Camp Cooking

  They’re coming … and the sun isn’t even up yet.Normally, the ocean waves are the only noise you hear on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula....

During the holidays, we always make some traditional dishes, but I like to find something to add a new “wow” to the table. This...

  Pumpkins may be the Charlie Brown of vegetables. They’re largely ignored all year, until October or November. Then we carve them, smash them or...

  Candy comes to mind at this sweet time of year, and no one does holiday treats better than Hammond’s Candies (www.hammondscandies.com), an old-time candy...

You either love them or hate them. Oysters. Those gnarly-shelled bivalves generate strong reactions, from devotees waxing poetic about the best varieties to those...

  A Holiday Dish That Might Just Change Your Mind About This Showy Shellfish Before we know it, the holidays will be upon us. Our holiday...

  I love eating at a place with a sense of history, and the Baldwin Saloon in The Dalles, located in Oregon’s beautiful Columbia River...

In northern climates like the Pacific Northwest, a little forest jewel is ripening – wild mountain blackberries.   For RVers who are traveling to Oregon,...

The fruit most associated with the winter holiday season is the cranberry. We eat cranberries jellied or fresh and whole as a tangy side...

Mudbug. Crayfish. Mudpup. Crawdaddy. Crawfish. Whatever you call them, those little warm water crustaceans are delicious, relatively inexpensive, easy to cook and make a...