Let's Talk BBQ
General => General Discussion & Topics => Member Gatherings and Road Trips => Topic started by: Smokin Don on June 05, 2016, 04:23:05 PM
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Jun 5 2016
The Ohio Mohican gathering 2016 is over for the wife and I. We had a great time, ate great BBQ and great visiting with friends! Getting older we just stayed over one night and stayed at the Landoll’s Mohican Castle. Tim (teesquare), Art (ACW3) and wives also stayed at the castle.
The rest all stayed at a KOA campground in cabins. Cliff (TentHunteR) arranged it and made a great choice. The campgrounds were kept very clean and they had a heated pool. Cliff and Old Dave did most of the cooking, well I should say with a lot of help from their wives Tammy and Jan.
When we pulled in about noon Friday most were there. Members attending were TentHunteR, teesquare, ACW3, Old Dave, Pam, Scallywag, Travishunting7777 and Cliff’s friend who brought the goat meat. Thanks Kevin (stalag) for a chance to eat goat meat for the first time at 74!! Loved it!!!
Visitors who were there were Pam’s granddaughter Macy and friend Donna. Old Dave’s friend Mike and his wife. Mike was a co-worker of Dave’s for years.
We also had thousands of visitors; the 17 year cicada. They were pretty noisy until late afternoon and were all over the place.
Lunch was about ready when we arrived and it was a treat for me. The first time I ever had goat. Cliff’s friend and member had provided some ground goat and Cliff made goat burgers on the Camp Chef. For me they were very tasty, seasoned and cooked just right. Dave had made his great pig shots and some wings. There were a couple of salads and some snacks too. My wife was happy Pam had two of her maple, bacon glazed doughnuts left from their breakfast.
Erin (Scallywag) and his wife from Canada pulled in after lunch. Tim, Art and wives left after lunch; the wives were a little freaked out over the cicadas! They were a little nuisance getting on you at times. I don’t think we ate any
Friday evening meal was meatloaf by Dave, some beef short ribs by Cliff; he ended up calling them burnt end short ribs! :) What good meat I got off mine was tasty! Jason (Travishunting7777) did a pork loin on the Mak and it turned out great! Cliff made up a double batch of his Mac n cheese with broccoli. There were salads by Jan and Tammy I think. Pam baked two rhubarb pies on the Mak for dessert.
After supper we all sat around and visited. The wife and I left about 8 PM to go to the motel.
Saturday morning about half of the group went to a good breakfast place to eat and then do some sightseeing. The wife and I just ate the continental breakfast at the motel. We went back to the campgrounds about 10:30 and found Dave, Jan, Mike and wife, Pam, Macy and Donna setting on the porch of their cabin. It was lightly sprinkling but it stopped about noon.
For lunch Dave had done a rotisserie ham on his cobb grill, Jan had made a cheese pasta salad. There were some leftover pig shots, wings and a broccoli salad. Donna made two pecan pies for dessert. It was a great lunch and Dave, Mike and me swapped a lot of stories!
Cliff and wife Tammy, Erin and wife Paula got back about 1:30 from breakfast and running around. I had wanted to see Tee, Art and wives before we left but the wife and I were tired out. We got packed up and headed home. Erin gave me two cans of his favorite poutine gravy and Cliff gave me a chub of his venison summer sausage.
I think we missed out on a great supper meal, Cliff was making ribs, Dave had a brisket on and Erin (Scallywag) was making some jerk chicken poutine!
I didn’t get near as many photos as I would have liked and not any of the great food. I guess I was just having too much fun. I hope other members got some good photos.
Landoll's Mohican Castle where some of us roughed it!
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At the campgrounds
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How many to make mac n cheese? :)
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Old Dave with friends Mike & wife
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Aren (Scallywag) & wife Paula
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Jason slicing his pork loin
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The cicada guests
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Jason & wife
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Old Dave & crew at his cabin
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Smokin Don
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Great pics Don! Looks like everyone is having a great time together! Thanks for sharing!
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Great pictures and nice gathering Now hate you had to ROUGH IT :D but some had to :D
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Great pics SD!
Did Tee manage to keep his clothes on the whole time?
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Looks like fun and good eats!
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Great photos Don! Too bad I couldn't make it this year. Hopefully will be there for the next one!
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You folks would make great tailgaters ;D ;D .............. I won't say anything about the electricity ;)
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Great pics SD!
Did Tee manage to keep his clothes on the whole time?
Didn't see Tee in the pictures, he must've got nekked again ;D :D
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Looks like a grand old time. :)
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We all had a great time. As always, too much food. It started raining on Saturday afternoon. And then it poured!! All the rain didn't dampen our spirits, too much.
Art
I'll have a few pictures to post after I return home next week. Some include Tee.
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Had a great time.Can't wait for next year!
