favorite campfire recipes?

[shugah]

i think my favorite part of camping is the cooking part. over years of camping, staring off with salt and pepper and steaks, i now have quite the gear and recipe arsenal built up ;-) these days, everyone likes an invite to our campsite for dinner, because the food is so good.

i like to continue to add to my camp recipe repertoire, so thought i'd ask the culinary artists here for some fresh ideas. what do you cook over the campfire?

[Tab]

1. Here's my favorite

Ingredients:

(1) Stick
(1) Hot dog (preferably w/skin)

Impale hot dog on stick.

Cook over fire until charred and skin breaks.

Eat.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. You forgot dessert

Ingredients:
1 clean stick
A bag of marshmallows.

Impale a marshmallow on the stick
cook over the fire until the outside is toasted.*
Eat.

*If the marshmallow catches fire, do not drop the stick into the kindling pile or throw it into the woods.



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Shugah, I must admit that camping food is whatever one or two pot meal suits my fancy. Lots of stews and pasta dishes, I'm afraid.

[shugah]

4. toast until golden brown

yummy! even better when removed from fire and sandwiched between chocolate and graham crackers!

[Gormy Cuss]

5. There's a good reason those things are called s'mores! n/t

[shugah]

3. oh, we'll do that too

but one can only eat charred hotdogs so many times in 2 weeks before getting rather bored with them ;-)

[mike_c]

6. easy huevos rancheros for a coleman stove....

This isn't campfire cookery, but it makes a dynamite breakfast on a Coleman stove or something similar.

I do this for 1 in a well seasoned medium sized cast iron skillet (if you can bring the Coleman, you can bring the skillet, LOL). I doubt if it would work in a titanium skillet over an alcohol flame....

3 pcs bacon
3 white corn tortillas
3 eggs
salt and pepper
1/2 cup or so of bottled chipotle salsa or any other chunky salsa you like

Fry the bacon over med heat until crispy-- you want to render as much of the fat as possible, so don't go too fast. Remove the bacon to drain. Increase the heat if necessary and quick fry the tortillas, one at a time in the bacon fat until they puff up or about 30 seconds per side-- you don't want them to get crispy. Drain the tortillas on a paper towel. Turn the heat down low if necessary and carefully crack the eggs into the skillet-- don't break the yolks. Salt and pepper the eggs lightly, then cover the skillet to speed cooking without burning the bottoms. When the whites are just set (yolks still runny) overlap the tortillas on a plate and either scoop out the eggs or if they're a little sticky, simply upend the skillet onto the plate and tap them out gently on top of the tortillas. So what if they're upside down? Pour the salsa into the still hot skillet for a few seconds to warm it, then pour over the eggs.

This cleans up with a paper towel and a little bit of hot water.

[shugah]

7. sounds tasty!

i do bring a coleman stove - i have to have coffee in the morning, and perculating on the stove far outweighs waking up, building a fire, boiling water, and then drinking instant coffee (yuk!) as 'reward' for all my hard work ;-)

this sounds like a quick and easy breakfast - we'll try it on day that we're getting an early start hiking or something. thanks!

[Warpy]

8. Nothing beats a trout you just caught

less than half an hour before, cleaned and shaken in a bag of bread crumbs, then put into that camp skillet with a little oil and fried crisp. The wood smoke from the camp fire adds something that can't be duplicated any other way.

[Tab]

10. I will agree

Fresh caught trout is very frickin' yummy.

I hate catch-and-release - it seems to me if you're going to catch you should intend to eat it, otherwise let it be.

But when caught, and cooked relatively immediately, it's SOOOO good.

[Warpy]

11. Unless you're fishing in a stocked pond, it HAS to be

catch and release in most of the streams around here. Our streams are polluted with heavy metals from mine tailings, rendering the fish dangerous for a lot of people to eat.

Oh, some still do, but if you want to hang onto your brain cells, thank the fish for the fight he gave you and let him go.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. If your camp gear allows you to carry some extra weight,

I highly recommend taking a cast iron dutch oven. Like you, my daughter and I love campfire cooking and have made some wonderful meals in our dutch ovens. Just got back from the lake last night and over the weekend we fixed a breakfast casserole, pot roast with vegetables and apple pull apart bread in ours. We fed 11 people over the weekend and it's hard to chase them out of camp once we get that big black pot on the coals.

We have found alot of good info and recipes at this site:

http://papadutch.home.comcast.net/