Easy camp food.

[Changeling]

Geez guys, I'm talking fine dining! I'm a good campfire cook, just need ideas. I hate the pre-packaged stuff.
Weight isn't a factor, I'll be cooking at shoots mainly, so a pickup and a cooler are available.

I bake a ham a week or so ahead of time, eat all I want and wrap the Bone/ham leftover in saran wrap/alum foil and freeze.

In my camp I just put the dutch oven on/near the fire and let it slow cook the ham bone/meat along with a zip lock bag of cellery/onion/sliced carrots/3-4 bay leaves, etc, spices. Also I would make a BIG pile of cornbread muffins (at home) and take them along in some zip locks, with butter of cource. Sounds like a lot but actually a small packege! OH, almost forgot, take along a couple cans of precooked beans (your choice) to add after you/friends have kept going for more beans. It's never failed for me, awesome!

[Marvin S]

Okay, here's a good period correct breakfast. They are called forced eggs or Scottish eggs. Peel hard boiled eggs then pack bulk sausage around the eggs and put them in dutch oven with lid lip and coals on top also to help cook even.

[John in WI]

if I need "easy" and I'm not terribly worried about weight, I use the old Boyscout tin-foil dinner method. As a matter of fact, I sometimes even make them in my oven at home! You just take a sheet of heavy duty foil (shiny side up) and put a pat of butter or bit of oil (or some fatty bacon works too). Then you put down some onions, carrots, and sliced potatoes with either ground beef or sausage. Salt and pepper as you go. Then you cover it with another layer of foil and roll up the edges to seal it up good and set it on some coal you raked out of the fire and some more coals on top. About an hour should do it. The kids really enjoy making up their own meals too. And cleanup consists of tossing the foil. Or if you're worried about critters, you can burn off the leftover food.

[smokeywolf]

BREAKFAST
Bacon, eggs, hash-browns and coffee

SNACKS
Chips & dip
Bean Dip: 2 parts refried beans, 1part chili (no beans), 1.5 parts salsa, 1 cup grated cheese.
Heat refried beans and chili in pan, lower heat, throw in salsa and cheese, done. Dip your tortilla chips and enjoy.

Cream Cheese & Salsa Dip: 2 parts cream cheese, 1 part salsa.
Mix ingredients together...mix, mix, mix, mix, mix. For spicier dip, add diced jalapeno. Due to the combination of tomato and cream cheese the color isn't very appetizing but it tastes great.
Oh! And beer.

DINNER
Grilled steaks, baked potatoes, corn on the cob and maybe baked beans.
Oh! And beer.

After dinner is finished and the kids are roasting marshmallows, that's when I break out the single malt.

smokeywolf

[gon2shoot]

Sliced heart rubbed with bacon grease, potatos and onions cooked together in a pot (your choice boiled, fried etc.) fried bread. Dessert is a can of peaches soaked in your favorite 1 quart condiment.

[Hickory]

This is sort of like Sundogs.
In a large skillet cut up and brown 1lb of smoked sausage then chop one head of cabbage in fairly large hunks,
Do the same with a med to large onion. Add one cup of water. Add small carrot for color.
Sprinkle with caraway seed, about one tablespoon. Cover and cook down until cabbage is soft.
Serve in pita bread or tortillas

[alrighty]

One of my favorite camp foods is the simple smoked jalapeno poppers.You can also use the stuffing recipe for other peppers as well as making stuffed mushrooms caps.
http://www.grilling.com/smoked-stuff...apeno-peppers/

[dale2242]

Cowboy Breakfast

Good any time of day.
1 dozen eggs, scrambled
2 large potatoes, fried
1 large onion and 1 green pepper, sautéed
1 lb. venison sausage or burger , fried and crumbled
1/2 lb cheese of your choice, grated
Fry the burger/sausage in one skillet
Fry the taters and veggies in a LARGE skillet.
Toss all cooked ingredients in the large skillet.
Scramble the eggs and toss it all in the large skillet and mix.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Spread the cheese over the mess and let in melt.
Add your favorite bread, biscuits, etc and enjoy.
I like hot sauce with my meal
You can toss anything in this breakfast your heart desires and can`t go wrong...dale

[dbosman]

A bag of mixed dry beans, water, & salt pork in a dutch oven. Kind of boring for day three, but fresh from the pot on day one, Oh, that's good.

[kenyerian]

Can't go wrong with a big pot of chili.

[waksupi]

Getting some good stuff here!