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Great pics.
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Great pictures Don. Thanks for sharing!
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Donna, I and Maci had a great time..I only have pics of the cabin and won't bore you with that..but it was perfect for us..got to see our older friends and meet some new ones..Scallywag and Paula, and Mike & Judy who are longtime freinds of Old Dave & Jan. Even the downpour didn't faze us, but we are diehard campers for 35 years now. The food was most excellent, brisket, pork loin, goat burgers, poutine with jerk chicken, smoked meatloaf, pig shots..baked beans, I made a couple of rhubarb pies, and my almost world famous Maple bacon donuts, I'm thinking of improving them a lil bit by adding some bourbon next time..nothing left, they killed them all. Gonna have to make more next year. Can't wait till next year. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Good things happen when friends get together.
It looks like y'all had a great time.
Thanks for sharing the good times.
B T W, our cicadas usually show up in late summer, but I've NEVER seen anything like what y'all had.
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Good things happen when friends get together.
It looks like y'all had a great time.
Thanks for sharing the good times.
B T W, our cicadas usually show up in late summer, but I've NEVER seen anything like what y'all had.
They were imported for the event ;)
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Paula and myself had a great time. It was fantastic to meet all that attended. Special thanks to Cliff and Tammy for hosting and organizing! We will be back again next year for sure!!
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Paula and myself had a great time. It was fantastic to meet all that attended. Special thanks to Cliff and Tammy for hosting and organizing! We will be back again next year for sure!!
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Looks like a great time a one heck of a cabin
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The cabins were fabulous..I have stayed in other ones too ..all the same..double bed and set of bunk beds with a lil table and a nice porch with a porch swing. log cabin in and out. I could live in a tiny house like that..with just one more room. $10,000 for the cabin...I think they are prefab. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Thanks for the photos, Don! Looks like everyone had a great time, and of course ate well! :)
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WHEW!!!
We took Monday to recover, but wow what a great event, and what a turnout! We had 25 in attendance. Plus we had a couple who were staying at the campground come and join us. Tammy said this was the most enjoyable gathering she's been to.
I want to thank everyone who came and made this such a great event.
We got to see some good friends and had the pleasure of meeting some new ones: Mike & Judy Zinkan (Long-time friends of Dave & Jan). Mike is an extremely funny guy! We got to finally meet Tim's wife Kaye and Art's wife Maureen. We also got to meet Aren (Scallywag) and his lovely wife Paula. I enjoyed hearing all about their three boys.
Just a few of the food highlights for us were:
> Dave's Honey-Sriracha glazed ham, cooked on his Cobb grill. Fantastic!
> Jason's Pork Loin. He made his own rub and it was fabulous!
> Kevin brought some ground goat meat which we turned into burgers - Fantastic!
> Pam's Rhubarb custard pie. I want this recipe.
> Scally's Jerk Chicken Poutine.
> Don's smoked Cajun Crackers & Pistachios (Tammy has tasked me with getting the recipe).
> Art's Pimento cheese spread with candied bacon
> I'm not sure who made the Macaroni Salad (I think it was Donna), but all I know is it was fabulous! Some of the best I've ever had!
That's only a smattering of the food that was made, and that's not counting anything we made. There was so much good food it was very hard not to stuff yourself silly!
The location was awesome. I want to thank Bev & the whole crew at the Butler-Mohican KOA Campground for bending over backwards to accommodate us and making us all feel so welcome. I could not have asked for anything more!
The consensus was that this year's location was even better than last year, and everyone who stayed at the campground has already said this is where they want to come next year.
I will post some pics in a while.
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Cliff..the macaroni salad was made by Donna and she makes the best..easy to do and one of my favorites. The recipe for the rhubarb pie is already posted on the site a while ago.
I sent a reply to the KOA about our stay and Thanking them for everything, which was perfect for us, they couldn't have been cleaner or nicer, we were impressed with that, but we are diehard campers, Donna and Maci and I, even the rain didn't bother us. The only thing wrong was that we didn't want to leave.
It was nice meeting the wives and Scallywag and Paula, we like meeting new peoples. A good time was had by all.
And I left a pie pan there this year, keep you eyes peeled, it's an antique.
We are ready for the next one. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Some food pictures from the Ohio Gathering. Old Dave’s brisket. His usual fine job. OUTSTANDING!!
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Jerk chicken that Scallywag made for his poutine. No picture of the poutine plated up. To busy eating it. More great food.
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Cliff’s peach ribs. These were melt in your mouth good!!
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Art
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Tee sampling some chips brought by Scallywag.
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Tee in need of some bail money at the Lehman store. As usual, I had to bail him out.
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New soda pop flavors at Lehman’s.
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Art
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Please for all of us not attendees pleas post many many pictures of this fun adventure of fellowship.