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Ellie-Mae -> Camping recipes (6/4/2008 2:26:43 PM)

It's that time of year again when we all go camping! We are about to go on our first camping trip of the year.

Please share your favorite camping recipes.[:D]



Calea37 -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 3:30:13 PM)

A few years ago we bought one of those grilled cheese maker thingys that you can use over a campfire (we got ours at Dick's Sporting Goods but I think you can get them at Wal-Mart too). We butter the outside of two pieces of bread and then put pizza sauce and anything else you would eat on a pizza (pepperoni, mushroom, whatever you prefer) and mozzarella cheese and cook it. Very easy and everyone really loves it!



uncabeeil -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 3:57:12 PM)

Put a hot dog on a stick. Put it over the fire. When the stick burns and the dog falls in the fire get another hot dog. Put it on a thicker stick. Roast til just slightly blackened all around. If it's too burnt, start again at step 3.

Slice pepperoni into thin slices and put on a stick. Roast it over the fire. Have Ritz crackers and cheddar cheese chunks ready. When the pepperoni is crispy add it to the cheese and crackers.

Poke a few holes in a tater. Wrap it in foil and toss it into the fire (near the edge) Remove in approximately 20-25 minutes, let it sit for a few minutes, then unwrap and feast.

Cut wedges of potato. Chop some fresh green onions. Combine the taters and onion, sprinkle with salt, cayenne, and some Parmesan cheese. Place in foil with a few chunks of butter and stick on the back of the grill, or around the edges of the campfire for a half hour or so.



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 4:41:37 PM)

I like the way I learned to do it in Girl Scouts.

Here's a link below on tips for planning meals. Scroll down for one-pot meals and stick meals:

http://www.girlscoutsmilehi.org/content/documents/MealRecipes1.pdf


One of my favorite camping meals is biscuits in the shape of donut holes. I like to deep fat fry them and then dump them in a clean brown grocery sack that has sugar and cinnamon and shake.



hotsaucygma -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 4:56:11 PM)

I used to boil several potatoes in their skins and take them along- you can dice them for fried potatoes, warm them for "baked" potatoes, or make potato salad with them.

I also always made a pot of sloppy joes for the first night. I'd put them on to warm while we set up camp, and by the time we were done, so were the "joes".

Foil packets with cut up carrots, potatoes (or some of the boiled ones), and chicken breast/hamburger/porkchop/whatever-kind-of-meat are always good too.

We often brought corn on the cob and soaked it in a bucket of cold water all day, then grilled it with the husks still on too.

Oh, and the idea of the "pizza" things is great too. We also brought canned pie filling with us and made dessert pies that way. Yummy.



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 5:04:31 PM)

I love pizza while camping. I've got a dutch oven recipe around here somewhere.

I also love to do bacon and eggs in a paper bag. If you're interested, I'll try to find the recipe. Might be fun to do with the kids.



hotsaucygma -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 5:08:19 PM)

I think you can do eggs/omlettes in plastic bags too... the heavy freezer type that you can drop in a pot of boining water to cook them. The kids like that because the can put whatever they want in their own baggies...

Which reminded me that they used to like doing pudding in baggies too- instant pudding and milk and squish away!



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 5:20:27 PM)

All I can remember is that you put the bacon in the bottom of a paper lunch bag (1-2 slices of bacon) and then fold over and put in a beat egg (or two), salt and pepper as desired. Then fold it so nothing falls out, pierce with a stick or kabob stake and then hold over the fire for about five minutes.

Edit

Okay, I found one on the web:

Bacon and Eggs in a Paper Bag

Ingredients

Two strips bacon (thick)
one paper lunch bag
one egg
one stick
Cut bacon strips in two, place at the bottom of the paper bag, covering the bottom. It is important that you have thick strips of bacon as thin ones will stick and adhere to the paper bag when cooked. Crack egg and put in paper bag on top of the bacon. Fold lunch bag down three times and poke a hole through it with the stick, so that the bag is hanging on the end of the stick. Hold over charcoal and watch the grease from the bacon protect the bag and cook the meal.

this is a little different from how I've done it. I always separated the bacon and egg, but I sure you could do them together. I agree with using thick bacon.

another edit:

Here's a neat webpage below that has a lot of interesting recipes for camping. Some of the links don't work, but there were a few in there that looked really good. I want to go camping now. [8D]

http://www.scoutingweb.com/scoutingweb/program/CookingOut.htm



Ellie-Mae -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 5:57:26 PM)

These are great! I would have thought that the bag would burn. I am tempted to try that just to see if it really works. We have few recipes too that i will share when I have a bit more time to do so.



