What do you cook when you camp?

[mvazul]

We really don't do camping recipes. For dinner, we usually grill steaks, brats, chicken or pork chops. For a side, one of our favorites is salt potatoes. I use little new potatoes, cut them in half and boil them in season salt, garlic salt, dried cilantro and Italian seasonings. Once they are cooked all the way, I drain them and add a little more of the seasonings, half a stick of butter and stir to coat. They're awesome!!

Have fun camping!!

Michelle

PS - I forgot to add that the KOA website has a ton of recipes on there, too. http://www.koa.com/recipes/ There are different categories on the right-hand side. HTH!!

 

[D&DDisney]

Foil dinners are quick and easy...

On a piece of foil, put 1 hamburger patty
Several slices of potato
Baby carrots or green beans
Onion slices (optional)

Mix can of cream of mushroom soup w/ 1 bag onion soup mix. Place a spoonful on the above. Salt and pepper to taste. Close foil and place on grill or fire for 30min.
Very tasty and easy to clean up.

 

[mvazul]

Electricity? I thought this thread was about camping... I guess you could plug it in next to the TV...

Sorry but I camp with water and electric. And ya know what, I bring my TV for weather reports. Where I was camping last week a little girl was killed in a flash flood 1/2 a mile away. We just had tornados too. I want to hear if something bad is coming my way so I can get somewhere safe if need be.

We only camp where we can have water and electric at our campsite, too. And we camp in a tent. We also make sure they have WiFi. Yes, we're camping, but my husband usually still has to work a bit while we're gone, so we need internet access. We just camped in Gettysburg last weekend (Gettysburg Battlefield KOA - I HIGHLY recommend them!!). We found out once we arrived that our site could also get cable. My husband was upset he didn't know in advance - he would have brought his small TV so he could catch the Cubs' game!! We also had tornado warnings while we were camping, so having access to the radar was nice.

Michelle

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

we soak corn on the cob for about 1 hr and the just put it right on the hot coals, turning it every so often. YUM. OH leave the husk and silk on, soak it that way.

 

[MichelleVW]

I always made pasta on our camp stove. Jar of Ragu, some italian sausage and pasta. YUM!!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

We tent camp, too, and I try to prepare as much as I can ahead of time. We have had grilled steak, grilled chicken (over the gas stove), spaghetti (cooked & frozen ahead of time - comes out great), papas con carne (again cooked ahead of time) which is basically ground beef or turkey, diced potatoes, diced onions, garlic, a small can of green beans & small can of corn, sometimes mushrooms, & diced tomatoes, cooked with seasonings and salsa or taco mix. It's really yummy. I put it in gallon-sized freezer bags, and then heat it up when we're there - one pot, easy to clean. We also have had chicken fettucine, but more often we eat the simpler foods - burgers, hot dogs, tacos, burritos...

 

[Disney Hot Mama]

We love cooking in them. Especially beef stew and chili. I also do a second dutch oven with dessert. Usually a cobbler or pineapple upside down cake. Delicious.....

Foil bakes as mentioned before are great fun too. Each person can add what they want to the foil bake. I do usually have all the items cut up in advance.

Hot dogs an hamburgers plus steaks and grilled chicken are always easy. It is like cooking on the BBQ at home

Breakfasts - pancakes, omelets or scrambled eggs. I also have a great recipie in the dutch oven for something called a hungry man skillet. It is bacon, eggs, cheese and hash browns..

This thread is making my hungry

 

[stsomewhere]

thanks for all great ideas.

 

[darlak]

Hamburger, chopped onions, cubed potatoes, corn, tomato sauce, what ever seasonings you like.... crumble hamburger put in individual size portions, put it in an aluminum foil pouch, (I double pouch mine) and toss on the fire for 30 minutes turning every 10 minutes or so. We called it campfire stew when I was in Scouts.

If you really want to go fancy, you can make really good cobblers in camp style dutch ovens as well.

My DH is an Eagle Scout and we've always had those on any camping trip. You can substitute diced chicken, round steak or shrimp for the ground beef. We used to make them in the oven at home sometimes too because the kids loved preparing their own. I just set out bowls of the ingredients available, plus seasonings and gave each child their own large piece of foil to put everything on.

Dale's seasoning is my favorite to pour over everything!

 

[CowboyCO]

Sorry but I camp with water and electric. And ya know what, I bring my TV for weather reports. Where I was camping last week a little girl was killed in a flash flood 1/2 a mile away. We just had tornados too. I want to hear if something bad is coming my way so I can get somewhere safe if need be.

I wasn't trying to be hypercritical. But camping out here is a little more spartan. Not many hookups at 10,500 feet. Plus, for us, there's something about the glow of the fire, the sound of the propane lantern. I've never camped outside the Rockies, so don't really know about the culture elsewhere. I have seen campgrounds in the mid-west (and at Ft Wilderness) where everybody has colored lights strung up all over their campsite? What's up with that? How do you look at the stars with all those confounded lights?

 

[jen0610]

One of our favs camping was Pudgy Pies.

http://www.firepies.com/irons.html

We found them at camping supplie stores. We had 3 of the round ones and 2 of the square ones. For what ever reason, us kids like the round ones the best.

We would make the fruit pies - apple, cherry, blueberry.

But we would also make - pizza and chili dog pies.

Pizza - sauce, what ever topping you want and cheese.

Chili dogs - slice hot dogs into discs, put sauce down, add the discs, and what ever toppings - we did mostly onions and cheese, some added relish and mustard.

Also, for smore's we don't use the graham crackers. We ran out one time and used saltines in their place and we found that we liked them much better that way. A little bit salty to cut all the sweet.

 

[Lynn CC]

Last Saturday I mixed up 2lbs. of lobster salad and brought it with me to the campground. All we had to do was toast the buns. I also put some baby lettuce leaves around the buns before putting the lobster on. Delicious and quite a treat for all!

 

[VirtuallyMe]

Just about anything I cook at home I can manage on an open fire- so whatever I feel like.

Now if I am with the Girl Scouts- they love doing foil packet dinners- they can be individualized so really good if you have picky eaters-

Usually use- chicken breast (boneless), sausage, potatoes (canned or chopped in small cubes), onions, bell pepper, mushroom, whatever other veggies you want- put it all in a two layer thick foil packet- add some seasonings to taste and a little squirt butter- wrap up leaving a little steam room but make sure it is sealed well- then toss on the coals to cook.

Another Girl scout favorite- is just about anything in a tortilla- they will do breakfast burritos, soft tacos etc...

The girls also love to do box oven cooking- (wrapping a box in heavy duty foil)- putting coals on bottom- a grill over coals and food in it bakes like an oven- so we will do pizza or cookies or brownies that way.

The pie irons are also fun- I've gotten them in walmart camping area- cook individual grilled cheese or pizza or pie or whatever in those.

Usually at least once on a camping trip- I will make Jambalaya (one pot rice and meat dish) in a cast iron pot.

there are tons of recipes out there- but really we just cook a lot of the same things we do at home. Cooking on a fire is all about placement and cookware- and having coals to cook over not a roaring flame.

 

[minkydog]

We camp all the time and we eat just about anything there that we might eat at home. If you have a campstove and a grill you can make stir-fry, grilled chicken or salmon, foil packets, even pie in a dutch oven!

One of our favorite meals is crockpot pinto beans. I soak them overnight just like at home, then load 'em up in the crockpot the next day with a quart of veggie broth. Let it cook all day, then serve it over rice for dinner.

'Course my kids would say the best meal is the frozen pizza (we have an oven in our RV and a TV)