Need a good foil pack recipe (or two)

[disney4dan]

Going to a Webelo's Woods overnight camping trip with Matt, my youngest, this weekend and am looking for a good foil pack recipe for cooking.

I hope I haven't spoiled myself too much by camping in the trailer, but I am looking forward to a "boy's night out" with a little different flair - sleeping on the ground, cooking on coals from a fire, coffee at daybreak if I can get my 35 year old single burner stove to light.....

Dan

 

[des1954]

I hope you have a great time!! This is the kind of stuff that kids will talk about for the rest of their lives. Now...here's a dessert recipe I can offer:

Take a banana, leave the skin on, and split it length-wise being careful not to go all the way thru. Spread it open just a little and sprinkle Toll House mini chips down the split followed by a few mini-marshmallows. Wrap the stuffed banana tightly in foil & place on a rack over the fire. I can't tell you how long to leave it on, cause that depends on how raging your fire is. This works best when you're down to those smoldering coals! I'd say leave it on for 3-5 minutes turning it over one time.

Be careful when you open it, cause it will be HOT! Give everyone spoons and let them dig out little mouth-full's of joy!!

 

[BradyBz12]

The foil bananas ROCK! I make them on almost every camping trip. Sometimes I do them at home on the grill.

Last camping trip I cut fresh peaches into quarters, sprinkled with cinnamon and coconut and drizzled with honey. Close up the foil packs and cook until the peaches are soft, but not mushy.

A few other thoughts...

Slice potatoes, peppers and onions fairly thin (you can also use sweet potatoes) - toss with a little oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Pile in the foil and put a few pats of butter on top. Cook till you can slide a fork through the potatoes easily.

Corn on the cob is great in foil over a fire too, but takes a little time. Peel and sprinkle with a little salt and smear a bit of butter all around. Wrap tightly in foil. Be sure to turn frequently.

If you've got some good coals, you can do whole baked potatoes too. Wash the potatoes, smear a little oil or butter around the outside and sprinkle with salt (you can skip this step, but it gives you delicious crispy skin!) Wrap well in foil and put on your coals - turn occasionally.

 

[des1954]

Here's one we made when I was in Girl Scouts. I had to look it up on line to find what all went in it....

Coffee Can Stew

Required:

1 coffee can per person (metal, please)
aluminum foil
oven mitts
stirring spoon

Ingredients:Per person:

2 strips bacon
1/4lb chicken, hamburger, or stew beef
1/2 potato
1 carrot
1/2 celery
garlic powder
salt
pepper

Notes:

This is similar to a hobo dinner, but with water added. Great for younger ones just starting to cook as long as there is no rush to finish the meal time.

Instructions:

Dice all the vegetables.
Cut the bacon into squares.
Cut the chicken or beef into small pieces.
Place bacon in the bottom of can - the grease helps stop sticking.
Drop in pieces of vegetable and meat - as much as the person will eat.
Add seasoning as desired.
Add 1 or 1.5 cups water.
Cover with an aluminum foil lid.
Place directly in campfire coals.
Cook for 45-60 minutes.

 

[disney4dan]

Pretty good ideas! Going out tomorrow night for the ingredients, just packed the single burner stove and some of the coffee fixin's.

Now if I can remember to pack the camera we'll have some photos for Sunday night or Monday.

Speaking of Sunday night - the Ken Burns special about the National Parks is on PBS this Sunday. Should be some good viewing.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Fire Me Up A Sammich:

Bread

Butter

Sliced Meat (ham, chicken, beef, turkey, etc...)

Shredded Cheese (Colby, Swiss, etc....)

Sliced Hot Peppers (however hot you like it)

Ranch Dressing (ketchup & mustard is ok...)

Foil

Cut a section of foil big enough to wrap your sandwich completely. Place the dull side of the foil up. Butter 1 slice of bread and place the butter side down on the foil. Layer your meat on the slice of bread. Place the sliced hot peppers on top of the meat. Sprinkle the cheese over the peppers. Butter the other slice of bread and place the slice butter side up on the sandwich. Wrap the sandwich in the foil making sure that you seal it all up.

Place on hot coals for approx. 3-4 mins. each side depending on how hot your coals really are. Once done, unwrap sandwich and enjoy.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

I have not tried this,,but sounds fun.
If you try this , please let us know how it turns out.

Boiled Egg in a Cup

Egg
Paper Cup
Directions:
Place an egg in a small paper cup. Fill with water. Make a hole in your red hot coals for the cup and sit the cup in the hole. The water will boil and the paper won't burn. Let boil 10 minutes, remove from fire and enjoy your hard boiled egg.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Angels On Horseback

1 Pack Hot dogs
12 oz. Uncooked Bacon
American Cheese, sliced
Toothpicks
Campfire Skewers (the kind with LONG handles)

Directions:
Split the hot dog without going all the way through. Tear strips of cheese and tuck into the slit. Wrap the entire hot dog with a slice of bacon and fasten with toothpicks. Roast over open flame or hot coals until bacon is crispy-tender and hot dog is heated through.

