Camping Snacks by the Fire
Celebrate a Great RV Season with One More Fireside Happy Hour Grateful for another excellent year of camping? Why not cap off the year with (at least) one more Happy Hour camping snack before winterizing the RV. Whether stateside, seaside, hillside or riverside,...
Campfire Cuisine: A Peanut-Free Satay Recipe
I've always been jealous of those enjoying a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But more about that in a minute. First, let’s have a look around the neighbourhood for a locally brewed beer. This isn’t about finding the best beer in the world—it’s about...
Perfect Pairings for Wine Tasting: Rosemary Focaccia and Herbed Goat Cheese Appetizer
What’s best for Happy Hour appetizers when returning to your RV after a day of wine tasting? How about something quick and easy you can make ahead, allowing you to enjoy your time with family and friends. Pull the cork on your favourites from the tasting, recount...
Stuffed French Pastries for Your Next Party
Celebrating with friends or family whether at home or on the road is best enjoyed with tasty treats. Having finger foods at the ready can help turn your hungry guests into happy campers. Gougère are fancy French cheese puffs floating out of the oven and into your...
Grilled Five Spice Wings and Ribs
Call me stubborn, but I am determined to keep grilling in winter. The barbecue grill is connected to residential gas and outside my back door. With tongs in hand, I'm only a step or two to get to the barbecue. Why not grill some Asian-inspired finger foods to serve...
Thanksgiving Dinner on The Barbeque
Summer is the time to cook outdoors. The heat this past year has had me testing and expanding the use of the barbeque to include baking bread and pies. Why not continue the trend and roast a turkey on the barbecue? Fire up that BBQ to cook Thanksgiving dinner and...
Fire Roasted Vegetables
Why let a good fall fire go to waste? Why not cook some vegetables right in the fire? It seems caveman-like to cook food on the coals, but this project was fun and delicious. You may be surprised to find squash, beets, yams, carrots, and corn deliciously sweet...
Favourite Kitchen Appliances for RVing
Small kitchen appliances have come a long way since the stovetop pressure cookers our mothers and grandmothers used in the 1940’s/1950’s and the slow cookers (“crockpots”) from the 1970’s. In addition to these tried-and-true standbys, we now have multicookers...
Chargrill For A Perfect Steak
“Salt meat as soon as you get home from the butcher.” This is advice from Michael Ruhlman, prodigious chef, cookbook author, and someone who knows what he’s talking about when it comes to making food delicious. The second chapter of Ruhlman’s Twenty (20 Techniques,...
Gas or Charcoal? Choose your grill and up your game
Charcoal or gas? We have been cooking over fire for a very long time. It's not just that our ancestors wanted to avoid raw meat, fire when correctly managed makes things deliciously tender. A suitable fire for the correct amount of time at the right intensity adds...
Grilling steak indoors
Grilling outdoors in winter has long been our house's badge of honour and stubbornness. There is a particular Canadian pride that comes with winter grilling. That said, I usually face blowing snow and howling winds with BBQ tongs in hand while expectant diners...
RV Food Storage
One of the best things about RVing is taking our kitchen with us and making our RV home away from home. This means we have greater control over what, when, and how we eat - and our travel budget, too! That said, how we store food in an RV differs from how we store...
