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10/26/2015

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Black Friday means nothing in this house, since most years we're not only nowhere near a mall, but also nowhere near electricity or running water. 

For the past several years, we've spent Thanksgiving at the camp I run (ran? Yes, I'm retiring, but no, I haven't announced it yet, so if you're a camp person...well, I guess now you know). We don't go just to play -- we go to burn. I don't know what it's like in other areas, but in CA we are super aware of the threat of wildfire. All. The. Time.

We spend the summer and early fall creating huge burn piles of dead wood and excess fuel that has accumulated on the forest floor, and then when it snows, we head back up to burn it.  Burning is not a one-day undertaking, though; aside from the fact that we have to snowshoe just to get into camp, the lack of water and electricity makes the entire experience a bit more difficult than in most other places conducting similar fuel reduction programs.

So if we're going to go to the trouble of getting permission to park (there's no road into this place, either -- and getting permission to park about 1/3 mile away isn't as easy as it sounds), packing up all four kids and the dog, along with all our sleeping gear, securing rental snowshoes (coincidentally from REI, since we only own two sets), we may as well throw in some gourmet food for our efforts.  In the next few weeks, I'll share last year's Black Friday feast, in time for your own outdoor Thanksgiving.

This year, REI is jumping on OUR bandwagon and they've started the Opt Outside campaign.  REI WILL BE CLOSED BLACK FRIDAY, halleluia.  If you visit their website, you can join them and create your own Opt Outside photo, too.

And hey, if you want to Opt Outside and help us burn, just let me know...
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If You Absolutely MUST Cook Foil Packets - 10 Things to Help Elevate Them

10/22/2014

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I guess I'm anti-foil-packet (you know, throw a bunch of crap on a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil, seal it up, throw it in some coals, take it out, and pretend it's awesome) because that's what we always...always, always, always...ate when I went on Girl Scout camping trips as a kid.

Even today, all over the internet you can find a gazillion different "recipes" for foil packet cooking, and 99% of them include ground beef or a sliced sausage thing, a cut up potato, an onion, and maybe a few green beans. Sorry, but you can do better. Much better.

I realize that foil packet cooking, or "Hobo dinners," are simple, require minimal clean up, and allow for kids to include whatever they're willing to eat (that assumes that you actually let your kids make these choices -- more on that in a future post). These three things are important to me, too -- but that doesn't mean I have to settle for some warmed up hotdogs and a semi-raw onion and call it dinner, especially if I'm in the woods.

So if foil cooking is your go-to method for a weekend camping trip, here are ten things to include that can help turn a boring Hobo meal into something more worth the effort.

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5 Pear Recipes for Camping Trips

10/14/2014

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It's supposed to be pear season here, but it's still in the high 80's so I'm forcing the whole autumn thing a bit, I know. This article includes two desserts, one side dish, one appetizer, and one lunch staple that simply screams "IT'S PEAR SEASON!" regardless of the actual weather wherever you may be camping this weekend...
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6 Things to Roast Over a Campfire that Aren't Hot Dogs or S'mores

10/10/2014

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Of course, we roast just about everything imaginable over a campfire, from game hens to rack of lamb; but these 6 items need no special equipment -- no grates, no fancy roasting baskets, no esoteric contraptions -- just a simple roasting fork or something similar.
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