What are some great camping dishes to make(as in food) aside of hot dogs and hamburgers?
Posted: March 15th, 2011 | Author: Mitch | Filed under: Camping Recipes | Tags: camping, dishes, grocery store | 8 Comments »I am going camping for a week straight and there isn’t a grocery store close by so it’s gotta be dishes that can last in a cooler and are fairly easy to whip up.
First plan all your meals in advance. Freeze all meat before you leave.Take steaks, pork chops, chicken breasts, or anything else. With a good cooler you will have frozen meat for about 5 days. Make blocks of ice in milk cartons (lasts longer than cubes). Do not open cooler until you must. Remove tonight’s dinner meat and let thaw around noon. Keep cooler in the shade, really helps.
My favorite is hamburger helper lasagna. One pan cooking and almost no cleanup. I make mine with Italian sausage instead of ground beef. Really changes the taste. Also use extra meat.
GOLOSH…. it’s great cooked on an open fire… boil water, put elbow mac in the water till cooked. dump out water, put in tomato sauce, chopped onion, cooked hamburger (cooked in anther pan on the open fire), mix all that together and eat… grab some bread and enjoy.. Also FISH you catch… gut and clean the fish… you can chop off it’s head and scrape the scales… then put that piece of fish on a piece of Aluminum foil and CUP the fish inside the foil… then place a pat of butter, a few onion rings and some garlic on top and pour in some white wine… fold the foil over the fish tightly so nothing will leak out and place the fish either over the open fire on IN HOT COALS.. the wine will steam the fish and make it so tender it will fall right off the bone… it’s FABULOUS this way….
How about breakfast burritos. Scramble some eggs with some cooked bacon or sausage or whatever kind of meat you have. add some cheese and wrap up the whole thing in some flour tortilla’s. I like to bring tortilla’s instead of bread camping because it does not squish. For dinner, cook up some chicken with BBQ sauce put on right before it is done. Use boneless pieces so they cook faster. Also a big pot of chili is always welcome with some cornbread or french bread to sop up everything. Marinade some skirt steak for a real treat and grill them up. Grill some corn on the cob and heat some beans. There you go and don’t forget the smores for heavens sake.
Well I am currentley on the comp. looking for the exact same thing. I have found a few great sites from google whrn I typed in food for camping. one great recepie was
orange eggs.
slice an orange in half, eat insides, crack an egg in one half, place the other half over top and cover with aluminum foil. bake about 5 or so mins.
any veggies are great to mix together in foil and put on the fire. easy quick and not messy.
Also another great one is ziploc mashed taters.
at hiome mix some instant mashed taters and bacon and onions in a ziploc bag, seal airtight. when you are ready to eat add hot water and you have a great side dish.
or another one is buisquit on a stick
all you need is a pkg. of refridgerator buisquits. grab a glob of buisquits and roll in hand until elongated and about 1 inch in center. wrap around stick making sure to poke it tight on to the stick. roast over the fire when brown remove from stick and place butter or jelly or what have you in the hole and enjoy.
also prepare some meals ahead of time and place in foil packages and freeze. keep a cooler dedicated to freeze onlys and remove a dinner when you are ready to cook put it on the fire or stove and wait until it is reheated.
dry goods are good of course but also try some of the instant food item out there. pre-cooking may be one of your best bets as you can freeze it and they do tend to last longer than bringing fresh meats and others.
I hop eI was of some help. have a great trip.
Spam sandwiches!!!!
Last week, 5 miles into the woods, with no refrigeration or cooler I made the following things in one pot.
Day 1: Spaghetti and mushroom marinara sauce with parmesan cheese. Sauce came in a pouch. Boiled the pasta and added the sauce after I strained the water. Put it on simmer and stirred it for a minute to warm up the sauce.
Day 2: Oriental shrimp and noodles. Took two bricks or Ramen. One was Oriental flavor and the other was Shrimp Flavor. Boiled for 2 minutes, added 1 can of cooked shrimp. Added Ramen flavor packs as well as some curry, garlic, and pepper.
Day 3: Louisiana Chicken and Rice: 1 bag of Riso brand black beans and rice. Cooked that up, added 1 can of chunk chicken, stir, add some spices..Cayenne, black, and red pepper along with garlic and some salt. Yummy!
Carried all of it in a backpack, cooked it all on a single burner backpacking stove. I can cook just about anything in the backcountry that I can cook in my house.
Baked beans, mountain pies (basically buttered bread with fillings inside such as cheese, pepperoni, apples, cherries, whatever you want between two irons), pan cakes, sausage, eggs, bacon, chicken, baked potatoes over a fire – - yum! You can basically cook whatever you want over a fire that you can on the stove at home. Do you have a camping stove? They make cooking easier.
Don’t forget the smores!
a stew made from home made jerky bits, dried veg mix, diced potato or dried potato slices(the ones that come in scalloped potato mixes).