Camping recipes

[britfish]

In our quest for an affordable family vacation we are going camping! I am working on a menu and would love some great camp recipes. We will have a propane camp stove with us and of course the campfire!

 

[ilovejack02]

Go to the Camping board on here, lots of help there!!

 

[Maddykins06]

Sloppy Joes (precook the meat at home, then just heat & mix in the sauce)
Fish Packets
Chicken Packets
Hot dogs, burgers

 

[LKHomemail]

corn flakes and bacon.

smores.

hot dogs with all the trimmings. fruit.

 

[bigdisneygroup]

mountain pies and more mountain pies

 

[belle's mom]

mountain pies and more mountain pies

What are mountain pies?

One I learned in a Girl Scout camp training was chicken and yellow rice. You use a package of yellow rice and canned chicken. You could add peas if you wanted to round out the meal. Haven't made it in a while. but you add the canned chicken in when you have the rice on simmer.

Looking at it it doesn't sound very appetizing, but it is surprisingly good and only one cooking pot to clean up.

 

[HeatherN]

Make a little packet out of tin foil and add sliced potatoes, onion and a little butter and pepper.Garlic is great too.I like to add a bit of tobasco sauce too.Fold it up and cook over a fire or grill them.So good and super easy.The clean up is the best part!

 

[LizinSTL]

In our quest for an affordable family vacation we are going camping! I am working on a menu and would love some great camp recipes. We will have a propane camp stove with us and of course the campfire!

Just back from 3 nights of camping in mid-Missouri.

General suggestions: freeze EVERYTHING - if you have a vacuum sealer- vacuum seal everything and then freeze. I double bag stuff too. Use a whole block of ice in your food cooler and put beverages in a different cooler (stays colder that way!) After 4 days/3 nights, we still had block ice left!
Fill around it w/ ice cubes to keep food colder.

Dinner suggestions: bbq burgers.... tacos (cook meat at home).....bratwurst or hot dogs (we boil brats in beer before freezing and then just grill to warm/give color).....fajitas.... foil packet cooking- any meat, any canned veggie or fresh potatos and onions, salt n pepper, butter.
Corn on the cob is awesome because you don't have to keep it cold until you prep it, so I just buy ears of corn and we clean it just before wrapping in foil and tossing it on the grill. On this last trip we had burgers, steak n corn on the cob and tacos.

Breakfasts: breakfast burritos (bulk sausage and scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, cheese and salsa wrapped in a tortilla.- Sometimes I precook the sausage but it's no easier at the campsite to do it that way. I vacuum seal the hash browns too. I scramble the eggs at home and transport them in a washed out vitamin water or small gatorade bottle- thicker than a water bottle and wide mouthed so it's easier to pour the scrambled eggs in .) pancakes (bisquick makes a just add water and shake jug!) On this last trip we had breakfast burritos, bagels and cream cheese and pigs in a blanket.

Snacks: fried donuts (canned biscuits cut in quarters and fried in a couple inches of oil- Toss into a brown paper bag w/ cinnamon and sugar after frying)....brown bears (canned cinnamon rolls skewered and cooked over the camp fire on marshmallow forks!)..... s'mores and toasted marshmallows (of course!) We ate a LOT of marshmallows!




I also bring along whole watermelon- it can stay out until the last night- after you've eaten most of your food, drop it in the cooler and let it ice up. Get seeded melon so you can have a spitting contest. Same goes w/ cherries- kids love to be allowed to spit the pits!

 

[RangerPooh]

Breakfast-
-Cereal
-Pancakes- shake and pour or the only add water kind
-Bacon
-Eggs
-Corn Beff Hash
-Hashbrowns


Dinner-
-Hotdogs
-Hamburgers
-Sloppy Joes (I like the idea to cook and freeze before going! I'll have to try that next time)
-Mashed Potatoes
-Chips
-Beans
-Canned Stew
-Grilled cheese sandwhiches
-

This is one that I learned at camp:
Take two pirces of heavy tinfoil. Gently push the center part in to form a bowl with plenty on the sides. Next add meat (ground beef, preformed hamburger patty torn apart, veggie burger), chopped potatoe, chopped veggie (celery, corn, carrots, onion, peper, etc). Add some tomatoe sauce/tobasco sauce and water for flavor. Sprinkle on spices (pepper, etc). Fold up and place in fire pit and cook with the fire going. Occassionally rotate packet. Let cool, eat.

 

[semo233]

This is one of my favorites, camping or just cook in the oven:

Here's a good camping treat for people burned out on S’mores! - Submitted by Julie Uelmen

Take a banana and peel off one strip of peel (where the banana curves)

Where you took off the peel, slice out a piece of banana almost all the way down and set it aside

Fill opening with peanut butter

Place 2 or 3 pieces of chocolate on top of peanut butter

Cover the peanut butter and chocolate with the banana piece you cut out, cover that with the piece of peel, wrap very tightly in tin foil, and cook on a rack over your campfire 10 minutes.

