Campfire recipes

[gregintenn]

WIth camping season nigh, I thought I'd share a breafast recipe we tried last year.

Line the bottom of a brown paper lunch bag with bacon. Cover with frozen hash brown potatoes, cover with two eggs, salt and pepper. Fold the top of the paper bag closed and sit on a grill or grate over the campfire for about 25-30 minutes; or until the eggs are done. You can eat it from the bag, and throw the empty bag into the fire.

A great breakfast with little effort and no cleanup. Got any you'd like to share?

[Mark A]

Yep, I will share: Sleep in while wife gets up and plugs in electric skillet outside under the awning. She cooks bacon and eggs. I Wake up just before it is ready, fix a bloody mary and put on college game day to prepare for watching SEC football via the satellite dish...

best recipe ever...

[Mark A]

ok, before all the campers get their sleeping bags twisted... Start a fire by 2-3 pm. Get a really good bed of coals going. Triple foil wrap some taters and toss near the coals. About an hour later season some ribeyes with season salt and set them on the wire grate as close to the coals as possible. Sear each side for a couple of minutes, raise the grate up and cook to your favorite meat temp.

Very tasty.

This is making me want to go hitch up the camper right now.

[Guest BenderBendingRodriguez]

WIth camping season nigh, I thought I'd share a breafast recipe we tried last year.

Line the bottom of a brown paper lunch bag with bacon. Cover with frozen hash brown potatoes, cover with two eggs, salt and pepper. Fold the top of the paper bag closed and sit on a grill or grate over the campfire for about 25-30 minutes; or until the eggs are done. You can eat it from the bag, and throw the empty bag into the fire.

A great breakfast with little effort and no cleanup. Got any you'd like to share?

Does this not result in a fiery brown paper bag full of food?

[vontar]

Does this not result in a fiery brown paper bag full of food?

Ah, that means you burnt breakfast.

Seriously not sure what he has going on there, like those guys that bury beer in the sand, pour gas on it, burn the gas then claim to have cold beer.

Per the Mythbusters you only have beer cans that smell like gas.

[dats82]

Does this not result in a fiery brown paper bag full of food?

You have to be very careful with the heat. I would be curious to know how many he did burn before it resulted in a good, easy breakfast. I have cooked bacon in a bag and an egg on a stick, but I think I would rather just wash the skillet.

[VERO1]

I am thinking a frying pan would certainly help with quality control issues. Or if weight were an issue, at least a chunk of aluminum foil.

[daddyo]

Omelette in a bag:

Boil water in a large pot, put a little dishwashing liquid in the water.

Put two or three raw eggs (or egg beaters) in a heavy duty zip lock bag, along with whatever you like in your omelette - ham, cheese, bacon, green peppers, etc. Close the bag, then mix it all up by gently squeezing the bag, then drop it in the boiling water. Boil till eggs are done. Have some tongs handy to fish it out of the water. You can eat it out of the bag if you wish. I like to put mine on a biscuit.

[vontar]

Omelette in a bag:

Boil water in a large pot, put a little dishwashing liquid in the water.

Put two or three raw eggs (or egg beaters) in a heavy duty zip lock bag, along with whatever you like in your omelette - ham, cheese, bacon, green peppers, etc. Close the bag, then mix it all up by gently squeezing the bag, then drop it in the boiling water. Boil till eggs are done. Have some tongs handy to fish it out of the water. You can eat it out of the bag if you wish. I like to put mine on a biscuit.

Now that is an idea. I will probably give that a try.

[Guest nosnos]

I always liked cooking Totinos frozen pizzas camping. Take the plastic off and wrap the pizza in tinfoil. Then a couple layers of wet newspaper, and an outer wrap of foil. You can throw it right on the coals for several minutes, and bam, pizza!

You can prepare them before you go and the newspaper will stay wet in a cooler.

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[Jasongar8]

Yep, I will share: Sleep in while wife gets up and plugs in electric skillet outside under the awning. She cooks bacon and eggs. I Wake up just before it is ready, fix a bloody mary and put on college game day to prepare for watching SEC football via the satellite dish...

best recipe ever...

