Outdoor cooking ( way out of doors) (taste, best, catfish, weird)

[BillyC64]

My friends and I have been sharing our outdoor cooking techniques with each other and I thought it would be enjoyable to hear some body elses. I'm not talking about grillin' weenies, I mean some real unusual stuff. For a start I will tell you my fish in the fire cooking technique. First you need to catch a fish. We used this on little fish usually (perch, brim, little catfish, trout) so if you go for a bigboy you're on your own. Build a fire on the ground. Clean the fish; season it if you have some (plain fish is bland) now collect some water flora if possible (water cress is the best, cat tail leaves (green), lilies taste weird but will work, if all else fails use long rush or grass blades) Now get some wet mud, as clean as possible, also a claylike as possible. You may have to dig in a silt deposit but it needs to be sticky not sandy. Wrap the plant material around the fish then pack that with the mud. A mud pie not to thick, half an inch or so is good. By now your fire should have a heart of embers, lay the mud pie on a piece of wood and lay this in the edge of the fire and cover with embers. It will burn up the wood and slow the drying of the mud some (so it doesn't crack off the bottom. About 15 minutes give or take and you can pull it out and remove the mud and greenery. It really is quite good once you get the timing down. This may sound involved but it is really very simple. It'll make you feel all woodsy....before you know it be huntin' for Sasquatch