Keeping things simple on the first camping trip of the season with fire roasted kebabs.
After spending much of the winter puttering about indoors, the first camping trip of the season is a welcomed return to the outdoor lifestyle. Now that the days are growing longer, we can finally break out our camping gear, load up the vehicle, and drive off for a relaxing weekend in the wild. Yet, despite our optimism for the new season, spring weather can be less than cooperative. Actually, far less than cooperative.
Our first trip of the season was in mid-March and during those two days it was sunny and warm, then overcast and rainy, then snow flurries, then rainy, then sunny again. This sort of bait-and-switch manic weather pattern is classic spring, but it also makes getting back into the swing of camping particularly challenging. Forget to change the batteries in your headlamp? Left a critical piece of equipment at home? Didn’t bring enough layers? The weather doesn’t care.
So in order to remove one variable from this already turbulent situation, we decided to make kebabs for dinner. From a conceptual standpoint, it doesn’t get much simpler than this. Skewer things you want to eat on a stick and place it over a fire. If you want, you can pre-marinade at home or on-site. And if this is done in a disposable ziplock bag, you have essentially eliminated the need to do dishes at the end of the evening.
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