Dinner Friday: Larry and Lisa did hamburgers. not frozen patties either, good handmade ones.
Breakfast: Eggs, hash browns, breakfast sausage. Honeydew. Coffee, hot chocolate, etc. too. A common camping meal for us. The hashbrowns were made from pre-shredded potatoes. I put them in water but they looked pretty dark in color but tasted fine. We started with this so any leftover potatoes could go in burritos but there weren't any left.
I bought the melons at a fruit stand from their "sale" melons (means they are older) because we were going to use them right away anyway. Fifty cents each and they were good. We had to cut out a small piece of one, but that was it.
Lunch: sandwiches every day. We always do meat sandwiches and I always et too much sliced cheese. It is because I like provolone. Jason like pepper jack and then I get the mix, too. Really, the girls could probably make do with provolone. Or Jason could do without pepper jack and just do the mix. But I like being able to get him something special. We have ham or turkey this time, plus of course, the regular lettuce, mustard, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mayo. I was getting ready to do camping shopping. I asked Jason if he wanted me to get jalapenos for his sandwich and he passed. I told him I wanted to make sure he loved the food and I knew that was a treat. He replied, "I always love camping sandwiches." Aw!
Last Sunday, we were at the Tervalons and Noah made himself a sandwich - piled high with meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes. We just don't do that at home so "camping sandwiches" it is.
Plus we have dried fruit, this nut crunch stuff Jason likes, Oreos, Cheez-its, juice boxes, potato salad. But it is the same lunch every day.
Dinner: sausages with onions and bell peppers on hoagies. This has also become a staple camping meal. I got brats for us and hot links for Jason.
Breakfast: French toast by Larry and Lisa. Cantaloupe.
Dinner: Bean burritos with all the fixings, including sliced avocados. We had a lot of leftover avocados and tomatoes. Dai ate the tomatoes and Cress finished off the avocados.
While we did marshmallows and/or s'mores each night, this night we also did the banana thing. Lisa and I cut open bananas and filled them with chocolate and marshmallows and then wrapped them in tinfoil and cooked them in the coals. Tonight our fire was on the beach - so amazing! The place not the dessert.
Breakfast: breakfast burritos deluxe. We had bacon and avocados in addition to the regular stuff. WE chopped up the leftover brats, too. This is a our regular camping breakfast - every time. For fruit we had kiwis - a splurge at the fruit stand.
As we were preparing the potato salad Wednesday night, I was telling JAson that I felt divided by easy dinner and good dinners while camping. He said he thought I must feel that way because of all the advance prep. Maybe. I recall, as a kid, like hot dogs and chili or Pork 'n Beans, spaghetti with green beans, maybe even occasionally Kraft Macaroni 'n Cheese, maybe hamburgers.
He is right, these things require far less advance prep, but they aren't as nice to eat, right? Or are they? Is food just wonderful when you are camping? Well, we don't do Kraft Mac 'n Cheese and Jason never finds spaghetti to be filling enough. Plus if we do spaghetti, we should do garlic bread over the fire. Then it isn't really so easy, right?
Maybe for a trip we will try to do it more simply. But truly, I guess not. Our next trip is with Sam and he has been most flattering about how he has never eaten anything I have cooked that he didn't like. So, I want to do it nicely for then. The next is with the Tervalons and I think they are part of why we got schmancy to begin with. Maybe the final camping of the year which we are doing at Big Sur with the Castros.
Breakfast: Eggs, hash browns, breakfast sausage. Honeydew. Coffee, hot chocolate, etc. too. A common camping meal for us. The hashbrowns were made from pre-shredded potatoes. I put them in water but they looked pretty dark in color but tasted fine. We started with this so any leftover potatoes could go in burritos but there weren't any left.
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| Having hot chocolate in the morning. |
Lunch: sandwiches every day. We always do meat sandwiches and I always et too much sliced cheese. It is because I like provolone. Jason like pepper jack and then I get the mix, too. Really, the girls could probably make do with provolone. Or Jason could do without pepper jack and just do the mix. But I like being able to get him something special. We have ham or turkey this time, plus of course, the regular lettuce, mustard, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mayo. I was getting ready to do camping shopping. I asked Jason if he wanted me to get jalapenos for his sandwich and he passed. I told him I wanted to make sure he loved the food and I knew that was a treat. He replied, "I always love camping sandwiches." Aw!
Last Sunday, we were at the Tervalons and Noah made himself a sandwich - piled high with meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes. We just don't do that at home so "camping sandwiches" it is.
Plus we have dried fruit, this nut crunch stuff Jason likes, Oreos, Cheez-its, juice boxes, potato salad. But it is the same lunch every day.
Breakfast: French toast by Larry and Lisa. Cantaloupe.
Dinner: Bean burritos with all the fixings, including sliced avocados. We had a lot of leftover avocados and tomatoes. Dai ate the tomatoes and Cress finished off the avocados.
While we did marshmallows and/or s'mores each night, this night we also did the banana thing. Lisa and I cut open bananas and filled them with chocolate and marshmallows and then wrapped them in tinfoil and cooked them in the coals. Tonight our fire was on the beach - so amazing! The place not the dessert.
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| Me stuffing a banana, Lisa is not seen across from me. |
He is right, these things require far less advance prep, but they aren't as nice to eat, right? Or are they? Is food just wonderful when you are camping? Well, we don't do Kraft Mac 'n Cheese and Jason never finds spaghetti to be filling enough. Plus if we do spaghetti, we should do garlic bread over the fire. Then it isn't really so easy, right?
Maybe for a trip we will try to do it more simply. But truly, I guess not. Our next trip is with Sam and he has been most flattering about how he has never eaten anything I have cooked that he didn't like. So, I want to do it nicely for then. The next is with the Tervalons and I think they are part of why we got schmancy to begin with. Maybe the final camping of the year which we are doing at Big Sur with the Castros.
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