Last weekend we had some really nice weather. We had our friend Mandy over for dinner and we decided it would be a perfect night for a bonfire. We had a brush pile in our backyard that we had been wanting to get rid of anyway, and so we lit it up after dinner.
This is the brushpile as it was being lit. It was created when we cleared out the woods behind our house, and we had been throwing weeds and dead plants on it for around a year. Needless to say it was really dry and it really took off.
The conditions were perfect for a rip roaring fire. The wind was blowing directly away from the woods so we didn't have to worry about burning anything down. The wind really whipped the flames up until it was so hot that we could stand no closer than 10 feet.
This is our friend Mandy, from Madison Wisconsin. She brought lots of peeps and we figured since they are marshmallows that we should be able to roast them. What a great idea!
This was about as close as Rebecca could get to the fire in order to roast her peeps. Good thing we have long roasting forks.
Here's some peeps roasting away. We were afraid that the sugar would burn, but it actually caramelized, creating a hard shell around the molten marshmallow. We liked them so much and we decided that this was the creme brule of marshmallows.
Of course no fire would be complete without smores, so we tried peeps smores. Yum! It doesn't get any better than this!
3 comments:
slightly horrified at your new 'culinary creation' but the fire looked good! JT says you'd be arrested if you tried to build and light a fire like that here in CA-so Michigan has that on us!
In our township fires are allowed for cooking. So as long as you are cooking something, you can have a fire. We did hose down the area around the fire first, we didn't want to burn the whole neighborhood down.
crazy. roasted peeps, what next!!!
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