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 6:26:13 PM)

If you cook it over coals it won't burn. If there is an actual flame, then it's a problem.



crankius -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 7:02:40 PM)

We like breakfast burritos. We make the bacon and eggs in the same skillet, then each person makes a breakfast burrito adding cheese and salsa. Easy to eat around the campfire that way.

We also like fried SPAM when we are camping. [:)]


This is our favorite camping dinner ever:

3 tbsp butter
3 lb chicken legs (I usually use less than this, 'cause there's only four of us)
2 tsp garlic
1/4 cup water or chicken broth
3 ears fresh or frozen corn on cob cut into thirds
salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp Italian seasoning
2 zucchini cut in pieces

In dutch oven melt butter; add chicken and garlic. Cook until chicken is golden brown, reduce heat. Add remaining ingredients except zucchini, cover and cook another 25 minutes or until chicken is tender (sometimes I've waited another hour). Put zucchini on top of corn, cover and cook until zucchini is to your liking.

Just so yummy and fall apart!


I've also brought a good canned stew and made dumplings on top.



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 8:04:41 PM)

I LOVE spam. Spam sandwiches are just about my favorite sandwich. But boy is it expensive. A 12 oz can here is about $3.00.

I remember when Spam was the poor man's ham.



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 8:38:43 PM)

Here's an interesting looking recipe:

Ingredients
6 large bananas, unpeeled, stems removed
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 (10.5 ounce) package miniature marshmallows
Cooking Instructions
Preheat the grill for high heat.
Spray 4 sheets of aluminum foil, large enough to wrap bananas, with cooking spray.
Slice the peel of the banana from stem to bottom, while slicing the banana inside lengthwise. The bananas can be cut into slices instead if you like, (while still in the peel) for easier handling later.
Carefully open the banana just wide enough to place the chocolate chips and marshmallows inside the peel with the banana. Stuff with as much of the chocolate chips and marshmallows as desired.
Wrap the bananas with the aluminum foil and place on the grill or directly in the coals of a fire. Leave in long enough to melt the chips and the marshmallows, about 5 minutes. Unwrap bananas, open the peels wide, and eat with a spoon.



2shaye -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 8:56:43 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: bzirk

Here's an interesting looking recipe:

Ingredients
6 large bananas, unpeeled, stems removed
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 (10.5 ounce) package miniature marshmallows
Cooking Instructions
Preheat the grill for high heat.
Spray 4 sheets of aluminum foil, large enough to wrap bananas, with cooking spray.
Slice the peel of the banana from stem to bottom, while slicing the banana inside lengthwise. The bananas can be cut into slices instead if you like, (while still in the peel) for easier handling later.
Carefully open the banana just wide enough to place the chocolate chips and marshmallows inside the peel with the banana. Stuff with as much of the chocolate chips and marshmallows as desired.
Wrap the bananas with the aluminum foil and place on the grill or directly in the coals of a fire. Leave in long enough to melt the chips and the marshmallows, about 5 minutes. Unwrap bananas, open the peels wide, and eat with a spoon.

This is soooo good![:)]



peculiar_lady2 -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 9:22:20 PM)

the bananas and chocolate is a must at every camp-out!!!!!

one my dad used to do if it was a bunch of people camping (he would do this mainly with the kids groups he would take camping from the church class he taught). He called it "Hobo stew". He would provide the hamburger meat....cook it (like ground meat) with an onion diced in it, salt, pepper, etc (garlic I think too)...and he would have on hand cans of diced tomatoes and potatoes in case it needed it. Each other person was in charge of raiding their pantry and bringing anything they found...and it all got dumped in the pot. (He would also do this one on the last night of the camp out just to ensure that they were all hungry enough to eat it if there were weird things in it..lol)



crankius -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 9:24:43 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: bzirk

I LOVE spam. Spam sandwiches are just about my favorite sandwich. But boy is it expensive. A 12 oz can here is about $3.00.

