Snakes 'N' Cakes............Crullers to you

Arizona Outdoorsman / AZOD

Snakes 'N' Cakes............Crullers to you!

(This was sent to us from our reader’s feedback. We have no idea what a ‘DO’ is but thought that it would be fun to share anyway. Ed.)

I decided to live on the Gila Desert for about a year in my youth. I packed in the goods I thought I needed and a few maps. This was before the day of cell phones, or humvees.

Water was a bear to find except for the condensation collection technique I used in route to the obsidian chimneys, and the blue clay pits. At various distances I collected the water, and emptied the snares on the way back to camp. Never did I have enough time or a real DO (too heavy to pack in). I did suffer the weight of a deep 4" -18" diameter cast iron skillet. It cooked anything big (including a Javelina w/ napalitos 'n' yellow squash that I grew. This was seasoned with pepper and nutmeg and honey. Bees in the only tree by a seasonal creek"! I gathered wood for a couple of days to get enough to fire a stone lined pit, and then buried the pig while I went to work in the blue clay.

When I got back after sundown, I emptied the pit, fired up a smaller aluminum pot and fried up some BS biscuits to sop up the juices from the pig. After the meal I made some cinnamon crullers in the same oil as the biscuits used.

Might share a cruller recipe with your deserter folks, they will like it. Bettern' biscuits and serves the same carbo need for survival. I’ve been DO'n for about 40 years now in the Gila Desert, Death Valley (before the damned English
moved in) North Rim, South Rim, North Canyon and the Eastern Washington and Oregon steppes. I would love to do Patagonia, but my dogs gettin' on in years and prefers to skank around in the Portland jazz clubs and coffee houses of Seattle.

I'll be roughn' it at Birch Bay this 4th of July on the local cherry clams and gooeys, and Dungeness covered in the reduced local red wines for dessert.

Yep, Jack rabbit an' arroyo roots ain't bad, but fresh crab and clams with grilled Pacific oyster served up on broiled apple slices coated w/fireweed honey is better.

Best 'o' luck with the tourists on the desert paths you now have created, See if you can find the crucifix the red neck from Oklahoma used to off hissssss near Rainbow Dam.

Sluggo