Click on this pic for a larger, more mouth-wa … umm … never mind … You may recall a certain U.S. Marine came home for Christmas and, for a gift, gave me an MRE, specifically, “Menu No. 4 Cheese Omelet With Vegetables”. He then quipped, “Oh and don’t eat it … those things are disgusting […]
Category: Camp Cooking
An Oversized Corn Cob Cooker
Back on June 27th I posted a pic of a camping-grade deep fryer that I’d picked up at Cabela’s in Dundee and made corndogs with for family and friends on June 30th. On July 15th I posted a pic of an industrial-sized pot filled with over a hundred cobs of corn. Combining the two, the deep fryer […]
Adam’s World of Cooking, 1950’s Boy Scout Style
This past Saturday we picked up my son Adam at Camp Tapico, a Boy Scout camp east of Kalkaska. He’d been there for three weeks, two of them as a Counselor-In-Training. The last week he was there he was able to do what he felt most comfortable with: cooking! An area of the camp had been […]
Street Eats Gone Wild! Well… kinda sorta… not…
I have a beef about how street food vendors are treated on this continent. This entry is a long one, but by the end, I think you’ll understand. Yesterday the CBC reported that street vendors in the Ontario province can now expand beyond what’s usually found at the food carts. From the article: Health Minister […]
Simple Oatmeal
Oatmeal. A simple joy. What you see here is a serving for Mary. What you don’t see is that she never eats oatmeal at the table this dish is sitting on. Back in March I’d blogged about how Mary and I have morning coffee in bed every day. On weekends, or weekdays like yesterday, she […]
The Date
Tickets to the dance: $38.00 Getting the dress tailored: $34.00 Up-do, for her, at Carla’s: $25.00 Haircut for Dad: $9.00 Car wash for the car: $6.50 Dinner at a fancy restaurant: $50.00 Coming downstairs this morning to this smiling face, who knows this day is all about her: … Priceless!