It's great as originally written....rutabega and fennel are too dominant for a good pot roast. I like to add some dry red wine instead of some of the beef broth....and maybe a dash of worchestershire sauce. It's fall food! Linda C

Ask the boy scouts :o). Seriously though, my son camps out every month for a couple nights, and the guys have cooked everything from turkey dinners to choc chip cookies using a firepit with a dutch oven & camping stove. Foil packs are an easy one & very versatile - chop up chunks of whatever you want e.g. potatoes, onions, carrots, seasonings, meat - wrap in heavy duty foil & heat on the grill. Baked apples taste great that way too with a little brown sugar, cinnamon, raisins, butter, etc. I'm thinking of getting a single induction burner that I could use in the future while grilling outside anyway. I'll also buy or borrow and electric skillet. Thinking I'll be able to make many things I usually do, modifying mostly to simplify clean up.

@blfenton it's simply vine tomatoes, mozzarella, salt, pepper, fresh basil and balsamic vinegar. @funkycamper, I always have to make my dishes look good so that they suck my husband into eating them. It doesn't take much time but it ensures that he eats the healthy stuff. It's how I disguise things like our spaghetti last week which was actually spaghetti squash. That Ralph's bag on the counter actually had a spaghetti squash for this week. He commented that it was a bit al dente. I learned my lesson after he stopped eating certain desserts because he looked at it after 2 yrs of marriage and said "wow, that looked like kidney and garbanzo beans". I told him it was and he refused to eat my desserts now unless it's chocolate.

DH's family dinner Christmas Eve went well, food-wise; one SIL brought the nibbles (rockmelon cubes wrapped in prosciutto, watermelon chunks, quiche, and little moneybag dumpling puff pastry balls filled with some kind of sausagemeat); other SIL roasted a turkey breast and one leg for those who liked dark meat, with sausagemeat stuffing, bread sauce, gravy (MIL made it, it's OK but thinner than I like it, more like jus), fresh brussels sprouts (so much nicer than the usual frozen ones but always a risk as I have found at this time of year they can be very buggy), carrots and roasted potatoes; I brought a whole glazed ham with Glenda_al's Spiced pineapple pickups, and the desserts- lime tart, coffee cheesecake topped with pecan praline and brownies. MIL made her usual trifle which I love and don't get to eat at home as no one else here cares for it (I got leftovers :-) ). SIL who did the nibblies puzzlingly brought a panettone for dessert as well (she had asked if I needed help with desserts and I declined with thanks) but I was glad as I love panettone and in the divvying up the leftovers phase I got some o bring home :-) I took a bunch of plastic take away containers to assist with the divvying up which worked well :-) Christmas Day it was just DH, DD, DSIL and moi at home. We had a big breakfast of bacon and really good smoked bacon after church in the morning that kept us going with snacks until a big early dinner. We had roast turkey with bread stuffing in the main cavity and sausagemeat stuffing in the neck cavity (SIL had never had it before and really liked it), hasselback potaotes, roasted asparagus, roasted sweet potato, herb bread, gravy, bread sauce, and pumpkin pie (DD's favourite) for dessert. I sent a lot of leftovers away with the kids yesterday along with a big containers of Christmas cookies when they went to a family picnic with DSIL's Dad and siblings. Apparently they traditionally take leftovers and I was very glad to be able to supply some :-) Also produced some disposable plastic platters and champagne flutes- the convenience of hoarding stuff "just in case" :-D ! Had a lovely text from DD thanking me for their stay and the "yummy food", which from her is a huge compliment, and said the cookies were a big hit at the picnic. Both SIL's turkey carcase and mine have been turned into stock (I used SIL's on Christmas Day for our gravy as our turkey had no neck!!) and about a third of the ham resides in all its glory in the fridge :-)