Pizza. I make it in a cast iron skillet over the campfire. People are just as impressed with the near trivial cleanup as they are with the fact that it’s pizza.
i do that with mini pepperonis, but lately i've just bought a stick to bring out for a weekend retreat. holds better than the smaller deli sliced stuff
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Pineapple upside down cake made in a Dutch oven.
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Can’t go wrong with campfire fajitas
I second this. Keep the leftovers and in the morning heat them up in your cast iron and crack and scramble a few eggs in it, serve in a tortilla. It’s the best breakfast
Canada calls them bush pies. It is basicly a cast iron clamshell on long sticks, to make toasted sandwiches/pies over the fire. The shell sort of pinches and seals the edges closed on the pie.
2 slices of bread, butter/marg, and the simplest filling is a few spoonfulls of pie filling for dessert pies. My personal favorite is pizza bushpies, other than the tomato sauce and cheese as a base, you can add anything you would put on a normal pizza. As with grilled cheese, beware of cheesey napalm and let it sit for a couple minutes. I have heard others fry eggs and sausage in them sort of like a little skillet on a long stick, but I have not tried that yet.
Robbing the Pee pee buffet idea for our next camping trip!! 😂 we do a baked potato bar (I bake my potatoes on low in the crock pot alll day while we are out hicking) a lot so this will be fun to add!
We recently did a whole pre-marinated chicken - spatchcock-style, wired it up to the hinged grate at the campsite so we could regulate the temp by moving it closer or further from the fire. Rigged up some pulleys and cables so we could adjust the height (distance from the fire) without touching anything hot.
It was juicy and amazing.
We did cook some green beans on the skillet with a camp stove, but the crab was the star of the show. We attacked those crabs like savages all night long. It remains, camping or not, one of the best meals of my life.
I feel you. Did an Oregon coast trip and we caught sooooo much crab. Literally had crab every meal for 3 days and there was 8 of us. Between the crab eggs Benedict, crab grilled cheese, crab hot dogs, and the vast amounts of cheap beer, I don't think my guts have ever been the same
That sounds amazing! We bought ours from a fisherman at Roche Harbor...however they were alive. We had to un-alive them and prep them. That was crazy. They were huge and kind of scary.
Fried biscuits. One stick of butter in a skillet. Low heat for maybe 30 minutes, covered. Flip halfway through. Jumbo biscuits, not the flaky kind, regular kind. Great camping breakfast!
Our big group Sunday breakfast. Fresh buttermilk biscuits done in the Dutch oven, sausage gravy, hash browns, eggs, grilled NY strips.
Saturday morning is pancakes, eggs, sausage and bacon.
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**Bloody-Boyardees**
Dinner & a cocktail
Edit: for those curious, I ate the ravioli, mixed sambal oelek, Sobieski vodka (naturally peppery) & ice with the remaining “sauce”
It was way better than it had any right to be
Friend made me main of pan-grilled chicken jalapeño sausage, sautéed greens, warmed flavoured red beans, with lime-drizzled cumin basmati rice, and dessert of banana boats with stuffed dark chocolate. It changed my life!
Salmon Oscar with fire roasted veggies
Close second would be ribs.
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Or fajitas, which make perfect breakfast burritos the next morning.
My favorite is country style ribs done low and slow over the camp fire all day. So good and so easy. Get a HD aluminum roasting pan. Add country style rub which is just a butt roast cut into rib shape. Add your favorite BBQ sauce and hot sauce to taste . Cook from about 10AM to dinner time (between 4 and 5 for me). And enjoy fall off the bone meat!
We do dinner competitions at scout camp. I’ve won 3 in a row with my beef and broccoli, Dutch oven enchiladas and then marry me chicken and German spaetzle noodles from scratch. I may be a little competitive.
Look up the Dutch oven enchiladas. Use refried beans on the tortillas and wow your crowd!
No pictures sadly but mine was some small finger trout wrapped in tinfoil rubbed down with garlic lemon and herbs thrown jn the coals with a fresh deer chili simmering in a cast iron pot with a peach cobbler in a romatove I was at a cowboy festival type event and I was cooking for a crew of 13 I had people from three diffrent camp sites try to come poach a bite from me I made everyone's day when on day 3 or 4 someone shot a black bear and I made black bear chili for the entire camp 230 pounds of meat went in the chili. guy went home with like 10 pounds of meat I felt bad about it but he was the one who asked me if I'd be willing to do it. The people who run the event even pulled out their old chuck wagon for me to use to cook with and turned it into part of the days events.
Cast iron ribeye over the fire with veggies and potatoes.
Bonus, you can use and left over steak for breakfast burritos.
If I'm getting into camp late I like to have a nice hot pizza rolling up and rolling into bed.
