Salisbury Beach (getting to know me) TR

[mouseketab.....Carol 1,261]

Very cool TR!!!!

[DaveInTN 3,247]

Let me get this straight. You guys bake fresh pies every single night you camp?

I call next GG at Cindy's!

[doodlebug....Cherie 461]

I second that!

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Hi Lou!

Nope, no amusement park anymore. You would be appalled at how the 'center' has changed! They are trying to revitalize it, but it's a lot of condo's and discount stores now. But a few vestiges of the old days remain. Happy's Fried dough and Lemonade (the best anywhere). Tripoili's Pizza, Cristy's pizza (which were you?) Joe's Playland, Carefree Arcade and Willy's ice cream are among the remaining places. The state reservation now has 484 camp sites and is extremely popular.

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Yes, if I have time, I cook a pie almost every night. (or we eat the leftovers if we didn't finish the pie that night. Ha ha ha--didn't finish the pie -- ha ha ha).

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Ohh. and here's a tease for those car fans out there.

our 100 yr old 1912 Model T Ford. :-) Ken restored it back in 1997.

[doodlebug....Cherie 461]

That is very cool!!!

[Nicki aka Rebelstand 272]

you just made my son's day!

[PureTcrazy...rita 380]

Thanks for sharing Cindy! You are right, the TR's are a good way to get to know a little more about folks. We know you bake pies and have fun. Both are very important qualities in a Fiend!

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Here's a photo of the River. We are on the campground side and you can see Plum Island across the river. That's Ken in the water starting a water fight w/ all the kids.

[AC in A2......Aaron 693]

Looks like a very nice place to be camping Cindy! I can't wait to explore new places like that when we get a RV of our own someday.

[CCIntrigue...aka Gwen 547]

Great TR. Your girls are beautiful!

[stefa70 205]

That was a great report!!

I love the fact that you can do river AND beach. How cool is that?!

Great picture of the family around the campfire. I wish more families would do that, not mine of course because someone is bound to leave with a black eye, but some other nice families, like yours. :)

Thanks for sharing with us.

[wak648...Bill 94]

I loved camping at Salisbury when I was younger! then in college a bunch of us used to grab a tent and camp there when we went deep sea fishing for the blues of the isle of sholes. My favorite seafood restraunt was Ray's up in Rye NH.

Does Hampton Beach still shot of the fireworks a couple of times a week? We used to sit on the beach at Salisbury and watch them.

[Tri-Circle-D 2,059]

I have been off the grid for a few days, so I am way behind on my reading.

I just read this report.

Excellent job!

I loved the photo of the whole gang around the campfire.

Awesome!

TCD

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Bill, Yes Hampton does free concerts in the new Half shell and Fireworks on Wednesday nights! Salisbury does free concerts in the center and Fireworks on Saturday nights. We could see the Salisbury fireworks well from our site, but the Hampton ones, not so much... There was someone on Plum Island that shot off his own private show almost every night and those were wonderful from the roof of our camper.

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Thanks TCD for the nice comments. I'm so blessed with Ken's family! His Mom and Dad are amazing! He has an older sister and 2 younger brothers. Michelle (she's the one in the scooter--she has spina bifida, hence the scooter) She's married w/ 3 kids, 2 boys ages 14 & 11 and a 7 yr old girl. David is married w/ one child a 6 yr old girl, and Joey is also married w/ 2 girls ages 6 & 5. So lots and lots of little girls!!! All four of them all had girls w/in 13months of each other!!! how cool is that? So, we all try to camp at this campground the first week in July every year. next year will be the 5th year. And I look forward to it every year. The cousins all have such a good time together and there is always enough adults around to watch the kids and do lots of different activities (bike riding, crafts, going to the beach, walks, taking them to the playground, ect) it's truly a wonderful way to spend a week.

[fladogfan aka Gretchen 259]

Nice TR sure showed a lot of family time and fun together.

Now about those pies... "eating a freshly baked pie ( Sat was Mixed berry pie, Tuesday was Apple/cranberry pie, Thursday was Pumpkin and Sat was Mixed berry again by request). YUMMY!!! We carry a cast iron dutch oven w/ us and I love to bake. ;D"

Was hoping someone would ask for receipes and how you bake them in the dutch oven? So there..it's asked. Do you mind sharing...please :)

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

Gretchen. I use a stainless steel 9" pie plate. For recipes I just use old family ones (pumpkin is off the side of the canned pumpkin).

Ken starts charcol then puts 17coals on the bottom (either in the dirt, or on the charcol stove) puts the 10" Dutch oven on top--the thing has little feet) then i put the pie in on top of 3 small similar size stones for air flow. Put top of oven on and put 15 coals on top. Let sit 30 min. Check pie. Move coals to make sure crust browns evenly. Cook 30 min more. Enjoy!

Apple Pie

5-6 apples (all different kinds) washed & cut up to cubes-I leave the peals on

2 handfulls dried cranberries

1 Tbls lemon juice

3Tbls flour

3/4 to 1cup sugar or Splenda

Palmful ground cinnamon

Freshly groung nutmeg

2 dashes salt

1 pilsbury pie crust

Splash of milk to brush onto top of pie

Berry is the same except use 2 bags frozen berries (I use one bag all blueberries & 1 mixed berry) and maybe a bit less cinnamon and nutmeg. And no cranberries.

I mix it up and do blueberry apple (3apples & 1bag blue berry) but same basic recipie.

I cheat and use the ready made pie crust while camping. No one seems to mind.

If u have any questions I'd be happy to answer them.

[DaveInTN 3,247]

That sounds good! I've been wanting to use my dutch oven more often for regular cooking at home...not only cause it's fun but also to get better at it in case of an emergency someday where power might be out for an extended time period. I may need to practice on pie!

[fladogfan aka Gretchen 259]

Thanks Cindy for the info.

I use my mother's dutch oven( from the 1930's) for lots of in-house cooking. It's like 2 frying pans, a deep one and a shallow one that is also used as the lid. The bottoms are flat so it's not made for camp cooking. But I bet I could figure out a way to use it for pies. Tho, might not want to get all that charcoal on something used in the house, but sure sounds tasty. Do the pies have a baked on charcoal flavor? I do know the type of dutch oven you use.

Thanks for the easy to do receipe too.

[Dollface...CindyC 18]

We have one very similar to this one. http://www.campchef.com/classic-12-dutch-oven.html

The pies are the best! I can't seem to get the right flavor when I use the oven.... not sure if that's the charcoal, but they are the best ever.