Campground Cookin’ and Recipes

Written by JW Shaw // May 25, 2011 // 0 Comments

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The family camp out wouldn’t be complete without foil packet meals and s’mores for dessert. Simple meats and veggies cooked on the grill are popular as are one pot dishes you can serve up in a bowl. They can all be cooked on a gas or fuel powered stove, a grill, or right over the campfire itself.

Freeze dried camp food options are available, but can be expensive for a family sized packet and they aren’t necessary when you have a cook stove, grill, or campfire to cook over. They were designed for backpacking and wilderness camping where you might not have easy access to the cooking facilities you’ll have when camping at a family campground. They aren’t nearly as tasty as the following basic recipes adapted specifically for leisurely campfire cooking. Use the ingredient amounts that you would normally use to feed your family.

Grilled Breakfast Burritos

These can be partially prepared at home for easy cooking at the camp site. It’s an easy and hearty breakfast and tastes great on cool mornings with a cup of coffee, tea, or hot cocoa.

Ingredients:

__ Tortillas (bring the kind your family likes and a few for extras)

__ Eggs (crack the eggs you’ll need at home and bring them in an airtight container ready to go)

__ Ground turkey or sausage (cook up at home and bring in a container)

__ Optional – Diced onions, green peppers, olives, chiles, etc. (cook these with sausage if desired)

__ Shredded cheese (cheddar, jack, any kind your family likes)

__ Butter, margarine, or oil for pan

Directions:

Place heavy frying pan on the grill, camp stove, or low camp fire on a cooking grate. Add oil or butter as needed and melt. Pour eggs into hot pan and scramble. When almost done add sausage and optional ingredients, pre-cooked, and heat until all ingredients are ready. Heat tortillas on the grill briefly. Use tongs for best results to turn them. Fill with egg and sausage mixture, add cheese, roll up, and eat.

Hamburger Meal Packets

Using individual foil packets, you can prepare these at home or wait until you are camping. There is nothing to wash up or clean with these meal packets. They can be filled with all sorts of things but this is the basic recipe.

Ingredients:

__ Ground beef or turkey (uncooked)

__ Frozen veggies (green beans, broccoli, corn, mixed vegetables, whatever your family likes)

__ Pepper, Seasoned salt, Old Bay Seasoning, Cajun Spice, or whatever you like

__ Butter

Directions:

Using heavy grilling foil or doubled foil squares cut into individual meal size, place one serving of each ingredient into each of your foil squares. Set a pat of butter on top of each. Fold each of the squares into a sealed packet. Poke a hole in each to allow the juices to run off. Place on coals, open fire, or grill and the meat will cook along with the veggies. Simply toss the foil out when you’re finished to eliminate clean up chores.

Camp Chili

Here’s your one-pot meal that can be cooked over the grill, on the camp stove, or on a grate in the campfire. This one’s good for the tripod kettle, too, if you happen to have one of those (as in the cowboy movies).

Ingredients:

__ Ground meat (turkey, beef, chicken)

__ Chopped onion

__ Canned red kidney beans, black beans, white beans, pinto beans

__ Canned corn

__ Canned tomatoes (Mexican flavored, Ro-Tel, Chili Seasoned, or season your own)

__ Canned tomato soup

__ Chili powder

__ Cumin

Directions:

Using a heavy pan or kettle, brown your meat along with the onions. Open cans while meat is browning. Add canned ingredients, seasonings, and bring all to boil. Simmer for 10-15 minutes. This recipe can be used for various size groups. Depending on the size of your family, use the appropriate amounts of everything. As you can see, it’s a flexible recipe. Delicious, hearty, and satisfying!

S’mores! S’mores!

Here’s the one you’ve all been waiting for. This is a traditional campfire favorite that goes back generations. These must be cooked over the campfire to be official s’mores. It’s easy, requires minimal ingredients, and the kids won’t soon forget them. Most of the fun is in the making. The origin of the name? Once you’ve had one you’ll certainly want “s’more!”

Ingredients:

__ Graham crackers

__ Large sized marshmallows

__ Hershey’s chocolate bars (the original regular kind, not the thick ones)

Directions:

Get your campfire going. While it’s getting started, break several graham crackers in half, placing a half Hershey bar on top of each graham cracker half and set aside. Find a few sticks that can be used to skewer marshmallows. With your trusty pocket knife, clean off enough of the bark at one end to put a marshmallow on it. Roast, toast, and brown your marshmallow over the edge of the campfire where the coals are warm and it won’t catch fire and burn. Turning slowly gets a nice, even brown. When your marshmallow is cooked to perfection, place it on the pre-prepared graham cracker and chocolate squares, making a perfect sandwich of sugary delight.

TIP: Use caution with young children around the campfire and food prep area, especially if you are new to camping. Set some simple ground rules once you see where you will be camping. They know your safety rules at home, but may be excited about their new surroundings and won’t automatically know about the potential risks.

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