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Posted by cat on May 28, 2010 under Uncategorized | 
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you’re making me hungry (and I just ate). Great recipe but you’ll have to hike about 10 miles to walk off the calories and fat.
Posted by Dorrie on May 26, 2010 under Camping Recipe of The Week, camping recipes | Comments are off for this article
Normally when imagining what food to make while camping, you think of fire-grilled and easy. Before going on your camping trip, a few ways to make the cooking process easier would be to make a list of recipes to shop with and be sure to keep it simple and nutritious. Listed below are a few quick recipes to tempt your tastebuds:
Apple waffle-wich
2 frozen waffles, toasted on a skillet, cooled
1 cheese slice
6 slices shaved smoked ham(or other prefered lunchmeat)
1/2 small apple, sliced
Maple-flavored or pancake syrup
Make It
TOP 1 waffle with cheese, ham and apple slices. Cover with second waffle.
USE syrup as dipping sauce.
Other tips
Apple Waffle Melt
Prepare as directed and then grill in a skillet for approximately 30 seconds on each side.
Pizza-dilla
1 flour tortilla (6 inch)
1 Tbsp. pizza sauce
1/4 cup mozzarella cheese
Pepperoni or canadian bacon slices
Make It
SPREAD tortilla with pizza sauce.
TOP with remaining ingredients; fold in half.
Grill on skillet for approx. one minute on each side or until cheese begins to melt.
Other Tips
Prepare as directed, but do not grill on skillet.
Special Extra
Add chopped leftover cooked chicken to the other filling ingredients before grilling as directed.
Pepperjack Quesadillas
Prepare as directed, using pepperjack cheese slices. Serve with salsa, if desired.
Steak on a Stick
strip steak
favorite seasoning
Make It
You can use sharpened sticks or long-handled double prong skewers. Thread strip steak onto stick/skewer, lightly season, roast over coals until preferred doneness. Prepare with foil-baked potatoes and vegetables.
Other Tips
This can also be served on a hoagie bun with cheese and veggies.
Doughboys
Pillsbury Doughboy Crescent Rolls
Butter
Your favorite dessert or fruit filling(ex: chocolate syrup, jelly, apple sauce, etc.)
Tin Foil
Make It
While it is still light out you need to hunt for the perfect stick. A doughboy stick needs to be about 1 - 1 1/2 inches thick and long enough to hold over the fire.
Wrap the end of the stick in tin foil. Butter the foil.
Unravel the dough so that you get several triangles of dough. Each triangle is a separate doughboy, unless you want to make a super big one. Wrap the dough around the foil making sure that there are no holes and pinch the end closed.
Toast the dough in the fire.
Make sure you don’t lose it in the fire. You want the dough to be a nice golden brown on the top. When the dough is cooked you should be able to slip it off the stick.
Fill the dough with your favorite topping or filling.
Other Tips
Be creative; you can even mix in some nuts or raisins with your favorite filling.
Posted by Dorrie on under Camping Recipe of The Week, camping recipes | Comments are off for this article
Normally when imagining what food to make while camping, you think of fire-grilled and easy. Before going on your camping trip, a few ways to make the cooking process easier would be to make a list of recipes to shop with and be sure to keep it simple and nutritious. Listed below are a few quick recipes to tempt your tastebuds:
Apple waffle-wich
2 frozen waffles, toasted on a skillet, cooled
1 cheese slice
6 slices shaved smoked ham(or other prefered lunchmeat)
1/2 small apple, sliced
Maple-flavored or pancake syrup
Make It
TOP 1 waffle with cheese, ham and apple slices. Cover with second waffle.
USE syrup as dipping sauce.
Other tips
Apple Waffle Melt
Prepare as directed and then grill in a skillet for approximately 30 seconds on each side.
Pizza-dilla
1 flour tortilla (6 inch)
1 Tbsp. pizza sauce
1/4 cup mozzarella cheese
Pepperoni or canadian bacon slices
Make It
SPREAD tortilla with pizza sauce.
TOP with remaining ingredients; fold in half.
Grill on skillet for approx. one minute on each side or until cheese begins to melt.
Other Tips
Prepare as directed, but do not grill on skillet.
Special Extra
Add chopped leftover cooked chicken to the other filling ingredients before grilling as directed.
Pepperjack Quesadillas
Prepare as directed, using pepperjack cheese slices. Serve with salsa, if desired.
Steak on a Stick
strip steak
favorite seasoning
Make It
You can use sharpened sticks or long-handled double prong skewers. Thread strip steak onto stick/skewer, lightly season, roast over coals until preferred doneness. Prepare with foil-baked potatoes and vegetables.
Other Tips
This can also be served on a hoagie bun with cheese and veggies.
Doughboys
Pillsbury Doughboy Crescent Rolls
Butter
Your favorite dessert or fruit filling(ex: chocolate syrup, jelly, apple sauce, etc.)
Tin Foil
Make It
While it is still light out you need to hunt for the perfect stick. A doughboy stick needs to be about 1 - 1 1/2 inches thick and long enough to hold over the fire.
Wrap the end of the stick in tin foil. Butter the foil.
Unravel the dough so that you get several triangles of dough. Each triangle is a separate doughboy, unless you want to make a super big one. Wrap the dough around the foil making sure that there are no holes and pinch the end closed.
Toast the dough in the fire.
Make sure you don’t lose it in the fire. You want the dough to be a nice golden brown on the top. When the dough is cooked you should be able to slip it off the stick.