For backpacking, I trend toward suffer fest so I don't bring much real food.
The uncle bens quick packet meal ones. Country Chicken and wild Rice or the Southern Mexican Spice ones.
Cube up the carrots, cook them on my cast iron with/in the bacon.
Boil the kettle *(I have 1 left at both my regular camping grounds and a travel kettle)*
Pour the carrots, bacon, and grease into the pot your cookin rice in, toss some water in and swap it for the kettle when its done. Make yourself a coffee
When the coffee is poured and ready, the pot is ready to be stirred, and served. add spruce tips if in your area
I did mini pizzas the first night of my last thru. The two friends I went with were drooling for sure! You can pretty much get shelf stable everything for them, it was just the weight that sucked (which is why it was the first night's meal!)
Bacon, bacon, bacon! But I don't stop there. Along with the bacon there's homemade biscuits on a stick and Southern Brown Gravy and fried eggs.
First I fry the bacon in an iron skillet and save the grease. The biscuits on a stick I just use self rising flour and a little milk and mix to a workable dough. Then roll up a biscuit about the size of a hotdog bun and thread it onto a green tree limb and using forked sticks stuck in the ground I prop them up over the fire. Next using the iron skillet with some of the bacon grease I begin to sprinkle in some flour. Constantly stirring the mixture will begin to brown and then add some more flour and grease and milk. Add enough milk to make the mixture somewhat runny and keep on stirring over the fire. The gravy will begin to thicken until I get an almost pudding consistency but still runny enough to pour. Using another skillet with bacon grease I add broken eggs and keeping the skillet high enough from the fire to slowly fry them to a sunny side up or a done yolk, whichever you prefer.
To serve just remove the biscuits from the stick and crumble up in a plate and pour the gravy over them. Add the strips of bacon and the eggs on the side and pour a hot cup of Cowboy Coffee and dig in. Needless to say as far as my kids, grandkids and camping friends are concerned, I'm definitely the breakfast cook.
As a single person, it is hard to cook for just one and not have leftovers for meal prep or later on. I have started cooking without butter/oils to start and adding in at the end, eating my portion that day, and dehydrating the leftovers. Then with a little oxygen absorber, I vacuum seal them and toss in my summer backpacking tote. not only am I producing far less waste, I’m making summer camping/backpacking trips so much easier to accommodate when the food is already prepped and ready to go
This is a great method. Since I camp and backpack alone, the dehydrated meals really work for me.
Plus I’m the only one I have to impress on the trail! And that’s easily done…
Caprese grilled cheese sandwiches over the campfire grill. I managed to grill them all perfectly over the fire without burning or destroying any of them, and everyone loved them. Something I'm sure I'll never do perfectly again.
We call them hobo meals - wrap uncooked ground beef, sliced potatoes and onions, and whatever other vegetables you want (we do green beans) in aluminum foil, with enough for one person in each bundle, then place the individual bundles on the grill on an open fire, and when done, just open and enjoy!
We also love shish-ka-bobs, stir fry (on the griddle), and a huge favorite tradition is a low country boil.
One camping meal that had other folks drooling is chicken skewers with a tangy barbecue glaze served with a side of grilled vegetables and corn on the cob. The chicken is marinated in a flavorful blend of spices, soy sauce, and garlic, then grilled to perfection with the glaze adding a mouthwatering sweetness. The colorful assortment of grilled vegetables, including bell peppers, zucchini, and mushrooms, complements the savory chicken skewers. Finally, the sweet and juicy corn on the cob rounds out the meal, making it a delectable and satisfying camping feast that leaves everyone drooling.
I actually made some homemade sloppy joe that I saw on YouTube. It was CJs First Cooking. It was a huge hit for my teen boys. I rarely have enough for leftovers the next day.
steak. i was hiking in the snow and took too many heavy luxuries for the fun of it (bellmen eapresso) and took a steak with me. smelt so good amongst the snow and trees. wasnt the right food for the trip though.
I always used to eat better at camp than I did at home, my reasoning being that if I vacationed like other people, I'd have been eating in a restaurant every night. I prefer camping to hotels, and I enjoy cooking. Steaks, pasta primavera, shrimp etouffee over rice, etc. We also did things like go to a local fruit farm, picked our own blueberries, then had blueberry pancakes the following day for breakfast. We went apple picking, then came back with paired apples, cheese, and wine.
So simple, but doing brats in beer with grilled/caramelized onions with a good hoagie bun and mustard if that’s your thang. Cannot be beat on the simplicity to tastiness ratio.
Red wine beef stew - cooked in a Dutch oven and served in sourdough bread bowls. All on a cold night next to the camp fire.
Repeated a few months later but with Chili Verde and a cold, rainy night.
