potatoes and cake

My church group has a potluck this weekend.

We try to do one every month. It keeps us in touch with each other and give us a non-church time to visit and be together.

My usual food item is Scalloped Potatoes. I have been using raw potatoes, but it tends to turn dark when cooked, and last time, even though it was in the oven for an hour, the potatoes were not cooked through.

So this time I precooked the potatoes in my slow cooker. The results are different enough to think it was a different dish. I think I like the raw potato system better, and if I were to wash the potato slices after I cut them, I think that might help with the discoloring.

When we go camping my big desert item is pineapple upside down cake. I make it in my cast iron dutch oven, sometimes heated with charcoal, sometimes in the campfire, and a few times in a borrowed RV oven!

This time my motive was to remind all that camping season is coming on fast and that I intend to go camping a lot this year and that they are welcome to join me! After the meal there were two pieces left.

As I said earlier, my friends that camp are in the RV mode, some of the are very nice.

Miriam and I are in a time warp. We sleep in a trailer that is basically unchanged since the 40's. I use old fashioned Coleman liquid stoves and lantern and pull it all with an 18 year old car.

What my system lacks in luxury it makes up in simplicity.

I can live with that.