Baked Couscous

Baked Couscous

by | Nov 13, 2020

Baked Couscous I’ve made this dish stove top at home and in the Dutch oven while camping. A savory couscous galette, it is an easy, flexible recipe. You can use any mushrooms, or none at all. The same with the meat: use whatever you have, or no meat at all....
Chicken & Dumplings

Chicken & Dumplings

by | Nov 12, 2020

Chicken & Dumplings Chicken and dumplings may be the ultimate comfort food.  We had this for Sunday dinner on our Halloween camping trip. To ease the work at camp, I did some prep at home, mixing the dry ingredients for the dumplings in a zip lock bag, and cooking...
Halloween 2020 -Part 1: Pitching Camp

Halloween 2020 -Part 1: Pitching Camp

by | Nov 12, 2020

Ever notice how traditions spring from repetition, almost without our noticing? Apparently, my brother and I have a traditional Halloween camp-out. Every year, we go up in the woods, camp, carve Jack O’Lanterns, hunt mushrooms, drink too much, and eat too much....
Cranberries and Chanterelles

Cranberries and Chanterelles

by | Nov 11, 2020

  Cranberries and Chanterelles Cranberries ripen at the height of chanterelle season. It was inevitable eventually I would try cooking them up together. I’m only surprised it took me so long to get around to it.     Ingredients  chanterelles wild...