I remember when Spam was the poor man's ham.



A couple months ago I sent my husband to Costco to get a few things. He came back with a large pack of low sodium Spam. It took us a while to eat it all--and get this--when he would fry it to eat with eggs in the morning, he added salt to it. [sm=icon_smile_roll.gif]



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/4/2008 9:51:22 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: crankius

quote:

ORIGINAL: bzirk

I LOVE spam. Spam sandwiches are just about my favorite sandwich. But boy is it expensive. A 12 oz can here is about $3.00.

I remember when Spam was the poor man's ham.



A couple months ago I sent my husband to Costco to get a few things. He came back with a large pack of low sodium Spam. It took us a while to eat it all--and get this--when he would fry it to eat with eggs in the morning, he added salt to it. [sm=icon_smile_roll.gif]


LOL!



3cappuccinosmom -> RE: Camping recipes (6/5/2008 6:26:05 AM)

ooooh, I miss camping!

One of the things we always made was pot-roast. [:)] You put all the ingredients together, double wrap them in tinfoil, and then bury them in coals to cook. Just your basic pot roast stuff, onions, carrots, potatoes, chopped beef, salt, pepper. :) Yum!

We also had "mountain pies", but you need special tools for those. It's basically two pieces of bread toasted in the fire with any filling you want, from bbq beef to apple pie filling. The holders are these great big tongs with the ends shaped like a slice of bread, and you butter them, put a piece of bread on each side, put the filling on, and then close them and latch them and stick them in the fire.

For cold-weather camping we often had crepes (cooked on a propane stove) rolled up with lemon sugar inside. Yum!



fluffmonkey -> RE: Camping recipes (6/6/2008 12:23:28 AM)

I remeber when I was little girl in the girl scouts we had cooked baked potatos and chicken lol

Last year I went camping and we had home-made ice cream Yum!

But theres just something about roasted marshmellows that make my day ^_^



firefightermama -> RE: Camping recipes (6/6/2008 11:15:24 AM)

We often take a pork tenderloin, rub it with Bullseye, wrap it in bacon and grill it.

Bacon and Eggs are a must for camping breakfasts. As are pancakes in our family.

I like the banana recipe, we may try that.

Speaking of camping, I have to pack the trailer, we're leaving in 4 hours [:)]



bzirk -> RE: Camping recipes (6/6/2008 11:18:04 AM)

When you get back, how 'bout sharing some recipes? [:D]

I ask because it's been my experience that firefighters are some of the best cooks in the world.



APZR -> RE: Camping recipes (6/6/2008 11:48:45 AM)

I like to take "hobo packs".... basically meat balls seasoned to your taste, with cut veggies wrapped in foil to toss on the coals to cook. Easy and good. I also have a dutch oven we use to cook breads, cobblers, roasts and briskets, etc. It cooks just like an oven in your house, so you can make what ever you want.



stampinlady -> RE: Camping recipes (6/6/2008 12:18:54 PM)

Anyone remember "Coffee Can Stew?" I remember making this on a camping trip with my MIssionettes group. It was really good. I think it was just cubed potatos, meat, carrots, water, salt and pepper. [&:]



PrincessDonna -> RE: Camping recipes (6/6/2008 5:10:17 PM)

All you need are s'mores![:D]



at-home -> RE: Camping recipes (6/7/2008 2:22:52 AM)

This is our all-time favorite for camping (and for busy days at home):
Taco Soup:
Put all ingredients in a pot and heat through. l lb ground beef can be browned first, if meat is desired - then add the rest of ingredients and heat through.
1 can tomatoes (include liquid)
1 can kidney beans (include liquid)
1 can corn (include liquid)
1 can green beans (include liquid)
1 packet taco seasoning
If conditions allow, this soup is extra good with crushed tortilla/corn chips, sour cream and/or shredded cheese sprinkled on top of individual servings.



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