[blam]

"We also use our propane fish cooker... to heat water for cleaning. Even water caught during the storm is useful with a little bleach and heat! Save the good stuff for drinking! AND I keep clorox wipe ups on hand."

I did exactly the same thing when we were without electricity for 7 days after Katrina. My sister cooked an excellent spaghetti dinner outside after Katrina. Then gumbo, fried fish, etc.

[exhaustedmomma]

LOL! We made gumbo, too, after Rita. And even tried deep frying a roast... ugggh. Beef jerky gone bad! However, we deep fried a pork roast and made Cuban Sandwiches that turned out great... was a real treat considering we were trapped in a fishing camp we evacated to that got hit worse than our home. First time in over 20 years we've been "caught" by a hurricane. {{grrrumble}}

[CFC__VRWC]

Oh yeah, cooking in the rough. I'm a fairly decent campground cook myself, a talent that comes in handy during post-hurricane power outages. The Sunday after Charley hit I went down to the local Wal Mart to buy ice and other stuff. I'd fixed myself a nice bacon and egg breakfast on my Coleman stove prior to leaving, and carried a big travel mug full of steaming hot coffee with me to work on while standing in line.

Over this camping season I intend to reacquaint myself with dutch oven cooking. When I was a kid and we went camping, my mother would fix stews, ham and beans, roasts, etc. in the dutch oven. She'd put the ingredients into the pot, place it on a charcoal bed and cover the lid with charcoal, and then we'd go off and sightsee, swim, goof off or whatever, come back to camp in the evening, and sit down to some of the best food you've ever had.