all the meals you make when you go on a camping trip. that you prepare over a open camp fire .
we make chile meatless and regular , pie iron pie
all the meals you make when you go on a camping trip. that you prepare over a open camp fire .
we make chile meatless and regular , pie iron pie
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We have never camped with an open camp fire - Always camped in NV and I don't remember them lifting the ban once the whole time I was there.
We do a lot of dutch oven cooking and take a propane cooktop for cooking too.
Love me some peach (or whatever) cobbler in a dutch oven! Chicken, potatoes, stews...
One of the kid's favorites is pepperoni Pizza Chili
Pepperoni Pizza Chili
1 pound ground beef
1 can (16 oz) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (15 oz) pizza sauce
1 can (14 1/2 oz) Italian stewed tomatoes
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups water
1 pkg (3 1/2 oz) sliced pepperoni
1/2 cup chopped red pepper
1 tsp pizza seasoning or Italian seasoning
1 tsp salt
shredded mozzarella cheese, optional
In a large saucepan, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink: drain. Stir in the beans, pizza sauce, tomatoes, tomato sauce, water, pepperoni, red pepper, pizza seasoning and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes or until chili reaches desired thickness. Garnish with cheese if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
We will do taco salad in a trashbag - mix your salad in a trashbag however you want to make it. Some people buy the 99 cent bags of doritoes and mix individual ones but why when you can buy one bag of cheap no name chips for the same price! They are crunched up, who cares?
We have done chicken dishes - cut up your chicken and brown it, add italian seasonings, cream of chick and crem of mush soup and add water and egg noodles or rice.
Foil packets are fun - hamburger patty/chicken breast and top with your veggies and potatoes diced up, seal it up in the foil and cook.
Baked potatoes are good.
Then there is always Ms. Ellen's macaroni surprise...
Originally Posted by chrissy
:dinner: Man, when's the next trip.
we have to try the taco salad in the trash bag this weekend .we have like 50 plus people arriving from friday - sunday to my Rifle river property for a canoe trip .never know how many will arrive till the there.
we have had as many as 175 or so one weekend. suprizing how many people can stay (tents ,camper,motor homes )on ten wooded acres on the river
only rule we have now is no water balloon sling shots allowed after we sank some canoes some years back .and they were not very happy -ok grandpa was not happy
(my property sits 80 ft up from the river on a horse shoe turn .) locals call it high points and at the bottom of the sand hill is a swimming hole in the river and a small island .
Last edited by renovation; 07-24-2008 at 09:02 AM.
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I've had a really good meal but I can't remember the name. I'd like to say it's called "hobo dinner". yep, here are some different recipes I found.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-...dinner,FF.html
The one I had and really enjoyed was a potato sliced open with ground beef and veggies on the inside. It's wrapped in aluminum foil and cooked over an open fire. I believe you have to bring a lot of the stuff along cooked already, so if you don't have a cooler this may not be the best meal.
wait, what?
A girl scout classic!
We always used hamburger in small meat balls, and whatever vegetables sounded good: onions, potatoes, carrots, corn. You can also include squash, mushrooms, green peppers, green beans.
The secret is to dice the vegetable small enough so they will finish cooking at relatively the same time - so don't make your harder vegetables too thick.
To put it together:
Tear two long pieces of foil and lay flat. To the foil, add hambuger shaped like meatballs, thick slices of potatoes (1/2 inch thick), carrots (1/2 inch thick), thick slices of onions, corn cut in thick rounds. Put some pats of butter and plenty of salt and pepper in the pouch. To fold, take the long sides of one piece of foil, and fold together long ways, rolling several times until secure. Then, roll the short ends, making sure all seams are tight.
Take this entire packet, and flip seam side down on the remaining foil. Fold the remaining foil in the same manner as the first. You want a long packet that is not too thick nor wrapped too tightly, but that does not leak any food or liquid.
To cook, lay the foil packets directly in the embers of the campfire, and let cook for half an hour or so (depending on the heat of the fire). Turn over (using tongs) about half way through the cooking time. I always like to let mine stay a few extra minutes, as I like the onions and potatoes well done. If your packet held up, you can simply remove the outer foil and throw away, and use the inner foil to eat from directly.
