Frybread on the Playa-free camp idea

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:49 pm

Won't someone who wants to cook on the playa do this?
Bound to be a hit.
Just hang on to that light stuff or the wind will catch it.

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:10 pm

I'll wait in line for some. And an Indian taco. If somebody would do it, they could donate the WVO to Bentley Biofuel, in keeping with the green theme. They are supposed to be there keeping the generators fueled. Bentley's is where I get 50/50 biodiesel for my Jetta.

Post by **trilobyte** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:23 am

I'm confused... are you asking for someone else to start up a free fry-bread camp for you?

~Trilo~

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:36 am

Are you volunteering Trilobyte? I think that was what you just did! Let me know where you'll be and I'll stop by for a taste.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:23 pm

If I could cook, I'd be making frybread right now.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:32 pm

You have a good recipe? If you post it there may be a better chance of finding some on the playa.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:37 pm

I don't.
Someone on here said it was simple ingredients.
It's just a matter of how you do it.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:42 pm

What do you usually put on it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frybread

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:45 pm

Frybread: Makes 8-10 small ones or 5 big flat ones for Indian tacos.

2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup milk
Deep hot fat in frypan or fryer

Sift dry ingredients. Lightly stir in milk. Add more flour as necessary to make a dough you can handle. Kneed and work the dough on a floured board with floured hands until smooth. Pinch off fist-sized limps and shap into a disk -- everyone has their own characteristic shapes.(Shape affects the taste, by the way because of how it fries). For Indian tacos, the disk must be rather flat, with a depression -- almost a hole -- in the center of both sides. Make it that way if the fry bread is going to have some sauce over it. Smaller, round ones are made to put on a plate. Fry in fat (about 375Â°) until golden and done on both sides, about 5 minutes. Drain on absorbent paper.

I love hot they just say "fat". That must be why it's so tasty!

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:47 pm

The stuff I've had was very sweet.
I didn't put anything on it.

That picture looks good.
I didn't know you could put stuff on it.
Are the tacos near the playa the same?
I may just lose my mind.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:58 pm

Ugh. I'm trying to eat much better but I might have to try some of those. You're probably right about it being a cheap and great thing for people to do as a camp. Just make some huge vats of the dough and fry it up on the playa.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:05 pm

The ones I tried were huge and puffy and irregular.
It was at four corners and they were so light I nearly lost them in the wind.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:06 pm

If you're traveling I-40, stop for fry bread or tacos at Yellow Horse. You can't miss it.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:15 pm

It was at four corners

Is that Kramer's Junction? I'm guessing there is more than one place people call 4 corners. If so, who was selling them there?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:31 pm

It was an indian trailer right at four corners.
Good too.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:09 pm

That's the glorious thing about frybread; you can go savory or sweet. (Or throw the diet out the window and do both - start with an Indian taco, finish up with a piece covered in powdered sugar.)

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:32 pm

MikeVDS wrote:
It was at four corners
Is that Kramer's Junction? I'm guessing there is more than one place people call 4 corners. If so, who was selling them there?

http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?pid=11092

Four Corners

Where is Kramers Junction?

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:45 pm

Kramer's Junction is a place us L.A. folk pass through on our way to Burningman on Hwy 395. It just has a gas station on each of the 4 corners of the street and is in the middle of nowhere for California standards. It often gets referred to as 4 corners.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:58 pm

I went to burning man via LA last year.
I think I came back by 395.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:03 am

It's about 2 hours from LA or about an hour once you get on the 395 from LA. It's likely you filled up there.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:35 am

We stopped somewhere in the hills and I climbed out of the speaker cabinet I was riding in.
Maybe that was it?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:19 am

I think it was Lone Pine but we stopped somewhere else and met some burners who were on their way too.
A gas station by itself.
Maybe that was it?

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:48 am

It's a lump of buildings. They have fast food places there too now, and 4 gas stations. It's not really exciting at all. Not a place you'd want to go unless you're filling up with gas. I was just wondering if that's what you were talking about. Not the type of place I'd picture getting frybread.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:01 am

trilobyte wrote:I'm confused... are you asking for someone else to start up a free fry-bread camp for you?

~Trilo~

It's a free idea.

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:03 pm

Krammer Junction/Four Corners is where 395 and 58 cross. I remember when there was just a four way stop at that junction with the AT&SF railroad on the north side of 58.

Post by **trilobyte** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:25 pm

Why not suggest ice cream camps, or sex camps, or...

If you do some looking around online for bannock recipes, there are some good ones out there. We've tried a few over the last couple months, it's good stuff.

~Trilo~

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:32 pm

We already have those camps.
Ice cream is amazing out there.
So is

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:19 pm

AntiM wrote:If you're traveling I-40, stop for fry bread or tacos at Yellow Horse. You can't miss it.

My foster sister Rosie is from Four Corners and she makes the best frybread I have ever eaten.