My little Anna is quite the budding foodie. She will tilt her head back, roll her eyes, and moan if she puts something especially delicious in her mouth. I can always count on her for a good dinner suggestion if I don't know what to fix. Recently she made the leap to creating recipes in her head.

While we were on vacation, she started dreaming up a dessert. "We could take peaches, and apples, and chop them up, and bake them..." I could see the wheels turning! We couldn't make the dessert at that time, but I told her to remember it and we'd try it when we were camping.

At the grocery store two days later, Anna still remembered her inspired dish. "We need an apple and a peach." She picked two big beauties. What are you putting on top? "You know, some flour, and eggs. Oh, and cinnamon." I got a small box of cake mix for the batter she was dreaming up.


Here she is, chopping all the fruit herself. She mixed the cake mix, and egg, and slightly less water than called for, then folded in the fruit.


Anna couldn't resist adding a large amount of these gaudy sprinkles on top.








It was a good learning experience, since she ended up not liking the sprinkles and asked me to cut them off her piece. The cake was delicious! Fruity and moist! We all loved it. I can't wait for a repeat.

Here are the chicken breasts I grilled over our campfire. In the RV, you're a little limited for ingredients. The night before I wanted to saute some chicken in flour, but the flour I had was old and spoiled. Instead, I put some fresh cheerios in a ziplock bag and charged the kids with crushing them. After the chicken bits rolled around in the cheerio crumbs, I cooked them until golden brown and they were terrific! These grilled breasts are rubbed with garlic salt, pepper, lemon juice, and canola oil. They came out so smokey and moist! We had plenty leftover, which we turned into quesadillas al fuego.