February 16, 2024
Flat Creek Family Campground and RV Park has nice fire rings and picnic tables at the camp sites.
Since we had a nice fire ring and pleasant weather, we decided to have a campfire.
On February 7, we bought hotdogs in anticipation of roasting them over a campfire. Bruce started to put hotdog buns into the cart. I stopped him by saying, “I’ll make hotdog buns.”
On February 8, I made the hotdog buns and some hamburger buns to use later.
On February 9, Bruce and I headed to the campground store and bought two bundles of firewood.
Bruce set up the campfire and after a bit, we had a nice campfire burning.
As the fire burned down, I went inside to prepare the hotdog fixings while Bruce watched the fire.
I chopped up a small sweet onion, heated up chili, grated cheese and set out the dill pickle relish, mustard, and ketchup. I split my homemade hotdog buns and put them into the toaster,
Once the logs had burned down to coals, we roasted hotdogs on sticks over the coals.
Then, we toasted the hotdog buns and added the fixings and hotdogs to the buns. It was delicious!
After eating the hotdogs, we washed up and watched the coals for a bit. I brought out marshmallows. We happily put marshmallows on the end of the sticks and toasted marshmallows over the coals.
Bruce doused the fire with water after our marshmallow roast.
We don’t do this very often, so it is a lot of fun when we do.
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I am sure they were delicious on those homemade buns! I would eat one without even a hot dog in it.
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They would make great small hoagie buns. I would have to experiment a bit to get the right number of dough pieces for a regulator sized hoagie bun.
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Oh, I can just imagine how good a hoagie would be.
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That sounds really good! I’ll just have to dream for now; there’s too much snow on the front range for a campfire to be much fun. Enjoy your good weather!
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Brrrr! I am so glad to be away from the snow in Colorado. We are going to get rain tonight and tomorrow here in Florida.
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So jealous! That sounds wonderful. 😊
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It was a lot of fun!
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The fact that you’re able to enjoy the outdoors at this time of year! It’s still too chilly for us here, so I’ll just keep looking forward to warmer weather.
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I am so glad to be away from the snow and cold! It did get down in the high 30’s last night. It is supposed to warm back up later this week.
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It is real camping when you have a wood fire and roast hotdogs and marshmallows! Sounds like a nice evening. In Arizona we are not allowed to have a real fire. We have a small propane fire pit, and a small propane gas grill. We had Beyond Brats the other day which were pretty good, but Wayne gave me a hard time for buying the commercial buns, not even the store bakery buns. They were half the price!
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It was a lovely evening. It depends where we are that determines what type of fire is allowed. Some places allow wood fires and others don’t. If we are in a spot that allows wood fires, we try to have a campfire and toast marshmallows. If we prepare a bit sooner, I’ll buy hotdogs and buns. Or I’ll make buns. This was the second time I’ve made buns. I like the homemade buns better, so I’m thinking they are the way to go.
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