Enjoy!
wow. I've almost always had the mountain house type - add boiling water - food. you guys take camping to another level.
I do a bit of backpacking, so it's all built around minimizing weight (i.e. water). And I'm not into all that dehydrated $7 per meal BS... there's plenty you can do with a trip to a standard grocery store for a fraction of the cost.
I like to portion granola into single serving baggies with powdered milk- just add water and that's breakfast. Lunch is granola, granola bars, dried fruit, jerky, etc. Dinner is usually pasta of some kind with a can of tuna or sardines. Something I usually do is to put a frozen steak deep in the middle of my pack wrapped in clothing, then pull that sucker out on, say, night #3 (when everyone else is eating dehydrated crap) and grill it over the fire. Mmmmmm.
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night #3?!?!?!? youch! you backpacking in the winter? I'd be afraid to eat it after night #1 =)
and don't knock the freeze dried crap. I actually like it. and I've always bought them when I found them for ~3 bucks during clearance sales. =)
I'm talkin' typical North East weather in the mountains in the summer... usually 80s. If you tuck it in with your clothes and don't bother it, frozen steak'll still be hard on day 1, getting soft on day 2, better eat it on day 3 'cause on day 4 it'll be iffy. Probably wouldn't last that long somewhere hotter, and certainly not in Death Valley.
I've picked up freeze dried stuff a few times when there was a good deal on it, it ain't that bad really. The thing I don't like about it is the price.
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where do you go backpacking up in the northeast? I'm always on the lookout.I'm talkin' typical North East weather in the mountains in the summer... usually 80s. If you tuck it in with your clothes and don't bother it, frozen steak'll still be hard on day 1, getting soft on day 2, better eat it on day 3 'cause on day 4 it'll be iffy. Probably wouldn't last that long somewhere hotter, and certainly not in Death Valley.
I've picked up freeze dried stuff a few times when there was a good deal on it, it ain't that bad really. The thing I don't like about it is the price.
Personally I've spent nearly all my backpacking time in the Adirondack High Peaks region. Mostly backpack in somewhere, set up camp, spend a week dayhiking mountains. So I guess backpacking for me is mostly a means for setting myself up for some remote dayhikes.
I moved to NH last fall and finally got a chance to go explore the White Mountains a couple weekends ago, did a day hike up a couple peaks. Doesn't seem to be much backpacking here aside from the obvious Appalachian Trail. The AT crosses the Vermont/NH border like 5 miles from my house. It goes down the sidewalk through Hanover, skirts around Dartmouth College, and heads to the Whites from there. Hanover's a cool town 'cause of the mix of dirty sweaty backpackers with college profs and students... makes for some really interesting sights if you're going to get something to eat or just wander around town.
Anway... for flatland hiking:
in NY there's the Lakeville-Placid trail which runs North-South through the Adirondacks. I hiked a bit of it a long time ago, maybe 50 miles or so.
Vermont has the Long Trail which runs North-South the entire length of the state.
The AT goes all over the Northeast. It comes in across southern NY state, through CT, MA, into the Green Mountains of VT, then into NH and across the Whites, then on into Maine.
I like mountains more than I like flatland 'cause I like having a set destination each day: point a finger at a bump on the horizon and say "I'm gonna go there today!". Get there, look around for a while, go back. For mountains the major areas are the Adirondacks, Greens, and Whites (NY, VT, NH, respectively). There's also the Catskills and Alleganys in NY, and undoubtedly other smaller regions in the other states that I'm not familiar with. I'd like to someday complete all the 4000+ ft peaks in the Northeast: 46 in NY (or 45 or 47, depending on who's counting), 48 in NH, 5 in VT, 14 in ME... 111 total. I have 37 so far.
But I dunno, the flatland stuff is starting to appeal to me more and more. Maybe I'll get into it in the next couple years or so.
Last edited by Napoleon54; 08-14-2008 at 04:58 PM.
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