Travel Trailer Blogs

The first time that we considered a macerator, our Oliver had sat in the RV port with the holding tanks about half full. We had stayed at the lake until late in the day and just didn’t have time to dump the tanks because we had to be at work the next day.

Wintering up down on the Gulf of Mexico and wondering about the possible effects of salt air on your aluminum framed Oliver? Not a problem!

When building your Oliver, as you work on your build sheet, you may decide to add a propane QUICK CONNECT to facilitate use of various propane appliances such as a BBQ grill or Little Red campfire in a can.

In this final part of the Dutch oven series, the meat of our topic has been revealed right along through the series, a little at a time, out of necessity, in order to fully cover each area. So, let’s pull those little fragments together.

Dad was in the US Navy at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. And, he was an E-7 First Class Aviation Metalsmith, teaching the Aviation Metalsmith trade to sailors, before they were deployed to the fleet. We were living in enlisted housing near by the Naval Air Station Alameda close to Oakland California. I was too young to remember much at that time, but curiosity caused me to inquire of Mom & Dad in later years.

We invite everyone to visit our wonderful little town and check out the many activities taking place during the holiday season.

Thanksgiving is a fun national holiday. People throughout the country get together with their friends and family to eat a delicious homemade Thanksgiving dinner, with stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, gravy and all of the other trimmings. If you decide to take advantage of the extended weekend to enjoy some camping, here area few ideas for a modified campfire Thanksgiving dinner.

Most of the time your fuel source will dictate which method will work best for you. For example if you are cooking with live coals on the ground and your fuel source is foraged but uncut limb wood, the tripod will give you some good options.

I lost my cast irons seasoning trying something new, what now? It is a quick fix that you can do readily after cleaning your cast iron cookware. It is just a simple matter of preheating the cookware, adding cooking oil and rubbing it down with a paper towel.

When the wagon trains were moving west as America was being settled, there weren’t any charcoal briquettes down at the corner convenience store, so everyone used hard wood or buffalo chips for cooking fuel.

Needing to apply heat to the top and the bottom at the same time is almost exclusively a Dutch oven thing. For example when choking corn dodgers, it is usually a cast iron frying pan that is used and the dodger is turned as needed with a fork or spatula. Here is a look at cooking corn dodgers over a campfire.

As a child here in these Ouachita mountains I discovered that there were some pretty cool secrets to be gleaned from a visit to Grandma’s kitchen. However this neat trick came from helping Grandpa’ as we processed a couple of fattening hogs for the freezer.