This is a meal for those lazy days at camp when you roll in late but need something that would hit the inner core of your being. Or, it’s for those colder nights when a sandwich just won’t do. It’s quick to put together, and quick to cook up.

There’s power in food. One bite of something and it can transport you straight back into a single moment in time. It could be the smell, or the faint taste of something very familiar during the after taste. Whatever that trigger is, Karissa and I usually find ourselves holding onto it for a fleeting moments.

I’m down for eating healthy. I’d be lying if I said I don’t need to. My roundness would be my Pinocchio nose if I was. I would eat a wonderful salad, or a hipster-tastic ancient grain bowl filled with all the millennial healthy buzz words and the latest of alternative ingredients, only to dig for snacks no more than half an hour later…

I have a simple philosophy for our on-the-road cooking: keep it under two cooking pots, have no more than ten ingredients, and a max of two exotic/harder to get ingredients. I tend to follow this self-made line of reasoning with very few variations. On the day-to-day, we have fairly simple meals….

There’s never a right or wrong way. Especially with food. We’re all so fixated on this notion of authenticity that it almost blinds us from actually enjoying meals. If the food is delicious, and if it has all the right hints and notes of the culture it derived from, it’s authentic because the cook made it that way…

One of the many misconceptions about Indian curries is the idea that they’re stews which take a very long time to simmer away. But in reality, they’re quite the opposite! From start to finish, you can be done and eating in 20 minutes. A little bit of extra-ness goes a long way when you’re on the road…w

A little bit of effort goes a long way. Camp Mexican-style beef birria on a warm-in-the-sun-but-chilly-in-the-shade sort of day hits the spot like very little else. Marinade the night before, toss it into a dutch oven in the morning, and you have incredible soul touchingly good tacos and soup by lunch…