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An area with almost unlimited fawet potential is cooking. I'm camping this weekend and I've volunteered to cook for our patrol. I'll be making seven meals for six to twelve people (for some meals we'll have guests).

Here's the menu:

Friday lunch (9): Chicken curry salad sandwiches, dried fruit, coffee, juice.

Friday dinner (12): Tomato soup, sourdough bread, green salad, baked silver salmon with cherry tomatoes, coffee and vanilla instant ice cream, coffee, juice

Saturday breakfast (9): Breakfast burritos with scrambled eggs, sausage, green onions and sweet onions, yellow and orange bell peppers, coffee, juice.

Saturday lunch (9): Pilot bread, cheese, hard salami, vegetable tray, coffee, juice.

Saturday dinner (6): Vegetable soup, crusty bread, shepherd's pie, fudge brownies, coffee, juice.

Sunday Breakfast (6): Oatmeal with nuts, cranberries, honey, brown sugar, butter, sausage, coffee, juice.

Sunday Lunch (9): Cold cut wraps, ham and turkey with pesto or cream cheese, dried fruit, coffee, juice.

I'll pre-prepare as much of the ingredients as I can. The chicken curry salad will be made at home and transported in a big ziploc bag and stored on ice in a cooler for assembly at lunch. I'll do this same thing with the dinner salad (bagged salad), the wraps (all prepackaged, more assembly than cooking). The dinners will be cooked though. I'm a little anxious about that prospect. I'll be baking in dutch ovens, but no charcoal, only monster propane stoves (car camping scale gear). And I have a very short timeframe to get the food ready. That's why the lunches for example are fix eat and go. The coffee will probably take the longest.

So, gear fawet... I'll need (for example, working through a meal)

a big stove for the main courses -- salmon two dutch ovens, two burners on the big stove

a campstove for coffee
and a ten tin

a campstove for soup -- can I use them sequentially? No, I'll want coffee with my dinner.
and a pot for the soup

two one gallon jugs for the juice -- wait, divide the juice mix so I can get away with only one one gal jug. good. divide and ziploc.

teflon wok for ice cream -- don't forget secret ingredient from Central Welding Supply, and gloves and goggles/safety glasses

big bowl to serve salad

cutting board to cut bread, prepare sandwiches. what about using the top of the coolers, covered with .. with.. foil / paper towels

ok, paper towels, foil, serving spoons, tongs, TRASH BAGS, could use a handful of ten tins for water carrying, salad serving, soup prep / serving... bring nesting pots and pot lids pot grabbers...

I think this will be enough for me to organize the mountain of food in the kitchen.