campfire meals?

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hey everyone im going camping with my gf and a few other couples. im supposed to make dinner one night and im trying to think of something to make other then hotdogs or hamburgers. want something that is kinda easy but different. i think it would be cool to cook it on/over the campfire. any suggestions would be great!

thanks
dylan
 
Going to have coolers and stuff or are you backpacking, etc?

If you'll have coolers, I'd make hobo dinners, or at least that's what they're called around here. Just made them for supper tonight.

Thin slice and quarter potatoes
Chop an onion
Add in some burger (I like 1/2 lb per person)
Salt and pepper to taste

Wrap it up in aluminum foil and put on fire (either on a grate or raised up off the coals a little bit on some small logs) Cook about 40 minutes on the fire or until potatoes are soft and burger is done. Tear open the foil and enjoy.

Basically it cooks the burger, potatoes and onion all in one whack. It's effing delicious.
 
brownies dutch oven style? mix in random 'shrooms you find if you're feeling adventuresome. haha.
 
Backpacking or car camping? In the bread section you should be able to find thinwhiches, which are kind of a round whole grain flatbread that are easy to pack-they come in bags of 8 and 16 pairs. I bring canned fruit, especially peaches, and a dime bag of cinnemon sugar, and whip up pudgy-pie like deals. As far as canned food goes, I like the following:
Soup and stew, tuna, chili, corned beef, hash, spaghetti, just about anything you can get in the canned good section you can crack open, throw in the coals and eat 10 minutes later.
I bring veggies wrapped in aluminum foil-onions, potatoes, carrots etc, and a few pouches of beef bullion or onion soup mix, for chopping up and making soup in my empty cans. Rabbit or chukar or squirrel, whatever I can nab in season with the .22 or a trap I can make soup with-Otherwise, you can throw them right in the fire in their aluminum foil and bake them. Last weekend I took a top blade chuck steak with me, I froze it the night before with a pack of hot dogs and it was good to eat by camp the first night. Lefse is awesome, Norwegian flatbread made from whole milk, malted barley wheat and potatoes-super dense in calories and fat. Dry food like dehydrated fruit, nuts and jerky are good, and I eat alot of Paydays for lunch when on the move :P
 
payetterucker, you need to have your own cooking show :thumbup: those all sound good. ditto the bouillon cubes. we use a lot of them. it's an easy trick to making tasty soup for little work. just chop up whatever left over meat and throw in some random veggies.
 
I'm working on uploading pics if you can give me two seconds, I did a 3 day backpacking trip over Memorial Day but alot of the pictures need editing-all the pictures were in a canyon and it was a very very bright weekend, so the pictures are either washed out or way too dark. Spent alot of time chillin by the fire making dinner. It's crazy how well you can eat for dirt cheap while on the trail, people think it costs alot of money or it's hard to make-i didn't even take any cookware, I used aluminum foil and empty soup cans.
 
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peach pudgy pies in the fire
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post-dinner smoke, Uhles Old Shoe and a Eric Nording piece
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not a bad view to eat dinner to
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hobo spoon/steak fork I made in a real hurry, dinner was on and I forgot to bring my folding fork/spoon so I cobbled this thing together-it worked great, spoon was nice and sturdy and the fork worked sufficiently
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cut up a braeburn apple for breakfast, poor pudgy pie took a dip in the ashes though. Ah well, a little extra carbon never hurt.
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making breakfast
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honest to God, this 40 cent steak was probably in the top 3 of the best ones I've ever had. I stuck it in the coals on aluminum foil and basically flame broiled it in it's own fat-crunchy on the outside, nice and juicy and tender on the inside, with a perfect little strip of fat running width wise down the cut. It was just a top blade chuck steak, 1.98 a pound, tenderized over 12 miles in my pack :D
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Nothin like a little Nessmuk dinner reading
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For the life of me I don't understand what's so complex, heavy, expensive or gross about trail food, these MREs and freeze dried bags people pay 7 bucks per meal for just confundles me.
 
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dinner table
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Hobo coffee-van camps bean can, water straight from the stream boiled for ten minutes, coffee grounds carried in a ziploc bag dumped into an el cheapo coffee filter and tied with 550 chord guts to steep. Cheap, easy, simple and I'd like to see anyone else's coffee maker that weighs less than a coffee filter and a piece of string...
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lol Damned Jarheads!
Learning to adapt, overcome and have a good doggone time at it!
That spoon's kinda scary though no?
 
Yeah it's not ideal but it got the job done, I was just worried about cutting my mouth on the can lid bowl, which didn't happen. Next time I'll make sure I have useable silverware BEFORE the dinner is boiling, heh...
 
adaman04 said:
Going to have coolers and stuff or are you backpacking, etc?

If you'll have coolers, I'd make hobo dinners, or at least that's what they're called around here. Just made them for supper tonight.

Thin slice and quarter potatoes
Chop an onion
Add in some burger (I like 1/2 lb per person)
Salt and pepper to taste

Wrap it up in aluminum foil and put on fire (either on a grate or raised up off the coals a little bit on some small logs) Cook about 40 minutes on the fire or until potatoes are soft and burger is done. Tear open the foil and enjoy.

Basically it cooks the burger, potatoes and onion all in one whack. It's effing delicious.
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+1 - 100%! Easy and delicious. If you go this way, though, insist that your meal is the first night.

Another tip - make a couple of extra so you can check on their progress without messing up somebody's supper. IIRC, it took longer than 40 minutes, but I could be wrong - adaman04 has made them more recently than I.

Doc
 
Try this: get two aluminum pie plates and some heavy-duty paper clips. Grease up the pans , then cut this up coarsely:

Garlic sausage,potatoes,onions, and chunks of cheese. ( add other stuff if you want.)

Put some seasoning ( I use Lawrys and pepper) ) , mix it all up , and put it in the pie plate. Put the other pie plate on top, and clip together securely with the paper-clips. Throw it on some coals, and flip it a couple of times, depending on the heat. Check once in a while so you don't burn it. One of my favorites.:thumbup:
 
Take a med sized steel garbage can. Burn off the galvinizing. In a firepit, get some charcoal going. When it's ready, set a small bit aside, even it out in a bed. Place a foot and a half to two foot stake into the middle of the bed, covered in foil. Drop a 15- 20 thawed turkey onto the stake, cover with can, cover can in excess coals.

Roast until done. It goes quick usually. I've had some finish in 20 minutes

large Dutch oven stews also go over well
 
Meat,Veggies,Potatoes

Pre-skewered, pre-seasoned chicken or beef kabobs.(Or do it yourself, ahead of time)

Green, red bell peppers and onions chopped up, place in a large zip lock bag.. Add olive oil, mashed up garlic, salt and pepper to season. Cook on a griddle (The kind with or without holes..whatever)

Potatoe.. wrapped in foil, drop directly in the fire. To check if it's done, poke with a fork, if it slides off under it's own weight.. it's done. Top it with butter and salt and pepper.

Serve together with some good brew, and enjoy:thumbup:
 
Something I make a lot in camp - Italian sausage with green peppers,onions & mushrooms in marinara sauce. Just slice everything up and saute it in marinara sauce. I serve it with garlic bread. Quick, easy and very delicious!
 
Damn this thread is making me hungry. I’m going to start a fire out back of the office….
 
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