Post-Camping Cooking Haze

Dinner Menu:

Lamb Liver Pâté, Red Curry Zucchini & Steamed Green Beans (Olsen Farms, farmer's market, Oxbow Farms)
Blueberries (Whitehorse Meadows Farm)
Chicken Bone Broth (Stokesberry Sustainable Farm)

We made it back!  We had a blast!  Camping was a lot of fun!

And now we are surrounded in a mass of laundry.  I wore the same pair of pants and the same shirt basically all weekend.  (I smelled great when we got home, by the way.)  How in the world do I have so much laundry?

In any case, camping was great.  It was a LOT of down time, and when you have small children, this means a lot of time spent moving rocks/dirt/seashells from point A to point B.... and then back to point A again.  Our 3 year old loved it.  The 11 month old spent the entire weekend sitting in dirt, getting progressively more and more filthy, and as a result... more and more happy.  I've never met a baby who loved to be dirty more than ours.  The kid would just splash in a mud puddle all day if we let him.  We just played with the kids, went to the rocky/seashell beach and went for a small hike.  We walked around a lot.  We ate lots of snacks.  We *sort of* slept, about as well as you do when you are camping at least.  We came back refreshed and recharged and really relaxed.

But we're back now and it's back to normal foods.  And I needed some normal.  In the span of 36 hours, I had hot dogs, sausages AND bacon.  And eggs scrambled in bacon grease.  Because we're novice campers, I didn't really pack complicated foods.  And because I'm paleo and don't eat much fruit anymore, that means I did some intermittent fasting and had some coconut oil here and there... and basically just ate meat.  Which was awesome.  But now I need some vegetation.

So tonight I had veggies and a bit of pâté for dinner tonight.  (It was frozen, made from some lamb from Olsen Farms that I had gotten a few weeks back, so it made for a quick and easy dinner.)  Your whole family eats pâté, you say?  Of course!  Will and the 3 year old prefer it on some Nut Thins, but the baby and I just eat it by the spoonful.  

I'm well aware that pâté and curried vegetables and green beans is an odd dinner.  I realized that when I sat down to take a picture of it.  I blame post-camping brain.  The kids and Will were getting really hungry by 4pm, and so I threw together what I had as fast as possible.  Let's call it fusion-style, perhaps?

We did manage to stop by a Sunday farmer's market today and pick up some blueberries, which were an excellent dessert.  And since I was tired from two nights of sleeping on the ground (no air mattresses for us, sadly!) I drank a big mug of nourishing chicken bone broth with my dinner as well, courtesy of a lovely chicken we purchased from Stokesberry Sustainable Farm a few weeks back.

Good to be home!