Dining at Burning Man

shitmouse · Post by **shitmouse** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:29 pm

i did MRE's for 2 burns while roughing it in a van, and the class "A" MRE's were not too shabby. they do produce an undesirable amount of trash though. (good for the 8 hour long alpha storm)

one of the things that help the whole food thing work is to compartmentalize your cooler with air/water tight bins for different items, like eggs, chicken, etc. that way things don't get wet and go to crap, and or cross contaminate.

one year jim had a bad case of what we called "chicken water". a cooler of water, raw chicken, and everything else that he had as foods in there. (think scary pink liquid). i was scared to grab a beer form that foul mess.
small & medium snap lid bins have really made it for us.

pre-made foods work well too. we had a full fledged thanksgiving dinner one year on slick-rock in moab. all pre-made and it came out surprisingly well.

-b

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:52 pm

Hey all...

This is one of the most awesome compilations of info I have seen in quite a while...

So...

As a gift to y'all (and y'ain't's, too!) I want to pull the suggestions, ideas, and the goods from here and distill it into a categorized (kinda, anyway) compilation, and have it available on a website, freely available to all who care to know. Prolly my website as I have space (and control) over it.

After all... we all know MRE's are a workable emergency food source, but you gotta go thru 3 pages to find that out (and that they can be bland, and separate parts are available).

As it'll be a lot easier to do it in a cookbook fashion, rather than just restated posts, instead of just copying posts I am planning on crediting (via their screen name) all the people who contributed to this. Maybe as such it will live in infamy. Kinda like one of my famous menus from my chef days...

So, what y'all think? Good or not so good??

BBS

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(One of the originals, from 2002...)

Dinner House menu,
Susanne's Roadhouse, Saloon, and fine Bistro
(Chef Wilhelm von Trappendoor, exec. chef and dungeonmaster)

For Friday, the 13th of December...

Appetizer: Raw wilted oysters on the half shell, served on a bed of vintage Russian nails

Cheese: German Limburger, aged to perfection (62 years) in the bilge of a tramp steamer

Salad: Crabgrass and tumbleweed salad, with motor oil and drano vinigarette.

Soup: Cream of water cress

Foul: Brochettes of visceral local seagull, served with a rhubarb leaf chutney

Fish: Fugu entrail sashimi (raw), served with a side of rice hulls. (also raw)

Meat: Medallions of Ptomaine Beef Hide au Tartar.

Vegetable: Steamed mixed henbane greens

Dessert: Raw onion and garlic mousse, served with a sidecar of hemlock berry sherbet.

We recommend the following wine with your meal:

E&J Gallows Nighttrain Express, Limited prune orchard bottling, vintage (very late) 2002

* * * * *

Buon Apetit & Au Revoir

Nightterror · Post by **Nightterror** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:59 pm

rhubarb leaf chutney

Please - everybody knows that Rhubarb leafs are poisonous.

Iago · Post by **Iago** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:37 pm

And don't forget good ol' Ham & Motherfuckers... That ought to trigger some old memories. Kids now days got it made with MRE's..

synchronicity · Post by **synchronicity** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:35 pm

out of context
(me. not anyone else.)

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:56 pm

BURP! please pass the dried road kill jerky.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:05 pm

Would you like some Mustard with that Road Kill? The kind we serve is a gas...

>>giggles<<

BBS

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:10 pm

I'd also like to point out that Horizon Organic Milk offers their wares in shelf-stable steri-paks. My local Costco sells cases of the chocolate variety for $12. I always make sure to bring a couple cases of that.

Attention omnivores! You <u><b>DO NOT</u></b> have to settle for soy milk on the Playa!!!

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:20 pm

I just bought shelf-stable Yoo-Hoos in boxes. Sugary, but I've been curious to try them.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:30 pm

Yuk!! >|P
If you're anything like me, it'll be the first and last time you tried it. I actually spat it out the first time I tasted Yoo-Hoo.
Forget it, stick with the Horizon Organics. Their vanilla milk is good, too.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:39 pm

Ah well, if I don't like them, there will be someone who will.

Right now I'm reminding myself to quit eating all the raspberries and freeze some to take to the playa, but dang! They're right off the canes still warm from the sun; I'm having trouble not grazing right outside my kitchen door. So much for sharing, eh?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:18 pm

AntiM wrote: Right now I'm reminding myself to quit eating all the raspberries and freeze some to take to the playa, but dang! They're right off the canes still warm from the sun; I'm having trouble not grazing right outside my kitchen door. So much for sharing, eh?

That's what I'd be doing. Raspberries are darn near sacred and fresh fruit is.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:10 am

Damn straight...I've got stained paws and scratched legs from Going Bear on our black raspberry brambles! I haven't had time to replant the garden since we moved- I used to come home, tear off my work clothes and graze the garden for snap peas, heirloom cherry tomatoes and strawberries.....rrRRRAughhLLgh...*making Drooling Homer face*

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:27 pm

I just helped a friend pick 1 row of vines and we ended up with at least 6 cool whip size bowls!

NTS.... Go pick other rows and freeze!

I've heard the raspberries lose their sweetness after freezing...anyone know if this is the case?

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:41 pm

What about Jiffy Pop Popcorn in the little 'luminum pan? Or is popcorn too moopy?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:46 pm

Black berries are Or. state weed. The damn things are every where. Every morning I walk about 5 yard and eat my fill. That's a bunch i'm a pig when eating.

