Need Some Camping Recipes
 

Going camping this weekend and need some resipes for stuff to cook on the camp fire. Anybody have any ideas?

Oh ya, it will be a Cub Scout camping trip - no beer allowed.

Grain alcohol and beef jerky.

Foil packs -- ground beef with potatoes and other veggies, cheese, and spices. Wrap in tin foil and throw on the fire to cook.

Meat loaf -- ground beef mixed with powdered onion soup and worchestershire sauce. Cook in a pan.

If you have a stove, any home recipe is possible. Just stick to the simple stuff: spaghetti, sloppy joes, tacos.

Pancakes with sausage and/or bacon is an ever-popular breakfast.

Don't forget the little things like salt, PAM, spatulas, strainers, etc.

Foil packs rock.

You can get pretty creative with them and serve up a great meal with little effort. My old hunting buddy would make this one with pork shoulder, green chili and pozole. Serve it up with tortillas (which don't smush like regular bread in the backpack). I think it was a better tasting meal than most stuff I can prepare at home.

here is what we did as scouts. foil, core an apple, fill void with "red hots" or "hot tamales" wrap, and toss into the coals. let them get soft, and wammo. cinnamon apples!

These are great! I heard of "pancakes on a stick" not sure but I think you make a thick pancake batter and wad it around a stick and cook it like you were toasting a marshmellow.

Foil Pack:
fish, potatos, butter, onion, mushrooms, garlic, salt, pepper.

Alton Brown had a segment on using foil packs to cook with. Definately a good way to go. Got an oven of some sort to take with? You could do biscuits really easy...

no oven

Biscuits? Bury a dutch oven in coals from a fire. Perfect for biscuits.

Get a couple of pie irons. Pizza sandwiches for dinner. Apple pies for dessert.

ok, you guys are getting fancy. mike let the younguns dig you a hole, and build a big fire in it. bigger than you are comfy with. when the coals burn down. set a cast iron dutch oven into it with your favorite stew recipe. dont forget the roux. put some ambers in the recess of the lid, and have the kiddies bury it. all day slow cooking. you can do this without the hole, but you will need a separate fire for coal management.

That's the ticket!

sorta like a clam bake with out the seaweed, wool blanket or seafood? Thats doable. I will have to make sure to have them find some nice big rocks as well - that should hold some heat.

Funny thing, my boy will only eat peanut butter sandwiches and apples, the cooking will be more for me and anyone else who wants to eat. The upside is he (and all kids) love to make and watch a campfire.

(note to self - remember the marshmellows, Hershey bars and grhm crackers)

Best thing I ever made over a fire was pineapple upside down cake. Get a dutch oven, line with foil. Melt a stick of butter and pour into the oven. Then brown sugar over that, a good amount. Sliced pineapples over the sugar/butter and then pour in the cake mix (just the yellow box kind). Cover on the dutch oven, put it on the coals and put coals on the lid as well. Bake for about 30-45 minutes, when it's done turn it out onto some foil and serve. Cub Scouts will come running for miles.

For a main course I agree with the foil packs. The Cubbies will love it because they can make their own, plus no cleanup!

When I was in Boy Scouts we used to get really extravagant over the fire, but for Cub Scouts the foil packs is the way to go.

Oh yeah, biscuits in foil packs work well too. Just get the Pilsubury ones that come in the cans (you know the ones that explode open..) and put about 4 on the foil. Wrap it into a square, leaving some space for the biscuits to rise as they bake. Toss onto the coals and cover with more coals. Done.

Biscuits -

2 cups self rising flower
1/4 cup oil ( use a little bacon grease plus veggie oil for great taste)
3/4 cup milk - maybe

Sift the flower, mix in oil with fork until the globs are small - about BB sized. Slowly mix in milk until your dough is the right consistency and *not* sticky. Knead dough some, separate into about 10 biscuits. Bake at 450 (oven must already be hot) for 10-14 minutes until golden brown on top.

If you're taking a Dutch oven, you can't go wrong with baked possum an' sweet taters. Prep work is kinda messy, but it's good and the kids will definately tell stories about it the rest of their life.

You packing or driving?

driving - hard pressed to find a possum worth eat'n. Anything that eats garbage or rotting dead animals has gotta taste like, well garbage and rotting dead animals.

Some people say the trick to a good baked possum is to trap the critter a week or two ahead of time. Keep feeding it cat food and fresh water - the normal carrion fare will work it's way thru the system.

We always tried to treat the young 'uns to game whenever possible. Heck... anyone can go to the grocery and buy dead cow. How often to you have the opportunity to eat possum, coon, turtle, bear, rattler, etc...

Scouting was an adventure.

Your best bet is probably a cooler full of foil packs, as suggested.




Don't eat armadillos!