Camp is All About Food and Fishing!

Do you have a cabin or cottage that you enjoy time at in the summer??  Now that I live on the other end of the country......it's a 6 hour plane ride plus connection times......to get out here for a visit.  I have been very lucky these past two summers to be able to get out and spend nearly a week each summer out at the camp with Ike.  Ike is becoming more interested in finshing and spent a good bit of time catching fish this year.  In my family, fish is most likely to be pan fried, smoked or canned, depending on the type of fish caught.  Mom cans fish in her pressure canner each summer to deal with extra fish. 

It's a very simple process and is good to eat in sandwiches.  She packs each jar with the cleaned fish, leaving the bones in the meat.  Once the jars are full, she adds 1/2 tsp of salt, 2 tbsp vinegar, and 2 tbsp ketchup to each jar.  She then processes the jars at 10 lb pressure in her pressure canner for 1 1/2 hours. 

Some of the other fish that were caught were smoked and shared with the neighbours.  Mom and Dad and I also spent a few hours out picking blueberries since they are right in the middle of picking season here now.  I was interested in taking some home to make syrup since I'll be missing the picking season at home this year.  After a few hours we had picked nearly 4 gallons to take home....yum!

A New Pizza Oven

We are all back from a week away at camp.  We had lots of fun there and ate lots of delicious things.  I was especially excited to see mom's new pizza oven up and running.  We gave it a good try with pizza, rye bread, and even some baked crumble.  Everything tastes better when cooked with a wood fire.......at least I think so.  Now I REALLY want to have one of these in my back yard!  The list of things you could make in it is only limited by your imagination.  We prepared the pizza dough before going to camp so it sat in the fridge until we were ready for it. 

There were periods of intermittent and heavy rain, but we worked around the weather pretty well.  Dad managed to get the oven heated up with a good roaring fire, and mom got the pizza in before any of the serious rain happened.

Fortunately we did have a big umbrella to help recover the cooked pizza and bring it into the kitchen for dinner unharmed. 

Do you have a pizza oven or other wood fired outdoor oven at your house??? What do you like to make in it???  I'm just thinking about all the yuumy things I could make if I had one.........one of these days!

Those Sheets were the Grooviest!

While collecting the vintage sheets I needed to work on this quilt project, I found sheets that were the same as ones that I remember having as a child.  The blue version of them is in this quilt in a few places.  That was probably one of the most fun things about this project.  Well as I am back at mom and dads house...I had to poke around at old photos and what did I find....but a photo of me sitting on my bed.....with those very same sheets...too funny....we were so groovy...now weren't we??  Now I'm actually OK to show you this photo because I actually look much better here than in most old photos.  Mum would have curled my hair in this one as it was poker straight and usual kept short (in a pixie cut....UGG) or in pony tails.