What is your favorite camping meal?

[ComfortablyNumb]

Sometimes I'll even bring food....

[Beefchop]

Fresh caught fish fried in a pan

[Mudkat]

Love doing that!

[THE Humble Texan]

In butter!!!!!

[bep35]

Now that would be good. Will have to cook up some walleye next time.

[painter]

My wife and I are tent/car campers and usually make a variety of meals. We live in the mountain west and the distances to our chosen location can be long so the first night out is usually something pre-cooked and warmed on our two burner Colman. Frozen, ziploc entries will take a day or two to thaw in the cooler. We've even brought along duck confit. Taco/burritos cooked on site work well as it's something you can eat with your hands. One night is usually ribeyes and potato done over live coals. Another favorite is stew or other one pot meals. Pre-mixed salad is handy and fresh vegi's are easy either on the grill or the Colman. Pasta too. Breakfast is usually granola with yogurt, hard boiled eggs, etc so we can get to the days hike without to much camp work.
We just returned Sunday evening from a week in northern Wyoming and southern Montana. We were in some fairly remote areas with lots of grizzly warnings so being aware of what we cook and keeping a clean camp is important.

[Mudkat]

Any pics?

[bep35]

Nothing like a hot meal at the end of the day. Camping and cooking in bear country takes on a whole new set of techniques.

[xaugievike]

these were pretty good

[bep35]

I see the PBC tagging along on many camp outings here.

[Mudkat]

How about some shortrib popsicles. 😀😀 The temp is the ambient temp when the ribs came off.

[HawkerXP]

NOT going to like that one!

[Mudkat]

Hehhehheh. One day HawkerXP. One day.

[Mudkat]

These were really good on another Meatup at the Shenandoah River State Park.

[bep35]

Those ribs look amazing. Never seen them cooked that way.

[Mudkat]

Thanks bep35! They were cooked on a wsm 14.5. It's a great way to utilize limited space. I've since learned to flip them over mid way through the cook.

[Donw]

Dutch oven beef stew cooked in the coals.

[mountainsmoker]

At our cabin on the Mississippi we grill on a cast iron grill over wood coals, stick some potatoes wrapped in foil on the coals and some country ribs on the grill or fresh caught fish. The grill is home made and is about 12" above the coals. Good eats

[mountainsmoker]

I don't even know where it is anymore.

[bep35]

I know there's no right answer, but about how long do potatoes wrapped in foil stay in the coals before they are cooked? 15, 30, 45 minutes?

[mountainsmoker]

It varies by size of potato and temp of the coals of course, but normally about 20 minutes. You need to turn them frequently. I just give them a little squeeze when I turn them towards the end and you can tell if they are soft they are done.

[FishTalesNC]

I use camping as an excuse to make these DO chili dogs that Frozen Smoke posted. Next level chili dogs, very guilty pleasure.

[bep35]

Those chili dogs do look good! May have to try that one.

[Attjack]

Steak and veggies are easy.

[Spinaker]

Your dishes are always so full of color! (And I am sure flavor)

[Attjack]

Spinaker I think all the senses need to be activated for a meal to reach its full potential.

[Spinaker]

Absolutely! Attjack

[Attjack]

I really wanted to buy one of those disposable grill pans I've seen but couldn't find them that weekend so I had to cut a regular foil pan to get some fire on my steaks.

[bep35]

I wondered what the story was on the steaks in the pan. Never tried cooking them that way. Kind of like a disposable Grillgrate.

[Spinaker]

This is a great thread! Anymore camping cooks out there?

[SmokeyGator]

Depends on the "camping". Once I did a smoked turkey. Had to bring the cheap version of a WSM, a cooler, the turkey, and so on. So like 50 pounds of crap. At least. Other times it’s chili or a stew or a "hobo meal" which is hamburger meat with whatever else I have thrown into an aluminum foil pouch sealed TIGHT and cooked. Or freeze dried crap / MREs. Basically whatever I feel like doing, given the constraints of am I glamming for the weekend with hundreds of pounds of crap in the back of a vehicle, am I backpacking, or am I sleeping on a 20 foot open boat at anchor.

[bep35]

I hear you. By the time we pack up the campchef stove, table, food, grill, charcoal, and all that goes with them it about fills the back of the pickup. Good times!

[Mudkat]

I call that camping SmokeyGator ! 😀

[bep35]

What in the world is that on the far end? Looks like some type of NASA satellite antenna.

[Spinaker]

Yes!!!! More iron!!

[Mudkat]

That's a wsm top sitting on a smokey joe sitting on the camp sites pedestal grill with HawkerXP 's Thermopop attched. So yeah. It's a NASA satellite thingy. 😀

[Tax Man]

Blueberry pancakes with sausage patties