The Redneck Gourmet dinner last weekend was a lot of fun. We have to rely on Excy's photos from his phone which are not the best, because I forgot to take the camera. The show is going to air in the fall after the finale of ice road truckers. Apparently the premise is these 'hairy bikers' (two guys) are chefs and 'explore' the region by eating local delicacies. They gigged our pond the night before to make a frog leg gumbo (they should've asked; we would've let them in the gate, though I hate that some of the frogs were killed. I couldn't try it).







They found the RNG when googling dutch oven cooking in AR. These guys -- including our neighbor -- have won awards for their cooking. They have done two of our picnics - making a pork loin in a chutney-apple glaze, corn pudding, rolls, and a peach cobbler one year...utterly fantastic. For this event, they had a lot of extra dutch-oven chefs in a cook-off competition. After filming all day we could finally eat -- and I couldn't get to half the food...it was all incredible.

This little guy was found without his mom and the couple taking care of him brought him because he needed feeding and they'd be gone all day. He slept peaceably despite lots of people milling around all day and making a fuss over him...


Our neighbor Keith working on his two dishes - his dessert, a carrot cake with icing, won an award that day...







Here are what the hairy bikers rode up on...note their license plates...despite it being a hundred degrees, it was all very fun.





One of the kits peeks out from under the tack room floor...