I love a good crumble or crisp dessert! This Strawberry Crumble is topped with a buttery oat crumble topping for a delicious summer dessert. We made this years ago in our 1987 VW Westfalia camper van, in a portable oven. So of course it’s perfect for camping, too.

The tartness of the berries (no sugar added) with the yummy topping? Oh, my!

What’s Strawberry Crumble?

A Strawberry Crumble is a simple dessert made of two layers: Fresh baked juicy strawberries topped with a crispy oat topping. The topping that we love is crumbly, almost like large chunks of breadcrumbs, whereas a cobbler is more of a crust on top of the berries. A crumble is usually made of oat, nuts, coconut, and flour–and butter of course.

Why I love this recipe

• It’s the perfect summer dessert, served with vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream.
• You can whip in up in minutes; bake and serve warm.
• Swap out the strawberries with your favorite summer berries!
• It’s great served with a foil packet dinner, this Greek salad, and hot herb bread.

Gather these ingredients

• Fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
• Fresh lemon juice
• All-purpose flour
• Dark brown sugar
• Coconut (flakes or shreds)
• Rolled oats
• Salt
• Unsalted butter, cut into pieces

How do you make a strawberry crumble dessert?

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. Lightly grease an 8-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
3. Prepare the strawberries and mix with fresh lemon juice.
4. To prepare the crumble, in a small mixing bowl, melt the butter. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
5. Layer the strawberries on the bottom of the dish and toss with lemon juice. With your fingers, add the crumble on top of the berries.
6. Bake for 35 minutes, or until top is golden brown and fruit is bubbling. Let stand for 5 minutes; serve!

Tips and substitutions:

• Take it camping: Here’s a little secret about me and camping. I’m a happy cook if I have a plan, and I can chop, prepare, and get everything ready before I leave. We sliced the strawberries and made the topping ahead and so it was easy to dump and bake!
• Berries: Optional to replace the strawberries for any kind of berries.
• Coconut: We love this flavor with strawberries, but you can also add chopped walnuts or chopped pecans for the non-coconut fans!
• Cinnamon: Some people love to add cinnamon in a crumble, but this is optional.
• How to serve: You can serve this dessert with fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream or gelato.
• Bake ahead and bring it with you (although it is best, warm, out of the oven).
• Storage: This dessert stores very well in the fridge or the freezer. Keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Rewarm it in the oven to give some crispiness to the toppings.
• Freeze: You can freeze the crumble and thaw it in the fridge the day before serving.

Other fruits to try:

If you don’t have strawberries, and want to use other berries or fruit, give these a try:

• Raspberries
• Marionberries
• Rhubarb
• Blueberries
• Boysenberries
• Peaches
• Apples
• Pears: use my Pear Crumble without Oats recipe.

There’s something about the outdoors that sucks my energy (it all goes into the beautiful elements) from wanting to spend any time cooking! But … we have to eat, and I still like to be creative. Our family has so many fond memories of being at Pacific City and Cannon Beach! And, I like to surprise my husband with a sweet nosh after dinner, so this was a big hit.

Enjoy!

More strawberry recipes to try:

• Strawberry Dumplings
• Strawberry Galette
• Rhubarb Strawberry Cobbler
• Strawberry Goat Cheese Bruschetta
• Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie

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Strawberry Crumble

This Strawberry Crumble Dessert is perfect for camping or any summer evening dessert. It’s tart, and delicious served with Vanilla ice cream.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes minutes

Total Time 50 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Calories 193kcal

Author Sandy Coughlin

Ingredients

• 6 cups strawberries about 1-1/2 pounds, hulled and quartered
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup dark brown sugar
• ¼ cup coconut flakes or shreds
• ¼ cup rolled oats
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup unsalted butter cut into pieces

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• Lightly grease an 8-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Prepare the strawberries and mix with fresh lemon juice.
• To prepare the crumble, in a small mixing bowl, melt the butter. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
• Layer the strawberries on the bottom of the dish and toss with lemon juice. With your fingers, add the crumble on top of the berries.
• Bake for 35 minutes, or until top is golden brown and fruit is bubbling. Let stand for 5 minutes; serve with Vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream.

Notes

Reposted from May 2015.

