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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.