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Are the beans done yet Cookie?

Like I was saying in my last post, we will be taking a trip to Pacific City, Oregon. We will be staying in our large tent with the Boy and two dogs. Cramped? No, cozy. One cozy little family.

Now one thing you should know about me is I fancy myself as a camp cook. Note I said “fancy myself as”. Granted, I have been a cook for about 10 years, but I am a true amateur camp cook.

I have very little camp cook type gear, mostly left over or extra tools go into my camping cook box. As for Cast Iron, which all good camps cooks use, I am limited to a few cast iron pans. No wicked cool dutch ovens, and the whole set up.

Being part of a big family that will be there, each family will be serving two dinners. That we we can be together, but no one family is left to do it all. (Thats is until I get my dream camp cook set, then you can just call me “Cookie”.)

I have planned to make Chili one night, and stir fry next. Being almost broke, both dinners will be vegetarian. Now what about dessert? I have been playing around with using my cast iron pans along with my small charcoal grill as an oven. It kinda works. I have to pay close attention to it, and not do anything else while I am “baking”. With the chili dinner I will make cornbread, of course. For dessert, I will make an apple crisp. The cornbread, and crisp will both be done in cast iron pans over the grill.

The stir fry night will have an Apple cake for dessert. Yes, apples again, one of our apples trees came in and, well it’s free food. The cake will be a basic white cake, with chopped apples and “apple” spices.

I will try to remember to take lots of food photos, along with all of the other family at the beach shots.

If you need to know, I will be kilted as often as possible. Most of these camp site are populated with retired folk, and I get a kick out of their “what the heck” looks.

Oh and Sunday I turn 31. Yep, my birthday.

Caio………..