January 2009 archive

Cooking Baked Apples

Baked apples are a fun, easy dessert to cook in the fire when you’re camping.  The basic idea is to core of the center of the apple, fill the center with a filling, wrap the whole thing in foil, and cook it in the fire. To core an apple, I take a paring knife and, …

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Cooking Rice in Foil Dinners

I like rice in my foil dinners.  But it requires some moisture.  Usually I make up the foil packet, leaving one end open, and then pour 1/4 to 1/2 cup of water in open end and then seal that end up. Unfortunately, it seems like my foil packet is never quite air (or water) tight …

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