Camping recipes

[Ohiodislover]

We have used regular pizza crust in our cast iron skillet. We just mixed the crust, or bought the dough that all you have to do is press it in.

The biggest trick is to wait till the fire isn't roaring. You need a nice constant steady heat, to keep it from burning.

 

[Pixiedust34]

http://www.chuckwagondiner.com/campfire.html

At the bottom of this link, you'll see some different categories of recipes you can use while camping.

 

[Sandy321]

we do 2 kinds of pizza -

If you use the reynalds wrap (get the no stick foil!) and individual pizzas -

we use english muffins for the base, spread tomato paste on top - a variety of toppings (whatever you like, pepperoni comes pre cut in the lunchmeat aisle) and then mozzerella cheese - you'll put the muffin/pizza on the foil and you fold it in such a way that it creates a "tent" on top - so the foil isnt touching the top part of the muffin - then place near the fire - since all the toppings are precooked, you're just going to get it 'warmed'

For the fire - you'll have to have some coals, not a roaring hot fire - and place the foil near the fire - not on a coal, not on a fire -

For the Dutch Oven Pizzas - the Boy Scouts would buy the frozen pizzas and put them in the dutch ovens - making sure the pizzas were in a throw away foil- - they'd line the ovens with foil for easy clean ups OK - - I googled and I found a different recipe, but it has a picture!
http://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/recipe/dutch_oven_pizza-234.asp

Know that Dutch Oven over fire cooking is easy - its about putting coals under and on top of the lids of the oven - for even cooking!

 

[pls5286]

When we do Boy Scout Camp Outs we do Hobo Pockets on Saturday nights. They are awesome.

You take pork loin and lay it on a piece of tin foil. Add cubed veggies of your choice. We use potatoes, carrots, and onions. Add generous helping of Italian or Zesty Italian salad dressing over all the ingredients to keep from burning. Wrap in tin foil. Take another piece of foil and wrap the other way. Place on HOT coals of your camp fire and flip about every 15 min until done. Usually cooks in about 45 min.

We also do either a peach or apple cobbler in the Dutch Oven on the camp fire. The boys love them and also love cooking their own meals.

 

[N&B'smom]

Thanks for all the ideas and the pizza info.

We did get some ideas we're going to try. We're going to core apples and fill them with brown sugar, raisins, butter and some cinnamon, wrap them in foil and throw them down into the coals for a bit.

We also got a recipe for doughnuts that you cook in oil over the fire and then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

 

[ahutton]

We have been camping to get out of the heat for the past couple summers and I rely on the http://www.scoutorama.com/recipe/index.cfm website for new recipes.

We also do a lot of familiar stuff... We will take steaks, chops, all the stuff we love on the grill at home. We do "meal packets" with our food saver, freeze them and put them in the cooler that way. Then it just takes 30 mintues or so on the camp kitchen table before it's ready to cook. Anything grilled with good sauce on it is yummy.

Some of our family favorites:

For breakfast we make camp fries - cube potatoes, poblano chiles, onions and fry them in some oil with salt and chili powder. I put them, with eggs and salsa into breakfast burritos.

I also borrowed a version of a Paula Deen bean recipe to have with bbq meat. Take a large can of beans, bbq sauce and Durkee Fried Onions and cook them in the dutch oven for 30 mintues or so. Her recipe calls for adding crushed pineapple but we skipped that, saved it to make the scoutarama cobbler, which is awesome too. We used cherry pie filling, but next time I'm doing peach.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I am back from camping. We had alot of fun. We had rain, hot and cold at night. A little chilly on our float.

We tried to do the pie irons however just did not have enough time to do it. So I had tortillas leftover from the tacos and I made those into pizzas on my cast iron skillet. They were simple and good.

I cooked smokies on the cast iron skillet and those were the best smokies ever! All that wood smoke into it was heaven.

My sister is going to buy a cast iron skillet now.