We are looking for ideas on meals to prepare either before or while camping. Some folks prepare their meals beforehand and either cook the ingredients at the campsite or heat them up if they were cooked earlier. Some folks like to do the entire meal at the camp using a grill, cook stove, crock pot, or fire.
What is your favorite camp meal and why? We hope to incorporate some of them into our camping experiences.
Ribs. Makes the neighbors crazy due to the aroma all day then they get to watch us eat.
Second favorite is breakfast. Bacon and eggs frying, nothing better in the morning. All our cooking is done outdoors even though we have a kitchen in the camper.
Breakfast burritos and regular burritos. You can precook and season the meat and freeze it in a ziplock. The veg are fresh, the eggs are easy to scramble, meat reheats easily, use frozen hash browns, shredded cheese - BAM, easy, tasty meal.
I cook from scratch for all meals. I use a small propane grill, a propane burner, a white gas stove, and the campfire. Just depends on what I'm cooking. I have a cookbook full of foil packet meals and I do use it, but it's far from the only option. I've posted some of my cooks here in the past. My favorite is grilled chicken wings.
zzdocxx I usually do but can't remember if I did for this cook. I tend to wing it when I do depending on what I have on hand or what style of cooking I'm shooting for. But I do try other people's marinades on the regular as well.
Scotch: Current favorite- The Arran (anything by them), Glenmorangie 12yr Lasanta, sherry cask finished. The Balvenie Double Wood, also like Oban 18yr, and The Glenlivet Nadurra (Oloroso sherry cask finished) among others. Neat please.
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It is an entire Thanksgiving dinner. For many years, as our kids grew up, we spent every Thanksgiving camping at Big Sur CA. My wife totally enjoyed the challenge of making a terrific family dinner, and boy did we benefit. Sometimes, we brought the Weber kettle along and did a whole turkey (that attracted some complements as the odor wafted across the campground). Other times, she had the butcher bone the turkey and make us a roast of the meat; that was a little easier and wonderful. The dinner always included all of the fixins including dressing, mashed potatoes, yams, green bean casserole, pies, cranberry... you know!. All carefully orchestrated to be warm at the same time using camp stoves, grills, and campfire. Tent camping, and most years the weather cooperated - only rained a couple of times. Believe me - that dinner is good anywhere, but even better outside in nature.
Just make up some hobo dinner packs in foil ahead of time and bring them with you to the campsite. I don't like to spend a lot of camping time preparing meals, so I keep it simple.
My idea of roughing it is the Embassy Suites, so whatever is on the menu is fine.
I haven't camped since Boy Scouts....the major reason I no longer camp.
OTOH...I've also been known to go barefoot through the lobby of the Outrigger Waikiki. LOL
I used to be there so often that they knew me on a first name basis.
I am a huge fan of anything cast iron while camping. Obvisouly, if you are back packing that is not an option. However, most of the time when I am camping, I am floating or we are at a camp site.
In June I was up in Glacier and we did some Chicken enchiladas in a Lodge Combo set. I put the enchiladas in a deep skillet and placed it onto to a bed of coals. Then I put the lid on and added coal to the lid. It took about a half hour and the results were amazing! Make sure to buy some fat, either lard, oil or keep your bacon fat from breakfast. That makes cooking much easier.
We also did some brats and some tri- tip.
Also, you can't beat steak and eggs.
And you couldn't beat the view!
On the river we make some killer meals. Fresh Salmon, salad, Roe and some really hearty hash browns, eggs, and moose sausage for breakfast! And some sprouts !
My wife has one of those Dutch ovens designed for going in the camp fire. She's done a lot with it, stews, burgoo, lasagna, and upside down cake. Also like breakfast in one big skillet--eggs, meat, potatoes, onions, peppers, whatever. We also have a tripod grill grate for cooking over the fire, I love burgers and steaks on that, and have cooked some decent chicken that way too.
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