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Just wondering... what kinda gourmet meals do you like to whip up in the field. How do you transport your supplies for these meals. How bout some recipes.
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Beckerheads!!! Campfire cooking recipes please.
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My personal favorite is spam cooked over the fire and four cheese instant mashed potatoes. I'm a simple man. Oh, I forgot to mention some hot sauce on the spam. Everything is gourmet cooked over a campfire.
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I tend to lean towards drypack food, unless I'm car camping. Perishables, well, perish without cool air, and sealed containers. After a long day of hiking, the steaks would be aged a little too much. Plus the weight.
BUT, car camping can be awesome, in the fact that grub is just a cooler lid flip away.
Steaks- Ribeye 10-12oz, marinade with Worchestershire, Dales Liquid Smoke, McCormicks Montreal Steak Seasoning, cook for 7 mins per side. A good rule that I use when cooking exposed meat over a fire, is if you can hold your hand 3" above the coals for about 5 seconds, they are ready to cook. If you can't hold 5 secs, then its too hot, or if you can hold longer, its too cool.
Eggs, same thing on the heat (that's the rule as I go by, it has room for adjustment, but it works.) I scramble mine, with 1 slice of American Cheese for every 2 eggs, cook first, add the chees in just before serving. Toast, make a green wood leanto, and toast it by turning after about 20 secs on each side.
Sausage, Brats, and Hot Dogs- I make a "squirrel cooker", use indirect heat, fire intensity needs to be down, but not coals, about 20mins or until the juice runs clear.
Squirrel cookers- best thing for cooking meat over a campfire, using indirect heat. They can be made from green wood, or wrought iron. Wood is my preferred method, as you can find it in the woods, and don't have to carry it with you.
I wish Ethan wasn't gone, this is right up his alley, talk about a guy who can campfire cook, he generally cooks for about 20 people all weekend at PWYP.
Good luck.
Moose
BUT, car camping can be awesome, in the fact that grub is just a cooler lid flip away.
Steaks- Ribeye 10-12oz, marinade with Worchestershire, Dales Liquid Smoke, McCormicks Montreal Steak Seasoning, cook for 7 mins per side. A good rule that I use when cooking exposed meat over a fire, is if you can hold your hand 3" above the coals for about 5 seconds, they are ready to cook. If you can't hold 5 secs, then its too hot, or if you can hold longer, its too cool.
Eggs, same thing on the heat (that's the rule as I go by, it has room for adjustment, but it works.) I scramble mine, with 1 slice of American Cheese for every 2 eggs, cook first, add the chees in just before serving. Toast, make a green wood leanto, and toast it by turning after about 20 secs on each side.
Sausage, Brats, and Hot Dogs- I make a "squirrel cooker", use indirect heat, fire intensity needs to be down, but not coals, about 20mins or until the juice runs clear.
Squirrel cookers- best thing for cooking meat over a campfire, using indirect heat. They can be made from green wood, or wrought iron. Wood is my preferred method, as you can find it in the woods, and don't have to carry it with you.
I wish Ethan wasn't gone, this is right up his alley, talk about a guy who can campfire cook, he generally cooks for about 20 people all weekend at PWYP.
Good luck.
Moose
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I always bring dehydrated meals when I am backpacking. Can't really avoid the fact that most "GOOD" food will spoil between long hikes.
However, if I am kayaking or car caming the game changes quite a bit. Hotdogs are the name of the game for us. I don't require a ton of calories for energy like some. Two dehydrated meals per day keeps me going. A few protein bars help as well.
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However, if I am kayaking or car caming the game changes quite a bit. Hotdogs are the name of the game for us. I don't require a ton of calories for energy like some. Two dehydrated meals per day keeps me going. A few protein bars help as well.
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I like rice and veggie.
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If it's a backpacking or paddle camping trip of any length, we dehydrate stuff. Spaghetti sauce does really well when rehydrated, as do a lot of homemade soups and casseroles. Toss them in a water bottle an hour before you stop for camp and it speeds up the process.
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I think that Moose summed it up rather well. And lets not forget about rice and beans. :thumbup:
I'll throw the recipe out there for what I'm bringing Sat of the WNY Knife Gathering.
3 Bean BBQ Beans. It is/can be a meal within itself. I have never tried actually doing all of it in one pot, but i have no doubt it could be done. I do it in a fry pan & a crock pot.
1 lb of bacon, done to your liking, mmmmmmm bacon, diced up in 1" lengths, or crumbled.
1 lb of cooked & drained ground beef/venison/elk or what ever suits your fancy.
1 large onion, diced & sauteed.
2 std size cans of baked beans---keep the sauce.
2 std size cans of butter beans---drained.
2 std size cans of kidney beans---drained.
Mustard to taste.
Ketchup to taste.
Molasess to taste.
Brown sugar to taste.
BBQ sause of your liking, to taste.
