Embers of a Campfire


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Spooky Campfire Tales


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New from the team that has brought us Spooky New England and other Spooky titles are thirty classic creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurences. Expert storytelling and evocative illustrations once again prove perfect for reading aloud or retelling later. Whether gathered around the campfire or read on a dark and stormy night, these tales will stay with you long after you close the book's covers.




Campfire Cookery


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“The variety of dishes that Huck and Young present as possibilities for preparing and cooking outdoors is rather astounding and pleasantly surprising” (Epicurious). Camping fare typically includes burgers and hot dogs, and while these are certainly easy, get ready to rethink the cuisine that can be savored over the open flame. With recipes like Spiced Currant Cream Scones, Maple-Glazed Wild Salmon, and Tomato Tarte Tatin, Huck and Young celebrate delicious food and the great outdoors. They also include step-by-step instructions for activities such as stargazing, foraging for woodland berries, and minding one’s fruits of the sea (or, how to clean a fish). Campfire Cookery proves that the campfire cannot only be a blissful escape but a true culinary destination. “It is the rare cookbook that has even the camping-averse actually contemplating a weekend of mosquitoes and sweaty sleeping bags . . . But really, we simply love the recipes.” —LA Weekly




The Kids Campfire Book


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This collection of outdoor activities, games, stories, songs, and more is for kids and families to share around the campfire. Kids learn how to make pizza over an open fire, tell a spooky ghost story, or create musical instruments for a singalong. With more than 125 pages of fun things to do, "The Kids Campfire Book" is the perfect book for every camper or camp counselor.




The Backyard Fire Cookbook


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Ditch the gas grill and light your fire with this comprehensive guide from the author of The New Camp Cookbook. The Backyard Fire Cookbook offers techniques and recipes to master cooking with live fire and coals, including planking, cast iron, foil packets, and more. There's no denying the thrill of cooking outdoors and the sense of community it brings when people gather around a fire, and in this book, author Linda Ly will teach you how to master the flames. For the adventurous, start by building a home fire pit. It's easier than it sounds and requires minimal investment of time and space. If you'd rather not, that's okay! There are plenty of other options, from vessel fire pits to tabletop grills. Even a charcoal kettle grill will give you more flavor than cooking with gas. Ly also covers everything you need to know about fuel sources (hardwood, hardwood lump charcoal, and smoking wood), her go-to grilling tools and accessories, secrets for stocking an indoor and outdoor pantry, fire making, fire safety, and tips and tricks for grilling more efficiently. You can choose your own adventure with over 70 recipes for ember roasting, wood-fired cooking, charcoal grilling, and foil pack meals. Next-level techniques like dutch oven cooking, grilling a la plancha, and plank grilling are all part of the fun, too. With modern twists on classics and globally-inspired meals like Smoky Ember-Roasted Eggplant Dip, Thai Chicken Pizza with Sweet Chili Sauce, Grilled Oysters with Kimchi Butter, Bacon-Wrapped Meatloaf on a Plank, and Artichoke, Sun-Dried Tomato, and Feta Stuffed Flank Steak, you’ll find a recipe for almost every occasion. This is not a book about low-and-slow barbecue, and you won't find overnight marinades or complicated recipes, either. Ly aims to encourage easy, accessible grilling that you look forward to doing on a weeknight because, quite simply, food just tastes better outside. Whether you're a seasoned home cook or a novice on the grill, The Backyard Fire Cookbook will help you make the backyard your new kitchen.




Finding Fire


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Finding Fire is a book about cooking with fire. Now with a new cover, it tells the story of how the UK-trained chef Lennox Hastie learnt the language of fire and the art of harnessing it. The book presents more than 80 recipes that celebrate the instinctive, focused cooking of ingredients at their simple best using one of the oldest, most fundamental cooking tools. In Finding Fire, Lennox explains the techniques behind creating a quality fire, and encourages readers to see wood as an essential seasoning that can be varied according to how it interacts with different ingredients. Recipes are divided by food type: seafood, vegetables, meat (including his acclaimed steak), fruit, dairy, wheat and bases. Alongside his recipes, Lennox tells of his journey from Michelin-star restaurants in the UK, France and Spain to Victor Arguinzoniz's Asador Etxebarri in the Basque mountains and, ultimately, to Australia to open his own restaurant, Firedoor. The result, is an uncompromising historical, cultural and culinary account of what it means to cook with fire. In 2020, Lennox's story was featured on the critically acclaimed Netflix series Chef's Table, in season seven, BBQ. As well, he stars in David Chang's Ugly Delicious season two episode on steak. .




