good slug of peanut oil and it all go's in the pan--the rice fills out the egg to carry you thru to lunch and the tomato and onion give the egg mix some flavor..

Nothing like French-pressed Starbucks in the Bdub.

Kabobs on Vera Lake.

Michael, Marty, and Greg get the stove and the fire going for dinner. Perent Lake, June 2003. Sorry it's 2 pics. I had to maximize time on the scanner at work so I wouldn't get caught daydreaming about the BWCA...

Some of those pizzas in the reflector ovens look damn good!

By the way, my photo above is from 1999 on a trip to Quetico I took with my (then) 14 year old daughter. Photo taken on a favorite eating rock on a favorite Quetico lake. :-)

Prepping for a late night weenie roast somewhere in the Lake Two area.

Fish and potatoes. Insula, 2006

What!!?? No blueberry pancakes yet!? LLC Tiger Bay Island campsite-July 2004. The blueberry bushes were about 20 yards from the fire pit....can you say FRESH!?

Cowdoc those two campers behind you look hungry enough to take a bite out of your leg. That one on the right looks like she's about to lick the pancakes right off the griddle! (hah)

I'm safe....I'm taking the picture. The chief cook and bottlewasher was in grave danger though!

Strawberry topped pancakes.

It didn't seem right for a backcountry fine cuisine contest to have come this far without something-on-a-stick, so I am delighted to oblige with "Lake Agnes Fish-On-A-Stick". Oh yes – he ate it – mumbled something about “a little salt & garlic would go a long way”.

Lightfoot - is that charcoal under your kabobs?

TPTP, I hope he gutted that fish at least. Doesn't look like it though. :) Funny pic.

Imagination...

Jim, can you bring coal to BWCA?

JDRocks as camp chef in Quetico.



Suko as camp chef in Quetico

Dogwoodgirl's jello mold at work.
The results are - yum yum. (Adirondack canoe trip)

La Croix 2007. It's good.

Yes, that is charcoal under the kabobs. We bring in a small (very small) bag to use for our first night's supper. The first day we sometimes get to camp rather late in the afternoon and this way we don't have to try and find firewood before we can prepare supper. Some years, finding dry wood can also be a problem.

Malberg, Aug 2006. My wife whipping up some Cache Lake "Really Tasty" stew. Note the "Really Tasty" dumpling batter in the pan on her right.

Breakfast on Ensign



canoepaddle

Boppa - what are you using for a table? Looks like two pieces of varnished 1/4" ply hinged together. What do you rest it on and how do you keep it from folding up?

BigZig,
The table is made from two pieces of 1/4" luan which I sanded to under 3/16 and varnished, put ribbon hinge on. It is kept from folding while in use by two small pin latches on the other side. I put it on a Coleman table stand where I use two small SS hose clamps on two legs to adjust to uneven ground. It has been a cherished item whenever portaging is not major.

If thinking of making one consider how you will transport it. I took the width of our canoe and the height of our packs into account. I portage it with two pieces of parachute cord attached to two D-rings on outside of pack.

Others on site here have similar tables and many have drilled out holes to lower weight even further.

If any questions ask away.
Boppa

Cooking some brownies on Crooked lake (the bigger Crooked), 2006

Are those the brownies.....burning?.....I see the almost empty vodka bottle.........MMMMmmmmm! Brownies.....OooPps!

Homemade tomato basil soup, West Pike Lake 2008

The winner of the December photo contest is Mooseplums! A tough month to vote especially on an empty stomach.

HighPlainsDrifter's great trip report won the December trip report contest!

RoYoJo is the winner of the extra give away.

....and i was rootin for that pike on a stick!

Thanks for the vote Mooseplums! I'm thinking this stick thing could become a tradition (along with a little merlot, of course). Congrats on your photo!

I got the hat...thanks.