Beef Soup Recipe Biography
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CHRISTIANSBURG — Nobody bit into any buckshot this year at the West Virginia Roadkill Cook-off, and it paid off for a local cooking team.
For the fourth time competing since 1999, the Coal Hollow Brothers won first place in the backwoods cooking competition Sept. 27 in Marlington, West Virginia.
The Christiansburg-based team, just off a five-year break from the competition took first place for their Jaeger Wild mit Pilzen, or Hunter Venison with Wild Mushrooms.
Ed Blackford, the brothers’ captain and chef de cuisine came up with the recipe of morels and onions cooked in a white wine sauce with home-canned venison served over spaetzel, a German pasta.
Blackford smiled as he cooked up a batch at his home stove recently, sprinkling in some fresh garden herbs.
“Lemon thyme,” Blackford said. “It’s kind of my secret ingredient.”
Outside, dessert chef John Pennington — dressed in a vintage frontier shirt, fur hat and carrying a flintlock double-barreled shotgun — baked peach cobbler over charcoal in one of the team’s many cast iron dutch ovens.
Meanwhile, Marlon Harris wriggled into his fringed buckskin outfit and fur hat. And Gordy Sachs, new member-in-charge of beer and spirits, sported a hillbilly jug, felt hat and vintage shirt.
Unsurprisingly, the team snagged the cook-off’s showmanship award this year, too, proving they have as big a talent for theater arts as for the culinary arts.
All told, the eight-person team won $1,250 from the Pocahontas County Chamber of Commerce, based in Marlington, where the annual cook-off and companion Autumn Heritage Festival is held. The event, which some years has drawn up to 10,000 people, funds scholarships for county youth, said Paula Garretson, chamber vice president.
Garretson said she didn’t know the total attendance for this year, but about 2,000 people paid a special fee to taste the cook-off dishes from the five competing teams, including the Coal Hollow Brothers.
The number of contestants was down this year from a high of more than a dozen in years’ past. This was the 22nd year for the event, which celebrates a West Virginia law that allows motorists to take home animals they hit on the road.
The festival, for which contestants are required to cook a wild game dish judged by a panel of food experts, has been featured on the Food Network and the Travel Channel. The brothers’ past dishes have used wild hog, frog legs, alligator and wild turkey — which is where the buckshot comes in.
It all started back in 1998, when Blackford, Harris and Pennington were still leading their sons’ Boy Scout troop, and developing recipes for camping trips, such as pizza baked on a backpacking stove and steak grilled on a hot field stone.
“We wanted to show the boys you don’t have to eat hot dogs and Pop Tarts; you can do other things,” Blackford said.
Blackford happened to see an ad for the roadkill cook-off, and asked his fellow campfire chefs if they wanted to compete. They retreated to the woods near Coal Hollow Road in Montgomery County to plan, and took their name from the road. They got some frozen wild turkeys from a hunter friend and entered with a dish they called wild turkey gumbo surprise.
But the surprise was on the team when some errant buckshot wound up in a judge’s mouth. The brothers placed sixth out of six teams that year.
“That’s not last,” Pennington quipped.
The winning team had made “Bumped and Rolled Bambi,” a venison dish. But they also had an elaborate display of a wrecked car — ostensibly the one that provided the venison. The winning team worked hard on theme and presentation, something the brothers noted.
“We realized that you can’t just go and cook,” Pennington said.
Clearly, a small display on a camp table and gussied up street clothes would not do. They upped their game, with Blackford painting signs and making displays. They collected dutch ovens in every size and over the years made all manner of props, from alien spaceships to the team’s mascot, the alligatorlope. This mythic beast from the Southwest Virginia swamps has the head of an alligator and the rack of a young buck.
By the time they won first place in 2004, Harris said, the brothers were up to three trucks and a trailer full of gear, and the membership had grown from four to 14, including Elaine Blackford, the prep cook.
“I refused to dress up,” she said. So she stays in back. This year, she sliced mushrooms and onions for hours. She also is the team’s creative editor, who shoots down ill-conceived ideas like a dish called “It Came from Uranus.”
The sons and former boy scouts have also joined the team, and even a grandson has expressed interest, Blackford said.
The team won first prize in 2006 and 2007, too, and they’ve placed in the top three a handful of other times. After the 2009 competition, they decided to take a break that turned into a five-year hiatus.
But the founders continued to teach cooking classes for boy and girl scout troops, in which they prove you can hard boil an egg in a paper cup next to a campfire and turn a cardboard box into a brownie baking oven.
Blackford has even judged the Roadkill Cook-off, and now understands what the competition can put them through. He didn’t bite into buckshot, but he was forced to eat mink and turtle soup made by a first-time contestant.
“Mink, like a ferret,” Blackford clarified.
The team had run out of cooking fuel, so the soup was tepid, and the potatoes were undercooked. The turtle eggs floating around in it were bland and gelatinous. And there were the little chunks of mink.
“It was the nastiest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth,” Blackford said.
He won’t be doing that again for a while, thought, as the team is already planning for next year. Sachs gave them the idea to pay homage to Marlington’s railroad and logging history.