Nutrition

Calories: 193kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 54mg | Potassium: 267mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 254IU | Vitamin C: 86mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 1mg

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Ready for summer camping and outdoor fires? Here’s an easy dinner to make for your family or dinner guests: Vegetable Sausage Foil Pack Dinner.

Perfect for camping or summer picnics, this easy-to-prepare Vegetable Sausage Foil Pack Dinner recipe is made in heavy-duty foil. Cook on a campfire (you will need tongs, hot pads, and a cooking grate), or at home on a grill.

Vegetable Sausage Foil Pack Dinner

When we go camping, we love to make these packets up ahead of time. Making ahead a delicious dinner that you can bring with you, and then cook on the beach, is the best! Wanna know the BEST camping salad? Take the ingredients for this Layered Bacon Pea Salad, and layer in a ziploc bag. Toss and serve with the dressing – delish!

Ingredients for Vegetable Sausage Foil Pack Dinner

Let’s get started with ingredients for this foil pack meal:

• Sweet potatoes
• Asparagus
• Sausage links
• Red onion
• Yellow or orange pepper
• Zucchini
• Kosher salt + pepper
• Olive oil
• Tin foil (we use heavy duty)

Tips and substitutions:

• Substitute the sausage for cooked chicken chunks (rotisserie chicken).
• Change up the veggies with small red potatoes, broccoli, and cooked carrots.
• Mix and match summer fresh herbs.
• Use different cheese on top, instead of Parmesan.
• Add more seasoning if you desire!

Pacific City, Oregon

This post is from a few years ago when we camped at Pacific City, OR. Our favorite bean on the Oregon coast, we brought along this foil pack dinner to put on the fire. The perfect camping dinner.

On Pacific City beach, you get to drive down to the sand. So we pretend we’re in California! But truly, this part of the Oregon beach is spectacular.

We love our French press in the morning.
Fold up our bedding and pack up the car.
And drive back down to the beach.
Pop the top.
Take a nap.
Read, enjoy the sun.
Made camp on the south side of Rosemary to avoid the wind.

We watched the sun go down, and the fires started up.

Give thanks.

At sunset.

How do you make a foil pack meal?

I prepared the easiest campfire food ahead of time. You have the option of making these packs Vegetarian or not.

1. Cut 4 sheets of heavy-duty foil into 16-inch squares and place on flat work surface.
2. Prepare veggies: Microwave the sweet potato first. Cut into 2-inch pieces, leaving the skin on. Cut the other veggies into pieces; place in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap (with 2 Tbsp. water) and steam for a few more minutes.
3. Cut the sausage into pieces and sauté until lightly brown on each side.
4. Divide the meat and veggies into 2 pieces of foil; salt and pepper the ingredients and drizzle with olive oil. For each pouch, bring 2 opposite sides of foil together across the middle, and fold to make a seam 1 inch wide. Do on the opposite end to seal the pouch securely.
5. In a fire pit, build a wood fire about as wide as the cooking grate. Let it burn to low flames and embers.
6. Set bundles on grill and cook, turning over with tongs every 10 minutes, until vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes (to check, open with a knife).
7. Protecting hands with grilling gloves, open pouches and garnish with fresh herbs and Parmesan cheese.

More foil pack or camping meals:

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos for Camping

Camping Canadian Bacon Egg Breakfast Sandwiches

Caprese Chicken Foil Packs

Shrimp Scampi Foil Pack Dinner

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Vegetable Sausage Foil Pack Dinner

The classic meal in a foil pouch, Vegetable Sausage Foil Pack Dinner, is easy to prepare at home in heavy-duty foil, and cook on a campfire (you will need tongs, hot pads, and a cooking grate).

