Powhatan State Park

We had done camp on 29th June 2019. It is located in Virginia State.

Camp Location:

Name: Powhatan State Park.

Distance: 19 miles from Henrico, Richmond (approx)
Site type: Electric
Camp Team: me and my wife.
Camp Items: Camp Stove, Gas, Charcoal, Lighter, Food items, Table Cloth, fire wood, tent, Sleeping bag, Cutlery, Trays, Water, Torches, Lantern, Small fan, Small table, Dutch Oven,Pillows,Two coolers.

Camping Experience:
             We started around 3:30 pm from home. The weather was very hot. This campground is very near to us. Around 4:00 pm we reached Powhatan State Park. We went to the park office for check in but it was closed and nobody were there.

Then we were getting back to the entrance and suddenly we saw one lady is coming from the office.Then we got back to the office again. She explained everything about that park and we checked in. Around 4:32 pm we reached our campsite. Our campsite was very nice.That day it was very hot but we did not feel that much heat because the campsite was surrounded by large trees and cool breeze. The site has clean area for tent. Entire site was fully covered with small stones. There were Wooden picnic table, fire pit and grill on top of it for barbecue, electric hook up, water hook up and place for car parking at the camp site.First we pitched our tent . Then brought out all food items and coolers from the car. We made Camp fire Nachos and Lasagna on that day. We arranged all things for Camp fire Nachos and we placed them in dutch oven. We put dutch oven on the heated charcoal and few coal pieces placed on lid of the dutch oven. This is the first time we have used dutch oven. We were very much excited to taste the food made in dutch oven. After 15 minutes the Camp fire Nachos were ready to eat. These nachos were so good and very tasty. The taste was very different in this vessel. We liked it very much. Then we ate BBQ marshmallows.

After that we went for walk, spent sometime in the chilled weather. One side of our campsite we saw many children playing over there, some doing cycling,some were simply jumping in their personal small pool.It was fun to watch kids enjoying in the open wild space. And another side of our campsite we saw two old couple.The old man simply sat before his campfire and was drinking some coffee or cool drink and the old lady took her small pets and went for walk. After sometime we saw them sitting together in front of campfire and eating. We felt very happy watching the old couple and living their life and words are not sufficient to express these sightings. Actually, it was like we saw our future stages related to us. In first stage we are going to have many responsibilities. And in the second stage we want be live like that old couple.While we were talking all these things, the camp officer stopped by with a small corn snake in her hand. She told about the camp fire in that park to us and welcomed us to there. Then we started to arrange all things for Lasagna.We placed all ingredients in dutch oven one by one like layers and placed the oven on heated coal. After half an hour around 9:00 pm we had our dinner as Lasagna it was so tasty.After our dinner we put all the food and cooking items in the car. Then we went for walk, while we were walking we decided to go to that park campfire and saw a man who is working in that park.

We went to him and asked about campfire, he said campfire was already done at 8:30 pm. In a little while we missed it, then we continued our walk for another sometime and we reached our tent around 10:15 pm. We arranged our small fan to the roof of tent and saw many stars from inside the tent.We watched a movie in the tent. Then we slept around 11:40 pm. In the mid night the tent went so cold because of the weather and little fan. We had very good sleep that night.Next day morning we woke up around 5:30 am with birds chirping.It was like we do not need any alarm for awake.The sunrise was very beautiful to watch. We done our morning chores and had our breakfast around 7:25 am. We packed the tent and all the things around 8:00 am. We started to home around 8:15 am because of the weather, it's getting so hot. We dumped all trash on our way and reached home around 9:00 am. This time we enjoyed a lot, we tried new things and new food items. We woke up with beautiful birds natural music. We started our day very pleasant and we collected more beautiful memories.All is Well.
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Gobi Dumplings

Ingredients:

1) Idli Batter - 2 cups
2) All purpose flour - 2 cups
3) Rice flour - 1/2 cup
4) Red Chilli Powder - 1 table spoon
5) Ginger Paste - 1 table spoon
6) Garlic Paste - 1 table spoon
7) Cauliflower - 12 florets
8) Onions - 1
9) Ginger - 50 gms
10) Garlic - 4 cloves
11) Bell peppers - 3 (1 red, 1 yellow, 1 orange)
12) Tomato Chilli Sauce - 1 table spoon
13) Vinegar - 1 tea spoon
14) Schezwan sauce - 1 tea spoon
15) Oil - for deep fry
16) Salt - as per taste

Procedure:

1. Boil the florets and drain the water and keep them aside.
2. Take idli batter in a bowl, add All purpose Flour, Rice Flour, Chilli powder, Ginger Paste, Garlic Paste, Salt to it and mix thoroughly until the thickened uniform mixture is formed.
3. Add florets to the mixture and mix it well and keep it aside for 10 mins.
4. Meanwhile finely chop Onion, Ginger, Garlic and the Bell Peppers.
5. Take oil in pan for deep fry and heat it.
6. Once oil is heated, wet your hands with water/oil and take a small lump from the mixture having the floret and put in heated oil gently.
7. Keep adding the lumps until the pan is full of the lumps.
8. Fry them until they turn golden yellow.
9. Once all the florets are fried keep the fried ones aside, take a small pan and add 1 table spoon of oil and heat it.
10. Add all the chopped items to it and fry them until the onions turn golden brown.
11. Add salt to it and mix all the ingredients well.
12. Add the fried Gobi dumplings to the pan and fry them for 2 mins.
13. Add Tomato Chilli sauce, vinegar, Schezwan sauce to it and mix thoroughly and heat for 5 mins.
14. Hot Gobi Dumplings are ready to serve.
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