What are some quick and easy camping recipes?

Question

OK, I know this has been asked MANY times and I have looked that them, but I'm checking to see if anybody has any easy, but original, campfire recipes.

Answer 1

i always use the tried and tested:

Snacks nothing beats ye'ol marshmallow...sandwich them in between plain white bread..yummy...after slightly melting over the fire af course.

the main course, i just whip open a can of baked beans..fry some eggss...or grill some freshly caught fish (if available)...

Answer 2

here are several from my cook book

Dave’s Dutch Tamale Pie

Dave Herzog

1 lb. ground turkey (try lean ground round)

1 ½ Tbs. chili powder

½ tsp. cumin

1 tsp. fajita seasoning

2 Tbs. garlic, minced

1 28oz. can diced tomatoes

1 15 oz. can whole kernel corn (try hominy, YUM!)

1 8 oz. can diced green chilies

1 ½ c. shredded Colby cheddar cheese

½ c. chicken broth

1 12 oz. box corn muffin mix (12 oz. Aunt Jemima corn bread mix from a 5 lb. bag)

½ c. milk

2 Tbs. melted butter or vegetable oil

1 large egg

In a 12” deep Dutch oven, brown turkey with chili powder, cumin, and minced garlic. Add tomatoes, corn and chilies. Stir well. Add broth, stir. Layer cheese over the top of meat mixture.

Mix corn bread mix, milk, butter, and egg. Spoon over turkey mix and cheese evenly. Cover and bake at about 375o for 35 to 45 minutes until bread is firm and baked through.

Serves 6

2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Peach Cobbler

Coleen Sloan

1 large can sliced peaches, undrained

1 box spice cake mix

¾ can lemon-lime soda (Sprite or 7-Up)

In a preheated and oiled 12” Dutch oven, pour the peaches into the bottom. Sprinkle the cake mix over the peaches. Do not stir! Drizzle about ¾ of a can of soda over the cake mix. Cover and bake at 350o for about 35 to 45 minutes.

Serves 6 to 8

Coleen and I used this recipe for an event in which we catered during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Beer Bread

3 cups self-rising flour

2 Tbs. sugar

1 can warm beer

Combine all ingredients together in a large bowl. Place dough into a 10” deep, Dutch oven and let rise for 15 minutes. Bake at 350° for about 45 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes covered then turn out on a board and serve warm with your favorite topping. You may also use this recipe for drop biscuits.

Serves 6 to 8

Kickin’ Tuna Salad

1 can Tuna

1 ½ tsp. horseradish

2 shakes Tabasco sauce

1 small dill pickle

1 shake cayenne

1 Tbs. or more of Mayonnaise

1/2 stalk of celery

Diced Red Pepper, optional to taste

Squirt of brown mustard

In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients and stir well. Cover and let rest overnight in a refrigerator for the best flavor.  Makes 2 to 3 sandwiches or 1 big salad.

Rock Fried Fresh Fish

David Herzog

1 fresh caught, cleaned fish, head on

1 Willow branch, bark removed, or bamboo skewers soaked in wa-

ter

1 flat rock, not shale, sandstone, slate or wet rock from water

(these rocks can explode when heated)

Seasonings to taste that you like on fish, or salt and pepper

Build a fire then place a flat rock on the edge of the fire pit,

and pre heat the rock. Cut Willow branch or wet bamboo into3”

pieces with a point on both ends. Place the sticks into the belly

area of the fish to hold the cavity open. Sprinkle the interior of the

cavity with seasoning or salt and pepper.

Place fish on the rock with the cavity facing the fire. Turn

fish over onto other side to cook on rock. Continue cooking and

turning until fishes head falls off the body. Enjoy!

Serves 1

Answer 3

Hobby dinners are always fun and easy, heavy duty foil with a hamburger patty or a thin chicken breast nestled in thin sliced potatoes and cut up veggies like corn, carrots, peas, some salt & pepper and maybe BBQ sauce or wine or beer.  Wrap foil tightly and place on hot coals about 12 minutes each side.  Hint-use packaged frozen vegiies and put foil dinner together at home. Froze veggies helps keep meat cold.

If you want to do it right get a cast iron or aluminium dutch oven and make breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert.  And I mean real food like cassaroles, pies, cakes biscuits, cobblers, roasts.

Or take a clean coffee can, spray some oil in it.  Line bottom with refrigerated biscuit or crusant dough.  Add enough eggs to cover, some sliced ham, maybe thin sliced oinion and some shredded cheese.dig a whole in hot coals and place the can in the hole so that it is NOT sitting on coals and the coals around it are not touching the can but very close.  Put some foil over the can and cook about 12 minutes.  When egg whites are solid white and yols are starting to get think it's done.

Try the dutch oven, you will amaze your campmates.

Answer 4

Put what ever you want in it.

I like ground beef, potatoes, carrots, whatever we have around camp.

wrap it in aluminum foil 3x.

throw it in the fire for 20 min (+ or - for fire size)

take out let cool a little

eat

no clean up, except for utensils  

Answer 5

just in general I don't recommend anything that requires large amounts of boiling water for a campfire cuz it takes a very long time and large amounts of wood not to mention a rather precarious pot of hot water.  one of my favorites is just to take a pie pan and dehydrated hashbrowns and cheese.  Put the dehydrated  hashbrowns in the pan and add water a little bit at a time.  the hashbrowns will soak it up as they cook and you can just eyeball about how much water they need and how crunchy you like them.  mix in some cheese and spice but make sure you butter the pan first.  You can make a marinated steak and baked potato dinner.  Just wrap your steak in tin foil and your potato in your tin foil and stick it in hot coals.  not a very precise cooking method but it works.  you can cook eggs directly in their shell, just bury then in the ashes of a fire.  Same deal, you can split a banana open, put marshmallows and chocolate in the middle, then cook it for about 10 minutes in hot coals for a rockin' desert.  you can mix together all the dry ingredients for cornbread before you leave then add water to make great cornbread.  use a pie pan but you'll have to make a fire on top of the closed lid for the best results.  well, that's what they say.  we made some great cornbread without making a fire on top.  you can always bring tortillas, rice, corn, and beans to make burritos.  if you're backpacking just dehydrate it all.  problem is that requires a lot of cooking which might be hard with a campfire as oppose to a camp stove.  another great alternative is cereal with dehydrated milk poured on it.  wake up, add some water, and instant breakfast!  dehydrated milk tastes fine, but stay away from dehydrated eggs and veggie burger powder >_< .  you can use a pan over a fire to make pancakes, you can bring yeast and try to make your own pizza or cinnamon rolls... use a big flat rock over the fire to cook eggs, bacon, and sausage in the morning.

if you are camping out of a cooler in one spot you can make pretty much anything you like.  if you are backpacking you can make pretty much anything you like that can be dehydrated.