Campground Cookery

Campground Cookery is "the complete guide to outdoor cooking", and a wonderful addition to your cookbook collection. It has been used extensively not only by campers and backyard barbecuers, but also by scouting troops, youth groups, tailgaters, and wilderness outfitters nationwide.

What's the secret behind terrific outdoor cooking? Knowledge of the basics, seasoned with just the right dash of creativity . . . and a pinch of fun. If your family complains about eating the same old thing on picnics and camping trips, or if your grilling menu simply seems a little tired, perk it up with some tasty suggestions from this classic outdoor cookbook.

Campground Cookery begins with the basics - how to build a campfire suitable for cooking, how to start a grill, and basic recipes for cooking all types of food outdoors.

There are also expanded instructions on dutch ovens, reflector ovens, pie irons, camp stoves and the like, for chefs who enjoy something a bit more adventureous and fun! Then, Campground Cookery goes a step further, with recipes like Sun-Dried Fruit Leathers, Applesauce Pancakes, Cattail Salad, Chicken Booyah, Walleye Fillets Amandine, Grilled Duckling with Cherries, Portabella Mushrooms, Reflector Oven Zucchini Parmigiana, and Pudgie Turtles.

Brenda Kulibert is a free-lance writer whose monthly columns on outdoor cooking have appeared in Camping and RV Magazine and Wisconsin's Great Outdoors. Her articles focus on preparing simple, yet unique meals at the campsite, trail-side and back yard barbeque.