Little Fox's Recipe Contest 2016

 Reindeer has been busy lately working on his memoir and cookbook.  Being a vegetarian Reindeer in a non-vegetarian house is difficult for my friend.  Here is a sneak peak of the cover.  I am sure he will have some great vegetarian recipes.

The basis of Reindeer's title is what he says everytime my roommates add meat to a meal.  They made fish chowder recently and Reindeer was beary excited until they added the fish.  Once they made spaghetti and he was super happy until they added the meatballs.  Now, he will always hang around the table, watch the cooking preparations and then say in an exasperated tone,  "Another good meal ruined" when the meat, fish, or chicken is added.

Me, I am a carnivore and will happily eat anything.  I have decided to create a recipe contest to solicit ideas for my upcoming cookbook.  Food by Fox.

Rules for the contest:
1) Recipe submissions due on February 25th.  You can use your own recipe, one from a magazine, one from the Internet, whatever you want is fine with me.
2) Recipes can be for anything you want.  Fish, meat, vegetarian, you get the idea.
3) Any meal is open game.  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert, Midnight snacks; anything is fair game.
4) More than one stuffy may submit.  For example, Droopy can submit a recipe and then Spunky might submit a "little" something as well.

Prizes
Prizes will be awarded in the following categories.
Easiest Preparation
Coolest Named Dish
Honorable Mention
Regional Favorite
Judges Favorite
Easiest Cleanup
Budget Meal
****Note: A recipe can win in more than one category.

Speaking of the judges let me introduce you to everyone.

There's me, Little Fox.  Friend to all cooks, a self proclaimed expert on trail food and always happy to jump in and do the dishes.

Who brought the trail mix?

Drunk Fox.  An expert in bar food, drinks, and always knows the best happy hour in town.

Does anyone have any mixers handy?

Kermit the Frog: An all around good guy who can keep the peace at the dinner table (and keep the guests entertained at any dinner party).

Sequoia: Not the most discriminating palate out there.  His food philosophy is "If it's on the ground, I'll eat it".  Hmm, maybe I will use that as the title in my next cookbook.

To round out the group we must include Little Bear.  Now, Little Bear wants all the bears to know that just because he might be a long lost cousin doesn't mean he will give any favors.  Although, he is partial to salmon, anything from Starbucks, and the "finer" things in life.

Little Bear is curious if anyone knows any of the items on Starbucks secret menu.

Each judge has sworn to uphold the rules of the contest and impartially judge each recipe.  My roommates have been kind enough to help me make all the recipes and purchase the ingredients.

Ok, I am excited to see your submissions!  Send them off to lfox97123@gmail.com by February 25th!

 Thanks for reading ---
Little Fox, et. al.

A proper adventure

I had my lunch packed (pb and j) yesterday with the anticipation that I was going to get an adventure.  I have taken Jerry’s advice and left lots of hiking books around the house in hopes that my roommates would take me hiking.

They decided to take me to Coyote Wall.  To start the hike one must hike on an old road for a 1/2 mile or so.  The road is near the Columbia River so it’s a pretty scenic road.

The weather was great and some of the early wildflowers were out.  This one is of a desert parsley. 

Here I am hanging out with the grass widows.

Mt. Hood was out for the day.  You can see if clearly in this picture.  

I prefer this picture instead (I wonder why???)

We had to cross a stream with a beary small waterfall.  It was about my size which made a good picture for me.  Hmm, a little waterfall I bet Spunky would look good next to it too.

Toward the top of the hike you can enter an old forest.  My roommate thinks these are oak trees but we don’t really know.

 

 As you can see Sequoia came along the hike today.  He is humoring me by posing in this picture, you can see that he really wants to continue his hike.

Hope your weekend adventures were fun.