Posted 2007-05-14 6:38 AM (#60747) Subject: Campground recipes
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Posts: 474 Location: White Mills, Ky.
We are preparing for a long camping weekend. I have my dinners planned but am looking for ideas for desserts that can be done by the fire or in a small microwave.
In the past, I have cooked peach cobbler at home and then warmed it over the fire. It is a favorite but I'd like to try something new.
Posted 2007-05-15 7:45 PM (#60814 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 792 Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth
Banana Boats...an old girl scout favorite. You take ripe bananas, cut a slit down the center (leave peel on!). Then you take the ends and push them in a bit...to open up the center.In the center, you can place anything yummy (nuts, coconut, mini chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, etc). Then you wrap the banana in non stick tin foil (sorta like a tent). Place the "boats" on the grill. Grill until everything is melted, gooey and yummy! Enjoy.
Posted 2007-05-16 8:51 AM (#60829 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 455 Location: Texas
If you have a dutch oven, there is no reason you cannot make your peach cobbler over the fire. Pies are very easy, too. When I am camping, after making stew or roast for supper, I make a pie almost every night. I buy the pie crust dough in the freezer section of the grocery store, and some Wilderness brand pie filling. Put the pie tin in the dutch oven. Put the dutch oven on a bed of coals, and cover the lid with coals. Put a spacer between the pie tin and the dutch oven, so the bottom doesn't burn. A horseshoe seems to work well. Bake for 45 minutes at 375 degrees. Ha ha.
Posted 2007-05-17 7:28 PM (#60942 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Here's a good recipe for Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Mix together 2 eggs, 1 c. sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 c. sifted flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, pinch of salt. Combine 1/2 c. scalded milk and 1 T. butter. Add to egg mixture and beat well.
In a large skillet (10-12") melt 1/2 c. butter and 1 c. brown sugar. Add a 20 oz. can pineapple slices (cherries optional). Pour batter over pineapples. Cover and bake over low heat until done (approximately 35 minutes). During last 5 minutes tilt lid to dry top. When done to touch turn upside down on large plate.
I mix all dry ingredients in a zip lock bag at home.
I have made this quite a few times dry camping on the propane stove.
Posted 2007-05-17 11:50 PM (#60950 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
Location: KY
Dwight
I am impressed, COOKING at horse camp?
If you have the dutch oven, you can do the cobbler as follows
melt a stick of butter (or margarine) in the dutch oven over the fire thus getting the pot hot, then dump in a no. 10 can of peaches having drained same reserving the liquid; then mix up a yellow cake mix using the peach liquid instead of water, then put that on top of the peaches; put the top on the pot, cover the lid with hot coals and let set for about an hour. Really is easy; can also make choco cake; pineapple upside down cake....really with the dutch oven there are endless possibilities. Of course, nohing beats a huge piece of chocolate and a good cup of coffee. just my op and now I must go get a piece of choc, have made myself hungry
Posted 2007-05-18 3:52 PM (#60974 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 474 Location: White Mills, Ky.
Yes Rose (aka smarty pants) I amcooking for this trip. But only because YOU are not coming!! And the camp is not offering meals. With the price of fuel going the way it is, I just can't see spending the $$ to eat out every night. Especially when we have a fresh beef in the freezer. Are you sure you don't want to come and be our camp cook?
Posted 2007-05-18 11:03 PM (#60982 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
Location: KY
oops, got me didn't cha! Dwight, I would love to come cook, just gonna have to be next time... Take a look at Circle E for the end of June or the new camp at Mammoth Cave? And I will cook!!!!!!!
Posted 2007-05-19 8:10 AM (#60984 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 309 Location: MO
This thread is making me drool! My wife make peach cobbler in our dutch oven but uses a different recipe. I like Rose's. will have to try it. The Dutch Oven we have doesn't have legs so we scrape the ground clear if hot coals tot keep it from burning. The ground is still quite warm. Ten put coals on the lid and around the pot. Works great.