 

[des1954]

OMG Frank!!! I totally forgot about Angels on Horseback! Those were my fav's at Girl Scout Camp. I'm gonna have to make those for the kids sometime during the GG. You & me will have some, too!

 

[Born 2 Fish]

OMG Frank!!! I totally forgot about Angels on Horseback! Those were my fav's at Girl Scout Camp. I'm gonna have to make those for the kids sometime during the GG. You & me will have some, too!

Sounds like a wiener to me !
I mean WINNER,,sounds like a winner to me !

 

[LarryJ]

Going to a Webelo's Woods overnight camping trip with Matt, my youngest, this weekend and am looking for a good foil pack recipe for cooking.

I hope I haven't spoiled myself too much by camping in the trailer, but I am looking forward to a "boy's night out" with a little different flair - sleeping on the ground, cooking on coals from a fire, coffee at daybreak if I can get my 35 year old single burner stove to light.....

Dan

I assume you are looking for complete meals cooked in aluminum foil on an actual wood fire ... if so here are two Boy Scout meals that turn out great.

1. Cut a chicken breast with the skin into like three long strips. Cut up and mix that with carrots, potatoes, drained canned corn, etc., and onion chucks and season with what ever. Put in double or triple layered regular foil or double heavy duty and put right next to the coals and then rotate 180 deg every 20 or so minutes until done. The skin on the chicken is important since that will act like an oil and prevent things from burning to the aluminum foil. If using skinless breasts then put some oil in there.

2. Take a large onion and carefully cut off the non stem portion and just any stem end strings and leave most of the skin on that won't flake off with rubbing. Hollow out the middle enough to pack with seasoned ground beef or any other meat mixture. Take a tripled/double single strength or a double strength sheet of aluminum foil and lay some veggies like carrots and potatoes, cleaned and cut fairly small in the foil and put the onion on them with some oil in the bottom to prevent the veggies sticking to the foil. Then fold up the foil to form a bowl and put more veggies to your liking like in the first recipe around the onion between it and the foil. Fold/close that all up and leave a hole for venting and do the same thing as 1 above for cooking.

The key to this type cooking is placement of the foil package relative to the coals ... never directly on the coals except some minor specks, watching it closely and rotating the hot side to the fire often ... maybe about every 10min. Also, be very, very gentle when moving the foil since you can puncture it. For the hard core we used a stick with a wye that you dug into under the foil pack to pick it up and rotate it.

Of course you could always do the SNIPE (probably spelled wrong, but it's them things you hunt at night with a pillow case in complete darkness) fry which is just Cornish hens cut in half and cooked like the chicken in #1 above or grilled on grate with a lot of seasoning to make them wild things taste funky.

Leave your stove at home and use a perculator on the coals in the morning. Starting that fire and waiting to make your coffee will make it taste 10X better than anything else. Boy Scouts don't use stoves anyway so that would be a FUBAR IMHO.

Yes I'm an eagle scout, father of two other eagle scouts and married to a Tiger/Cub Scout Den mother.

Larry

 

[LarryJ]

I just re-read you original post and if the pack is good the SNIPE fry should be covered with the traditional Webelos SNIPE Hunt.

Larry

 

[disney4dan]

I assume you are looking for complete meals cooked in aluminum foil on an actual wood fire ... if so here are two Boy Scout meals that turn out great.

1. Cut a chicken breast with the skin into like three long strips. Cut up and mix that with carrots, potatoes, drained canned corn, etc., and onion chucks and season with what ever. Put in double or triple layered regular foil or double heavy duty and put right next to the coals and then rotate 180 deg every 20 or so minutes until done. The skin on the chicken is important since that will act like an oil and prevent things from burning to the aluminum foil. If using skinless breasts then put some oil in there.

2. Take a large onion and carefully cut off the non stem portion and just any stem end strings and leave most of the skin on that won't flake off with rubbing. Hollow out the middle enough to pack with seasoned ground beef or any other meat mixture. Take a tripled/double single strength or a double strength sheet of aluminum foil and lay some veggies like carrots and potatoes, cleaned and cut fairly small in the foil and put the onion on them with some oil in the bottom to prevent the veggies sticking to the foil. Then fold up the foil to form a bowl and put more veggies to your liking like in the first recipe around the onion between it and the foil. Fold/close that all up and leave a hole for venting and do the same thing as 1 above for cooking.

The key to this type cooking is placement of the foil package relative to the coals ... never directly on the coals except some minor specks, watching it closely and rotating the hot side to the fire often ... maybe about every 10min. Also, be very, very gentle when moving the foil since you can puncture it. For the hard core we used a stick with a wye that you dug into under the foil pack to pick it up and rotate it.

Of course you could always do the SNIPE (probably spelled wrong, but it's them things you hunt at night with a pillow case in complete darkness) fry which is just Cornish hens cut in half and cooked like the chicken in #1 above or grilled on grate with a lot of seasoning to make them wild things taste funky.

Leave your stove at home and use a perculator on the coals in the morning. Starting that fire and waiting to make your coffee will make it taste 10X better than anything else. Boy Scouts don't use stoves anyway so that would be a FUBAR IMHO.

