Cooking over campfire tips

[Buttercup26]

Here are some fun GIRL scout recipes:

Fire Alarm Hot Dogs:
Supplies needed - heavy duty aluminum foil & clean quart or half gallon milk cartons (wax covered carboard cartons - NOT plastic). Hot Dogs, buns, condiments.
Put hot dog in bun, wrap very well (completely covered) in heavy duty foil. Place one wrapped hot dog in a quart milk carton or two wrapped hot dogs in a half gallon carton, put cartons in fire-pit and light on fire. When the carton burns down (doesn't take too long) the hot dog is done.

Fire Pit Dinner:
Supplies needed - lots of heavy duty aluminum foil. Bratwurst or other sausage type 'dog', potatoes, corn on cob (still in husk), lots of hot coals in fire pit.
Soak corn in water (still in husk - don't remove husk until cooked), wrap individually in foil. Scrub potatoes, poke with fork, wrap individually in foil. Wrap bratwurst (can do invidually or all in one packet) in foil. Put wrapped potatoes in coals first (about 45 minutes before you want to eat) put corn in coals 15 minutes later, bratwurst 15 minutes after corn. Potatoes need to cook for about 45 minutes, corn 30 minutes, brats 15 minutes.

Banana Boats:
Supplies needed - heavy duty foil, bananas, marshmallows (small work well) and chocolate chips.
Leave peel on banana, cut slit lengthwise (not all the way thru) fill slit with marshmallows and chocolate chips, wrap in foil, cook in coals 5 minutes, or on grate above flames 10 minutes.

Salad in a bag:
Supplies - quart sized ziploc bags, salad fixings and dressing.
Everyone puts their salad fixings in bag, add dressing (doesn't take much) and shakes!!

Pudding Toss:
Supplies - Heavy duty gallon sized freezer bags, instant pudding, milk, ice cream cones.
Put one big box or two small boxes of instant pudding in freezer bag, add milk per package instructions. Seal bag. Place this bag into a second freezer bag, seal bag. Be sure to double bag your pudding, just in case! Toss the pudding back & forth between 3 or 4 scouts for 5 - 10 minutes until firm. Toss gently, this is not a rugby game. When pudding is firm, cut corner of bag and squeeze pudding into ice cream cones.

 

[cdnmickeylover]

We love doing tin foil dinners. We usually do either a hamburg patty or a boneless chicken breast and then add sliced potatoes, onions, carrots, butter and salt/pepper to taste. The beauty with tin foil dinners is that everyone does their own and adds what they want. Be sure to wrap the foil shiny side in though as it takes a long time to cook the other way around as one of our scouts found out. We've done these with cubs as well.

An interesting breakfast is making an omelette in a bag. You have to use a freezer (heavy duty) bag. You break a couple of eggs into the bag and then add a little bit of milk (or water works fine). Mix it up and then you can add your fixings like - grated cheese, ham, peppers, onions etc. Again everyone can add what they want. You close the bag and put it into a pot of boiling water and it cooks in the bag. Best part -- no pot to clean up afterwards.

 

[live4christp1]

Thanks everyone for the great recipes and ideas. I am getting really excited about our menu for the weekend camping trip in May!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tkd lisa]

I've done the eggs in a bag, and the pudding in a bag (the boys call it football pudding). They are both great. Cooking eggs the "regular" way makes it very hard to clean up afterwards. I'll only do eggs if they're in a bag.