Hmmmm eat with a spoon…yummy good!

it is like a banana split without the ice cream! I could not remember the name of it, but found it on this website
http://www.lovetheoutdoors.com/camping/Dessert_Recipes.htm

 

[vsimeone]

Purchase a couple of cheap Pie Irons http://www.pieiron.com/

For a meal, line the iron on each side with a slice of bread. Slather pizza sauce on the bread, then layer in some mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. Snap the iron shut and cook in the coals.

For dessert: two more slices of bread but this time fill with cherry or apple pie filling. Snap it shut and cook in the coals.

YUMMY!

 

[heartsy77]

Purchase a couple of cheap Pie Irons http://www.pieiron.com/

For a meal, line the iron on each side with a slice of bread. Slather pizza sauce on the bread, then layer in some mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. Snap the iron shut and cook in the coals.

For dessert: two more slices of bread but this time fill with cherry or apple pie filling. Snap it shut and cook in the coals.

YUMMY!

I was just gonna post this! We got set from my parents for our camper ( there's are 30 yrs old lol!). Everytime we go camping we make camper pies= buttered bread with any type pie fillings, and cook in the irons, then dip in powdered sugar. YUM! I have seen irons @ Walmart for cheap!
Also banana boats take a banana cut a "tunnel" in the banana and peal back the peel. Remove section of banana tunnel and alternate chocolate square and marshmallows, then place flap of peel over banana wrap in foil and cook on coals until banana is cooked. My kids and friends love these. We always go camping with a huge group of friends and they are request my camper pies and banana boats.

 

[irish_trip_mom]

mountain pies and more mountain pies

Definitely the Mountain pies!!!

 

[ELLE-TN]

Hobo packs​

hamburger patty, sliced potatoes, green pepper, onion, carrots, squash, zucchini, and mushrooms. Drizzle with olive oil then salt and pepper. All wrapped up in aluminum foil and laid on the coals of the fire about 20 minutes each side. Yummy!​

 

[britfish]

great ideas!!
the pie iron is really cool, I will have to look at walmart and see if they have any when I am there tonight.

Keep the ideas coming, I am loving your suggestions!

 

[bigdisneygroup]

Purchase a couple of cheap Pie Irons http://www.pieiron.com/

For a meal, line the iron on each side with a slice of bread. Slather pizza sauce on the bread, then layer in some mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. Snap the iron shut and cook in the coals.

For dessert: two more slices of bread but this time fill with cherry or apple pie filling. Snap it shut and cook in the coals.

YUMMY!

That's what mountain pies are!!

Another dessert one that I just heard about but haven't tried is spread peanut butter on the inside of the bread, add a couple pieces of Hershey's chocolate bar and cook.
Make sure that you either spray the irons with PAM or a butter flavored spray or spread oleo on the sides that go against the iron so they don't stick.

Definitely YUMMY!!

 

[pantherlj]

A fun twist on tacos. Buy mini/single size servings of Fritos.

Warm up precooked taco meat (or cook that night).

Crunch up the fritos in the bag, add the meat to the bag and any other toppings you want. Eat right out of the bag with a fork.

Easy clean up and fun for the kids and adults

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

We just did the Frito/taco thing on a recent camp trip. My son loved it so much, he did it with leftovers for breakfast the next morning!

I think the Birthday Fairy is bringing me a pie iron for my birthday next month...not that I know about this or anything. I can't wait!

 

[Dismom55]

You can use the pie irons for making pizza, egg breakfast sandwiches (like egg mcmuffins), sloppy joes, pretty much anything you can think of. Simply precook meat before you leave home, freeze in zip bags. Then heat your pie irons, coat with butter or non stick spray, place bread on one side, add filling, another slice of bread and close and toast. Can also make corn bread and pineapple upside cake in the pie irons.

The biggest thing to remember when using the pie irons, do not put them in the flame, use coals, almost all camp cooking is better if you use the coals to cook instead of flames.

Tip, when making pizza in pie irons, put pizza sauce in a squeeze bottle, makes it quick and easy.

If you go to a camping store, they will also sell hotdog irons, you make them the same as you do with the pie irons, butter the iron, apply bread, condiments, dogs, bread, close and toast. Ours hold two dogs.

Any one pot meal you cook or bake at home will work in a cast iron dutch oven. You simply put your ingredients, cover with the lid (I like to line the lid with foil on the outside, set the dutch oven on coals, put a few coals on the lid of the dutch oven and allow to bake/cook. We have even done fruit cobbler this way.

Another thing we like to do is baked potatoes, before wrapping your potatoes in foilslice them every inch or so, slip inslices of onion and butter, wrap tightly and bake on the coals, if you have a rack to put them on to keep them from touching the coals directly you will have less chance of burning, but must be very near the coals.

Can also cook hamburgers in foil, lay down a layer onion, then a hamburger patty, then some hash browns/ whole kernal corn and even frozen peas, mushroom, what ever you like. For big eaters can top with another hamburger patty, then another slice of onion, season as desired, seal foil tightly and cook on coals. Best part, no clean up as you throw it all away when done.

Well those are a few of some of the things we do when camping.

Thanks for the tip about the block ice, had not thought of that!

 

[heartsy77]

If your site has electric use a crock pot! We do meatball subs, etc. It is easy because it cooks all day; best of all not everyone has to eat when its done. My kids can wander around for dinner and it is still hot and ready.