For a while we've been planning on giving out some recipes we use at night to ward off hunger and attract wildlife. This is the first, simple one, but we use it a lot.
4 cups of all purpose flour
6 ½ tbsp of olive oil
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp yeast
1 ½ cups of warm water
- Dissolve yeast into the water.
- Put flour and salt into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to combine. Add 6 tbsp olive oil, pulse to combine.
- Add the water and yeast. Process it until the dough pulls away in a ball from the wall of the food processor (10-15 seconds).
- Take a heavy duty 1 gallon Zip-lock bag and add ½ tbsp olive oil. Place dough in bag and seal.
- Massage the oil over the dough so that it's all slippery. Put in fridge or cooler. Wait one day before using.
The dough lasts about a week. It's a very good idea to double bag it, as it will swell.
At the campsite
- Put 1-2 tbsp of olive oil into a pan and heat over medium heat.
- Take dough, break off a piece slightly smaller than a golf ball. Roll into a ball. If you have time, let it rest covered for 15 minutes.
- Flatten it with your hands until it's a large disk ¼ inch in width. Drop into hot oil. Fry until golden on both sides.
- When it comes out of the oil, shake salt and pepper over it.
Serve with ranch dressing or cheese sauce. Also good dipped in chile, stew, pot roast, meat loaf, tomato sauce, or just about anything except chocolate milk. This bread is quite versatile; you can even put cinnamon sugar on it as soon as it gets out of the pan and serve it as dessert.
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So I spent a good part of the morning perusing a 65 page report on the geology of the Badlands. Initially, I was completely bored…pages and pages of marine sediments (the underlying Pierre Shale) studied by paleontologists who traced how baculites evolved over time (it's a rod-shaped organism). I can’t think of anything more mind-numbing than studying marine sediments (my disdain for marine sediments is documented in my previous post regarding three hellish days in Nevada). Well ok, maybe some of the limestone concretions were slightly interesting.
I was very impatient with the paper, which, while thorough, took 35 pages to get to the good part – where were all the awesome colors coming from? Where are all the good fossils I read about? Finally I got to the Fox Hills Formation. The formation itself isn’t all that spectacular, but the story it tells is fantastic. The formation consists of marine sediments, however at one point in the unit, there is a “Disturbed Zone” (DZ). These sediments were deposited after a catastrophic event that obliterated nearly all life on the planet; in geoscience this is referred to as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary (yes it’s the event that killed the dinosaurs).
The evidence for claiming the DZ represents the K-T boundary is compelling. Marine organisms below the DZ were teeming with life, evidenced by prolific bioturbation (worm/critter traces in the beds). Marine sediments above the DZ have little to no bioturbation, indicating a huge change in fauna, yet still marine sediments were being deposited (this post-DZ rock is called the Unnamed marine facies – creative geologists were hard at work naming things in this area). Later deposition in the Fox Hills Formation saw steadily increasing bioturbation as the years went on & a population restored itself, however they were not directly related to any of the critters below the DZ.
Although beautiful, the rest of the rock history isn’t that spectacular. Above the DZ, the Fox Hills Formation chronicles the expanding and shrinking of the Western Interior Seaway. Different sediments were deposited in various stages – marine sediments were green, orange could be a meandering stream, blue could be from an inland freshwater lake, then another layer of green could be tidal flats.
About 50 million years ago, the last remnants for the Western Interior Seaway were gone for good and the area became a subtropical forest. The clastic sediments of the White River group are from the Black Hills and other areas; they began to fill in the area and mammals began their reign. These rocks contain fossils of relatives of the animals we are familiar with today – deer, pigs, horses, big cats were all present.
Today the formation is undergoing a process it began about 23 million years ago – erosion. Every drop of rain contributes to the ongoing disintegration of these fascinating rocks. The water and air mix with the minerals in the sands & shales to generate the beautiful palette of rocks you see today.
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of03-35/of03-35.pdf
what? what? You mean God didn't create us just over 2000 years ago?
Joe, are you in the area Kay's writing about, or did she post that long, involved comment as some sort of ironic response to your recipe?
He told me he was headed that was so I did some homework!
kay, you've got to wait until we actually get to the Badlands to post that. The more recent posts should explain the change in direction...
Allyou get to wear is what is there. Each push up helped him keep crime off the streets ofLazy Town and keep the beds of the ladies warm throughthe nights.
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Allyou get to wear is what is there. Each push up helped him keep crime off the streets ofLazy Town and keep the beds of the ladies warm throughthe nights.
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