Category Cooking

Dutch Oven Cornish Game Hen

Roast this rosemary cornish game hen and potatoes recipe in a dutch oven over an open camp fire for a classy campground dinner or in your oven at home.

I am always on the lookout for something I can roast over the campfire in my dutch oven. Given that I like to cook over a live fire rather than classic coals, this generally means that I need something that is thick enough to take a sear without turning out well done but thin enough to be cooked through. So, when I saw Cornish game hen on sale after the holidays, I was thrilled. Not only did I have something new, but something well sized for my dutch oven with room for baby potatoes!

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Bagel & Lox

Savor a taste of New York City in this classic Bagel & Lox recipe with a campfire twist. Enjoy smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, and schmear in one tasty bagel.

Savor a taste of New York City in this classic Bagel & Lox recipe with a campfire twist. Enjoy smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, and schmear in one tasty bagel.

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French 75

French 75 cocktail recipe

Different drinks transport us to other times and places. The French 75 is a bubbling glass of nostalgia. It is to be held in the hand of a silver screen starlet and toasted as fireworks explode in the background. While I forgo garnish on most of my cocktails, the French 75 almost begs for it. And, best of all: it is so easy to make. Heck, if you are willing to prepare it ahead of time and keep it chilled, you don't even need the ice cubes (which is a plus for nomads such as us where ice cubes are in rare supply.) Mix up your evening with this cocktail classic.

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Panko Crusted Crab Cakes

Panko Crusted Crab Cakes Recipe

I have a bad habit of collecting appetizing canned foods. Living on the road, I don't have a lot of space to chill perishable foods. So, canned goods are a handy and reliable fallback. Still, at some point, the time comes when I need to make a concerted effort to lighten the chuck wagon by cooking some of the canned food. Fortunately, it's easy to go eat up the crab meat with this relatively strait forward recipe.

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Homemade Tartar Sauce

Spare can of crab meat? Try this simple, campfire approved, panko crusted crab cake recipe as an appetizer or pair it with a salad or soup for dinner.

Living tiny doesn't leave a lot of room for specialized products, particularly if they need refrigeration. When I lived in a sticks and bricks house, it wasn't a big deal to have a random bottle of dijon mustard sit on a back shelf for months. But living with a cooler or small RV refrigerator, there simply isn't space for something without an immediate value. So, while it doesn't make sense for me to buy a bottle of tartar sauce, the ingredients are simple and common enough for me to make my own. Here is my simple, easy, homemade tartar sauce recipe.

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Pomegranate Margarita

Grab your favorite bottle of tequila, orange liqure, and lime! It's time for our favorite Pomegranate Margarita recipe.

Back when I lived in NYC, one of my favorite haunts specialized in frozen Pomegranate Margaritas. They became a touchstone for a period in my early 20s that I haven't had the opportunity to revisit in years. But this last week I bought a cup of pomegranate seeds to eat and discovered that they fermented faster than I could consume them. So, here I am, unsure what to do with a bunch of partially fermented pomegranate seeds when it occurs to me: these would be great in a cocktail!

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