Jaci Dawn

I have several friends who blog about cooking. You will notice that I do not blog about cooking. this is because while I like to bake occasionally and I sometimes enjoy making jelly, I categorically hate cooking. I am not a great cook, either. I don’t know if hating cooking came first or being a bad cook came first – and I don’t really care. I look forward to summer and barbecues because Don does nearly all the cooking in the summer.

Don made dinner for us on Friday. I even helped a little, but mostly I just took photos.

First, Don had to make a camp fire and we had to let it settle down into some very nice hot coals. We rarely camp when you can have a fire (forest fire season and all), but it’s been an especially wet and cold year here in the Pacific Northwest (sorry to everyone else who is enduring the “hottest summer on record”: ours is one of the coolest on record).

We chopped some turkey sausage, potatoes, carrots, red onion, red pepper and Roma tomato and put it on aluminum foil. Nope, nothing from our garden: it has been that lousy of a year for a garden!

Don spiced it up with some peppery spice he had in his camp box.

No, we didn’t add smoked oysters. But we forgot to pack the olive oil. Don’t you just hate that? You get out camping and sure enough – you forgot some important food item and you have to punt. In this case, we used the oil off of the smoked oysters and dribbled it generously over all the sausage and veggies (then we ate the oysters as an hors d’oeuvre).

We double-wrapped it in aluminum foil but if you used heavy duty wrap, you probably wouldn’t have to.

Don set the packages on the hot coals.

And the timing begins. Every ten minutes, turn the foil packages over.

Don used a shovel and welding gloves to turn the packages over.

Forty minutes later…

Think maybe we could have done this in 30 minutes since there was a little bit of charring going on…

But darn, that was a good, hot meal! Everything was cooked through and soft & juicy! It wasn’t so burnt that it tasted bad, so Don rescued it out of the fire in plenty of time.

Yummy!