A Simple One Pot Meal

      Again, with camping season upon us we need to think about preparing for the trip.  If you're able to drive to your camp site, and can therefore bring more things (as opposed to packing in, when you are forced to meals of dried foods), you can bring a cooler full of fresh foods.  Once the chore of setting up a camp is done you can enjoy the rest of the time relaxing (except for hauling wood, and water to camp all the time and chopping the wood for cooking, for wash water, and for the sheer relaxation value of a nice fire at night).

      Although the main goal is relaxing and reconnecting with good friends, you still have to eat.  Here's a fairly easy, yet tasty recipe you can cook in one pot, or dutch oven.  I don't have a name for it so call it whatever you want to.  
      Start of with enough chicken for everyone you're going to be feeding.  You better have a pot big enough to start off with then too.  
      Put enough flour into the pot to cover all the chicken well.  Mix your spices right in with the flour.  I might suggest things like sage, thyme, oregano, basil, celery seed, salt, pepper, and of course garlic.  Add to or subtract from this list as you like, and use concentrations according to your own liking.  
      Roll the pieces of chick in the flour mixture.  
      Throw a half stick of butter into the pot.  
      Hang the pot low to the fire (use enough s-hooks to get the pot just above the flame) - and having a hotter fire is good at this point. 

     (or those of you who don't know what an s-hook is, they are for hanging pots over the fire.  They come in different sizes, and can be strung together to form a long chain to reach all the way down to the fire.  You can adjust the height of you pot up or down by adding/removing s-hooks.  In other words, to have camp cooking success, you adjust the pots, not the fire.) 
      Brown the chicken a bit.  You don't have to worry about cooking it all the way through at this point, because there is much more cooking to come.  As you are browning the meat throw in some chopped onions to saute.  
      Cut up some carrots and throw them into the pot as well, along with enough potatoes to feed everybody.  Don't chop the potatoes, just cut them in half.  
      Pour White Zinfandel into the pot, covering the mixture, and place the lid onto the pot.  Let it reach a boil, then raise the pot up high (use just your smallest s-hook) to simmer for about an hour to an hour and a half.  Check for tenderness with a fork.  It should be done by this time.  
      Serve it up!  If you want to, you could mash up the potatoes with a fork, and pour the gravy over them.