Recipe

Dishes for campground and home – focus on quick, easy, healthy but not necessarily all at the same time.

Twin Lakes’ Pork and Mushroom Recipe

The chefs on television show “Chopped” have nothing on me when it comes to developing a recipe from unknown items. I don’t think I’m unusual in that defrosting a freezer isn’t a favorite activity. Therefore, my motorhome’s freezer can tend to get deeply encased in ice before I defrost it. It is rather satisfying once Read More >>

Salt Springs Pear Butter

Across the road from the Ocala NF’s Salt Springs campground (located in central Florida) was a produce stand. Boy, do we love produce stands! We haven’t found a grocery store anywhere that can touch the delicious produce you can buy at a roadside produce stand and the Salt Springs’ stand was no exception. We got Read More >>

Simple, quick and easy recipes

The truth is not all cookbook are created equal. This is especially true for cookbooks written for camping. I want super and very simple recipes when I go camping. I keep looking but find each one incomplete and disappointing. A few weeks ago I picked up a copy of The Ultimate RV Cookbook and it Read More >>

Building a campfire and eating well

For a campfire, you need fuel (dead and down or store-bought wood), an ignition source (matches), and air (all around). Sounds simple but there are some tricks that as a novice camper you might not realize. One thing you’ll want is variety in the size of your kindling. Look around and collect dry grass, twigs Read More >>

Hot Soup for a Cold Day

Is there anything better than a bowl of hot homemade soup on a cold day? No matter were you are, at home or camping in national forest, cold weather calls for a bowl of hot homemade soup, thick with veggies, just as a day building snowmen calls for a mug of hot cocoa. I love this Read More >>

Fried Biscuits and Donut Holes – two breakfast favorites

Cooking from scratch wasn’t my mom’s thing. However, what she could do with a tube of refrigerated biscuits was amazing. Fried biscuits and donut holes are two of my personal favorites. Fried Biscuits Open a tube of refrigerated biscuit and separate each biscuit. Flour a flat surface and your rolling pin. Put a biscuit on Read More >>

I love broccoli

I love broccoli! Did you know broccoli is a member of the cabbage family and was introduced to America by the Italians in the 1920s? Let’s thank those Italians. Unfortunately Fred’s and my mother’s method of cooking any vegetable was boiling it beyond recognition so neither Fred nor I grew up with a dislike of Read More >>

Peanut Butter Cheerios Cookies

Here’s a simple recipe for a yummy and healthy NO BAKE cookies. Only thing missing is a glass of milk. I’ve been known to drizzle with melted chocolate over them or serve with a cup of hot chocolate. Perfect as a summer camping snack, they are also a good activity for days when the children Read More >>

Soft Butter

I must bake some bread for an upcoming camping trip but I’ve got my soft butter all done. (One of the advantages of having a motorhome – a refrigerator!) Fred reminds me they sale a similar product in the grocery store but I don’t think it compares. Recipe: It is so easy to make: Put a Read More >>

Peppermint Cocoa Mix

There are some things that are essential to all my camping adventures and hot chocolate tops that list. I feared, once diagnosed with a lactose intolerance, I would have to give up this camping essential. But for joy, for joy, there is something about cocoa that allows my body digest milk. Means hot chocolate remains Read More >>