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Date:         Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:34:18 -0400
Reply-To:     Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Our kitchen sure gets used...
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my wife and I eat very well on our trips

our westy Kitchen makes us Beef Fajitas, Homemade Chili, Pasta with Fra Diavalo Sauce, savory crepes, pan roasted lobster with mushrooms we are lucky enough to forage on our trips, Fondue with Crusty bread, etc... blah, blah, blah. Breakfast includes the usual homemade pancakes (Huckleberries if we can find them), biscuits and gravy, Brazilian coffee (Cone Filter and Slow Drip ONLY!) It helps that we are both professional chefs and we do most our "Mise en Place" at home, so when we are camped cooking is a snap. We cook inside, we eat inside, the van gets a great homemade meal smell until we air it out at home, clean curtains and clean interior. smells have never lingered. we keep a pretty good wine list on our trips as well! Propane barely lasts us 2 weeks because we use it a lot. once we did a beef braise on a trip, cooked the meat slowly in red wine (no flambe from wine) on very low flame for about 3-4 hours, propane lasted less then a week. Fridge works so well we never need another cooler unless a lot of friends are coming then we need more beer storage. now winter is pretty close here in western montana and we are nearing then end of camping, maybe one more trip to the gorge to see jack johnson next weekend. we got camp cooking down to a science. if anyone would like some tips or recipes for westy cooking please pmail me and i'll be happy to help.

for me camping is as much eating well, as it is enjoying nature for mental well-being. if the food is not good, then the trip lacks something!

jason 87 syncro westy

>From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> >Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Our kitchen sure gets used... >Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:49:31 -0500 > >We carry a full set of cookware because we eat really well from that >little westy kitchen. We usually eat inside as well, the places we go >don't have picnic tables and we don't carry one. > >Jim > >On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote: > >>--- Doug in Calif <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET> wrote: >> >>> Everybody says they don't cook in the van except for coffee. >> >>"Everbody" save Malcolm & Pat. We cook 99% of our camping meals in >>the Westy, coffee too. And >>most of the time we eat in the van. We really have to 'remember' to >>use the picnic tables. M >> >> >> >>_______________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! >>http://vote.yahoo.com >>

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