Fire cooking
Trip to the Forest with My Class Through my work as a schoolteacher, I make a point of taking my classes out into the forest from time to time. I’m fortunate to be able to borrow a scout cabin, shelter site, and forest area from the Yellow Scouts. It’s healthy for the kids to spend a day outdoors—making a fire, chopping wood, and preparing their meals over the fire. Usually, there’s plenty of time for bushcraft or carving, but last time it ended up being just cooking. And that’s perfectly fine. Gear The pack was fairly heavy for just a couple of days in the woods. But I was also carrying extra axes and plenty of carving kits for lending out. The food bag has good capacity, and one bag can easily hold enough food for a single-day trip. There’s tea and coffee, bread mix, risotto, Parma ham, soups, spices, and a box of butter. Biscuits I’ve been experimenting with making dry dough mixes at home that can be kneaded in a bag and used for flatbreads or buns. A mix where you only...