Now, who wants to be the engineer, and who wants the axe?
For the fourth time competing since 1999, the Coal Hollow Brothers won first place in the backwoods cooking competition Sept. 27 in Marlington, West Virginia.
The Christiansburg-based team, just off a five-year break from the competition took first place for their Jaeger Wild mit Pilzen, or Hunter Venison with Wild Mushrooms.
Ed Blackford, the brothers’ captain and chef de cuisine came up with the recipe of morels and onions cooked in a white wine sauce with home-canned venison served over spaetzel, a German pasta.
Blackford smiled as he cooked up a batch at his home stove recently, sprinkling in some fresh garden herbs.
“Lemon thyme,” Blackford said. “It’s kind of my secret ingredient.”
Outside, dessert chef John Pennington — dressed in a vintage frontier shirt, fur hat and carrying a flintlock double-barreled shotgun — baked peach cobbler over charcoal in one of the team’s many cast iron dutch ovens.
Meanwhile, Marlon Harris wriggled into his fringed buckskin outfit and fur hat. And Gordy Sachs, new member-in-charge of beer and spirits, sported a hillbilly jug, felt hat and vintage shirt.
Unsurprisingly, the team snagged the cook-off’s showmanship award this year, too, proving they have as big a talent for theater arts as for the culinary arts.
All told, the eight-person team won $1,250 from the Pocahontas County Chamber of Commerce, based in Marlington, where the annual cook-off and companion Autumn Heritage Festival is held. The event, which some years has drawn up to 10,000 people, funds scholarships for county youth, said Paula Garretson, chamber vice president.
Garretson said she didn’t know the total attendance for this year, but about 2,000 people paid a special fee to taste the cook-off dishes from the five competing teams, including the Coal Hollow Brothers.
The number of contestants was down this year from a high of more than a dozen in years’ past. This was the 22nd year for the event, which celebrates a West Virginia law that allows motorists to take home animals they hit on the road.
The festival, for which contestants are required to cook a wild game dish judged by a panel of food experts, has been featured on the Food Network and the Travel Channel. The brothers’ past dishes have used wild hog, frog legs, alligator and wild turkey — which is where the buckshot comes in.
It all started back in 1998, when Blackford, Harris and Pennington were still leading their sons’ Boy Scout troop, and developing recipes for camping trips, such as pizza baked on a backpacking stove and steak grilled on a hot field stone.
“We wanted to show the boys you don’t have to eat hot dogs and Pop Tarts; you can do other things,” Blackford said.
Blackford happened to see an ad for the roadkill cook-off, and asked his fellow campfire chefs if they wanted to compete. They retreated to the woods near Coal Hollow Road in Montgomery County to plan, and took their name from the road. They got some frozen wild turkeys from a hunter friend and entered with a dish they called wild turkey gumbo surprise.
But the surprise was on the team when some errant buckshot wound up in a judge’s mouth. The brothers placed sixth out of six teams that year.
“That’s not last,” Pennington quipped.
The winning team had made “Bumped and Rolled Bambi,” a venison dish. But they also had an elaborate display of a wrecked car — ostensibly the one that provided the venison. The winning team worked hard on theme and presentation, something the brothers noted.
“We realized that you can’t just go and cook,” Pennington said.
Clearly, a small display on a camp table and gussied up street clothes would not do. They upped their game, with Blackford painting signs and making displays. They collected dutch ovens in every size and over the years made all manner of props, from alien spaceships to the team’s mascot, the alligatorlope. This mythic beast from the Southwest Virginia swamps has the head of an alligator and the rack of a young buck.
By the time they won first place in 2004, Harris said, the brothers were up to three trucks and a trailer full of gear, and the membership had grown from four to 14, including Elaine Blackford, the prep cook.
“I refused to dress up,” she said. So she stays in back. This year, she sliced mushrooms and onions for hours. She also is the team’s creative editor, who shoots down ill-conceived ideas like a dish called “It Came from Uranus.”
The sons and former boy scouts have also joined the team, and even a grandson has expressed interest, Blackford said.
The team won first prize in 2006 and 2007, too, and they’ve placed in the top three a handful of other times. After the 2009 competition, they decided to take a break that turned into a five-year hiatus.
But the founders continued to teach cooking classes for boy and girl scout troops, in which they prove you can hard boil an egg in a paper cup next to a campfire and turn a cardboard box into a brownie baking oven.
Blackford has even judged the Roadkill Cook-off, and now understands what the competition can put them through. He didn’t bite into buckshot, but he was forced to eat mink and turtle soup made by a first-time contestant.
“Mink, like a ferret,” Blackford clarified.
The team had run out of cooking fuel, so the soup was tepid, and the potatoes were undercooked. The turtle eggs floating around in it were bland and gelatinous. And there were the little chunks of mink.
“It was the nastiest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth,” Blackford said.
He won’t be doing that again for a while, thought, as the team is already planning for next year. Sachs gave them the idea to pay homage to Marlington’s railroad and logging history.
Now, who wants to be the engineer, and who wants the axe?
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