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:07 pm

Blackberries! Oh man, I haven't had ANY this year. Usually by now I've had cobblers and lots of raw berries. Not this year. Sniff. I've got some major jealousy going on about having all those blackberries.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:49 am

Oh, blackberry pie. Chai Guy is the Master!!!
FYI

butterscotch · Post by **butterscotch** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:14 pm

Great tips all!

There was some good feedback on food from last year:

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... highlight=

"Recovery from 2004. Planning for 2005."

Started talking about food about 12 messages down and didn't look back....

Two extras... My friend and I ended up bringing and entire case of Marie Sharp's - Habanero Pepper Sauce last year to give away.... oh my word...

He absolutely ADORES spicy/hot food... and this stuff is freaking amazing... to quote from their web site:
http://www.drchilepepper.com/acatalog/M ... ters_.html

"Marie Sharp's - Habanero Pepper Sauce
A unique carrot-based blend with key lime juice achieves the perfect balance between flavor and heat."

The stuff is so good I would drip some on my wrist and lap it up last year.
It's not your regular tabasco death-burn... its so... flavorful.

We ended up giving away most of the bottles during the Sunday traffic-to-traffic stop turned "wild fun extra food fiesta" last year.... and created more than a few converts.

The best combo turned out to be cucumbers + cheddar cheese + pepper salami (from Trader Joe's). Gods... I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Secondly, on the return trip we found that we had forgotten and left in the car in a shady spot - a small sealed cooler containing:
1. 4 Red Bulls
2. One bag of Trader Joe's chocolate-covered peanut-butter filled pretzels.

Amazingly enough... in the four days that we were there the drinks had remained COLD and the pretzels UNMELTED (though they turned to mush after opening two hours later).

They were SO unexpected and wonderful for the trip into Reno.

Think its time to do the same this year... but on purpose. Ahhh...

~Aimless

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:08 pm

Anyone know if powdered eggs are nasty or if they make them anymore?

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:15 pm

Martiansky wrote: powdered eggs are nasty

That`s my guess, like powdered milk...
...it`s milk, but it sure doesn`t taste much like it.

I`d go for the egg-beaters in a carton, in a ziplock, in your cooler.

Magaladon · Post by **Magaladon** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:01 pm

Martiansky wrote:Anyone know if powdered eggs are nasty or if they make them anymore?

While it's been quite some time since I've eaten them, I seem to remember that they're not all that great, but useful for things like omelets. And yes, they are still around.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:05 pm

Magaladon wrote:
Martiansky wrote:Anyone know if powdered eggs are nasty or if they make them anymore?

While it's been quite some time since I've eaten them, I seem to remember that they're not all that great, but useful for things like omelets. And yes, they are still around.

Of course they are still around. They have a half life that's the envy of uranium!

kidhack · Post by **kidhack** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:50 pm

anybody try cooking with something like this out on the Playa?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 67-2973659

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:04 pm

I have no doubt someone has.
It's an open flame, which attracts LEO's like...
...something that's attracted to an open flame.

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:51 am

I've heard the raspberries lose their sweetness after freezing...anyone know if this is the case?

I freeze raspberries all the time and they stay sweet. They do get extra juicy however, I have to seal the containers with duct tape and double bag them to keep the juice out of the rest of my cooler. Perfect for drinks and on top of pancakes. Ummm, playacakes.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:10 am

I did a playameat pass through the canned meats aisle of the grocery store yesterday, to collect vital stocks of Dinty and smoked oysters- There are SCADS of new preserved meat entrees in room-temp packs! They're designed for the microwave, but most can be boil-in-bagged as well. A much more civilized way to get my meat fix than having to kill, skin and gut a Hapless Hippie, especially with my tiny, near-useless forearms. RRRRRRAARRRRRRRGGGH! *stomping around*

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:04 am

Anyone know where I canget Cafe' DuMonde Beignet mix at a store near Reno? Sorry, I'm not driving to Naw Len's to get some(although it'd be worth it)
And what is a good cooking oil to get? Oil or crisco?
I'm bringing popcorn with to make also.

Thanks!

fetching · Post by **fetching** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:52 pm

i tried a box of tasty bites curried veggies and rice...it's edible, but just barely. i'll bring the ones i bought, but it's emergencies only food.

yech.

drewsky · Post by **drewsky** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:54 pm

this was a really good topic!

well for my little burning man cuisine help:

I really never felt like cooking.. even the little camp butane flame thing looked too complicated for me to set up once out there.
so..

things I loved:

-cost plus greek delicacies in tins (stuffed tomaotes + grape leaves) cold!
-pop tarts
-chilled fruit cups (mom used to put em in my lunch)
-chilled pudding cups (chocolate)
-nutella (outta the jar)
-nuts
-little sake bottles (warm or cold)
-chili outta a can
-pate in a tin ( I know.. )
-smoked oysters
-individually wrapped crackers
-japanese rice cracker snax
-La Brea bakery homeade granola with soy milk
-Kern's diet sodas
-jerky
-dried fruits and trail mix
-trader joe's tubs of mini cookies

On the way back to LA I stopped into a Wendy's in a really pretty strip mall in Carson City and ordered some huge burger and a frostie ... normally never a thing I do but.. well, it tasted soooo good. :D