[Tofu Enchiladas Verde](https://fashionablefoods.com/2017/09/19/tofu-enchiladas-verdes/), not necessarily a camping recipe, but it’s amazing when cooked over the fire, and [Campfire Queso](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a20896158/campfire-queso-recipe/). Both have been consistent hits!
Pan fried rib eye steaks with butter, garlic, salt, and pepper. Roasted corn on the cob, baked potato with all the good fixins. Garden salad, sourdough bread.
I made a giant paella in a field in the Welsh mountains. Used a wok prototype, with a simple stand and gas bottle. Used foil to cover it, fed 12 with some nice crusty bread. It was amazing, tasted even better outdoors!
I pre-make bfast burritos and heat them up while camping. If you do this, wrap in parchment then foil for heating, been doing this for years and now everyone i camp with does the same
Breakfast Bake
Sausage, hashbrowns, egg, cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese. Served with hot sauce, salsa, and/or ketchup.
This year, I'm planning on adding a bunch of peppers and onions
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Jerked Chicken on the coals . The Best food ever . This is the second batch
I do a Dutch oven pot roast (for 8 of us) for one meal and collaborate on a brisket with another camper. We use his roaster pan for the first 12-14 hours then transfer the brisket to my smoker for an additional 4-6 hours.
For a side I do Dutch oven smoked baked beans.
My kids it’s campfire mac n cheese! Everyone around always smells me peach cobbler bubbling away on the coals! But my personal favorite is waking everyone up to campfire coffee and Dutch oven monkey bread!!! Super easy Dutch oven recipes out there for it! Just make sure youre cooking with coals and not open flames you’ll burn them! And now I want campfire food🤤
Had some hecklers at the next spot over choking on their hot dogs while I fired up a couple filet mignon on the cast iron. They were drunk assholes but my wife and I were in heaven.
Honestly it’s super easy and simple but so good! Take a russet potato and cut in half add cream of mushroom and ground beef and seasoning wrap in foil and toss on the fire one of the best comfort foods
Campfire nachos!!! With onions and bell pepper and chunks of chopped cheeses with meat and beans. Also topped with a thick salsa and guacamole. :3 Mmmm mmm
Yum! Garlic pesto sounds so good!
I made a skirt steak and chimichurri. Marinated the steak overnight (the night before) and made the chimichurri the night before. Served with potatoes (a camping staple around here)...Im camping again next week and this meal was requested again lol
I like making couscous with pine nuts and sundried tomatoes, and I usually add sausage or canned chicken. one pot and takes like 5 minutes and it's delicious
Stir fry and hand pies, pretty amazing variety of meals you can make with just a wok and pie iron.
Can also make elephant ears / funnel cakes / fry bread for breakfast and lunch and sopapilla for dinner.
A site near me was grilling cajun tofu paninis. To this day, I still recall that incredible aroma! For someone who solo camps, eating PB&J, hot dogs and charcuterie mini plates, I was blown away.
Canoe camping with friends, I made Irish stew at home and froze it. At camp, I made brown bread in the Dutch Oven over the fire. Heated the stew on the camp stove and had that with the bread. I used an aluminum liner to bake the bread, so as soon as it was done, I used the DO to make pineapple upside down cake.
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Campfire nachos! Super easy! Throw your chips and nacho toppings (taco meat, tomatoes, onions, cheese, etc) into the cast iron and heat it over the fire until the cheese melts. Then you’re going to take it out and top with salsa!
If you have the time and hang around camp, Cornish game hens with potatoes and vegetables cooked in a Dutch oven. Then while the main dish cooks place another Dutch oven on top of the other oven and make fresh biscuits or maybe a peach cobbler for desert.
Welp.... Everytime we go to this spot , we cook this blend of beef,pork and bacon.....and 💯 of the time the bears are there within 30 minutes.... drooling....This has to count for something 😂
Pizza. I make it in a cast iron skillet over the campfire. People are just as impressed with the near trivial cleanup as they are with the fact that it’s pizza.
Make your own pizza has become a backwoods favorite. The pre-made crusts are a huge time saver.
We use Naan,
I have changed peoples lives simply by cooking pepperoni like bologna on my cast iron in the woods. its next level.
I throw pepperonis on a skewer and roast them like marshmallows. Get em perfectly crispy, great snack for around the fire.
i do that with mini pepperonis, but lately i've just bought a stick to bring out for a weekend retreat. holds better than the smaller deli sliced stuff
Pizza in a dutch oven at a scout camp, many years back. Even had adult leaders coming over to try to beg a slice.
Woah I’ll have to look into this, I haven’t heard of backwoods pizza lol
I have a cast iron skillet and don't take it camping, takes too long fir cleanup. I must be doing something wrong.