I think you're on to something here.

I always liked cooking Totinos frozen pizzas camping. Take the plastic off and wrap the pizza in tinfoil. Then a couple layers of wet newspaper, and an outer wrap of foil. You can throw it right on the coals for several minutes, and bam, pizza!

You can prepare them before you go and the newspaper will stay wet in a cooler.

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WTF? This isn't camping food. You are supposed to cook meat with fire when you are camping. Got to have lots of beer too.

[gregintenn]

Does this not result in a fiery brown paper bag full of food?

I didn't say you set the bag on fire. You set it on the grill grate. You cook it over coals; not a blazing flame. I've done it, and had great results. I guess the moisture in the food keeps the bag from melting, and the heat keeps the moisture from leaking or something. You end up with the bottom of the bag being hard and blackened; it favors oil cloth when the brekfast is cooked. I haven't burned any yet. The first ones did take a bit longer than I would have thought. It doesn't sound like it would work, and I was skeptical, but I'm telling you it worked great. The worst thing was a bit of bacon stuck to the bottom of the bag.

[vontar]

The worst thing was a bit of bacon stuck to the bottom of the bag.

Well I hope you ate the bag with the bacon then, I mean this is bacon we are talking about.

[lunarpowered]

Mmm.. bacon..

[dats82]

I have a bit of a sweet tooth, so I always enjoyed making green stick cobbler. Find a green stick about 1.5" thick, take the bark off and round the end just a bit, spread a biscuit over the end of it (almost like a condom), roasted over the coals till golden brown, pull the biscuit off the stick, and fill it with your usual suspects for cobbler (peaches, apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, etc.)

[Caster]

Meat, salt/pepper, green stick. Follow with large frosty barley pop. Simple.

[gregintenn]

I have a bit of a sweet tooth, so I always enjoyed making green stick cobbler. Find a green stick about 1.5" thick, take the bark off and round the end just a bit, spread a biscuit over the end of it (almost like a condom), roasted over the coals till golden brown, pull the biscuit off the stick, and fill it with your usual suspects for cobbler (peaches, apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, etc.)

Never thought of that. I'll have to give it a try.

[Fourtyfive]

:woohoo:Camp at Montgomery Bell , eat at the INN. All you can eat seafood Friday night : all you can eat steak night Saturdays.

[Glenn]

Along the same line as cooking in a paper bag, you can boil an egg in a paper cup. Just put in the egg, fill to the rim with water and set in the coals. The cup will only burn above the water line so if the level starts going down add a little more water. It is a little dificult to get the cup out of the coals without burning your hand.

Glenn

[gregintenn]

Along the same line as cooking in a paper bag, you can boil an egg in a paper cup. Just put in the egg, fill to the rim with water and set in the coals. The cup will only burn above the water line so if the level starts going down add a little more water. It is a little dificult to get the cup out of the coals without burning your hand.

Glenn

That's what I'm looking for! Thanks.

[Guest BEARMAN]

Back in my Boy Scout days we had a cool recipe we would cook in the coals of our campfire; goes something like this:

Getcha tin foil out first...all good campfire recipes start with tin foil, right. Pat you out a hamburger patty, nice and thick.

Put the patty in your laid out tin foil sheet. Proceed to cut up some patato's, carrots, and onion. Put these in with your hamburger patty.

Now add a little Worchestershire (SP) sauce, or A-1 sauce, or whatever you prefer. Add a little salt & pepper to taste, wrap the whole shootn' match up in the tin foil and maybe add another wrapping of tin foil ( just to be safe), then lay it in the coals of the campfire, near the edge.

Turn it, and flip it every 15 minutes for an hour. take it out and the patato's should be soft when completely done.

We called this recipe a "troop 292 special".

Enjoy!

[Guest Jcochran88]

always like biscuits cooked in card board box. Take cardboard box line the inside with foil, get pie pan for coals and place biscuits in another balanced above on cans. usually can get to cookings before pan holding coals burns through.

