Dirty Gourmet is three girls—Aimee Trudeau, Emily Nielson, and Mai-Yan Kwan—who got here collectively after a motorbike tour throughout Canada. They put collectively a wide selection of camp meals, a lot of which will be discovered of their cookbook of the identical title, with numerous completely different cultural and style influences. This recipe, from Emily, for simple hush puppies, is a good dish to serve across the campfire on a chilly night.
We are at all times cooking Southern meals round right here, so we lastly did a Southern menu for our final occasion, the Subaru Death Valley Cycling Adventure. We made jambalaya, greens with lemon-tahini dressing (tailored from one among our favourite books, Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen), and these hush puppies.
It was about 15 levels exterior within the backcountry of Death Valley and the mountain bikers had been out driving totally previous darkish by the point they returned to our camp. They had been prepared for a hearty meal. The crew was a mashup of various individuals with completely different wants, so we had been comfortable to have stumbled upon a vegan and gluten-free methodology that tasted good to everybody.
We deliberate to make use of sizzling pepper jelly because the dipping sauce for these however forgot it (and we weren’t about to drive 4 hours again to city to choose some up). We did have some cactus jelly that we’d bought (together with a rattlesnake mug) at a present store on our method in. We combined it with the Tabasco-laced pickling juice from the spicy okra on our appetizer tray, and it was fairly scrumptious. The “recipe” isn’t included, however play with combining some type of pepper jelly with some cider vinegar and salt and pepper to create your personal dipping sauce.
We found that the desert is the right place to fry. An out of doors kitchen can deal with the smoke and grease significantly better than an indoor one, forged iron is commonly readily available together with a robust range flame, and other people will flip out with pleasure after they get to eat your creations. Just keep in mind to deliver some type of container to pour your oil into once you’re finished frying.
It’s additionally good, in fact, for a weeknight celebration. Use these puppies as an excuse to eat exterior each time.