Mashed potatoes are a good dish to know how to make, Reb, and they're hard to mess up. You can add all sorts of things to them from roasted garlic to cream cheese, and they'll be yummy! Lemon meringue pie is more tricky, but it's fun. Make sure when you're spreading the meringue on top that it touches the edges of the crust all around (or else it'll shrink up and draw inside toward the center of the pie as it browns--it has to be anchored to the edges before it goes into the oven).

What's "bear camp," hun? Is that like bear hunting?