Campground Cooking: Bacon

Here are some tips to make it easier to keep bacon on board for those quick snacks, even if you eat out most of the time.

Sam's Club carries a 3-pound package that I like to buy because it reduces the price to "affordable".

But a 3-pound package of bacon in a small RV refrigerator or freezer is a bit unwieldy.

Here's a way to solve the problem:

First, I want to mention a really cool tip that makes it easy to separate the slices of bacon.

All you have to do, before you even open the package of bacon, is lay it down on a flat surface, and roll it from side to side, so that the bacon slices slide past one another, like shuffling a deck of cards.

Then, when you open the package, the bacon slices will peel apart easily.

Now, back to how to make it easy to store the bacon:

Note, in the first photograph, that I've rolled up a 3-pound package of thick-sliced bacon, then cut the roll in half.

Each half fits snugly into a 3-cup Glad plastic container (see photo) that stores easily on the refigerator shelf or even in the freezer.

The last photo shows the (now "un-rolled") bacon package, so that you can see the loosened, but undamaged, slices of bacon. The slices of bacon on the plate show that the bacon slices are still nicely shaped and came apart nicely.

Another benefit of this method, btw, is that those "half slices", are a lot easier to handle in the smaller skillet or microwave that you are likely to be using in your RV.

Rainy Day at Lazy L RV Park,

Lazy L RV Park... High if not dry.

One of the driest places for RVers in North Texas, during the rain storms and floods of July, 2007, was the Lazy L RV Park in Sherman.

That's not to say it was "dry", but that, due to the slopes of the ground, was high above the worst of the flooding.

The uninteresting-looking last photo, below (if you double-click on the photo you can read the logo on the side of a truck going by on the highway), shows that the park is above the highway, so that water drained away from the park.

There were a lot of RVers in Lazy L the entire flood, quite possibly due to the fact that it provided a safe haven from other flooded areas.

Keep that in mind if you find yourself needing a dry spot during Spring rains. (Click the title of this post for a link to their website.)

Note, in the first photo, my computer work station at my motorhome's windshield.

It was a good time for me to sit tight and get caught up on computer work.