Camping food recipe

[TXHokie]

Anyone got a good recipe for camping food? Taking my kids camping this weekend and am looking for alternative beside the hotdog on a stick over campfire - tho you can't beat the fun factor on that number. I do have a campstove and only plan on bringing my iron skillet (gotta have my bacon and eggs!!!) and probably a small all-purpose pot with lid. Yeah I can google for recipe but would like some known proven recipe from the outdoor crowd if any here. Many thanks.

 

[dainthomas]

I normally subsist on steak & eggs and smores.

 

[Feldenak]

For campfire cooking you can't beat hobo dinners.

 

[Capitalizt]

Dinty More beef stew is da bomb while camping.. Buy one of those jumbo cans and cook it on your stove.

and you gotta have hotdogs and smores for desert... (hershey bar + big marshmallow + graham cracker..mmmm...mmmmm)

 

[Crono]

Stone soup

 

[Lola]

Yes, baked potatoes. Wash the outside skins, cover them in tinfoil and pop them in the embers. Let them cook for about 45 minutes. Open and enjoy with salt and butter. You can also do the same with corn on the cob but a shorter cook time.
Hot dogs are also easy to cook on sticks!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hot dogs are incredibly easy when you have open flames and sticks.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Capitalizt
Dinty More beef stew is da bomb while camping.. Buy one of those jumbo cans and cook it on your stove.

we take big cans of ravioli for the kids and dinty moore stew for me... i dont bother cooking it on the stove tho, just put it next to the fire on a rock and turn it once in a while. my kids love doing the hot dog thing too, i make them go hunt their own sticks, clean and sharpen them before we eat. thats always the first nite. second nite is always either steak or chops with baked taters.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Gruel for Breakfast - Boiled barley with nuts, dried fruit, honey with brown sugar and butter on top
Assorted cheeses and crackers for lunch with favorite beverage.
Green Chile Stew - 3lbs precooked shredded beef (can be found in a can ready to go), one can diced tomatoes, two cans Hatch green chiles. Serve with tortillas and shredded cheese.

 

[DrVos]

Something that we usually make are foil chicken packets.

Boneless Chicken Thighs
Lipton onion soup mix (you should use 1 packet per pouch)
mixed bagged veggies
chopped onion
butter
Foil- 2 layers (Its a good idea to use the reynolds release for the first layer)

1. Pull out a 18" or so length of reynolds release and put a little bit of butter and onion mix)
2. Place 2-3 thighs and sprinkle on a little butter and onion mix
3. Stack your veggies sprinkling the onion mix as you go
4. Finish off with a little more butter and last of onion mix
5. Wrap foil around pouch and cover with a second layer of foil
6. Put directly into campfire ( i usually have some coals in there) and turn every 4-5 minutes
7. Pouch should be done in 15 minutes or so (im guessing here)
8. Enjoy. They are awesome!

 

[loup garou]

We usually do steaks on a grill over the campfire (down to coals of course), baked potatoes and corn (wrap in foil, put in the coals). I also like to do collard greens with the drippings from the morning's bacon (I also try to hide a couple slices before they're all devoured to crumble in the greens). I've been known to keep cornmeal and a gallon of oil on hand to fry fish over the coleman stove if someone actually catches something worth eating. Oh and whiskey, beer and smores of course.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

There's always stir fry. Get some bell peppers, some onions, slice the peppers and dice the onions. Get foil packets of those pre-cooked Tyson chicken chunks. Stir fry it all with some oil in the skillet and add some garlic powder, salt, pepper, whatever. Serve it with some fast cooking instant rice.

 

[Lalakai]

i'll second the "hobo pies". we make grilled cheese, grilled ham & cheese, and also make hot pies with them, using pie filling (apple, blue berry, ect.). fun and easy.

edit: if you can find the round designs, get those; for some reason they work better.

 

[legoman666]

1. Sliced a couple of potatoes into thin slices (al la potato chips)
2. slice an onion, mix with potato
3. place in tin foil with small amount of oil, add some kosher salt
4. toss in fire, rotate it several times
5. pull it out in ~30-45 minutes

YUM. Also works on a grill

 

[AntiFreze]

hobo stews are my favorite. a few others:

orange ruffy, butter, paprika, thyme wrapped in tin foil tossed in the fire.

Also, when you make dinner, make baked potatoes (like 20-30, just wrapped in foil tossed in the fire). Take the ones out for your dinner, and leave the rest in the coals. In the morning you should still have about 1/2 of them (racoons will eat a bunch). Just cube those and fry them in some oil. Breakfast potatoes

 

[Bryophyte]

Yogi Bear for breakfast (don't know why we call it that): basic recipe calls for fried potatoes (hash browns or chopped up potatoes), some kind of breakfast meat (bacon or sausage, typically), and eggs. Fry up meat, use the grease left over to fry potatoes (with onions and peppers if you like), throw the meat back in , and the eggs, and cook until the eggs are done (scrambled). You can throw shredded cheese over the whole mess.

Backpacking version (multi-day where you keep your pack weight to a minimum): freeze dried potato shreds and freeze dried eggs, butter flavored crisco, perhaps bacon bits. Heat up water over camp stove, put in potatoes, reconstitute eggs in a cup while potatoes cook. When potatoes are done, drain extra water, add some butter flavored crisco and bacon bits, pour in egg mixture and cook until it's done. If you eat this at home, you'll call it nasty. If you eat it when you're expending 5000 calories a day hiking and rock climbing, it is heaven on earth.