By SOLO on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 08:10 am: Edit

Saw this last night on the Food Network show Mings's Quest. They cooked it on the engine of a Range Rover.

Engin Block Trout

2 medium trout, cleaned
1/2 cup butter, room temerture
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped basil
1/2 chopped red pepper
1 cup sliced grapes
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms

Place trout on large piece of foil. Rub inside and out with butter, salt, basil, and red pepper. Add sliced grapes and mushroom. Wrap carefully. Place wrapped fish on another large piece of foil and wrap again. Insert into hot part of engine. (Make sure to keep it away from moving parts)

Bake on warm (running) V8 engine (4.0 liter preferred) for approximately 30 minutes or 20 miles on road. Carefully unwrap fish and enjoy.


Yield: 2 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes

Wow now our Land Rovers can cook us dinner, now if I can just teach it to clean and do the wash I won't need to get married

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 09:16 am: Edit

Damn, I may just have to try this one! Gone and made myself hungry again

By SOLO on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 10:01 am: Edit

Hey Dean do you fly fish?

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 10:36 am: Edit

Larry,

No. Normally I take the airplane


Just kidding.
No, I have never fished! I'm not sure I would be patient enough, especially with my rover just dying to go muddin!

By SOLO on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 11:36 am: Edit

Dean,

I'm looking to learn to fly fish (flying planes is too complicated) so I can combined my outdoor activities. Some of the best fishing can only be reached by 4x4.

By Bud Lane (Hrrovr) on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 02:23 pm: Edit

That's the ticket. Off road to a stream that's waaaay off the beaten path, reel in a couple of nice rainbows and serve up a plate of 4.0 trout. Please check postings elsewhere on this site for the appropriate beverage.

Bud

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 02:55 pm: Edit

This guy that I used to work with would cook a whole chicken like that on his commute home from work every once in a while.. I never tasted it though..

By Paul on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 04:12 pm: Edit

SOLO, Where you located? For the past two summers, I've devoted all of my free time to wheeling to great Fly Fishing locations. I've found a few good spots....

Paul

By Brett Gottdener on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 07:42 pm: Edit

I hear so much about engine cooked food, but I have no clue as to where you put it. How do you make it stay? How long should you cook stuff for?

By cartner on Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 11:06 pm: Edit

Must be on hell of a cummute...

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Sunday, October 28, 2001 - 01:39 pm: Edit

Yup, N.VA traffic is a parking lot durring rush hour. Going anywhere around here in the morning or evening is a commute.

By SOLO on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 08:17 am: Edit

Paul

I'm in NJ, lot's of great spots to fly fish here. I plan on learning to fly fish in the spring, so I can fish all summer.

Brett

I guess the best place to cook something would be on the manifold, held in place by available wires and hoses. There's got to be a cook book on engine block cooking somewhere. It would be the ultimate trail cook book.

By SOLO on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 11:25 am: Edit

Ok

Did a search and there is a cook book for engine block cooking called Manifold Destiny published by Random House.

By John Kruger on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 03:56 pm: Edit

Ever see the Reynolds Wrap commercials, I would guess anything you can make from those commercials, provided temperatures are similar, you could prepare on the engine.

When I head up north, it is about a 6 to 8 hour drive before we get to our base camp site. The night before we leave, I will prepare a mix of potatoes, onions, carrots, and other stuff. Cut to my liking. and fry them up, wrap them in foil and stick them in a cooler.

First thing when you get to the site, throw the wrapped up goodies on the engine.It warms up in a few minutes and you have a nice hot snack while you set up camp.

John Kruger
97 XD with $tuff
Adventure Outfitters, LLC

By David Gage on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 11:38 am: Edit

John, love the animated XD!!!!specially the ending...