Official Camping Recipe Thread!

[hsmamato2]

Inspired by RescueRanger -- here is the "official" spot to post your favorite camping recipes!

I'll start:

Place a beef roast in the crockpot and pour a can of coke over it! Let it go all day, and it will be ready to eat plain or on buns at the end of a busy day at the parks! I like to add some sliced onion too!

OMG....... I made this the other day at home in a cast iron pan on the grill... my family couldn't get over it! i wouldn't tell them what that 'delectable" (13 year old DS)glaze was!

 

[hsmamato2]

We went camping last week, a place with no electricity...I have to say my best meal was my premade chili, frozen in a ziploc-all I had to do was drop it ina pan at dinnertime and heat it up!

 

[juligrl]

Crock Pot recepie:

Boneless, skinless chicken breast. Place in crockpot. Cover with one jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce. Cook on low 8 hours. Chicken will be so tender and flavorful it will fall right apart.

For complete meal, cook up spaghetti and serve chicken over top. Add toasted garlic bread and a bagged salad.

 

[FloridaTeacher]

Crockpot Lasagna

1. Make and freeze or refrigerate meat sauce before leaving home.

2. Buy oven ready lasagna noodles.

3. Defrost meat sauce, layer with noodles and cheese, cook on low about 3 hours and voila - you're done.

4. Depending on our mood we'll toss a salad and do garlic bread - or just have lasagna.

We usually do this on an afternoon that we spend around the Fort cause we are gone too long at the parks to do this one.

 

[Minnie's Mate]

You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum?... Welcome to the Caribbean, Love. (ie. Elizabeth Swan & Captain Jack Sparrow)

Now that's my kind of recipe for a great three day week end!

 

[dgaston]

One of our crockpot favorites is to use either 4 chicken breasts or legs, or 4 pork chops, one can of cream of mushroom soup, and 1 envelope dry onion soup mix. Add two soup cans water and one soup can rice. Let it cook 6 hours or so on low. My family really likes this combination.

 

[allaboutmm]

One of our crockpot favorites is to use either 4 chicken breasts or legs, or 4 pork chops, one can of cream of mushroom soup, and 1 envelope dry onion soup mix. Add two soup cans water and one soup can rice. Let it cook 6 hours or so on low. My family really likes this combination.

Tried this one the other day- it was a hit!!

 

[allaboutmm]

if you want a twist to the everyday hot dog, do Spider Dogs.

Cut a hot dog weenie about a third of the way from the ends twice. on each end. Then you roast them on a stick. When they start to curl up on the ends, they are done.

Nursery school teacher here- this is also good when doing an ocean theme in your room. Call them octopus hot dogs ( fat free h.d.'s won't curl).

 

[goofytime2000]

An absoulte favorite of our family. It started as a camping meal that we brought inside.

Sticky Chicken
Favorite cuts of chicken (drumsticks seem to work best, but use what you like)
French Dressing
Orange Mamilade
Onion Soup Mix

Place chicken in a dutch oven (can also be made in a crock pot or oven). Pour ingredients over chicken. Cook chicken until done.

First time we did this we had half the camp ground coming over to find out what smelled so good. It smells wonderful, tastes fantastic, and is really messy to eat. Enjoy.

 

[loriandmatt]

mexican crockpot chicken

2 or 3 frozen chicken breasts
1 very large jar salsa (or two smaller ones)
1 can cheese soup
(if you like your stuff spicier - like we do)
at least one jalepeno pepper seeded and chopped.

cook on low in crockpot for 6-8 hours.

can be eaten over rice, but we usually just use paper bowls and scoop it up with corn chips. it's a snack, it's a meal, it's both.

don't forget to toss some extra grated cheese, a dollup of sour cream and some chopped green onions on top of each serving if you feel like getting fancy.

 

[loriandmatt]

ohh - thought of another one......

crock pot sheppards pie

before you leave prepare and freeze:

browned/drained ground beef, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1 small can peas (or corn, or what ever veggie gets you going), 1 small can mushrooms.

AND in a different container prepare and freeze:

mashed potatoes (we like to spike ours with some garlic powder and some grated cheese)

when you go to make it in the crock pot:

generally the two frozen things above are pretty much thawed so you can spread them in two layers (meat on bottom, taters on top) in your crock pot and cook on low for about 4-5 hours. (if you are going to be gone longer than that, you may want to add a bit of water to the meat mixture to keep it from drying out. have done this when cooking it on low for closer to 8 hours and it held up well.) TIP: freeze these items in large ziplocks or coolwhip/butter tubs. that way you can pitch them when you are done and not have to worry about cleaning and dragging home good tupperware from a camping trip.

