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I got to thinking about this last night. I would like to put together an outdoor recipe list so we can broaden our choices on what to eat in the bush. So I would like everyone to share there own kind of food they eat in the bush. Whether it be canned, processed, MRE's, natural, etc....
I know some can be long and time consuming. I guess just put down what you can at the moment.:D
 
Biscuits in an orange

Start with an orange and cut a flap at the top of it. Keep it attached like a hinge. It should be near the top. Hollow the orange out and eat.

Then pour in your biscuit mix and drop on the coals. It will cook up inside the peel and have a slight orange flavor. Peel and eat.

No dishes.

Badge54
 
I do more hiking than car camping so I am packing the food in...I buy basic stuff easily found in any grocery store...dried beans and rice, ramen noodles, oatmeal.

I usually carry some cured salami....it keeps well (though it can be smelly so I wrap it well in plastic or put it in a baggie). I make my own gorp...it is much cheaper....a variety or nuts, raisins, and sometimes m&ms.

Powdered milk, raisins, oatmeal, add some hot water---yummy!

I have also brought a couple potatoes along and rubbed them w oil and cooked them in the coals of my fire--add a bit of bacon bits (Bacos) and some butter from those little butter packets found at some restaurants. Good eats!
 
Great thread, I am going to keep up with it. Good cooking is a definite weak point when I'm on the trail, let alone in the kitchen!

That orange peel biscuit is a really neat trick :thumbup:
 
My recipes usually involve drooping a meat item in the fire. Rescuing it out wile burning my fingers, and finally eating it chard on the outside raw in the middle and covered in ash.
I must really like it because I has repeated the identical meal when camping for 40 years.
 
Im sure i mentioned it here before, but here it goes. One of my filling soups. Get some dehadrated chicken put in water for half an hour or so. Get that water to boil with the meat in it Add some rice and Miso paste. I add some extra dry green onion, sea weed, Sometimes it would be dried shrimp instead of chicken. Its one of the easy ways to cook and its very good.

Sasha
 
If I am camping where weight is not a concern, I usually take a dutch oven and do a lot of cooking in there. There are tons of dutch oven resources out there.

If I am going light, instead of using MREs or Mountain house, I have started dehydrating everything myself. There is a great website for this type of stuff, Freezer Bag Cooking. It is great because you use no dishes, and have no clean up. Just boil some water.
 
I guess I could add something to this thread too. I like the orange recipe idea, it sounds good.
I sometime pack a MRE, mountain house meal and maybe a couple of meal bars. When I can deal with the weight I bring 1 large can of baked beans, 1 pack of hotdogs, mustard packets, and one decent size onion. I start by placing the can of beans in the pot. while that is cooking I cut up the onion and hot dogs. I add those and put in the mustard (taste for your liking). Let me tell you this can feed 4 people depending on how hungry everyone is. Not to mention this meal is heavy and you don't get hungry 3 hours later.
I bring rice, chicken, and veggies. (Of course the chicken is cooked and dehydrated) so while I am boiling the rice I put in the chicken and veggies. Yummy. You can do the same thing with pasta if you want.
I never made anything with corn meal besides corn bread at home.
I also dehydrate my own food and do the freezer bag thing too. I know there is probably more that I can't think of right now so i will come back and post it.
 
I carry a grill from an old BBQ, and simply BBQ over an open fire with ample coals. Once the fire is well established I divide the fire into two areas.

First the main fire area is maintained to provide a steady supply of coals for the cooking fire. I move coals over to the cooking area as needed while the chicken breast, steak or whatever is slowly cooking. Cook slowly, and meat like chicken will be the best you have ever made.
 
I've heard the best method of cooking Carp (if you catch one) is as follows:

Cover carp with a cow pie and cook on top of cedar plank. After about 10 minutes over the fire discard the carp and eat the cow pie.

Let me know how it turns out :)
 
jawilder said:
I've heard the best method of cooking Carp (if you catch one) is as follows:

Cover carp with a cow pie and cook on top of cedar plank. After about 10 minutes over the fire discard the carp and eat the cow pie.

Let me know how it turns out :)
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Waiting for it on the Food Network! :D

:barf:
 
A pack of instant noodles (beef and not the cup), boil 2 cups of water on a fire, add diced up carrots, dried peas, dried corn and sliced up beef jerky. After everything is soft, add the noodles. After the noodles turn soft, add the flavour pack and enjoy. Whole thing takes me about 15 minutes to make and tastes really good on a cold day. Plus none of the items will spoil (carrots take a couple weeks to go bad) so it it good for longer trips too.
 
Eggs can be cooked in a brown paper lunch sack. Crack two eggs and pour them in the bottom of a brown paper lunch bag. Then fold the top down several times and poke a stick through the folds. Support the stick over coals (no flame). The bag willl stay moist enough to prevent it from catching fire and the eggs will cook. Rip the bag open and eat. Burn the paper bag.

No Dishes.

Badge54
 
jawilder said:
I've heard the best method of cooking Carp (if you catch one) is as follows:

Cover carp with a cow pie and cook on top of cedar plank. After about 10 minutes over the fire discard the carp and eat the cow pie.

Let me know how it turns out :)
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LMAO..... that was a Pepsi spitter:D.

Good for truck camping/fishing trips.

Morning hash:

  1. Slice up some spuds and get them frying
  2. Slice up about 1/2 a sweet onion and throw in about 1/2 way through so they don't get to mushy
  3. Fry up some bacon in another pan. Once crispy, break them into pieces and throw in with onions and spuds
  4. I add some green onions and red peppers right at the end so they don't overcook.
  5. Final touch is to add three eggs over the whole thing and cook until eggs are scrambled over the whole pile.

If you want dash with hot sauce and enjoy with coffee.:)
 
open up the lid on a can of whatever; green beans, black beans, ravioli, etc. don't take it all the way off though, leave it attached with about 1/2" of metal between the lid and the can. don't pull the lid open too much, just so you can keep an eye on the contents and keep ash out of the can.

set the can down next to/in the fire, let it cook until warm. i suggest grabbing the can with a pair of pliers (multi tool anyone?) and taking it out of the fire to cool some, i find that the can cools pretty fast. eat out of the can or divvy up into dishes.

that is a neat idea with the eggs in a sack, i will have to try that sometime.
 
1/2 pkg bacon
1/2 pkg hot dogs
1 lg can baked beans.

Fry bacon, cut hot dogs into 1/4" slices add to cast iron skillet.
Brown.
Add beans, cook till beans are hot.
Enjoy.

Dumping off the bacon grease is optional ;)
 
Rehydrate dried apricots in a cooking pot. Add water to pot so the juice level is just over the appricots. Need a pot that leaves about 3" free. Make dumplings according to directions on Bisquick box -- as you bring the apricots to a gentle boil. Sweeten (white or brown sugar) as you desire (I don't add sugar.) Add dumplings, place lid on pot and wait for dumpings to cook. (Cook time depends on ambient temps and altitude, but you may be overrun by hungry types if you make optimistic forecasts. I can't recall it taking over 15 mins.)
 
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