What is the single most important tool needed by anyone who lives, explores, hunts, hikes, camps, farms or otherwise spends time away from the masses of humanity? I’m talking anyone who, to some degree big or small, might at anytime on any day in any place be forced into a situation of self reliance ……
Category: Helpful skills
Cinnamon rolls over the campfire
Making Dutch oven cinnamon rolls is super easy. Inside a Dutch oven place a cast iron trivet on the bottom. If you don’t have a trivet you can use a pie pan or even a couple emptied and cleaned small tuna fish or sardine cans. Just make sure they’ve been thoroughly washed. Nobody wants to…
A real Dutch (oven) treat
Dutch oven cooking is an outdoor skill all its own. In coming weeks and months a series of Dutch over cooking recipes and tips and tricks will be added to this site. But for now, let’s discuss one of the simplest and most tasty desserts you can prepare in your cast iron oven … a…
Home away from home off grid
Our daughter took her first steps at a campsite deep in the Appalachian Mountains shortly after her first birthday. She was standing on the rug outside the door of our family tent when she took two steps and quickly wobbled to a stop. Perhaps that’s why she loves to hike and camp even today,…
One skillet camp breakfast
Start with a skillet over the camp stove or fire. You can use either bacon or sausage for the meat. Fry your choice until it’s done and then remove it from the skillet and set it aside for now. If using sausage just fry it in the pan without forming it into patties. While the…
When it comes to knives, stay sharp
My dad carried a folding lock blade knife in a leather case on his belt most of my younger years. He was a rural country minister by calling and a heavy equipment operator by necessity. The knife he carried had been given to him in the offering plate one Sunday by a gentleman who…