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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.

The compact size of First Alert's portable tabletop CO alarm is easy to take anywhere.

As perpetual road trippers, we live over our truck's tail pipe. While this is no big deal in a best case scenario, in the case of a carbon monoxide (CO) leak, our health and safety is at risk. We have been rather blasé in the past but this winter, in the process of insulating our living space, we have cut out most of the drafts in our camper. We now live in a cozy home on wheels. But cozy can be dangerous when fumes start building up. So, we got a carbon monoxide detector.

Brophy tie down, turnbuckle, and camper jack point.

When we first pick up our 1970 Avion truck camper we have no special equipment aside from our basic 2015 Ram 3500 to cary it. We set the camper on wooden 4x4s and secure it with cables wrapped around factory loops in our truck bed. In hindsight, if we actually came to a stress point where the only thing keeping the camper in the truck bed is the cables, I'm pretty sure something would fail. Fortunately, we are already suitably cautious about the whole affair and avoid steep, bumpy, or fast roads. Instead, we keep the ride smooth and slow from our pickup point in Florida to our workshop in Tennessee.

Hiking the North Grove Trail in the snow of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the Sierras outside of Murphys, California and Highway 49.

Refrigerators are major power draws. As much as technology has advanced, the RV refrigerator is still a serious consideration when calculating how much power you need. After all, it is an all or nothing proposition. Either you run the refrigerator or do not. There is little you can do to improve its efficiency while it is in operation aside from keeping the ambient temperature down.

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Homemade Tartar Sauce

Carbon Monoxide Safety With First Alert

Brophy Camper Tie Downs

Shopping for a RV Refrigerator