My last campfire | Winter van camping

Do you want to go for a little walk? Shop your car for the walk. Happy dance. Good morning everyone. We're gonna go for a little walk with Kitty. Alas, maybe alas, can't far for the year. I don't know. All right, where are we going? Whoa, that's a big hike. That's a big climb, Kitty. I don't know if you can guys see, but there's an eagle right there. I knew there was an eagle. There's quite a lot of eagles here. That's why I'm just walking with Kitty here. She's not gonna stay outside while I'm doing a campfire just because I want to be there. Don't worry, I'm just... she's right there beside me. But yeah, this is the eagle time, so I'm gonna be a little bit extra careful for Kitty. All right, Kitty. Up, up, up. Good girl. I do have a big cleanup to do in the back here. Oh, we're not gonna do that today. Later. Another day. I didn't say that for the past month, but I think the eagle left when I started chopping some wood. I don't think he liked it. I don't think it's good for his fishing moment that I'm making so much noise. So yeah, it should be our last, maybe our last campfire before the end of the year, guys. I really wanted to do this. This is the last weekend before the actual Christmas, so it's not too busy in the backcountry, which is great. I think people are shopping today, but I just wanted to enjoy a little campfire, enjoy this beautiful weather as it's supposed to rain for a couple days. So just chilling here. It is a little bit chilly. I thought it would be more sunny. It's okay. I'm gonna warm up around the Someone left a little shot. Maybe we can leave for the next person. So guys, as you know, where we are in the backcountry, we're making food. And I've been really wanted for several, almost several years, guys. Wanted to make some falafel. Falafel, falafel, this thing. And I did have a food processor, which I found one on sale. So I bought one and I found one recipe online because I've never done that. I buy some cilantro, parsley. I think we have some garlic, onion inside. I'm going to look at the recipe, but I really want to try. And I think I'm going to do that for the rest of the winter. Try some recipes that I could make and freeze in my freezer. Now that I do have a freezer, I feel like I don't use my freezer properly. And this summer, I think we're going to go up north, but further north when we've been the north territory, north of BC, that's my plan. And the grocery store are really expensive and they were very like far from each other. So I do want to keep some meal and some stuff in my freezer that I can just defrost and I can just enjoy. And just for regular van life. I don't, I think it's because I never have a freezer for like four or five years that I don't know what to do with it almost. So I think I'm going to make a So all that being said that I soak all night for probably 14 hours or so, some chickpea. And yeah, I don't know what to do with that. Do I have to cook those chickpeas? So I'm going to start blending this. I don't have space to put the rest of the spice. So I'm going that first and put the rest. Okay. Hope for the best guys. I'm scared. I don't know why I'm scared. Okay. I think I put way too much stuff. Oh, I'm going to make a mess. I'm going to make a mess. Making a mess. I'm making a mess. Yes, yes, yes. This is back. Try to see if that's going to stay together. I don't know what I'm doing. Okay. They seem to be quite soft and wet. I'm worried guys. I'm going to make a couple. Anyway, I'm not going to be able to make the whole batch. And if they are not doing well, I'm going to put more flour or baking powder. But that's quite wet. Should it be like this? I don't even know how long they should be in the oven or fry until they golden. So by the time I went inside to grab a cutting board and everything, things burned out a little bit. Okay. I don't know if it's cooked inside though. Let's see. Let's see. All right. Oh. I'm impressed guys. I wasn't sure if that was good. Yeah. I think I would add like anything else. That's good. A winner. So my plan was to make actual meal, but I mean, it was just good like this. This is a winner guys. All right. My second batch doesn't look as good. I think I need more flours a little bit. It's a little bit too, uh, it's hard to make her like a ball. And I was not patient so much for the second batch. I'm going to do an effort on the third one because that one most likely going to freezer. So, so we're not going to have a fire for a very long time. I burned everything that I had already. It's really windy. So we're going to enjoy just a little bit left of fire. And I think we have like not even an hour before sunset anyway. So all right guys, this food processor, uh, it's not the best for van life in terms of cleaning. I barely have any water because I forgot to grab some before I went to the back country. It's okay because tomorrow I'm just leaving. Uh, so I did my best, but it's not like it's got food inside here. I, I mean, so I'm going to just store it like this for right now. Don't worry. Tomorrow when I go grab like the fill up my water, I'm going to boil some water and do like deep clean, throw that. But yeah, it's not, it's not super easy though to clean. This is the problem. I guess we're going to store that back to the box. And I don't know where we're going to put it. This is why like, you know, I'm sometimes wonder like, should I buy this? And I wait and I wait it's because I don't know where to put it. And yes, I could put extra cover and build some stuff, but I just don't like to having too much junk in my van. And I don't like if things piled up inside a cover or things like this. I like when it's kind of like some kind of organization and I do have to do a big, deep cleanup. Uh, maybe between Christmas or after, after new year's or whatever, uh, I'm going to open everything on a nice warm day and just do a big cleanup of the van. Everything that I don't use anymore. I'm going to donate. Um, get rid of all the stuff that it's not useful anymore because yes, you can be surprised that inside a van, we can just fill up some stuff and realize this has been a year that I didn't do use that and I don't plan on using more. So yeah, uh, I'm going to do a big cleanup, but I think for now, let's just throw it here. Let's throw it just right here for now. Figure that out later. Thank you so much guys for watching. I'm going to leave you with Miss Kitty. What are you doing Kitty? Are you hiding? We want some kiss. We want some better kiss. That's okay. All right guys, I hope you enjoy and we'll see you in the next one. Hey, do the bump. Head bump. Are we going to put our Christmas lights? We need to put that back. Hey Kitty.