1) While making cereal snack mix for the annual family camping trip, I saw the recipe on the box for chocolate/peanut butter covered in powdered sugar snack mix. (These mixes have names but they are trademarked and silly.) 2) I had to make it too, despite not exactly possessing most of the ingredients. I subbed chocolate bar pieces for the chips and almond butter for peanut butter. 3) Then I realized the vanilla extract jar [...]

Ingredients and Inspiration: Lots of green beans in the garden. Tomatoes are infrequent but still around. We have just a few beautiful white patty pan squash ready to eat. We didn’t meal plan last week and I hated it. Too much questioning what to make for dinner! On Wednesday, Alex and I have a quick night away to Cincinnati to hear Gillian Welch. Yay!! This week will end with our annual labor day camp and [...]

I mentioned in the Labor Day camping post that our campout menus are generally very simple.  There’s grilled meat, cold veggie salad, fresh fruit, and always potato packets. The ‘packet’ method of cooking is a standby because it can use a variety of ingredients, virtually any method of cooking, and cleanup is easy.  You can cook fish in parchment paper packets, meat and veggies in aluminum foil for packet stew, and many more combinations of [...]

We’re taking off for an extended family camping trip at East Harbor State Park this afternoon. After managing a thousand details for the Canadian back country canoe trip earlier this summer, plans are lax for this weekend. I did work out a very basic campfire cooking menu: Fri night – grilled sausage, buns, veg sticks, fruit, chips Sat am – english muffins and cream cheese Sat lunch – hummus, veg sticks, pretzels, fruit, nuts Sat [...]

This weekend we went to our annual Labor Day Camp with family and friends.  Every year we have a theme night with costumes and related food.  This year our friend Leonard went all out on the theme, Hawaii. I could write about the tiki hut trike, our chant to counter the hellfire and brimstone preaching group across the way, the 25 mile bike tour including a confederate prisoner of war camp, or the bald eagles [...]