Three salads in a snap! Save time by using the same dressing for the trio of spring salads you'll make for your next picnic!
Read MoreRecipe: Chocolate Chia Cherry Overnight Oats
If your mornings are hectic, overnight oats are a nutritious and tasty meal that can be ready the moment you wake up. Recipe: Chocolate Chia Cherry Overnight Oats
Read MoreShaken & Stirred: Easy Camping Cocktails
Deliciously simple cocktails for a night under the stars.
Read MorePack a Flavorful Punch With These Picnic Favorites
Need an inspiration for your next picnic? We've got three. Enjoy!
Read MoreMenu: Asian Inspired BBQ Party
We took a few of our usual favorites and gave them an Asian twist. The best part of the dinner is combining the soy sauced veggies and steak with the sweet stewed plums and creamy salad for tastebud perfection. Oh, and the ice cream at the end. Duh.
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Found: Hilltop Heaven at Copain Winery in Healdsburg, California
They're known for their cool climate Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Chardonnay. One sip of any of these beauties and you understand that the purity and elegance they bring to the space itself is inspired by how they view winemaking. There's no overly oaked Chardonnay here. Nor a just released Syrah that's instantly quaffable. They eschew trends, they embrace the many benefits that come with patience – to produce critically acclaimed wines, certainly rooted in California, but reminiscent of the French greats.
Read MoreMust-Haves for Coffee-Loving Campers
Four simple ways to get your caffeine fix without hiking back to town.
Read MoreRecipe: Marinated and Grilled Wild Mushrooms with Herbed Sour Cream
Give this super easy yet tasty recipe a try at your next BBQ. The slight spicy (you can determine the heat) mushrooms combined with the cool herbed sour cream make for a great start to a party.
Read MoreRecipe: Coal-Fire Blueberry Peach Cobbler
Now that you've gotten s'mores down to an art, give campfire baking a try with this simple recipe.
Read MoreRecipe: Breakfast Biscuits with Cricket-Powered Flour
Protein-rich breakfast biscuits are the perfect start to your outdoor adventure day.
Read MoreCouscous in the Backcountry
Lightweight and easy to cook, couscous makes a perfect backpacking meal.
Read MoreGenius campfire cooking tool. Say hello to the Round Jaffle Iron.
Combine a waffle iron, s'mores toasting skewer, and panini maker, and you'll get the jaffle iron. This ingenious tool toasts and bakes anything from sandwiches to pies over an open flame.
Read MoreOne springtime cocktail to rule them all - the Bourbon Bloom
Delight in the many splendors of spring. Greenery at every turn, flowers beaming up at you, sizable tax returns. Times are good. We're celebrating our rise from hibernation with the simple and elegant Bourbon Bloom
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These superfood sweeties contain 14 percent of the suggested daily fiber and 24 percent of the suggested daily intake of Vitamin C
DIY healthy energy bar
We came across this easy and tasty recipe from an Olympic skier featured in SELF magazine. We trust anything a super athlete gobbles up.
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Picnic Style: Switch it up and go Global
We've been scouring markets and the interwebs for the perfect picnic basket for some time now. There's insulated classics, high-tech totes, and plenty of chic and cheap bags to lug your wine and cheese and treats. But we've been thinking it'd be cool to do it differently. Stand out a bit with stylish global flair.
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Warm up to this late summer, early fall cocktail
The sidecar is a classic Prohibition-era cocktail, usually made with cognac, Cointreau, lemon, and simple syrup. Here, we take those bright summer flavors and shift them forward a month or two, taking some of the lemon’s bite away, but furthering the cognac’s buttery richness by switching to calvados, a French apple brandy.
Read MoreOutdoor cocktails: essential gear and gadgets
f you're serious about entertaining outdoors in style, then you need to get the essential gadgets and gear ideal for mixing up nectar even the gods would envy. Here are a few favorite finds for the outdoor entertainer:
Read MoreSmörgåsbord of s'mores: deconstructed, elevated, frozen, and more
Oh S'mores. You sticky sweet treat. I'm pretty sure this is the one childhood treat that continues to appeal well into adulthood. The magic that comes from marshmallow + chocolate + graham cracker - nothing else like it...but there are a ton of awesome variations to explore for your next outdoor meal.
No fuss prep, big fuss result
Eat Boutique has created the ultimate luxury camp gift box. Their s'mores box comes packed with 2 extendable roasting sticks, perfectly sized out s'more Bakery Graham Crackers, s'more Bakery Marshmallows (they're flat -- a genius innovation!), and indulgent Hot Cakes Pacific Coast Sea Salt Caramel Sauce.
Freeze em
Check out this recipe for s'mores semifreddo from Food & Wine. Genius.
Recipes to melt for
Sunset recently shared a slew of recipes for tasty s'mores, including one using always yummy Nutella instead of chocolate.