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 35 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Author Sandy Coughlin

Ingredients

• 1 large 2 small sweet potatoes
• 4-6 asparagus each stem broken into 3 pieces
• 3 sausage links cut into 1-inch chunks
• 1 small red onion cut into wedges
• 1 yellow or orange pepper cut into 1-inch chunks
• 1 small zucchini cut in 1-inch chunks
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt divided
• 1 teaspoon pepper divided
• Olive oil
• Tin foil

Instructions

• Cut 4 sheets of heavy-duty foil into 16-inch squares and place on flat work surface.
• Prepare veggies: Microwave the sweet potato for 2-3 minutes. Cut into 2-inch pieces, leaving the skin on. Cut the other veggies into pieces; place in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap (with 2 Tbsp. water) and steam for 3-4 minutes.
• Cut the sausage into pieces and sauté until lightly brown on each side.
• Divide the meat and veggies into 2 pieces of foil; salt and pepper the ingredients and drizzle with olive oil. For each pouch, bring 2 opposite sides of foil together across the middle, and fold to make a seam 1 inch wide. Do on the opposite end to seal the pouch securely.
• In a fire pit, build a wood fire about as wide as the cooking grate. Let it burn to low flames and embers.
• Set bundles on grill and cook, turning over with tongs every 10 minutes, until vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes (to check, open with a knife).
• Protecting hands with grilling gloves, open pouches and garnish with fresh herbs and Parmesan cheese.

Notes

Reposted from May 2015.

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Layer together harvested zucchini (both green and yellow), or your favorite squash, to make a healthy Summer Squash Casserole. Watch the video to see how easy it is!

Summer Squash Casserole

For our family, a summer meal is often a vegetarian dish! But what I love about this recipe is you can add chicken (or any other leftover meat), and it’s also pasta-free!

Think “garden dump,” which means, what do you have growing in your garden right now? Zucchini, tomatoes, and fresh herbs? (more…)

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Friends, today I’m sharing 3 things that I love. First, an easy dinner recipe, Caprese Chicken Casserole Recipe. Second, my favorite LeCreuset braiser! Third, another beautiful Oregon hike!

Caprese Chicken Casserole Recipe

One of my go-to recipes is a delicious chicken pasta bake, with rotisserie chicken, fresh tomatoes and basil, and whatever cheese I need to use up in the fridge: Caprese Chicken Casserole Recipe.

Here are the easy ingredients:

• Whole wheat pasta bowtie pasta
• Tomato basil pasta sauce
• Sun-dried Tomato & Olive Pesto
• Rotisserie chicken, chopped
• Fresh mozzarella, or 2 cups sharp cheddar cheese
• Cherry tomatoes
• Fresh basil leaves

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Friends, just in time for springtime holidays (Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day or Fourth of July), this amazing Raspberry Yogurt Cake is a hit at every breakfast or brunch!

Raspberry Yogurt Cake

I think if I could have a love affair with any fruit, it would be the raspberry, which is why you need to try this breakfast cake! And for this cake, you can use frozen or fresh raspberries!

Ever since I was little, it’s always been my favorite berry, partly because I had to pick so many gallons of blackberries in the summertime growing up, I ate far too many and it ruined my love for the big blackberries. Watch the video, and go make this delicious Raspberry Yogurt Cake! :)

Can you put yogurt in cake?

Yes, you can add yogurt to any cake or even store-bought cake mixes. It will do wonders for the flavor, making it tangy and sweet and so moist.

We love to add Greek yogurt in breakfast cakes! You may have already tried my Strawberry Breakfast Yogurt Cake or Cinnamon Fig Yogurt Cake. Add it to a Bacon Egg Breakfast Board Muffins for a great weekend brunch! (more…)

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I’m soaking up every flavor of summer, which includes this vibrant Easy Italian Pasta Salad Recipe, and that included this last weekend, camping here in central Oregon.

Even though it was hotter than HOT (we picked the hottest weekend of the year to camp, I believe), we had a lovely time with our dear friends.

This past weekend, we went camping at The Cove Palisades State Park, just 45 minutes North of Bend, where there is houseboating, water skiing and fishing on Lake Billy Chinook.

My friends and I got up at 6 am and hiked The Tam-a-lau Trail, a 6 mile loop trail, not far from our campsite. So glorious in the early morning (and cool). (more…)

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Friends, my daughter and I got up early to enjoy the crisp, cool morning here in Sunriver, Oregon, taking a walk to the Nature Center.

We were excited to spend some time with each other!

Dawn Wildlife Morning

This July, Dawn is celebrating 40 years helping save wildlife with a new campaign honoring the brand’s legacy of being a force for good and rescue workers for their efforts worldwide.

We started off the day making an iced coffee drink, and packed up our cameras and sunglasses and headed out.

