Easy "Gourmet" Camping Dinner

THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL IMAGE. 

Ok, I love the idea of having steamy, hot, creamy linguine Alfredo after a day of fun family camping, so I came up with a camping "recipe" that is as easy as boiling water, but has a BIG payoff:

Start with good linguine.

Buy two jars of Alfredo sauce.

Buy one can of chicken breast meat.

Buy one jar of roasted red peppers.

Buy one jar of marinated artichoke hearts.

If you feel like being fancy, roast some pine-nuts.

Basically, cook the linguine, add the ingredients, let simmer for about five minutes so everything gets to know each other, and voila. 

Of course, this is a heavy-to-carry meal, so it's really for car camping.  And, please, recycle the jars and can. 

Our anniversary overnite camping trip is coming up, and I offered to cook steaks on the open fire for my wife and me, and she actually said she wanted this instead.

If only I could pretend it was actually hard to make!!!!

Tent Update

Update on the Titan Tent:

So, last year (2013) we purchased a Eureka Titan tent because we were moving up to a family of six and needed something bigger.  You can read my posts from last summer if you want the full review of the tent.  If you DID read those posts (which you haven't because no one reads my posts--if a blog posts in the forest by itself, does it really make a sound??? :>), you will note we love the size, layout, ease of putting it up, quality of materials, BUT, it did let in water during a big rainstorm.

My fault.

The tent came with seam sealant but I didn't seam seal it.  THIS summer I sealed the tent along the non-tapped seams that leaked before.  The result:

In Door Country we weathered about a two-inch rain night without any significant leakage.  The tent walls did get a bit clammy (maybe that happens with ALL tents in such circumstances.), but the rain fly and sealed areas were great. We shipped a little water where an air mattress was stuffed against the side of the tent.  My guess is that if the mattress had been off of the wall, we wouldn't have had the little trickle we got.

So, with seams sealed properly the text did great.  The Titan is a nice little cabin in the woods for a big family.

We also updated to two cots (one for me and my wife), and that freed up TONS of space because we now could put luggage below the cots. 

So, for a big, sturdy, easy to use, cabin like tent for car camping, I am pleased with this tent.