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Whether you are planning a backyard adventure, camping in the woods, celebrating a holiday, or need a simple meal for dinner Dian’s delicious recipes and easy to follow instructions are bound to be a tasty success.

Dian provides her tips and tricks for cooking over an open fire, with a Dutch Oven, and even using house hold items to create a DIY oven. Her innovative ideas are excellent for both beginners and experienced outdoor enthusiasts.

Cooking with a Dutch Oven in Your Backyard

Cooking with a Dutch Oven in Your Backyard

Dian Thomas2025-01-17T23:13:32+00:00January 16th, 2025|Backyard, Dutch Oven, Outdoor Meals|

Backyard Dutch Oven Cooking Made Easy The back yard is a great place to get out and use your Dutch oven. The great part of cooking out in the back yard is that you do not have far to go if you forgot an item [...]

Easy Backyard and Camping Recipes with Minimal Cleanup

Easy Backyard and Camping Recipes with Minimal Cleanup

Dian Thomas2025-01-17T23:13:33+00:00January 16th, 2025|Camping, Outdoor Meals|

Cooking Made Simple and Fun If you like to cook but hate to do the dishes, you'll love these recipes. These are a few of my favorite backyard and camping recipes because they are so easy to do and turn out so great. Cook meat [...]

Kabob Cooking Tips and a Delicious Teriyaki Chicken Strips Recipe

Kabob Cooking Tips and a Delicious Teriyaki Chicken Strips Recipe

Dian Thomas2025-01-17T23:13:33+00:00January 16th, 2025|Backyard, Delicious Food, Outdoor Meals|

Kabobs – A Crowd-Pleasing Favorite Kabobs are always a favorite in outdoor or even indoor cooking. Kabobs can be served as a main dish, a salad or even a dessert. The nice thing about kabobs is that many different bite-sized foods can be arranged on [...]

Creative Food Servers for Your Pioneer Day Celebration

Creative Food Servers for Your Pioneer Day Celebration

Dian Thomas2025-01-17T23:13:33+00:00January 16th, 2025|Backyard, Holiday Fun, Outdoor Meals|

Unconventional Food Servers for a Memorable Pioneer Day Bowls and baskets are wonderful conventional food servers, but you can also create alternative or additional food servers from unconventional items. Pioneers and mountain men occasionally used disposable large leaves and burned-then-scooped-out pieces of wood for bowls [...]

How to Turn Your Backyard into a Relaxing Outdoor Experience

How to Turn Your Backyard into a Relaxing Outdoor Experience

Dian Thomas2025-01-17T23:13:33+00:00January 16th, 2025|Backyard, Family Fun, Outdoor Meals|

Escape the Fast-Paced World in Your Backyard If you are looking for a slow-paced "experience'' in a fast-paced world - look no further than your back yard. Nothing can be more relaxing than to sit around a campfire and share experiences with your family and [...]

10 Key Insights Into Traditional Chinese Food Culture

10 Key Insights Into Traditional Chinese Food Culture

Dian Thomas2025-01-17T23:13:33+00:00January 16th, 2025|China, Delicious Food, Healthy Eating Habits, Travel|

10 Key Insights Into Traditional Chinese Food Culture As I often travel to China and observe their way of life I also gain new insights into the culture. I have been in China this time for the Spring Festival, which is their biggest holiday. It [...]

Football Hoagie and Caesar Salad

Football Hoagie and Caesar Salad

Dian Thomas2025-01-29T21:19:55+00:00January 16th, 2025|Delicious Food, Family Fun, Holiday Fun, Uncategorized|

This Sunday afternoon many friends and families will gather to watch the big football game. It is fun and easy to add a special touch by making some football hoagies, which can be, served along with a wonderful Caesar salad. If football is not on your [...]

Pomegranates: Delicious to Eat and Easy to Deseed

Pomegranates: Delicious to Eat and Easy to Deseed

Dian Thomas2025-01-16T16:04:31+00:00January 16th, 2025|Delicious Food, Healthy Eating Habits|

I was first introduced to the pomegranate when I was a very young child. I remember my mother would buy each of us a pomegranate.Once the fruit was open, it usually took the better part of the evening getting the tiny seeds out and eating [...]

Exploring the Rich and Unique Culinary Traditions of China

Exploring the Rich and Unique Culinary Traditions of China

Dian Thomas2025-01-16T16:03:41+00:00January 16th, 2025|China, Delicious Food|

China has a culture that is over 5000 years old and many of the traditions have been passed down for thousands of years. The Chinese enjoy a plentiful breadbasket today, but for many years food was very scarce and many even starved. China is geographically [...]

Warm Up This Winter with These Top 10 Soup-Making Tips

Warm Up This Winter with These Top 10 Soup-Making Tips

Dian Thomas2025-01-16T16:03:40+00:00January 16th, 2025|Delicious Food|

With cool days and cold nights ahead the perfect thing to warm you up during the winter months is soup. Valerie Phillips, a very good friend of mine, has put her creative juices together and now put out a wonderful book entitled, Soup’s On! We’ve [...]

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Cooking with a Dutch Oven in Your Backyard

Cooking with a Dutch Oven in Your Backyard

Easy Backyard and Camping Recipes with Minimal Cleanup

Easy Backyard and Camping Recipes with Minimal Cleanup

Kabob Cooking Tips and a Delicious Teriyaki Chicken Strips Recipe

Kabob Cooking Tips and a Delicious Teriyaki Chicken Strips Recipe

Creative Food Servers for Your Pioneer Day Celebration

Creative Food Servers for Your Pioneer Day Celebration

How to Turn Your Backyard into a Relaxing Outdoor Experience

How to Turn Your Backyard into a Relaxing Outdoor Experience

10 Key Insights Into Traditional Chinese Food Culture

10 Key Insights Into Traditional Chinese Food Culture

Football Hoagie and Caesar Salad

Football Hoagie and Caesar Salad

Pomegranates: Delicious to Eat and Easy to Deseed

Pomegranates: Delicious to Eat and Easy to Deseed

Exploring the Rich and Unique Culinary Traditions of China

Exploring the Rich and Unique Culinary Traditions of China

Warm Up This Winter with These Top 10 Soup-Making Tips

Warm Up This Winter with These Top 10 Soup-Making Tips

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