REMEMBER---recipes are just guidelines. Have fun with em & put your own spin on them !!!
Combine all these ingrediants in the camp pot/crock-pot & cook/simmer for a few hours. I always get compliments & rarely have any leftovers.
3 Bean BBQ Beans. It is/can be a meal within itself. I have never tried actually doing all of it in one pot, but i have no doubt it could be done. I do it in a fry pan & a crock pot.
1 lb of bacon, done to your liking, mmmmmmm bacon, diced up in 1" lengths, or crumbled.
1 lb of cooked & drained ground beef/venison/elk or what ever suits your fancy.
1 large onion, diced & sauteed.
2 std size cans of baked beans---keep the sauce.
2 std size cans of butter beans---drained.
2 std size cans of kidney beans---drained.
Mustard to taste.
Ketchup to taste.
Molasess to taste.
Brown sugar to taste.
BBQ sause of your liking, to taste.
REMEMBER---recipes are just guidelines. Have fun with em & put your own spin on them !!!
Combine all these ingrediants in the camp pot/crock-pot & cook/simmer for a few hours. I always get compliments & rarely have any leftovers.
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atomic buffalo terds!!
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/atomic-buffalo-turds/
this is what i have done minus the little smokies, got that idea from a dude at a FAL shoot. good stuff.
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/atomic-buffalo-turds/
this is what i have done minus the little smokies, got that idea from a dude at a FAL shoot. good stuff.
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-Bowl
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Beer batter fish is extremely simple, light, crisp and great for freshly caught fish. Maybe sprinkle a bit on salt on it when done.
Just pour a can or so of beer into the bowl with flour and stir it vigorously, like you're making pancakes. That's it. Make it as thick or thin as you want. Just dip the fish chunks into the batter and then fry them in deep enough oil to submerge the chunks.
-Can of beer
-fork
-Flour
Beer batter fish is extremely simple, light, crisp and great for freshly caught fish. Maybe sprinkle a bit on salt on it when done.
Just pour a can or so of beer into the bowl with flour and stir it vigorously, like you're making pancakes. That's it. Make it as thick or thin as you want. Just dip the fish chunks into the batter and then fry them in deep enough oil to submerge the chunks.
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Hershey's chocolate bar, some marshmellows, and graham crackers...
the staples to every mans <hmmm> kids outing...
seriously though, I guess I really don't have any 'real' recipes... I'll be following this thread as I think it may do me some good..
myself I'm happy to just be eating outdoors, so if I take an overnight hike.. my mandatory staple items are, jerky, rice, beans, seeds, bouillon cubes... Not much of a meal but if you ended up longer then expected you have what I believe may sustain you until further notice .:0)
moose, dude you totally have the set up there.. me likey..
the staples to every mans <hmmm> kids outing...
seriously though, I guess I really don't have any 'real' recipes... I'll be following this thread as I think it may do me some good..
myself I'm happy to just be eating outdoors, so if I take an overnight hike.. my mandatory staple items are, jerky, rice, beans, seeds, bouillon cubes... Not much of a meal but if you ended up longer then expected you have what I believe may sustain you until further notice .:0)
moose, dude you totally have the set up there.. me likey..
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oh! you should try taking a banana, cutting it down the middle with the peel still on it , taking out about a third of the banana flesh, cram some chocolate pieces and some marshmallows into the peel, wrapping it in tin foil and putting it in the coals for a few minutes. when you pull it out it'll be bananachocolatemarshmallow goop. DELICIOUS!!
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I'm going to a class at REI for cooking outdoors next month. I'll see if I can post something here.
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Thanks all. Kinda getting tired of the burgers and dogs or the hobo stews. Gonna try some of these. Keep 'em coming!
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i'm going camperingshortly, we'll have a porta grill in the woods (no open fires). there will be trailside french fries cooked by "some guy", there's a homemade beer camp, more than likely we'll have lamb tikka masala or curry, steaks, eggs, espresso (roughing it, i know). someone has been known to make a clay oven on site, and bake bread and pizza
how we suffer for our art.
but sooner, is the icecream weekend. 100+ flavors will be made. liquid nitrogen. amazing tastes. some few horrible ones (never again list). imagine! thai tea icecream. dulce de leche! the best chocolates. habanero. cheese icecream? been done! yar. burp.
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I like to cook cannon balls when we go car camping. Hollow out a big walla walla sweet onion, work some spices and veggies into your ground beef, insert ground beef into onion place potatos and veggies in the foil and wrap it all up. I like to double up on the foil. Put your cannon ball in the coals and let it cook.
For dessert, core an apple, fill with brown sugar & raisins, wrap in foil and put on the coals for a short time and you have a hot apple treat! Great after swimming in the river all day.
For dessert, core an apple, fill with brown sugar & raisins, wrap in foil and put on the coals for a short time and you have a hot apple treat! Great after swimming in the river all day.