Try making chili in it. Use your regular chili recipe Brown your meat as normal then the onions and peppers (they brown quickly) then add the spices, the beans, undrained and tomatoes while over the fire. Cooks up quickly and Yum!
Posted 2007-05-28 6:22 AM (#61337 - in reply to #60971) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Plenty of recipes. Just type in dutch oven cooking or dutch oven recipes and you will be amazed. I am a scoutmaster and we do alot of dutch over stuff. The easiest being "Dump Cake". Line the oven with foil, empty your pie filling of choice in the bottom, dump in a cake mix, empty a 20 oz. bottle of soda of your coice in(do not stir). Set it on the coals and put some on top. Good eating. The cooking you can do is only limited by your imagination. Note it s a good idea to try these out at home first. Nothing worse than being out with hungry folks and dinner or dessert flopping. Usually makes the cook real unpopular. A good appetizer is campfire onions. Using large Vidalia(sweet) onions. Remove the outermost coverings, core the onion,pack the bottom with butter, put a beef bouillon cube in the center, pack the top w/ butter, wrap in foil then put on grill or in fire until you can squeeze it easiliy. Take out out and enjoy your own french onion blossom. Garnish w/ swiss chees and serve wine. If you want a book of recipes any outdoor store worth name will haveone or two. Dan
Posted 2007-05-28 3:03 PM (#61352 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 474 Location: White Mills, Ky.
IcePony - We tried the banana boats and they were yummy. The next night, we just made a "bowl" out of aluminum foil, filled it with chocolate and caramel chips, melted that over the fire and dipped our bananas in it. Scrumptious!!
Have y'all seen the strawberry marshmallows? They are quite tasty when roasted over the fire!
Posted 2007-06-01 11:26 AM (#61607 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 648 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
I'm in a trail riding club and we have big group campouts and are always looking for neat ideas. We just did the banana boats with about 50 around the campfire and it worked out great!
another good idea are pineapple upside down cakes in tuna or cat fish cans. Tell everyone to bring some clean empty cans, mix up the cake receipe, put a pineapple slice in the bottom of each can, pour on the cake mix, and cook them over a grill. Once they're done, pop them out on a paper plate & add icing if desired. The kids and "big kids" (adults) really got into this and had a great time.
We cook alot on our campouts and recently put together a cookbook of everyone's ideas. I'll try to add a few more on this thread.
Posted 2007-06-05 6:34 AM (#61814 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 648 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
In regard to how long you cook the cake in the tuna cans - once the cake starts to separate from the sides of the can, it's pretty much done. Time will vary according to the placement on the grill and how hot it is.
brought the cookbook in to make this correction - lightly grease the cans before adding the pineapple slice & cake mix
Posted 2007-06-06 9:06 AM (#61867 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 648 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
Here are some dessert recipes from our camp cookbook:
Dessert Rocks
These can be made ahead of time and brought with you.
9 cups of your favorite Chex cereals (corn, rice, wheat)
1 cup[ semi-sweet chocolate pieces
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
measure out ingredients, pour cereal in large bowl & set aside. combine chocolate pieces, peanute butter, & butter in microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high 1 - 1.5 minutes or until smooth. stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cearl, stirring until all pices are evenly coated. The power cereal into plastic bag with powdered sugar. seal securly. Shake until all pieces are well-coated. spread on wax paper to cool.
Editor's note: These surpringly delicious morsels first appeared at a Dupuis campout... very strange looking fare, indeed. There were no leftovers however!
If you have a fridge in your trailer, this is one I've made twice and everyone loved it.
CHERRY CHEESE DELIGHT
Filling: 2 8 oz packages (soft) cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 teaspon vanilla
9 oz cool whip
1 can cherry pie filling
package pie crust - larger size
mix the cream cheese and sugar together, add vanilla & cool whip. spread in the pie crust and cool in the fridge overnight. You can add food coloring to the mixture if you want it pink. Put the cherry pie filling in the fridge overnight as well. Just before serving, top the pie with the cherry pie filling and serve. You could substitue apple, peach, or blueberry pie filling as well.
