Crab Boil under PSTL Tarp Rainy Camp

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Pitching our PSTL tarp over the fire in a pyramid canopy was perfect for keeping dry in the rain and keeping warm too. The Zebra Pot did the job for cooking up a delicious crab boil, good eatin' at camp.

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Tags: Camp,Rain,Food,zatarains crab boil,shrimp,camp cooking,tarp,shelter,Zebra Loop handle pot,billy pot,spring handle clip

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they'll all come off in a minute anyway so so now I just want to slice these dudes up here that's this little the solo lunch tray thing it really does the trick for that and don't pay any attention to my to the camp dirt on my fingers because there's a little bit of it here but I'm these Tytos cook for a while anything anything to worry about so we just kind of get all these potatoes all diced up here and there little chunks and we'll get those ready and dump those into the pot there because it Potts rd boiling i should add these done already but i've been i've been tinkering around camp a little too much here so but hey that's the deal when you're up camp and you'd make your own rules so my rules was going to do some other stuff first so now i'm just going to take those carrots probably and just kind of i'll probably just kind of cut those cut those down in half or something like that but i'll put them in a little bit later so anyway there we go having a little fun here alright so we got everything rolling here i added a little more add a little more water to it so just starting to simmer i'm going to go ahead and dump these potatoes in there and you'll see us is nice with this zebra pot with these clips right here holding that handle up so it's out of the way so at any time I can grab it but the handles are up out of the way so you know it's no problem dealing with it you know

so get all these taters in here I probably did too many I don't know okay so now I'll put the lid back on here let that thing come to a nice boil and start cooking those potatoes now I'm going to get kind of get some of this other stuff cut up while I'm waiting for that to come to a boil and start cooking I think I got to go gather me a little more firewood too while I'm at it well one of the nice things about this little train this is just an experiment I'm always I'm always kind of tinkering around and stuff but but anyway the nice thing about having this thing here is that and see now I can sit here on the campfire comfortably I can have this thing on my lap and you know I can I can cut up stop or whatever and I not make it a mess you know I've had over the years I've had a bunch of those little those little really lightweight roll-up cook cutting match you know and they're cool but the thing is you got to have something solid in the first place you know to get have something solid in the first place to even use them something flat underneath them you know so the nice thing here is this thing got enough strength to it you know and it does pretty nicely so is that enough onion probably my wife likes onion and so do i good stuff probably just put this whole thing in there don't have any room for I'm not there's a crab boil but I'm doing shrimp in here but I do much of this I'll have room for shrimp in there well I tell you what it's a awful nice cozy shelter 37 degrees outside now it's dropping a little bit and it's really deceiving because when I'm inside the shelter here but on inside the shelter here I it just feels so nice and comfortable this is my shirt here when I step outside it's a little light breeze and everything you're out there it's like Matt it's a little it's a lot cooler than you think it is because this thing here is so warm even though i have no sides down here I feel so much warmth coming down from the top and I feel the warmth from the fire and everything well it's been going a little bit why not got me a little more firewood just to make sure I got enough for today I'm going to dip in here and see how these taters are doing now they're done the gum almost 2 done well no they're not too done they're just I just got that's my problem when I'm cooking at Camp usually I'm not dedicated just to cooking but it's not well in my time up here I know I'm going to be no I'm going to be needing more than a little bit of what I had here so I went hiked up through here just a little bit me found me a Down maple tree and so I cut me off a couple nice chunks and put them on my shoulder and brought him back right now I'm just just kind of tinkering around here i'm working on this meal a little bit anyway I need to be more dedicated to cooking but I don't care early you know that's going to be fine good it tastes good so I'm just enjoying myself really I really honestly cannot believe how much warmer it is in this and it's little canapé than it is outside all right let's this deal right here it's truly going I see the nice thing about the handle being held up as I don't the handle even I got flames coming up the side the handle is still comfortable to touch it's not even hot so I can pull the pot off and going to stir things around a little bit and a check out what we are going to check out what we got going on in here got our potatoes another two done yeah carrot just about right now dente who matter so good dang it was good all right so now I'm going to add the satyr and crab boil right here and I need about you need about a tablespoon for need about a tablespoon for two and a half quarts and we're only not even two quarts so I'm just gonna do that much maybe a touch more I don't know little extra stir all that in there now will bring that back up to a boil and it will dump our shrimp in there I'm telling you what it's almost eaten time almost eaten time put the lid back on the crab boil for I spill it now sometimes they do make a pack of seasoning that's just in a cheesecloth you can drop in we do that we do that sometime when we have a great big pot of this that we're making but this is nice because I can do just a small batch but so now I'm going to go ahead and stick my zebra pot back here on the fire and stick my lid back on and I'm going to let that come to a boil again and check my drink here alright so i'm going to get my crab already here my crab get my shrimp ready to go get ready to dump those things in there I'm telling you what I am going to eat like a king here okay so we are definitely boiling here I got my crab boil in there it's all that's all kind of boiled around in there that stuff really adds a nice spicy Cajun type flavor to this and I don't take credit for this for this stuff I mean I got a had a friend when lived in the Carolinas he is from from Louisiana born and raised and clear in the Boy Scouts we will work just here's a Scoutmaster I helped him and there's some there's some shrimp I just dropped into there and now just kind of put her back out here and put her back out here by the heat let that kind of boil up again with them shrimp cooking and this is going to be absolutely positively delicious I'm delighted with everything today even though we got a little rainy off and on and stuff this canopy over here keeps all out off of me and keeps the heat in here this stuff is so warm it's a little it's a little it's almost ridiculous anyway

this is a very nice meal you're not getting what you're not getting this kind of meal and a freeze-dried pouch anyways I join you as a zebra pot what it can do it's nice this is the 3 quart size I could have done that's enough for probably four people but that's a it's a nice little deal all right I reposition my probe in here he's kind of checking stuff out we're sitting here at 77 degrees at about the level of my head in here that's with cozy I got a decent fire in here i'm going to stoke it up a little more once i finish eating i'm going to see what i can do inside this little jewel here man it's a good meal it really is it's a nice actually like one time we had this crab boil we're actually in the carolinas but a scout jamboree camp thing or whatever scatter am a thing or something it was actually snowing and we're eating this are not steam coming up off the bowl into your face and the big pot we had a big pot just saw Steven and the snowflakes coming down let me tell you what it doesn't get a whole lot better than better than living like that you know but man this is so good today I got some buddies we're going to always trying to work out a time here but we're all going to be coming up or going to make a big ol pot of this and we're going to eat tell