Camping with Mom. My Mom is in her mid seventies and has been hinting around about "seeing the stars at night in the mountains" ever since the start of the camping season. So, I made us reservations at a nice campground about half an hour's drive away (I live very close to the mountains) and we spent a couple of days doing the camping thing. We ate, read a lot, watched an old movie, ate, took a drive, sat around the campfire several times, hunted for wood, ate, watched the ever delightful hummingbirds at the feeder we had set up, read some more and slept in our respective sleeping quarters. Merle came up with us the first evening and helped us set things up. Now, let me make it clear. I can set things up, I've done it on my own before. However, the day had been a long one including working at my part time job in the morning. By the time we were ready to drive to the campground, I was pretty bushed. So, my handy dandy husband suggested that maybe he should come along, help us a bit and go back home (poor guy has to go to work to finance these outings, you know). The campground is that close. He also came up for dinner on Tuesday evening. We made Frito Pie for dinner. I had forgotten about it and Mom suggested we make it.
FRITO PIE
Canned chili with or without beans (2 cans for 3 people)
Old style Fritos
Shredded cheese (or sinful Velveeta)
Chopped onion
Heat the chili. Layer ingredients in a large bowls as follows: Fritos, cheese, hot chili, a little chopped onion and then repeat the layering until the ingredients are exhausted. We had two layers each. Shovel it in your pie hole with a spoon. This is very tasty even when you eat it without the campsite.
Nothing particularly exciting happened, but we had a good time. I carried my bear spray, had a knife in the camper and the axe. Just in case some nasty critters tried to mess with us............but, nothing like that happened. Just one agressive chipmunk or two was all.
Later.
