yeah... I've been known to be a bit decadent when camping... I did all of the cooking on the fishing weekends... and this year the boys sent me a "sad pic" after they realized that they'd be stuck cooking for themselves.
Really, though... when you're camping, just do whatever the fuck makes you happy and relaxed. That's the goal. As long as you don't fuck with anyone else's serenity, do whatever floats your boat. If you like Natty Light and hot dogs on a stick, then enjoy it. If you like red wine, then enjoy it. I have been known to bring a box or two of red wine when camping... it's easy to haul, pour, and no breaking glass.
My idea of camping means my truck has been in 4WD for at least an hour, there's not another human besides my group for miles, chainsaws, guns, plenty of beer, hot dogs, and a huge bon fire. If we're feeling extra fancy, someone will bring a propane cook stove and we'll have burgers too.
People have such varying definitions of what "camping" is. We don't forage or cook our food buried in the earth with hot rocks, but we also don't bring satellite TV. We try to cook on the fire as much as we can, but we'll always have a Coleman stove and small propane grill for meat so we don't have to eat only hotdogs every day, which sucks if you have to. And yes, Jiffy Pop done over an open fire is rad if you have the light touch.
Best part of my shop is that it has a big-ass humidor and a killer extraction fan... for finishing fumes, of course.
Camping means cold beer, scotch, cigars. I always cook. Cast iron skillet and my caldero, along with a trashcan I keep filled with lump charcoal. Put that in a chimney starter, dig a hole in the ground, toss the lit coals in there, lay down some bricks and a grate over the top of it. Bam, instand stove. If I'm near a body of water, we eat fish. If not, it's steak, lamb, that kinda thing, something hearty. Get some animal, some onions, peppers, and mushrooms from the caldero, and plenty of booze. Go to bed drunk and full. Do it again the next day. Now I'm fucking hungry.
And my apartment complex completely redeemed itself. As I was talking to my twin, I looked across the courtyard of my apartment complex, and I noticed, there was a girl on about the third floor with the lights on getting completely undressed. She got totally naked, I saw full tan lines etc. She was stunning, tight college aged blond girl. That'll give some guys here ammo to start puking
The Pop Culture forum shows new posts, then TV Shows is new, then the latest post thing shows Game of Thrones . . . but, then there's no thread listed for me. Did I accidentally mark a thread to be hidden or something? Once I go to the TV Shows section, it's not bolded as new anymore.
There was a nice mix in there on that trip. That was the 6 week move from BC to Ontario a few years ago, after rage-quitting the video game developer world. It was the "anything but video games tour". Lots of camping and fishing and a visit with DCC when my Jeep broke down and had to get fixed in Winnipeg. It was a very nice trip.
I see a lot of Padron's which are my favorite cigar. Give me a 1926 and a bourbon and I'm a happy guy.
He has fucking MACALLAN in that photo (and a brisket cooking, is it?) Ask James Bond, it's less sad to blow a hot hooker's head off than to waste booze of that quality. There is literally never a bad time for it, even if you're in AA.
Says the guy who posts a picture with an MSR Dragonfly stove. I've heard jet engines that make less noise than that thing...... Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing stove, and there isn't another stove on the market that has anywhere near the same turn down. I have one, and I love it, but the glares I get from people at campsites when I fire it up is pretty funny.