no matter how long or short our stay in the woods will be, i inevitably find myself putting a lot of time and thought into the camp friendly foods that we'll be bringing along with us... breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. i flip through clipped magazine articles, cookbooks, scan a few websites — jotting down ideas old and new, doodling image after image of simple and dreamy eats to be consumed out under the trees and sky... and always appearing on these brainstorming lists is the iconic sketch of a marshmallow on a stick over a few flames... you know, for smores: good chocolate, good fire-toasted marshmallows and good graham crackers.
before we left i baked up a batch of graham crackers using this amazing recipe. so much better than from the box - these are softer and more cookie-like and they travel just as well. i protected them by wrapping them up in a little parchment paper and a recycled piece of a brown paper bag....
and kept on going... by then stamping the sweet parcel... and tying a little cotton twine... (and i wonder why it was that i forgot to pack any socks for margaret. but i think the smores we ended up having outside our tent may just have made up for that little fact. and thank goodness we did remember the winter hats)