Cooking On The Go

With kids on board, safety comes first when working in the galley. After that, the sky’s the limit. Kids can help with planning, shopping, preparing, and eating campground meals.

If you’ve been meaning to adopt aspects of the Mediterranean diet into your lifestyle but need simpler recipes to mesh with your busy life on the go, let’s get started.

Motorhome cooks love slow cookers. Meals steam and steep for hours, developing flavor and tenderness without tiresome tending. However, there is another way to free your day for campground fun: wok cooking.

In preparation for times when you need to fall back on an emergency food supply, here are recipes to help with planning, stowing, and cooking.

In 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth. In 2013 the state will observe its rich Spanish heritage and cultural diversity during a celebration titled Viva Florida 500.

It’s been a few years since I dehydrated foods for RV trips, but now dehydrator fever has struck again. Harvest season is the perfect time to travel country roads, attend fruit and vegetable festivals, and buy by the bushel at farmers’ markets.

RV travel is a team sport, always best when children play a role in planning the trip, preparing meals, looking for nature specimens, and sharing tall tales around the campfire. Here are some recipes that are simple enough for children to make, yet delicious enough for the whole family to enjoy.

These recipes taste delicious, are easy to make in the motorhome galley or outside on the grill, and they will help shave costs, calories, or both.

French, Cajun, and Creole flavors are the crown jewels of Louisiana cuisine, where good dishes begin with a cooked flour-fat mixture known as a roux. Come to the state’s southwest corner to discover the best in gumbo, boudin, sweet dough pies, and much more.

These rawboned recipes are as good for the campfire as they are in the modern RV kitchen or gas grill.

While you’re outdoors enjoying a cookout, it’s always nice to have a little something sweet to finish off the meal. But who wants to spend the better part of the day inside the motorhome baking? In these situations, it’s great to have a slow cooker that can be used inside the motorhome or plugged in outside.

Enjoy the tastes of upstate South Carolina by trying one or more of these homegrown recipes.

Stephen Fried’s new book, Appetite for America, is the story of Fred Harvey restaurants, once found at every major rail station in the Western United States. Mr. Fried’s book isn’t a cookbook, although it does have several recipes. It’s a treasure for travelers, historians, nostalgia buffs, and those who love the Old West.