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Post by RJ on Nov 20, 2014 20:32:11 GMT -8
Allrighty campers, what's on the menu for a two day outing? Pulling out Friday night on a nice late spring/early summer afternoon so you'll need evening meals for Friday and Saturday night. What is on the menu.... skewered beef dogs on willow sticks over crackling campfire coals, burning a few steaks on the charcoal grill under the awning, warming up something in the camper oven that you've pre-cooked and packed neatly away in your ice box? How about breakfast; isn't it the most important meal of the day? Are there sausage links being browned on that old Princess three burner stove with a good handfull of sliced up, onion laden tatos on another burner? What's on the menu..........after all, spring is only a handfull of months away
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Post by vintagebruce on Nov 20, 2014 21:23:54 GMT -8
Well rj, your question is food for thought...I'm going to have to have a few of those marshmallow Bailey's shooters and think your question over. Will get back to you when I reach the bottom of the marshmallow bag or the bottom of the Bailey's bottle, whichever comes first...
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Post by RJ on Nov 20, 2014 21:34:34 GMT -8
Vintagebruce, if you wait till you reach the bottom of the Bailey's, you'll probably be having bologna sandwiches mister
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Post by vikx on Nov 20, 2014 23:46:46 GMT -8
Breakfast: Fried taters and onions. YUM.
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Post by shastajeff on Nov 21, 2014 3:33:46 GMT -8
Foil dinners and apple pies made with a pie iron over the camp fire! Deee-licious!
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Post by bigbill on Nov 21, 2014 6:20:06 GMT -8
I think a five course meal that requires at least five to eight hours of prep and cook time that the wife could stay in the trailer and do while I sit out under a shade tree socializing with the other campers. Now to get this all I have to do is divorce existing wife and find one that is stupid enough to do it. Now my boss thinks an ideal way to have these meals is for me to build a nice fire and cook what ever she wants then serve it to her as she sits under a shade tree. Wonder who will win out?
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Post by Ross on Nov 21, 2014 6:23:26 GMT -8
We like to group camp with our friends and we tend to always bring our smoker and smoke ribs, ham, pork shoulder or turkey for the Saturday dinner. We also bring our grills for chicken wings, burgers, steaks beer brats with sauteed onions and peppers, etc.
For the cold nights, we like to fix a beef stew over the campfire with corn bread or soup over the campfire with grilled cheese sandwiches. All done in dutch ovens.
As for breakfasts, cinnamon rolls in the Dutch Oven, sausage & egg bake in the DO (sausage, egg, biscuits, cheese), bacon & cheese pull-a-parts in the DO, etc.
For us, it's about fellowship and excellent camp dining!
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Post by kirkadie on Nov 21, 2014 21:18:12 GMT -8
Here in Ohio, Spring feels years away, and it's not even Winter. Optimism has always been our strength but this is the first time we've covered the BBQ grill this early. It's Texas (no bean) chili on the stove, in a cast iron stew pot, guaranteed to keep the house kitchen warm for many hours. But we'll be thinkin' about all you tough cold weather campers... gotta go turn on the electric blanket.
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Post by RJ on Nov 21, 2014 21:36:52 GMT -8
Foil dinners and apple pies made with a pie iron over the camp fire! Deee-licious! Sweet! Tell us about the applie pies with a pie iron please.
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Post by bigbill on Nov 22, 2014 1:22:19 GMT -8
Foil dinners and apple pies made with a pie iron over the camp fire! Deee-licious! Sweet! Tell us about the applie pies with a pie iron please. There is only one thing to say about apple pies or pizza in a pie iron DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!! It don't get much better than that. We used to make our entire meal from pie iron pizza now and then.
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Post by vintagebruce on Nov 22, 2014 11:43:12 GMT -8
Ok I'm the first to admit, I am not much of a cook...batched it for 2 decades and could cook all my meals in the same pan or in a small toaster oven. Then I got smart and have been married to a good cook for 2 decades. Anyway I did not know what a pie iron is...so for others that might not know here is a web site that gives enough information to gradute with a Masters in Pie Iron...enjoy. pieiron.com/
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Post by MarthaS on Nov 22, 2014 12:27:38 GMT -8
It's pretty simple. Spray both sides of Iron with Vegetable Oil Spray, place sliced bread on each side, pour apple of cherry pie filling, add cinnamon, close together and heat over flame. Keep turning for even heating. Top with canned icing if you'd like it even more sweet.
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Post by SusieQ on Nov 22, 2014 12:40:53 GMT -8
Have you ever seen these? I don't have them but a fellow camper had a whole set of Amish roasting sticks for various purposes, including this one. They were fun to cook with over the fire and made some tasty treats, too. www.lehmans.com/p-1396-campfire-biscuit-roaster.aspx
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Post by MarthaS on Nov 22, 2014 13:51:35 GMT -8
Have you ever seen these? I don't have them but a fellow camper had a whole set of Amish roasting sticks for various purposes, including this one. They were fun to cook with over the fire and made some tasty treats, too. www.lehmans.com/p-1396-campfire-biscuit-roaster.aspxBoth of my sons are Eagle Scouts so we've been exposed to many types of over-the-fire cooking techniques. One similar was to make "eclairs" by using a wooden dowel with crescent roll dough formed over the dowel and cooking it over the fire then letting them cool, pull them off the dowel and fill them with whipped cream and top with chocolate frosting.
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Post by vintagebruce on Nov 22, 2014 14:37:28 GMT -8
One of our local independent paint stores has started to branch out into "yard art" - garishly painted planters made from used tires (no joke, lol) but also AMISH Foods and Products. I drive by the store almost every day. I'm going to have to drop in and see if they have the biscuit skewers. That éclair idea is cool too.
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