Posted 2007-06-13 2:53 PM (#62264 - in reply to #61607) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 326 Location: Gallatin, TN
I made the pineapple upside down cakes last weekend and they were a hit!!!!! Thanks Dunoir, great recipe.
For those of you who like omelets but not cooking them, here is an easy recipe:
scramble two eggs in a cup and pour into a ziplock freezer bag (pint or quart size) add your favorite omelet fillings. if you are using any meat be sure it is cooked. close the bag while removing as much air as possible. Drop the bag in boiling water and boil about 8 - 10 minutes. You will know it is done when you do not see anymore egg liquid in the bag. Cut the top of the bag and let the omelet roll out onto your plate.
If you are cooking for more than one person just give everyone their own bag and write their name on it. A regular pen will work just fine.
Posted 2007-06-21 2:14 PM (#62608 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 1391 Location: North of Detroit, MI
When I was in AZ last February, I picked up a US Forest Service dutch oven cook book.. I can't wait to try some of those recipes. The sour dough starter recipe dates back about a hundred years!!
Campagne mushrooms no less!! LOL.
There's some "lasagne" style ones, shepard pie versions, and a small version of Milk Can Stew, layer potatoes, wedges of cabbage, cleaned ears of corn (broken in 2 pieces to fit better), kielbasa or similar sausage, add liquid, cook a long while.
Beer bread recipe ... can of warm beer, some self-rising flour and one other ingredient.. .Not much help am I? LOL.
Posted 2007-06-22 1:29 PM (#62658 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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Posts: 326 Location: Gallatin, TN
Okay, I found this recipe on a scouting web site and just had to share it. If anyone has used this recipe I would love to know how it worked.
Breakfast in a PAPER BAG
1-2 Strips of Bacon 1-2 Handfulls Frozen Hash Browns 1-2 Eggs Lunch Sized Paper Bag Pointed Stick Hot Campfire Coals Fork
1. Open paper bag and place bacon strips on bottom. 2. Toss in potatoes. 3. Break in egg(s). 4. Close by folding down top of paper bag at least three times but leaving 3"-4" of air space above the food. 5. Insert pointed stick only through the top folded part of the bag. 6. Prop with rocks, or hold bag on the stick about 4"-5" over the hot coals for about 8-10 minutes (careful not to touch the coals or hold over flames or you'll set your breakfast on fire.) 7. When you can't stand the delicious aroma anymore and your nose is making your tummy SCREAM..... 8. Remove from heat and pull out the stick with an oven mitt. 9. Open the bag and fold down the paper. Eat right out of the brown bag. 10. Throw your "dishes" in the fire (but don't forget to save the forks.)
Posted 2007-06-23 3:52 AM (#62686 - in reply to #60747) Subject: RE: Campground recipes
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If you go to www.IDOS.com or there is a dutch oven group at Yahoo that have many recipes. Main dish and sweets and everything in between. www.LSDOS.com is another site.
PEACH COBBLER
2 lg cans peaches
1 box yellow cake mix
1 stick butter
nutmeg and cinnamon
dump peaches (with liquid) in oven and puor cake mix over top and level out. season with spices and cut butter in pats over dry cake mix. juice will mix with butter to moisten cake mix and bake. bake about 1 hr.
Go to your local bookstore and have them check on dutch oven coking books. Also, if you buy a new Lodge brand dutch oven, there is a very good cookbook that comes with it. Good luck!!!!
Campground recipes
You take ripe bananas, cut a slit down the center (leave peel on!). Then you take the ends and push them in a bit...to open up the center.In the center, you can place anything yummy (nuts, coconut, mini chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, etc). Then you wrap the banana in non stick tin foil (sorta like a tent). Place the "boats" on the grill. Grill until everything is melted, gooey and yummy! Enjoy. 
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. With the price of fuel going the way it is, I just can't see spending the $$ to eat out every night. Especially when we have a fresh beef in the freezer. Are you sure you don't want to come and be our camp cook?
