I am a hiker not a hunter but I do love the taste of game meat, so whenever folks offer it to me I am more than happy to take it off their hands. Recently I found myself in possession of 3 pounds of ground venison and I decided that a dutch oven meatloaf would be mighty tasty.
Mix together thoroughly: 3lbs. ground venison 1 lb. ground pork sausage 1 cup bread crumbs 1 cup ketchup 2 eggs 1 pkg. Lipton onion soup mix
Form into a loaf.
Use the basket weaving skills that you acquired in college and neatly cover the top of the loaf with any thick sliced bacon that you would like.
Bake in a 12 inch medium heat Dutch oven for 1 hour or until meat reaches 160 degrees internal temperature.
Notes: I used 20 charcoals on top and 10 on bottom. The sausage was added since the venison was so lean, the added fat was perfect. About halfway through the cooking, I carefully removed the lid from the D.O. and drained the fat. I mixed my loaf ahead of time and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours. Let it stand for a few minutes after baking and before slicing and carving. I use a digital remote thermometer, I love it. I would have taken it off at 150 degrees, but went to 160 because of the pork. This meatloaf was moist and delicious, everyone loved it.
It was a wet and cold Springfest at times this year, but we still had a fun time and saw lots of killer music.
Gnometown was out in full force with Nate, Phil, Cody, Jessie, and Lucas joining us in camp.
The 2013 Springfest lineup stayed true to its roots and we couldn't have
asked for a better weekend of music. Just maybe, better weather. Hey,
it happens. At least our little popup stayed dry. I bet that was the
exception and not the rule, I saw lots of wet tents out there! It's
about the live music for us, and we were not disappointed.
Black Betty and I did bow out of a couple of shows due to the excessive thunderstorm activity on Saturday night, so we missed a few of our favorites, but what we did see was right on.
I got lucky this year and won the Tie Dye hanging in the LOMAF raffle. Nice!
I cooked up a big dutch oven full of my infamous Pineapple Express for our Gnometown dinner on Friday evening. Somehow, we missed out on our regular nightly servings of Sweet Revenge apple crisp and ice cream.
The river was flooded and the beach was closed, so we did not get a swim in this year. It was pretty cool over the weekend though, with night time lows dipping down into the high 30's to low 40's so the water may have been pretty cool yet. I did however, get a nice bike ride in on Friday with Nate and Phil and we explored the old highway and closed bridge area across the road from the park.
Due to the storming on Saturday afternoon and evening, Black Betty and I ventured into Live Oak for supper and found some delicious fried oysters at the Dixie Diner. It was our first visit.
As always, the Sunday Donna The Buffalo Jam was as hot as it gets and I was in jam heaven with the return of Peter Rowan to Suwannee Springfest after his conspicuous absence last year. Peter seemed to be everywhere! He was having a fantastic time playing with many of the bands that were there. I know we were having a great time listening to him.
I was lucky enough to capture some special moments on video and I still smile every time I watch Peter and DtB buring it up on "Burningman".
Some of the bands/artists we were fortunate enough to see:
Applebutter Express Tornado Rider Scythian
Hackensaw Boys Dangermuffin Dread Clampitt
Elephant Revival Leftover Salmon Keller & The Keels
The Travelin' McCourys Mamajowali Grandpa's Cough Medicine
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge Jim Lauderdale Peter Rowan
Darol Anger Bobby MIller Jerry Douglas Donna The Buffalo
Phil "Free Mexican AirForce"
Lucas
Cody
Hometown and Black Betty
Jessie
Nimble Nate
Wayne
With Sam and Mary and girls.
Gnometown
Amphitheater stage.
Raffle win!
Gnometown Camp.
Bobby Miller with Jeb Purveyor.
Hackensaw Boys.
Salmon! Vince Herman.
Sythian
Jim Lauderdale.
Peter Rowan with the McCourys.
Moon from the Porch Stage area.
Larry Keel and Keller Williams.
Lucas and friends playing in the meadow on Saturday.
And really, can it get any better than Keller, The Keels, The Traveling McCourys, Drew Emmitt, and Vince Herman doing "Born To Be Wild"???? I think not.
Here is a link to all 15 of my Springfest videos: Springfest 2013.
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