Campfire Connoisseur


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**Unlock the Secrets to Gourmet Wilderness Cuisine with "Campfire Connoisseur A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting the Perfect Campfire Pizza"** Venture into the great outdoors with the tantalizing allure of crisp, smoky crusts and bubbling cheese as your guide. "Campfire Connoisseur" is not just a cookbook—it's a manual to transform your campsite into a rustic pizzeria nestled under a starlit sky. From the thrilling hunt for the choicest campsite to the satisfying sizzle of fresh toppings on a golden crust, this comprehensive guide unlocks the world of culinary mastery over the open fire. Dive headfirst into the elemental joys of assembling the ultimate campfire kitchen. Learn about selecting the perfect locale, gathering essential tools, and mastering the flames to create the hearth for your creations. Embrace the craft of kneading the perfect dough with techniques tailored to the challenges and rewards of an outdoor setting. Revel in the alchemy of creating sauces and spreads from scratch, that cater not just to taste, but to the unique dynamics of campfire cooking. Discover the secret to choosing and melting cheeses that yield that irresistible, stringy pull. Traverse the wild with an expert eye for foraging; pick edible plants and mushrooms, adding an adventurous twist to your pizza toppings straight from nature’s bounty. Fine-tune the assembly of your pizza with strategies that ensure even cooking and maximum flavor. Master various techniques for the perfect bake employ your cast iron skillet, construct a makeshift pizza oven, or dare to place your dough directly on embers. Understand the art of the peel and rotate, monitoring heat, altitude, and humidity to achieve a crust of sublime perfection. Whether it's catering to a crowd with varying tastes, accommodating dietary restrictions, or crafting pizzas that are meaty, sweet, or purely plant-based, "Campfire Connoisseur" equips you with the skills for every scenario. Witness your commune around the fire strengthen through the shared joy of pizza-making, and learn how to leave your campsite as pristine as you found it. Immerse yourself in the delights of campfire pizza cookery and become a maestro of the open flames. With this guide, you'll not only be ready to conquer any cooking challenge the wild presents but also to create memories that are as rich and rewarding as the dishes you'll serve. Embark on your journey, slice in hand, to become the ultimate "Campfire Connoisseur."




Make Campfires Safe


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Embers


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"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on—and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits drop away. It's a good way to travel; eventually I will wear away all resistance until all there is left of me is light. I can live towards that end." —Richard Wagamese, Embers In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in the bush—sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date. Honest, evocative and articulate, he explores the various manifestations of grief, joy, recovery, beauty, gratitude, physicality and spirituality—concepts many find hard to express. But for Wagamese, spirituality is multifaceted. Within these pages, readers will find hard-won and concrete wisdom on how to feel the joy in the everyday things. Wagamese does not seek to be a teacher or guru, but these observations made along his own journey to become, as he says, "a spiritual bad-ass," make inspiring reading.




The Campfire Cookbook


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Whether you are a weekend camper of a long distance hiker, "The Campfire Cookbook" is the ultimate practical guide to taking off, packing light and eating well. Chock full of practical and culinary tips, this facinating book will show you just why fresh lemon juice, ginger and garlic are worth many times their weight, why dried fruits and nuts make the most potent nutritious meal to keep you going, and teach you how to plan meals for large or small gatherings, long or short trips. You'll learn how to create a functioning outdoor 'kitchen', even in a downpour, and find indispensable information on when and what to enjoy from the wild, from gathering fresh water or wild mushrooms, to lighting a safe and welcoming campfire with minimum impact to the environment, to how best to pack up and clean up when you leave. This book won't recommend a Spartan diet, or reliance on packaged freeze-dried meals every day of your trip; there is practical detail on cooking stoves and utensils, lightweight equipment and over 70 interesting and varied recipes, including those you can pre-prepare at home, for robust meals that you will truly want to cook in the great outdoors. This colourfully illustrated guide is an evocative yet essential book for any adventurer – pack lightly, tread carefully and eat heartily.