Sunriver Nature Center

The Sunriver Nature Center features interpretive exhibits, live birds-of-prey, amphibians and snakes, a botanical garden, and educational programs along with a beautiful nature trail.

We enjoyed the beautiful birds, the fresh sounds of “morning,” and the sleepy owls.

Dawn Wildlife Morning at Sunriver Nature Center

The Barn Owl and the Great Horned Owl were both perched high and snoozing.

Since 1978, Dawn has helped save more than 75,000 birds and marine animals who were the innocent victims of oil spills and environmental catastrophes.

We also walked around the lake and sat out on the bench and just enjoyed the view.

Quiet mornings are made for mother-daughter time. I’m truly grateful.

Back home, we were reminded of something important with Dawn soap (as we washed out our thermal cups).

Help save wildlife

For 40 years, Dawn has been leading the way to a better world by helping save wildlife, supporting the organizations dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife when disaster strikes, including International Bird Rescue and The Marine Mammal Center.

Dawn is the only dishwashing brand trusted by wildlife experts for decades, and heralded for its “tough on grease, but gentle on skin” formulation. Also, independent studies have proven Dawn to be the most effective dishwashing detergent for cleaning oiled animals.

Sweepstakes information:

Hey friends, do you want to take your family on a VIP Wildlife Experience? Dawn wants to show you the amazing things their wildlife partners do, and for their 40th anniversary of helping save wildlife, they are hosting the first ever Golden Duck Contest.

From now until 11:59:59pm ET on October 6, 2018, visit your local retailer (I shop at Target), purchase a 40th Anniversary Bottle of Dawn Dish Soap, take a photo of the full receipt, submit it HERE and complete the registration form for a chance to win an exciting wildlife experience!

Get your very own #DawnWildlife40 bottle using this coupon!

What to win

The winning families will be flown to Dawn’s wildlife partner locations for a behind-the-scenes look at how they are helping wildlife and the animals they save.

And, if you’ve never been to the Sunriver Nature Center here in central Oregon, put it on your bucket list!

This post is sponsored by Dawn, but as always, all opinions are my own. We’ve used Dawn soap in our kitchen for almost 30 years, and are proud to work with this brand today!

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Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -John Muir

BEST Insalata Caprese Recipe

Oh, how I love this quote. On a recent trip over by Fort Klamath, Oregon, we did go on a hike, we actually did something different—for the first time in our marriage—we went kayaking together on Spring Creek. But wait, we enjoyed this Insalata Caprese Recipe back at camp, too.

Bring hospitality with you

Let me back up. You know how much we love to camp in our VW Westfalia camper van. This trip was very fun because we met some new Canadian friends!

And how did we meet our new friends? I brought over a plate of appetizers to say hello and introduced myself to them. And … little did we know, within a couple of days we’d be planning a trip to meet each other again, either in Oregon, or us heading up to BC, Canada.

Bring hospitality wherever you go, right? (more…)

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When I think of gratitude, I think of the simple things in life, like the beautiful hike and picnic our family enjoyed together at Smith Rock, outside of Bend, Oregon.

Best Mango Quinoa Salad

One of the simple recipes we enjoyed on our picnic by the river was a Mango Quinoa Salad with the freshest of fresh ingredients!

Oh, and are you looking for how to cook perfect quinoa? My friend, Holly, has great tips. You may also want to try my Strawberry Quinoa Salad with fresh basil, or delicious Pear Quinoa Salad, or Heidi’s classic Quinoa Tabbouleh with Chickpeas, or Kalyn’s Southwestern Quinoa Salad–all so good!

Life doesn’t owe us

When we hike, we talk a lot about life. (more…)

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Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, enjoy this Banana Bread Cupcakes Recipe with Chocolate Ganache. If you love homeamde banana bread, then this recipe is for you! The secret is in the quality of chocolate you use, so don’t be afraid to pay a little more money if you have to. I love Guittard chips and Ghiradelli!

Best banana bread

If you’re a banana bread lover, you can also make my Sour Cream Caramel Banana Muffins Recipe (also yummy with a ganache), or my popular Sour Cream Banana Bread Recipe.

BEST Banana Bread Cupcakes

You can even bake the simple banana bread cupcakes ahead, and then frost the day of serving. (more…)

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