11 Best Camping Tips & Recipes... With camping season upon us, I thought I would share 11 recipes & tips to help make your camping excursions easier.
We love camping! It is one of the rights of passage of summer for us! We are campers in the true sense of the word.... we sleep in sleeping bags in a tent under the stars {or rain} to the sounds of nature's music. Our camping kitchen is outside...it consists of a picnic table, a campfire, a table top barbecue & portable kitchen set-up with a sink and the our cooler of food.
I find one of the things that make our camping trips go just peachy keen is if I have the a food plan ready to go. So here are some tips to help make your camping season as super fun as the toy department at Christmas! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Perfect Picnic Sandwich {Oh Yes It Is!} This is one of our all time favourite recipes ever.
Our all-time yummy-always-a-hit picnic sandwich. I love it because not only is it a fabulous sandwich, but it is the ultimate in 'make ahead' food. It tastes better the day after it's made....after the flavours have had time to mingle. It makes 8 sandwich wedges and each piece is very filling and satisfying. This sandwich requires a filling, some meat & cheeses and a round loaf. Step 1: The Filling. 5 seeded & chopped plum tomatoes 1 cup chopped red, orange or yellow peppers 1/4 cup chopped pitted black olives (I use kalamata olives) Camping Cuisine Part 2: Food Prep & Chicks on Sticks. Before I get to the recipe portion of this post,
Camping Cuisine Part 3: 'For Goodness Steak' Well, I was in the process of sharing some camping cuisine recipes when I so rudely left in the middle of the sharing to go.....ahem.....camping.
So here I am...ready to share some of my ideas for good grub when you are camping in the wild. So, if you missed Camping Cuisine Part 1, where I shared the recipe for our favourite picnic sandwich {shown below}, please click here. For Camping Cuisine Part 2, where I shared the recipe for 'Chicks on Sticks' {shown below}and food prep suggestions, please click here. Camping Cuisine Part 5: Great Travelling Bean Salad. This is the last of my 5-part series on recipes for camping trips.
Whew! Are you bored yet, or are you inspired? I like to think that I have inspired some campers to mix it up a little. I hope so. To be clear, we do have hamburgers sometimes....everyone in our family likes them. And we take hotdogs for snacks because, afterall, what is a camping trip without roasting weinies on a campfire? Eating From the Ground Up. Problems with easy solutions: cloth napkins. When I was growing up, napkins were made of paper.
Sometimes they were just paper towels folded in half, or even a tissue box in the middle of the table. In my mind, cloth napkins were for beautiful French countryside kitchens, for people with tons of money and marble countertops and mortar and pestles. Then I grew up, and I realized that I, too, could use cloth napkins. (And look where cloth napkins led me! I now have a teensy square of marble in my kitchen and not one but TWO mortar and pestles. I bought my first cloth napkins right around the time I started using cloth diapers when Sadie was born. I never made it to the cloth toilet paper, and I’m really okay with that. Last month in the comments for this post, there was a real common thread around trying to replace disposable kitchen items with their reusable counterparts. Italian Pasta Salad Picnic Lunch. {To celebrate Summer as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias, I made this Italian Pasta Salad from ingredients found at the Bulk Barn Canada.
#cbias} Summer is here! And that means it's the season for one of my very favorite summer activities...picnics. Our family loves taking picnic lunches to the park, beach or outdoor concerts & events, so I created this cool & fresh Italian pasta salad that is a great travel trooper and will satisfy any appetite on a hot summer day. The inspiration for this recipe came when I was browsing the aisles of Bulk Barn and I happened to see some sun-dried tomatoes. When I opened up the bin, they smelled so good that I knew that I had to make something with them. If you read a few of the recipes that I shared last summer, you might remember that our family is not a fan of gloppy, runny mayo-based salads. Italian Pasta Salad {serves 4 main meals or 8 side dishes} Ingredients Directions: 1. And now we stir it all together. Homemade Classic Tomato Ketchup. My tomatoes haven’t been doing well again this year.
Maybe I’m watering them too much. Maybe not enough? Maybe I’ve neglected them a bit too much. But, despite my lack of tomato prowess, I still am able to eat home-grown sweet ripe tomatoes thanks to my friends and neighbors! I had about 9 pounds worth of tomatoes – beautiful dark red luscious orbs of tomato-y goodness – sitting on my counter last week. Homemade ketchup! What’s a girl to do with all those tomatoes? Here are the main ingredients for homemade ketchup ... lots of veggies Making this ketchup wasn’t a fast process. But, even with all that time, I would say that this ketchup makes me understand why people like ketchup!
My burger with ketchup. We’ve already had it on hot dogs – a simple dog (mine was a veggie dog), bun, and ketchup – nothing else was needed! Simple ketchup dog (well, a veggie link) And, you can use those tomatoes that may not be quite as pretty.