The Best Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Years of Testing and Tasting Ice Cream For years, I have tried to make the ultimate homemade ice cream. I mean how hard can it really be to make homemade ice cream?  Hard! Either it’s too icy, too fatty or just not flavorful enough. IContinue Reading

Fresh and Delicious Grilled Romaine Salad Changing it up What’s one way to take a plain and boring summer salad to a new level? By grilling the lettuce! This is a way to keep you taste buds and your friends and family happy and enjoying a new flavor to this bbqContinue Reading

Lemon Dill Dressing Just the right amount of tang and jazz with fresh lemon zest and the creaminess from the mayo make this dressing great for a grilled romaine or even just drizzled on top of fresh veggies. Get creative with your camp dinner. Make a batch and store itContinue Reading

The Best Homemade Blackberry Syrup The best homemade blackberry syrup is delicious and is so easy to make at home I always select the largest, juiciest, sweetest blackberries I can find. Once the blackberries have been cooked down the rich and thick jam is the darkest deep black-blue-purple color andContinue Reading

Cast Iron Lemon Pepper Salmon If there is one food I love more than anything it’s salmon, fresh caught or sustainable salmon. In this recipe I leave the skin on to create a protection for the searing heat from the cast iron skillet, once cooked that skin can easily beContinue Reading

Rustic, beautiful, simple and Americas first mass-produces kitchenware, enamelware started its culinary adventure back in 1870 with kettles, bowls, baking tins, coffee cups and plates. However, Germany started to use the enamel process in 1840 with cast iron products.  With a very simple design production, sheets of iron, aluminum orContinue Reading

When I took my first picture it was with a polaroid camera and today I am shooting with a Canon 5D Mark IV. My food photography is mainly shot with a Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens or my Canon 35mm f/1.4. Landscape photography is shot with my Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 orContinue Reading

What can be easier at the campground than cooking a kabob? Well these shrimp kabobs are not only easy to prepare but they are delicious! Pale Ale has one of the best flavors its fruity and yet it also has a bright citrus flavor, add in some honey to boostContinue Reading

  Who doesn’t love the smell and sound of bacon cooking away on a griddle at the campground? I don’t know about you but my children go crazy when the pancake batter ingredients come out, they know something tasty is head their way for breakfast.  Well, one morning I keptContinue Reading

Cast iron cooking is an iconic campground staple, but it can be pretty intimidating if you don’t know what you’re doing. And many of us don’t.  Sure, we’ve seen the pretty pictures of a dutch oven over a crackling campfire. And we want that authentic camp cooking experience. But we’veContinue Reading