Ingredients

  • If you’re not into eating animal organs, pass this one up. However, if you want to put some hair on your chest, belly up to the fire and pound this meal down. shopping list
  • 2 Pounds beef...Texas Raised shopping list
  • 1 Set Sweetbreads...That's the thymus gland for all you city slickers shopping list
  • 1/2 Calf Heart...Any good Rancher has at least half of one shopping list
  • 1 and 1/2 Pounds of Calf Liver...Might as well cut that out while you'er at it shopping list
  • 1 Set of Brains...If you can spare em' shopping list
  • 1 Set of Marrow Gut...This is a tube between two of the calf's stomachs, filled with a substance resembling marrow,deemed edible only while the calf is young and still feeding on milk. shopping list
  • Salt and Pepper shopping list
  • Texas Long Horn Hot Sauce shopping list

How to make it

  • Cut up the beef,heart,and liver into cubes,slice the marrow into rings,place in a heavy dutch oven and cover with water...Simmer on,dang ya'...for at least two to three hours,salt it,pepper it,and add the Texas Long Horn Hot Sauce...Lots and Lots.
  • Chop the sweetbreads and brains...which are interchangeable on occasion by some crude critters for some unknown reason :o)
  • Anyway...back at the ranch...Chop em' in small pieces and add to the stew...Keep simmerin' for another hour.
  • Knock it all down with some sour starter biscuits,prickly pear pie...pour your cowboy coffee in a tin cup,stand around the fire with you left thumb in your belt loop and your coffee tin in you right hand,sip it slow and meditate on the trip ahead.
  • It may not be what you would call a good 'Chuck'...but during a 'Round Up' I reckon this will just have to do :o)
  • Speaking of Round Ups...
  • Hitch your star to that wagon and go son go!
  • You are going to be pretty much in the center of the Masters majestic masterpiece as you scan over the massive grazing lands of buffalo grass rustling with the slithering of a rattlesnake and the soft thud of a jackrabbit.Within the silent scenic hills you will hear the whispers of the past prairie parades...sunsets so spectacular no matter how talented or gifted you may be you would never be able to speak it,write it,paint it,sing it,or capture it's splender...you just have to see it,and bask in its almighty glory.
  • It all started with a surplus military wagon with a great deal of moderation.
  • Oh,this is not just your ordinary wagon
  • Whether it is under the blistering sun,or pouring rain,they are never the same on this plain...There is some continuity,but you are just skimming the surface...then again,you would have to have a soul to see it all.
  • Anyone with any kind of smarts between the ears knows when driving steers a humble cowboy could work harder on a full stomach and a good nights sleep.
  • No need for an additional single axle 'pup' to trail along after...this drive ain't going far this time,yet you don't forget that fire wood is a necessity out here for daily cooking.
  • Wood?
  • How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
  • ~ So ~
  • Ifin' you wantin' to eat...ya' goin' have to gather fire wood along the way...no ways about it! Now get busy and pick up those ole' dried up logs,throw em' in the possum belly...either that,or ya' goin' be eatin' hardtack this whole gall darn trip.
  • Back to the 'Round Up'
  • You were hitchin' up to the wagon...right?
  • Wrong!
  • Only a tenderfoot greenhorn would hitch their horse to the wagon,and in doing so would get a good deserved tongue lashing from the cook...and maybe no vittles...That oughta teach ya' !
  • Well,you will need a hinged flat top,drawers,room for the pots and pans,knives, and a heavier running gear to stand up to the rugged country side...Now,this jazzed up buckboard was no ordinary food supply wagon...No Siree Bob!
  • Your horse will invariably throw a shoe along the way and your tack will need repair...so the call to haul farrier,needle and such are hoisted aboard...and should you be so foolish as to brush up to a prickly pear or a dry sage brush on your ritual rest stop.Then you'er going to need alcohol tonics...used for medicinal purposes only :o)
  • You'll throw in an axe,wood saw,shaving knife,jack,and a come-along for the high terrain,to get you out of mud should you get stuck,and to get off a rock...What's wrong with ya'?! It's not like you were traveling by the speed of light...didn't you see the rock coming!!
  • and...you will need some cover...so keep your 'Bonnet' and 'Powder' dry...it's a do or die!
  • Ok...Check List:
  • Trail Boss?..Check!
  • Cook?..Check!
  • Bedrolls and Rain Slickers?..Check!
  • Twenty Hands?..Check!
  • Two Thousand Heads of Cattle?..Check!
  • One Hundred Horses?..Check!
  • You will want all the cowboys around the fire after they have washed the last of the trail dust off the back of their necks by the river bank.Sitting near the wagon may be the only home some of those hard working men ever really knew,besides receiving hot meals,smelling the aroma of smoke from the camp fire,the rich hot coffee,the fresh air of the great outdoors,a place to tell stories...although some may be tall stories,they where enjoyed by all,and after a good meal one may be blessed with some natural musical talent,slip into their bedrolls,listen to the coyote call,and drift off to sleep under a starlite sky...Now,ask yourself why...Why not be wrapped up in nature naturally?

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