Today i will be showing you how to cook the Mushroom. I did not discover this vegetable but we have fond some on the trail and I would like to teach you how to make some scrumptious meals.

:To prepare mushrooms for cooking, you need to remove the hard fibrous parts of it. Usually the stalks are fine to use, but their ends where the stem is attaching to the ground may contain some unwanted threads, so cut them off and use them in some nice stock or sauce instead. You can also use the water that you used for soaking dry mushrooms in your stocks! Normally, the large part of the stalk can be used for cooking.

:Roasting the mushrooms is actually another good way to cook them, as you use dry heat that will help evaporate the water. Just lay them down in a pan, sprinkle with some oil and flip fry and there you go you have a great cooked Mushroom. Grilling mushrooms can be done by putting them on the ends of sticks and pushing down on a row of other sticks. then brush with oil. this way some of the flavour of the type of wood will sink into the shroom.  Samuel Westing

Today Sacajawea introduced me to a small reddish purple vegetable called a turnip. This vegetable is very delicious. These are the different ways to prepare this veggie:Turnips do not always need to be peeled or mashed. In early summer, when tiny turnips with their leaves attached are available, just wash the tender skin and boil the turnips quickly to conserve their peppery taste. Try finishing the turnips in a flavored butter, as in a herb-scented recipe, and serve with duck or guinea fowl, baked ham or lamb.

:You can cook and puree turnips with plenty of butter and pepper and combine them with potatoes or another root vegetable such as carrots. Alternatively, grate raw turnips and serve them with a dressing for winter salads, or slice large turnips, brush them with oil and grill until they are just tender.Do not throw out the leaves of young turnips. They can be cooked in the same way as spinach and served as a vegetable in their own right, or incorporated into soup, or shredded and used as a garnish for vegetable dishes and salads. to be continued. Sam 

On our corps I found a great discovery, i call it the Onion! this rather large vegetable goes great on salads, grilled Buffalo, sauteed, and mixed with bread! this vegetable is an amazing find. but be careful if you eat this veggie by its self you shall feel very disgusted, and may regurgitate! The second down side is that when every i cut these onions i seem to weep, my men tell me that it is cursed. But i will keep eating this food and wont stop. I hope to discover more amazing foods and will keep touch in my journal.                                       Samuel Westing.

The voyage up the Missouri to the Mandan villages had been easy compared to what lay ahead.

Today on a February day Sacagawea went into labor-" her labour was tedious and the pain Violent," Lewis noted. To help Sacagawea Lewis made a rattle snake Potion which i thought was interesting. it said Lewis killed a Rattle Snake and cut of its rattle, Then mashed it up and mixed with water! the potion was supposed to induce child birth. when she was done with the birth she named the child Jean Baptiste. i don't understand how a native american baby back then would be called jean. but my theory is that since the white men people had come they started to change the way of the natives. i will look it up right now.

Sam.k

Today I found out that lewis bought a dog from a man for $21.50! which is funny because when i went to New York i say a puppy for $3,500! i just thought it was interesting how the money has changed so much and that back then 1 $ would be $28. 86. <----- wekipedia 

Samuel Westing!

the Lewis and Clark Song!
: there once was two men who went on an adventure! they ate so much their nick name's where
stench and belcher! but good thing they had those mighty pills that made them go poo faster!
OHHH Lewis and Clark,Lewis and Clark, LEWIS AND CLAAAAAAARRRRRRRRK du dom dom dom!
SammyDaWammy!

One of the things in the book Captains Dog that i think is very funny and describes how massive and beastly Seamen is, is when Colter comes up the dirt path to greet chief he says " when i cam up i thought u had a baby buffalo in your camp!"