Date:         Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:19:16 -0700
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What do you cook when camping?
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RE: Cooking
I'm leaving Sunday for a full week of camping 6,300 feet up in the
Cascades.  I'll be in one spot that whole time and there is no power
or water.  There will be Sani-Cans at the event.
I'm a lazy cook (actually not much of a cook at all).  For my
breakfasts I'll have a choice of oatmeal, bacon (precooked), sausage
patties (precooked) eggs, and fresh baked biscuits along with coffee
and fresh milk.  Lunches will be sandwiches, Spam, cheese, smoked
sausage.  Snacks are Gorp and granola-type bars, canned fruit. 
Dinners will range from marinated  steak (first couple of days) to 
smoked sausage (keeps better) to Zatterains Red Beans and Rice (take
out of the package, heat and eat) with canned vegetables and instant
mashed potatoes (restaurant grade) with gravy.  Although I'll have a
single burner stove for cooking outside I'll probably use the Westy
stove for most of the cooking.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, at 1600 each day the Martini flag goes up
and I serve Martinis to any guest that arrives, shaken, not stirred. 
For those without the discriminating palate for a Martini, there will
be a variety of other libations in miniatures to chose from.
I carry enough dishes to serve myself a couple of meals and do the
dishes once a day, water heated with a solar shower bag.  This year I
probably won't be using the shower setup because the event I'm
attending will be bringing in portable showers.

Although I cook sausage, bacon, eggs, meat  etc. often in my Westy
I've never had a problem with residual oders.