| Hey, Hey, It's May, Outdoor Cooking Starts Today! | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:24:28 AM by Kate Grant | If camping is your thing, and you don't want to eat baked beans out of a tin day after day throughout the whole week, we suggest some organization beforehand. 
There are many cooking systems you can learn and equipment and appliances you can purchase and use for years to come.
Grills or portable cooking stoves, depending on what you plan to bring with you (or hunt, wink wink) will serve you forever, as long as you clean them up when you get back home and store them properly. If you really want to overdo it, an outdoor cooking center is your camping dreams come true, and since hiking all day can be very tiring, a cooked meal can lift the spirits of any weary camper.
You can cook almost anything - French toast for breakfast, tacos, baked potatoes, steaks, soups, grilled fruit for dessert (try slitting a banana and putting some chocolate cubes inside the slit. Grill until the peel is black - I can't even begin to explain how good it is!
Be adventurer with you cooking as well as with the hikes or trips you go on. You can get plenty of information on the web.
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| | | Looking out for the mail | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:52:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Forget Groundhog Day or any other sign that nature or tradition might be providing at this time of year. To me, the surest sign that winter is getting poised to enter the homestretch is the arrival of the spring fishing catalogs. You've heard this from me before, of course, but it's hard to describe the boost my spirits get the first time I come across one of those little treasures in the pile of mail waiting for me at home each night. The first ones started arriving this week, basically renewing my license to start dreaming. .... | |
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| | | Outdoor and Recreation News and Events | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:51:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | SEMINOLE - Seminole High Schools boys basketball team plays at Osceola High in a Class 5A-District 11 matchup. The varsity game tips off at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Osceola High is at 9751 98th St. N. Runners registering for season LARGO Youths between the ages of 5 and 18 are invited to team up to run against friends and rivals from Clearwater, Dunedin and Safety Harbor. The season lasts from Jan. 10 to April 25, Wednesdays, 6 to 7 p.m., at Largo High School. Registration ends Friday, Jan. 5. The cost to participate is $25 a month for residents and $32.50 a month for nonresidents. Registration includes a T-shirt as well as three practices and one meet. Junior Warhawks registering on Saturdays SEMINOLE The Seminole Junior Warhawks youth baseball and softball organization plans registration for the 2007 season through the end of January.... | |
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| | | Cooking fire claims SUV | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:51:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Three individuals were treated at Southeastern Med for minor injuries including burns after the vehicle they occupied overturned onto an outdoor cooking fire Thursday night in the city and caught fire. Sheryl J. Kinton, 46; Joseph P. Warden, 47; and Todd C. Warden, 44; all of Cambridge, were transported by United Ambulance to the hospital following the accident at 754 S. Ninth St. They were treated in the emergency department and later released. According to a Cambridge police report, a 2001 Chevrolet Blazer driven by Kinton was backing from a driveway at the South Ninth Street home at 10:13 p.m. when the vehicle went off the roadway and over an embankment. The Blazer reportedly overturned several times before landing on the outdoor cooking fire, which ignited a fire inside the sport utility vehicle.... | |
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| | | Scout leaders find wealth of ideas | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:53:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Boy Scout and Cub Scout leaders are usually found surrounded by a bevy of active boys, each one bustling around with a buddy, an activity or a goal. But on Saturday, almost 300 leaders from Grundy, Will and Kankakee Counties were able to gather together without their young charges to get some good, solid adult time. The event was Scouting University. It was held at Morris Community High School this weekend with a full day of classes geared to help leaders of grade school, junior high and high school-age scout programs learn more about how to be better leaders. The university is held once a year, rotating among the three counties served by Rainbow Council. This year was Grundy County's turn, and Morris Boy Scout Troop 471's training coordinator, Celia Mistretta was in charge.... | |
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| | | Fresh air, fresh start for families | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 2:55:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | The woods that border the green-and-white cabins and dining hall at the Family Resources Retreat Center are usually quiet this time of year. The children who attend summer camp here are back in school, and only a few families or individuals come for education and recreation programs once the weather turns cold. The 69-year-old facility, which straddles the Cranberry-Marshall boundary, is minutes away from major highways and shopping centers. The sounds of traffic and commerce, however, are muted. Meadows, walking trails, a small lake and tall trees make the retreat center a natural refuge for the 8,000 children and adults who visit each year. .... | |
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| | | Refurbishment: outdoor furniture | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:53:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nexo fireplaces have been launched in the UK by a company called Lazy Days Inside Out Living. With the pub smoking ban in mind, the aim is to extend those balmy summer nights to an all-year-round experience. Built to last, they are are constructed from steel-reinforced cast volcanic pumice, clad with natural stone quarried on the island of Mors in Denmark. They are weather resistant and, according to Lazy Days, have even been installed in Siberia! In addition to providing heat, the fires double up as cooking stations for barbecuing and grilling - cue roasted chestnuts and mulled wine in the garden this Christmas! www.lazydaysliving.co.uk Green screens .... | |
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| | | Modern resources help turn back the clock for Sandneses | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:50:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's one thing to renovate a house. It's another thing to renovate a house with a history that extends beyond the age and technology of the modern toolbox. Last fall, Cameron Homes & Construction Inc. of Mount Bethel was contracted by homeowners Olav and Gina Sandnes to do some work on their mid-1800s era farmhouse. The project grew over time to include extensive renovations. Bruce Cameron, owner of the company that was founded in 1988, said, "It was the most interesting and fun challenge that we've ever worked on." continued below .... | |
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| | | Northwest Voice | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:01:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Scouts learned and honed their pioneering and outdoor cooking skills on a two-day camp-out. Friday night began with setting up camp and a stuffed burrito dessert. The scouts cooked their own breakfast of eggs, beacon, pancakes, etc. They spent the day learning lashing and various knots. These skills were put to use when the troop built a large Monkey Bridge (rope bridge). The troop cooked dinner in Dutch ovens, which all enjoyed. The boys and adult leaders enjoyed games like Capture the Flag and Flashlight Tag. The weather was perfect, the views were spectacular and the noise from the train tracks was always in the background. .... | |
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| | | Cooking for conservation | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:51:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fish fact: Electric eels can discharge as much as 650 volts HeraldToday.com Sunday, October 29, 2006 Waterfowl conservation group returns with annual fundraiser Source: http://home.att.net/~larvalbug/archmisc2-02.html Jerry Hill Outdoors The Ducks Unlimited banquet returns to Manatee County on Thursday, marking the 29th anniversary of the local waterfowl conservation group's formation. It started out with about 30 outdoorsmen gathering at Bradenton Country Club for a coat-and-tie, sit-down dinner that might have raised a couple thousand dollars. But the next time the group met, there was a radical departure from the traditionally catered affair. The local committee gleaned the community for the best outdoor chefs and asked them to prepare their own provincial specialties.... | |
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| | | Cooks get fired up about wood-fire ovens | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:54:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | A wood-fire oven in a home is quite a conversation piece. But open-hearth cooking with fire and stone is a 6,000-year-old concept. Fixtures in many upscale restaurants and pizzerias, these ovens are now being built by consumers into backyard entertainment centers and kitchens in ever-increasing numbers. They want the luxury of cooking authentic Italian pizzas and other specialties at home -- and now the ovens are a hot phenomenon. "It's definitely a toy for people whose passion is cooking and eating," says Jeannine Perriseau of Calabasas, Calif. She and her husband, Dirk, added one to their backyard five years ago after returning from a vacation in Italy. "We loved the way different foods cooked in the ovens tasted in the restaurants, and my husband loves to build fires.... | |
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