[DIRT Farmer]

About anything in the cook book if close to the truck and does not leave the dutch oven in a mess.
Sour dough bread if you have the starter, also sour dough pancakes for breakfast.
One of my favorites , start with a 16 inch dutch oven set 32 brickets of charcoal. one goose, place a mallard in the cavity, place a wood duck in the mallard cavity then a onion in the wood duck cavity. Bacon on top, favorite seasoning 1/3 (10) bricketts on the bottom the rest on top. 30 to 45 minuites later set more charcoal, add (depending on diners) rice, (two cups of beer per cup of rice) potatos, carrots, some celery leaves. ready to serve in 30 to 40 minuites.

In another oven 12 inch place 3 cans of pie filling, (I use three different kinds) one box of yellow or white cake mix sprinkled on top, one cup of dark brown sugar sprinkled on top of the cake mix, one to one and one half stick of real butter. 24 bricketts, eight on the bottom.

Also needed a few quarts of "my" favorite home brew, a nice Burbon for the late fire.

[legend]

i like to grill corned beef(straight out of the vacume pack you bought it in), with whatever spices you enjoy all done up in tinfoil. i use 2-3 layers,and sometimes put barbeque sauce on it about 10-15 minutes before its done,and i like montreal steak seasoning on it as a general rule. doing it this way i do not use the little spice pack that comes with it.enjoy !

[km101]

Check out the Jalapeno Poppers in Cookin' Recipes. They are a great camp food idea.

Also, get a good chili recipe. That's always a winner.

Make up some homemade beef or deer jerky. We go through 2-3 pounds in camp in a week.

If you are cooking at a shoot and need to feed a crowd, a fish fry with slaw and hushpuppies is always good. (if you are a fisherman)

Don't know if you have access to crawfish in Somers, but if you do, a crawfish boil with corn-on-the-cob and new potatoes cooked in the boil is a real crowd pleaser!

These are a few ideas from recent deer camps.

[10-x]

Mean Beans:
Depending on how many you have to feed start with 3-4 medium cans of pork and beans, 2 large onions and 2 small/ medium green peppers and 1 pound of sliced bacon. Cut bacon in 1/4"-1/2" strips. In large pot or cast iron skillet fry up bacon til done, remove bacon, set aside, remove most of bacon grease, add chopped/minced onion and green pepper(minced or chopped garlic if you like), cook til done. Add bacon and beans, stir well. Add 1/4-1/2 cup of molasses, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4-1/2 cup of what ever barbecue sauce you like, 3-4 table spoons of mustard, stir well and simmer for 30 minutes. Add what ever hot sauce you like for a little heat. These are good for a week on chips even cold.
Not intended to re-create the "Blazing Saddles" scene but these will work on you...LOL

[rush1886]

Slightly different take on dale 2242's cowboy breakfast;

Sausage, ham, bacon, whatever meat strikes your fancy--brown in a dutch oven and remove to a bowl, leaving some drippings in the oven
Throw in a bag of frozen, diced hash browns. Brown and warm up real good.
If you like, onion, peppers or mushrooms can be added while hashbrowns are warming up. For real quick and easy, a jar of salsa works well here.
Add the meat back in, warm up the whole concotion well, stirring and seasoning to taste.

When the meat and spuds are to your liking, what I like to do is sort of trowel off the whole pot to level full. Using a large spoon, ladle, or your knuckles, form appropriate number of "divots" in the troweled off surface. Into each divot, pour in an egg, yolk intact. S&P to taste.
Put the lid on and bake anywhere from 5 to 10 mins, depending on how well done you like your eggs.
Take the lid off, top each egg with a mound of shredded cheese, we like pepperjack, and ring the dinner gong!

Putting the lid on is the secret to getting the eggs done proper. It sort of steam/bakes them.

[redneckdan]

Wrap yourself up a burrito with your favorite burrito fixings; sausage, cheese, egg, veggies and some thawed freezer hash brown makes a great breakfast. Wrap up the burrito with a layer of aluminum foil and place on some low coals or hot ashes. Flip a couple times and keep an eye on the process. You want toasted on both sides but not burnt. You will end up with something like a T-Bell Grilled Stuft Burrito...but oh so much better...

[tward]

Just an aside to the add water pancake mixes, premeasure into ziplock bags add water to bag and mix, cut corner off bag and pour batter into skillet! Also a nice frittata, potatoes, onions, peppers, any leftover veggies (corn, green beans, cabbage, broccoli) pork sausage or other meat. Cook the ingredients until done, add a mess of scrambled egg, cover til eggs are set. Add cheese of choice cover til cheese melts. Good hot or sliced cold. Tim

[garym1a2]

Hot dogs and pop tarts

[Hickory]

Hot dogs and pop tarts