Culinary Cowboy » Big Bend 50 http://www.culinarycowboy.com/blog There\'s always peanut butter. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 © lee@dunkelberg.com () lee@dunkelberg.com() 1440 There's always peanut butter. lee@dunkelberg.com No no http://www.culinarycowboy.com/images/CC_logo_150px.gif Culinary Cowboy http://www.culinarycowboy.com/blog 144 144 Formal notice of Big Bend Ultra Cancellation http://www.culinarycowboy.com/blog/2008/01/03/formal-notice-of-big-bend-ultra-cancellation/ http://www.culinarycowboy.com/blog/2008/01/03/formal-notice-of-big-bend-ultra-cancellation/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:16:14 +0000 Culinary Cowboy http://www.culinarycowboy.com/blog/2008/01/03/formal-notice-of-big-bend-ultra-cancellation/ The following was sent to Big Bend 50/25 Ultra participants:

New Years Greetings to current entries in the 2008 Big Bend Ultra 50/25!!

The Big Bend Ultra 50/25 Jan 20, 2008 race has been canceled.

Due to an insufficient number of entries, we have been forced to cancel the January 20th, 2008 Big Bend Ultra Race. This was a very tough decision but regrettably unavoidable. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved for their support over the last 3 years. It has made a difference to Big Bend National Park.

All paid entries will have two choices:

1. Donation: If you would like to donate your $100 entry fee to the Friends of BBNP, please send me an email with this request to the following address: pcarroll@fleetfeetsanantonio.com. Please respond no later than Thursday, January 10th. This includes a 1 year Membership.

2. Refund: Do nothing. We will automatically mail your $100 entry fee back to the address listed on your entry form. An all-volunteer group will assist in processing refunds. We hope to begin mailing out refunds on January 11th, 2008.

There are no plans to hold another Big Bend Ultra 50/25 race at anytime in the future.

Again, many thanks. Please continue supporting the park and visit as often as you can.

Carroll Voss

BB50/25

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outdoor propane cooker with cook box

We tested out the new cooking gear for the post race meal at the Big Bend 50 Ultra Race next month in Big Bend National Park (website). This beauty is a three-burner propane cooktop. The black thing is a metal cookbox which acts like an oven or grill.We cooked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil in it in about an hour. Then, we grilled boneless, skinless chicken breasts on the cast iron grill inside (they are in there now).

Green beans cooking

Carroll’s Green Beans Recipe

  • chop half pound of bacon slices and brown
  • remove bacon and pour out most of the grease
  • brown chopped onion and one large clove of garlic
  • pour in one quart chicken broth
  • bring to a boil
  • stir in about two pounds of green beans and simmer until done.

    • I brought it all to a good boil and then shut off the heat. The residual heat managed to cook the beans more than enough by the time the chicken was done. Look at the brown on those birds. The breasts were marinated for about a day in Italian dressing.The cast iron grill in the cooking box gave them a nice browning. Then, the top down cooking kept the chicken nice and moist. We were pleasantly surprised at how evenly they cooked and how moist they were.

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