OR

if you have a tall round crock pot like mine (as opposed to the crocks that are more wide and shallow)

freeze the above two mixtures (meat and taters) in empty large cool whip containters. plop them on top of each other, still frozen, in your crock pot. they are the perfect size.

 

[tnmom25]

I'm sure you all know about this, but I wanted to remind you that Reynolds (I think) makes the crock-pot cooking bags and they are wonderful!!! I know that after a full day at the parks, the last thing I'm going to feel like doing is clean my crock-pot. I was so excited to find this thread, we are leaning towards camping this December, and now with these recipes, I think I'm leaning even more!! Thanks and keep them coming!

 

[tnmom25]

I didn't see any posts about silver dollars. Growing up a Girl Scout, we always made them at camp. I now make them for my family and they are a big hit!

I freeze hamburger patties at home (ground beef mixed with onion soup mix)
sliced or diced potatoes (or whole red ones)
baby carrots
broccoli (optional)
onion

At camp, put one patty and a handful of each veg onto a large square of heavy duty foil. Wrap it up and toss it onto the coals about an hour or two.

I've also done this at home in a reynolds cooking bag in a 9x13 pan, just put all patties on the bottom and toss veggies on top and bake. This is easier at home, since you can check for doneness without unwrapping each "meal."

I'm wondering if it can be done in a crock-pot... I might give it a try soon.

 

[Iott Family]

We love to camp and we love our sweets but we get tired of the banana boats and s'mores all the time. So we pull out the crockpot and with 3-5 ingredients have amazing dessert. You can also use a dutch oven over coals. If you do this line your dutch oven with aluminum foil for quick clean up!

We make something called dump cake. The premise is a box of cake mix, filling, stick of butter/margarine and spices. Filling goes in the bottom, sprinkled with a box of cake mix, pour melted butter over that and sprinkle with spices.

Cherry Cordial/Black Forest dump cake is a can of cherry pie filling, box of devils food cake mix and stick of butter and a little cinnamon. Cook on low 4-6 hours

Tropical Delight is a can of pineapple tidbits(drained), can of cherry pie filling, box of coconut cake mix, stick of butter, sprinkle with coconut and cinnamon. Cook on low 4-6hrs.

Traditional Apple pie is a can of apple pie filling, box of spice cake mix and stick of butter. You can also use a yellow cake mix sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar.

Applesauce cake is a med-lrg jar of applesauce(chunky or smooth) and a box of spice cake mix, stick of butter.

Peanutbutter and fudge cake mix is so rich and gooey but yummy!

You can also mix pie fillings. Like cherry and apple. Blueberry and blackberry. Pineapple and cherry. Apple and cranberry. I use yellow or spice cake mixes with these.

I really hope you enjoy any or all of these!

 

[bevtoy]

This is not a recipe but a suggestion. We just bought a Kitchen Kettle made by Presto. It is a 6 quart electric pot with a nonstick surface inside and out. It can be used to steam, boil, or fry. It comes with a steamer/fryer basket. We have been testing it out this past week and so far it works wonderfully. It only cost us $22.00 at Wal-Mart. We have made pasta, instant mashed potatos, and chili in it. So far so good. We haven't tried steaming or deep frying anything yet. It is easy to clean out with the nonstick surface which is a must in our popup camper. We highly recommend it.

We bought one of these also. It takes a long time to get the oil hot but works well otherwise.

 

[bevtoy]

Ingredients:

marshmallows
Keebler fudge stripe cookies

Just like always, roast your marshmallow but then you just put it in between 2 fudge stripe cookies and OH MY GOSH they are AWESOME!

We sometimes use Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread instead of Hershey bars,its awsome!(Next to the peanut butter in the grocery store.)

 

[bevtoy]

Take peach halves and place them on aluminum foil square. Put 1 tablespoon of brown sugar in the hole and sprinkle with cinnamon plus a few minature marshmallows. Fold up foil and place in campfire untill marshmallows are melted....delicious!

 

[Iott Family]

Take peach halves and place them on aluminum foil square. Put 1 tablespoon of brown sugar in the hole and sprinkle with cinnamon plus a few minature marshmallows. Fold up foil and place in campfire untill marshmallows are melted....delicious!

Are these fresh or canned peaches? Thanks!!!!!

 

[bevtoy]

Are these fresh or canned peaches? Thanks!!!!!

Oh sorry! They are the canned peaches.

 

[bennythepug]

Try this out in the crock pot. Its easy and the FW kids loved it!
1 small jar grape jelly
1 small jar chili sauce
1 package kiebasa, cut up

cook on low 3 hours. serve with crackers and cheese. FW 7/08 !!!!