two in the bush(craft)

Who needs a gas stove, ovens, work tops and hoods?
Give me the woods anyday of the week.
Mr Saucy Squirrel returns to his home in the woods, this time the Cotswolds is his temporary abode, and cooking for bushcradt survival school is his new vocation.
The Bushcraft Company is a fairly new bushcraft skill school. They do courses from Archery to Blowpipes, from tree climbing to spear throwing..
This last week saw the Cotswolds holding the field cook 'training', training in inverted commas as it seemed to be 15 people playing in the woods.
My favourite part of the course was the pit oven. We had a haunch of venison, chopped up into man-sized chunks, marinated in rosemary and garlic, and wrapped in foil. Some igneous rocks were put in a huge fire for a few hours, meanwhile a 1 foot square pit was dug. The pit was then lined with the hot hot rocks, and the venison was put on top, covered again with hot stones, and finally smothered in a bit of earth.
Fast forward two hours, and we were scraping away the dirt, pulling out the still warm rocks, and lovely steaming chunks of juicy venison. After resting for 20 mins, we tucked in, hot, juicy, tender and meaty, this was truly one of the loveliest meals i've ever eaten.
Smoking. I have to say, I enjoyed it. Rotten oak logs, smoking the parnassed rainbow trout, hanging off a fresh hazel line-sounds a little pompous, but there's nothing wrong with some pomp now and again.
After a few hours smoking (and cooking) the trout were ready, cooled and kept till morning, we made some lovely kedgeree, with our own smoked fish. Having said this, Team Beta smoked their trout using implements of the modern age, and their trout, was a lovely yellow smoked fish. But i still liked our primitive methods, using just the implements of the woods.
Armed with knife and axe, the squirrel is heading back to the woods...