Got camp menu ideas???

[thunderchicken]

Ok so I am planning my annual fall camping trip and I am having trouble coming up with good dinner ideas. We will be cooking for about 8-10 men. In the past we have cooked steaks, beef stew, chilli, ham, smoked/pulled pork.. This is not a pack light and hike in camp out so dang near anything is an option. So what are your favorite camp foods??

 

[Leo]

What is a camp without beans and bacon and cornbread? Sausage/green beans/potatos work pretty good. Corned beef and cabbage is an easy cook also.

 

[Leadeye]

Dinty's out of cans cooked in the fire.

 

[chubbs]

Spaghetti is always good. Warms you up and gives you carbs for the next day.

 

[Woobie]

Well, this wouldn't necessarily apply to you, but it's still tasty and energy packed. My brother and I only take what we can either carry, or sometimes get in a canoe. We pack zattarans beans and rice. Black beans are preferable. Shoot a couple of squirrels, clean them so you have the legs and back straps. Throw those in with the beans and rice when it cooks, and toward the end, toss in some cashews. Packs light, has tons of energy, will still get you by if you can't get the squirrels, and tastes amazing.

But since you aren't weight conscious, I'd just take a bunch of bacon.

 

[sugarcreekbrass]

Back straps can be grilled if u have a grate(wrapped in bacon of course), backed beans can be cooked over a fire in the can, sweet corn if u can still get some that is good (left in the husk and soaked in water a head of time). My wife also pre made chicken fajitas before we went camping last time. We threw the chicken and peppers in a cast skillet and fried it up.

 

[thunderchicken]

Good ideas. Keep 'em coming

 

[bacon#1]

Walking tacos, potato soup, beer battered fish. Some of the favorites.

 

[Thegeek]

Take a roasting hen and rub it down with garlic, rosemary, olive oil, salt and pepper and put a whole peeled onion inside. Do this a day before you go and put it in the fridge in a gallon ziploc. Then, in a dutch oven, put the chicken, 2 cups of broth, a bag of baby carrots, celery, and about 3 pounds of red potatoes. Add 2TB of salt, and 8 cloves of garlic. Cook until the chicken and potatoes are done. Eat it separate, or pull the chicken and stir it back in with a half cup of flower to make a stew. We just call it campfire chicken. Feeds 3.

 

[KittySlayer]

Well, this wouldn't necessarily apply to you, but it's still tasty and energy packed. My brother and I only take what we can either carry, or sometimes got in a canoe. We pack zattarans beans and rice. Black beans are preferable. Shoot a couple of squirrels, clean them so you have the legs and back straps. Throw those in with the beans and rice when it cooks, and toward the end, toss in some cashews. Packs light, has tons of energy, will still get you by if you can't get the squirrels, and tastes amazing.

But since you aren't weight conscious, I'd just take a bunch of bacon.

We like the Zattarans Jambalaya with some sausage thrown in. If you found some crawfish at your camp that would be a nice add.

For bread we like to pack pita bread. No need to worry about crushing while packing like regular but still has some texture, flavor and substance.

 

[2A_Tom]

In a large pot, cover bottom with potatoes, quartered cabbage, two large onions quartered, corn on the cob cut in half. cut up smoked sausage, cover with chicken stock. Season liberally between layers with PSRTOGSPT. Bring to boil, simmer covered for 30 minutes.

Parsley, sage , rosemary, thyme, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, Course ground pepper and Tony Chachers.

You may also add green beans if you like. If it were a mixed crowd I would also cut up chicken for the women.

 

[Cameramonkey]

One of my most memorable was simple, and easy. And tasty.

Boil a bag of extra wide egg noodles. While doing that fry up a pound of ground beef. Drain and add the noodles to the beef. Add a can of cream of mushroom soup and a can of milk. Quick and easy Beef stroganoff.

 

[1988-4551]

We make french fries in a cast iron over the camp fire. Keeps us moving and fills the crew up...

 

[obijohn]

Hobo or foil dinners are quite tasty. Can be prepped ahead of time, frozen and will be ready to go on the coals anytime during a weekend. Not the best for weight saving, but my current ruck sack has four wheel drive.

 

[Woobie]

Hobo or foil dinners are quite tasty. Can be prepped ahead of time, frozen and will be ready to go on the coals anytime during a weekend. Not the best for weight saving, but my current ruck sack has four wheel drive.

We do the hobo dinners with the in laws every time we go out to their camper. Easy and delicious. I like A-1 with them. Doubling up on the foil is a must.

 

[2A_Tom]

Foil is fabulous. Ribeye steak, corn on the cob, potatoes, carrots and onion.

 

[thunderchicken]

My kida enjoy foul dinner..aka hobo dinners so much we occasionally take the grate out of the charcoal grill and make some up then go inside for a family dinner and movie night.

 

[thunderchicken]

Does anyone have experience using a can cooker? Been looking at these for sometime just not sure how well they work

 

[Slawburger]

Two-Can Jambalaya

Ingredients
2 cans (10-ounce each) Ro-Tel tomatoes
2 cans (10 1/2-ounce each) condensed French onion soup
2 cans (10 1/2-ounce each) concentrated beef consomme
2 cans (about 1 pound) white rice (measure in soup can)
2 cans (about 1 pound) kielbasa sausage (measure in soup can)
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cut into cubes

Directions
Combine ingredients in Dutch oven.
Bake at 350 (8 coals under and 17 on top).
Cook for 1 hour or until rice is tender.

You can add other things as long as you have enough moisture to soften the rice. You can also increase it to "Three Can Jambalaya" if you have more people or bigger appetites.

 

[clfergus]

The smoked sausage/green beans/potatoes mixed is one of our staples. We don't typically go all out for breakfast so I usually do a big cast iron pan of sausage gravy and we heat canned biscuits up in a cast iron pan with a lid.

A good breakfast item that is quick and easy. They make these precooked sausage crumbles that are already cooked. You buy those, buy some of the new soft shell standable tacos shells. Cook some scrambled eggs in the skillet and heat up the sausage crumbles. Pile both in the standing tacos with cheese and salsa for morning burritos. Takes about 5 minutes of prep.