[Guest Jcochran88]

Back in my Boy Scout days we had a cool recipe we would cook in the coals of our campfire; goes something like this:

Getcha tin foil out first...all good campfire recipes start with tin foil, right. Pat you out a hamburger patty, nice and thick.

Put the patty in your laid out tin foil sheet. Proceed to cut up some patato's, carrots, and onion. Put these in with your hamburger patty.

Now add a little Worchestershire (SP) sauce, or A-1 sauce, or whatever you prefer. Add a little salt & pepper to taste, wrap the whole shootn' match up in the tin foil and maybe add another wrapping of tin foil ( just to be safe), then lay it in the coals of the campfire, near the edge.

Turn it, and flip it every 15 minutes for an hour. take it out and the patato's should be soft when completely done.

We called this recipe a "troop 292 special".

Enjoy!

We called them "Hobo meals"!

[analog_kidd]

BakePacker

We've used a bakepacker since I was a kid. Put one of these in a pot, fill with a little water, then mix up in a oven bag some kind of cake mix, or cornbread. Badically anything that you bake can be made in one. cover the thing, add some heat. the steam acts like an oven and bakes the food. Since you cook it in the bag, there is no cleanup

We usually make some kind of cobbler by adding pie filling.

[JAB]

I figured out that if you buy those little packs of french fries that are intended to get crispy in the microwave, remove the fries from the box, wrap them in an aluminum foil packet and cook them on the grill over a hot campfire they will get crispy that way, too (I wanted some Ore Ida Crispers to use for that application but the store was out so I thought maybe the microwave ones would work - and they did.)

Another good 'tater packet is to take a sheet of aluminum foil (lightly oil it or spray it with cooking spray if you have oil or cooking spray - if not, no biggie but the food will stick to the foil more) slice potatoes and onions onto it (separate the onion slices into rings if you want - I prefer them that way), salt and pepper to taste then put grated cheese (whatever kind you like - I prefer colby jack or straight cheddar) on them. Fold the foil up into a packet and cook over the campfire until potatoes reach desired doneness. I actually make this on the grill at home, sometimes, to go with steaks.

One of the best side dishes we have had while camping was once when we stopped and bought some fresh ears of corn, still in the husks, from a farmer who was selling it on the side of the road. We just carefully peeled the husks back (helps if you make a longways cut in the husks with a knife to create an opening) and got as much as the silk off as possible. We then pulled the husks back up and tied a strip of husk around each ear to help hold the husks in place. I then carried the corn a few feet and thoroughly wet the shucks by submerging each ear, one at a time, in the Tellico river. If your coals have burned down you can throw these right onto the coals. If there is a small fire but not a blaze, you can put them in the fire ring in front of the fire or you can simply cook them on the grate above the fire. When the outside husks are dry enough to be in danger of burning, the corn is ready to eat. If a few of the outside husks do burn, IMO that just gives more flavor to the corn. It is hard to beat good, fresh roasting ears. This is something else that I will also sometimes do on the grill at home (sans soaking in the Tellico river - I just have to settle for soaking them in tap water at home.)

Finally, this is one of my wife's favorite things for me to make while camping. Before going camping, take a couple of pieces of beef tenderloin (chuck mock tender works okay, too.) You want pieces that are roughly two inches by two inches so cut them accordingly. Put them into a sealed container with teriyaki sauce the day before you go camping so that they will be pretty heavily marinated (I make my own sauce but the pre-packaged stuff should be okay.) Grill these over a fairly hot fire (I have one of those tripod setups that holds a grill grate over a campfire - the grates that are actually on fire rings at most camping areas have spaces that are too wide for cooking these.) Cook them until the teriyaki is a little carmelized and the meat reaches desired doneness. Now split some Kings Hawaiian rolls as if they were hamburger buns, lightly butter the cut sides and grill, cut side down, until just toasted. Place one steak piece on each 'bun', top with either gouda or the blue (or bleu) cheese of your choice and enjoy.

Edited March 22, 2011 by JAB