Yes I'm an eagle scout, father of two other eagle scouts and married to a Tiger/Cub Scout Den mother.

Larry

That's the kind they were trying to get us to prepare, the single foil packs, things that first year Webelo cub scouts can help prepare. DW Nancy picked up a ham that she was planning to have for Sunday any way, so we have some of that ham cut into cubes, along with diced onion and small cubes of potatoes. Not sure if there is enough fat left in the ham to prevent the burning and sticking to the foil, but we'll see. Matt helped cut and load up the foil packs. Extra Heavy Duty, triple layered foil packs that should hold up. Nancy's rationale on the ham was that it's already cured and won't kill us if it's under-done! A little ham tartar anyone?

The banana's fell victim to a hungry household, not sure if I can pick some up at a convenience store before we head out at 8:00am this morning. Will bring some extra foil and chocolate chips. It's apple season up here, so I'm thinking we can mix up some cinnamon and sugar, take the core out of the apple, fill the center with cinnamon and sugar mix and try that warmed over the fire for desert as well!

I figure, seeing that this is my first scout trip (even though we are den leaders in cub scouts, the boy scouts and their leaders are running this outing) I am still taking the single burner stove for that early morning cup of coffee. There won't be any coals at 5:00am, and breakfast is not until 8:00. When I went through scouts, our leaders were less formal, taught us how to light a fire on a rainy day with a can of spray paint (don't try this at home kids), and unfortunately there was the ever present flask. It's a much more organized and better environment for the scouts now, and I'm glad that my youngest is involved.

Should be a blast, the weather is looking great for today, but steady rain predicted after 2:00am. Should smell like a pack of wet dogs at breakfast. I'm still looking forward to this (can you tell?) - will try to post pics when I get back tomorrow.

Also - Larry - serious respect for you and your sons getting to Eagle Scout, and for your wife being a den leader. As an assistant den leader, I understand the commitment and energy required and now I truly understand why those eagle scout achievements are hard to earn. More so now in this day of not keeping score at sporting events, everyone gets praise. Achievement deserves praise.

 

[des1954]

Leave your stove at home and use a perculator on the coals in the morning. Starting that fire and waiting to make your coffee will make it taste 10X better than anything else. Boy Scouts don't use stoves anyway so that would be a FUBAR IMHO.
Larry

Heh-heh!! Larry said FUBAR. Heh-heh!

 

[LarryJ]

That's the kind they were trying to get us to prepare, the single foil packs, things that first year Webelo cub scouts can help prepare. DW Nancy picked up a ham that she was planning to have for Sunday any way, so we have some of that ham cut into cubes, along with diced onion and small cubes of potatoes. Not sure if there is enough fat left in the ham to prevent the burning and sticking to the foil, but we'll see. Matt helped cut and load up the foil packs. Extra Heavy Duty, triple layered foil packs that should hold up. Nancy's rationale on the ham was that it's already cured and won't kill us if it's under-done! A little ham tartar anyone?

The banana's fell victim to a hungry household, not sure if I can pick some up at a convenience store before we head out at 8:00am this morning. Will bring some extra foil and chocolate chips. It's apple season up here, so I'm thinking we can mix up some cinnamon and sugar, take the core out of the apple, fill the center with cinnamon and sugar mix and try that warmed over the fire for desert as well!

I figure, seeing that this is my first scout trip (even though we are den leaders in cub scouts, the boy scouts and their leaders are running this outing) I am still taking the single burner stove for that early morning cup of coffee. There won't be any coals at 5:00am, and breakfast is not until 8:00. When I went through scouts, our leaders were less formal, taught us how to light a fire on a rainy day with a can of spray paint (don't try this at home kids), and unfortunately there was the ever present flask. It's a much more organized and better environment for the scouts now, and I'm glad that my youngest is involved.

Should be a blast, the weather is looking great for today, but steady rain predicted after 2:00am. Should smell like a pack of wet dogs at breakfast. I'm still looking forward to this (can you tell?) - will try to post pics when I get back tomorrow.

Also - Larry - serious respect for you and your sons getting to Eagle Scout, and for your wife being a den leader. As an assistant den leader, I understand the commitment and energy required and now I truly understand why those eagle scout achievements are hard to earn. More so now in this day of not keeping score at sporting events, everyone gets praise. Achievement deserves praise.

It's been over 20 years since our Webelo things or the foil cooking and you might have to open up the foil every 20 min or so and stir the pot so to speak and you will get some stuff stuck to the foil, but just tear off what will come off and go from there. The Ham is also a good idea as is just about any meat especially from a can that is basically already cooked. Also, you can try and surround the foil with coals and even put some cooler coal under and on top. Just look around and follow what some of the more experienced people are doing so you don't end up on the only sinking boat when it comes time to eat. It does take some practice to get things just right, but hey it has to be better than the Harrison Hash (bag of Potatoes O'Brian and a pound of uncooked breakfast sausage all in a big pot and cook it) my youngest and one of his scout buddies tried to feed me on one of our Memorial Day Shenandoah River Canoe trips that the troop did each year. Problem was they were in a hurry and the some of the sausage was still raw

Larry