Fill the dough with your favorite topping or filling.
Other Tips
Be creative; you can even mix in some nuts or raisins with your favorite filling.
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Can I just emphasise that if you wash gear you must make sure you dry it thoroughly. We had a client who left damp sleeping bags in her travel trailer (we call these touring caravans in the UK). They left their lovely new caravan on a storage site for a few weeks. When they went to pick it up not only had mold and mildew formed on the sleeping bags but it had spread to all exposed surfaces of the inside of the caravan. The wooden cupboard doors and soft furnishings were ruined.
Posted by family tents on May 25, 2010 under Uncategorized | Comments are off for this article
Yes, size is important, but it’s not the only thing to consider. I think one can’t generally say that a four people family must go for a six sleeper tent. It’s great to have an room for being inside, but if you go summer camping where it barely ever rains in summer, and if then for the most for one day, and you are on tour the whole day, then you don’t necessarily need an extra room for sitting, just space for sleeping and storing your stuff. And if you only take little stuff, you can do with a smaller tent than someone bringing his whole household. A bigger tent will usually be more expensive, and why should you spend all this money on space that you don’t actually need?
At the end of the day, the most important thing is that you get a tent with the features that meet your family’s needs best and that is suitable for the kind of trip you make. Ask yourself what YOU and your family really want and what you need, and get a tent that caters for that.
Posted by Roy Scribner on under Camp Cooking | Comments are off for this article
Campfire cooking seems to be getting a bit of a bad rap from some camping aficionados lately, which is a real shame. Most of the arguments that I have seen against campfire cooking revolve around its difficulty, compared to cooking on a camping stove. The truth is, if you are going to have a campfire anyway, then there’s no reason not to cook something on it – and it’s just a lot of fun.
Thinking back on all of our family camping trips, I can’t think of one where we cooked our entire meal over a campfire. Most of the time, though, we cook part of our meal over the campfire – both out of necessity (two burners only take you so far!) and because foods cooked over an open flame just taste so good.
Cooking a pot of chili over the campfire (photo by JimOnLight on Flickr)
Part of my attraction to family camping is experiencing a little bit of my heritage and sharing this with my children. Our ancestors didn’t always enjoy many of the things that we take for granted, and yet they persevered and overcame what we would consider to be hardships – things that they just considered to be living.
There are a lot of different foods that can easily be cooked in, or on, a campfire. Soups and stews are a natural choice. A heavy cast iron pot works best for this, because it distributes the heat so well. Other options include dutch ovens placed directly on the coals, or a pot suspended over the fire with a tripod.
I find that it is actually easier to cook soups and stews over a campfire than it is on a propane camping stove, because the stoves are so hot. Trying to simmer chili on a camping stove can be nigh impossible, but over a campfire it’s as easy as moving the pot away from the hottest part of the fire.
Foil meals are easy to cook in a campfire (photo by szlea on Flickr)
When it comes to camp cooking, clean-up can be a major consideration – particularly when you are cooking for a family. Foil meals give you the best of all worlds; a complete serving of meat and vegetables with no pots or pans to wash, afterwards.
Foil meals taste great and there is very little work involved, other than placing each person’s individual foil meal packet onto the coals. We wrap our meals in a double-layer of standard aluminum foil, which helps to protect them against punctures. Cooking time is about 15 minutes on each side – 10 minutes for fish.
Corn on the cob is easy to cook over a campfire
The best way to ease yourself into campfire cooking is baked potatoes and corn on the cob. Baked potatoes, in particular, can be prepared just like you probably do at home. Poke a few holes in the potato, wrap it in foil, and cook for 45 minutes to an hour. We have tried coating the potatoes in butter, but it’s messy and, in our opinion, did not improve the taste.
There are a lot of different ways to cook corn over the campfire. The traditional method is with the husk on, tied with twine at the top of the ear. This is how we used to cook our corn and it worked fine, but the corn needs to be soaked in water for at least 30 minutes, to keep the husks from burning. We found that husking the corn and wrapping each ear in foil worked just as well, and did not require so much preparation. We have since changed to grilling the ears directly over the fire, without foil, because it adds a really tasty grilled flavor to the corn. Like roasting marshmallows, this is something that the kids really enjoy, since they can cook their ear of corn just the way they want it – grilled dark, or cooked light.
Campfire cooking is something that the entire family can participate in and have a good time doing it. Kids will learn the difference between a roaring “fun fire” and a low, smoldering cooking fire. In addition, everyone will appreciate the experience of cooking their own food.
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Posted by Caravanwise on May 24, 2010 under Uncategorized | Comments are off for this article
Just a tip. I used to have trouble drying my towel in the campervan in the damp conditions here in the UK. Then I started to use a face flannel, (you know the 12″ square of towel that you normally use to wash your face) to dry off most of the water after my shower. By the time you have given the flannel a good rinse and wrung it out you are virtually dry and your towel hardly gets wet at all.
Cheers
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Just a tip. I used to have trouble drying my towel in the campervan in the damp conditions here in the UK. Then I started to use a face flannel, (you know the 12″ square of towel that you normally use to wash your face) to dry off most of the water after my shower. By the time you have given the flannel a good rinse and wrung it out you are virtually dry and your towel hardly gets wet at all.
Cheers
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Don’t just clean the equipment but also make sure you clean it right. Check the label or manual, and if you are not certain what care an item requires, contact the manufacturer. If you wash your sleeping bag too hot or don’t dry it long enough, you can still have problems.