Cooking at a Summer Camp Getting Ready for a Cookout Today, I am reflecting on one of the aspects of my job as a camp counselor. While going camping and going to camp are two completely different things, both are important to me. When camping, I am usually too lazy to cook real meals. At camp, cooking is not my job—except on Wednesday nights. Those are when we have our weekly and rather infamous cookouts. Every week, we are responsible for building a fire and cooking hobo pies in it. Sometimes we have to cook for over twenty campers and counselors; other times, our campfire makes up seven. At work, I have obnoxiously named myself “The Queen of Fire” because of my success at this one part of the job. This meal can be a challenge some weeks, and without specific actions, it becomes painstaking chore. At the camp where I work, everyone meets as the last event for the day before returning to their cabins to get ready for bed. Before...
Welcome to The Camping Chef. I am
Sara, a lifelong camper who loves to cook. In this blog, I share tips on using
cooking tools and preparing meals while camping. I also cover classic camp foods,
their history, and how to adapt them for different cooking environments. While many
methods exist to perform certain tasks such as fire building, I try to explain
what they are, why they work, and how to successfully utilize elements of those
practices. I hope to share an understanding that there is no single way that things should be done. Every situation is different, and with simple adaptations and variations, any desired goal can be achieved in many different environments.
this is a very unique blog! I'm really interested! you go, girl!!
ReplyDeleteSara, I really like the layout of your blog. I like how the image of the fire goes with the theme of your it all. Also the green color sets the tone for the theme. I look forward to seeing the content that you post on here. Good Job!
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