CAMPFIRE COOKERY: SMORES

Ah Joshua Tree.  My knight, who is a camping afficianado, took us all out to Joshua Tree National Park for an overnighter to celebrate Soda's birthday.  We stayed at White Tank--a boys paradise.  It has rocks... 

Big Rocks.  

White Tank is so named because of the beautiful jumbo boulders of white tank granite that surround the campsite.  White tank granite is made of three kinds of rock.  Which brings me serendipitously to the traditional American camping treat known as the s'more which are also a composite of three things: graham crackers, chocolate and...

Roasted MARSHMALLOWS!

To begin...

Grab a fire fork or iron hanger thats been untwisted and straightened out.  To clean it off from it's previous user's marshmallows just 

Stick in the fire.

Clean.  Now for marshmallows...

2 seems good.  It seems balanced...not too many, not too few...

And in over the fire.  Now there are two camps when it comes to cooking s'mores.  Those who like to let it hang over the flame for just a second before strategically...

catching it on fire and burning it.  Very nearly to a crisp.  But those roasters who are in this "catch-it-on-fire" camp enjoy the crisp outside, goey inside, note of char in their roasted marshmallow...not to mention sharing a pyro streak.  I do usually fall into this camp.  But for the sake of this post and all of you who may not care for char and marshmallow pyrotechnics... I will also demonstrate the other camp...

The "perfectly-golden-marshmallow" camp.  Those in this camp have...

patience...perseverance...self-will to overcome the temptation of catching it on fire.

Ah...perfection.  (if I were in this camp, of course)

I've got my set up ready...chocolate, graham crackers...

Sandwich marshmallows between bottom graham cracker and chocolate and top graham cracker and...

gently remove the firework.

Et Voila!  

Which s'more camp do you fall into?? Are you a golden roaster or burn, baby, burn roaster?  Let me know in the "post comment" box!