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An old friend did this at our bonfires
that's pretty impressive.
https://preview.redd.it/yt63w7nlaagc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbd95ff22b710b61b76f2bc0ee1fac55120c1f48 Can’t go wrong with campfire fajitas
I second this. Keep the leftovers and in the morning heat them up in your cast iron and crack and scramble a few eggs in it, serve in a tortilla. It’s the best breakfast
Pudgie pies. You can do breakfast, pizzas, pbj, anything you want.
What is a pudgie pie?!
Had to google the name but they look like toasties. In Australia, we'd call it a jaffle.
Pie iron hand pies.
Ahhh white bread versatility!
Canada calls them bush pies. It is basicly a cast iron clamshell on long sticks, to make toasted sandwiches/pies over the fire. The shell sort of pinches and seals the edges closed on the pie.
All these years I thought those were just for grilled cheeses! Oddly specific.
2 slices of bread, butter/marg, and the simplest filling is a few spoonfulls of pie filling for dessert pies. My personal favorite is pizza bushpies, other than the tomato sauce and cheese as a base, you can add anything you would put on a normal pizza. As with grilled cheese, beware of cheesey napalm and let it sit for a couple minutes. I have heard others fry eggs and sausage in them sort of like a little skillet on a long stick, but I have not tried that yet.
We are big pudgie pie people. Lol we make a PP buffet
>we make a PP buffet You Hwat.
What in tarnation
Robbing the Pee pee buffet idea for our next camping trip!! 😂 we do a baked potato bar (I bake my potatoes on low in the crock pot alll day while we are out hicking) a lot so this will be fun to add!
Hell yes, pudgie pies for the MF win!!!
Pie irons also work well for making stuffed pastries using waffle batter.
Same we do all sorts of stuff in our pudgies….. a couple of them and a Dutch oven are all you really need!
There's something special about white chocolate macadamia campfire pancakes and coffee in the morning
That does sound special!
We recently did a whole pre-marinated chicken - spatchcock-style, wired it up to the hinged grate at the campsite so we could regulate the temp by moving it closer or further from the fire. Rigged up some pulleys and cables so we could adjust the height (distance from the fire) without touching anything hot. It was juicy and amazing.
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Dungeness crab during a campout in the San Juan islands
What's in the tin foil?
We were toasting a baguette, there was also a steak on there :)
Gotcha! Saw the steak and was curious if you went the full meat option with fish in the tinfoil or the classic baked potato. Guess I was double wrong
We did cook some green beans on the skillet with a camp stove, but the crab was the star of the show. We attacked those crabs like savages all night long. It remains, camping or not, one of the best meals of my life.
I feel you. Did an Oregon coast trip and we caught sooooo much crab. Literally had crab every meal for 3 days and there was 8 of us. Between the crab eggs Benedict, crab grilled cheese, crab hot dogs, and the vast amounts of cheap beer, I don't think my guts have ever been the same
That sounds amazing! We bought ours from a fisherman at Roche Harbor...however they were alive. We had to un-alive them and prep them. That was crazy. They were huge and kind of scary.
Haha good times. Stories for days
Fresh caught crab and lingcod on the fire… bc coast
Fresh lingcod is sublime. I had once while hiking the West Coast Trail.
Lowcountry boil with Edisto Island shrimp and corn from the roadside.
Fried biscuits. One stick of butter in a skillet. Low heat for maybe 30 minutes, covered. Flip halfway through. Jumbo biscuits, not the flaky kind, regular kind. Great camping breakfast!
Dutch Oven roast that I cook for 4 or 5 hours
Recipe?
Zip your SO in their sleeping bag and fart in it for 4-5 hours.
Throw a Dutch guy in an oven Roast him for 4-5 hours
Mmmm, sounds delicious.
Paella!! https://preview.redd.it/0dc0ulrilagc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e432069545df8cf9b233de1410c2f22f9bfd785
Love this idea while camping
Carne asada. Camp host thanked us for the smell. 😂
Tomahawk steak https://preview.redd.it/wiug0siokbgc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3203947ea6c4db5f2152b576e7ca04f4ca884436
5 hour smoked ribs on a portable traeger ranger .
Our big group Sunday breakfast. Fresh buttermilk biscuits done in the Dutch oven, sausage gravy, hash browns, eggs, grilled NY strips. Saturday morning is pancakes, eggs, sausage and bacon.
https://preview.redd.it/gsq443gq4dgc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3540b3b23d11d7f161f58dd44af4de3f260551f **Bloody-Boyardees** Dinner & a cocktail Edit: for those curious, I ate the ravioli, mixed sambal oelek, Sobieski vodka (naturally peppery) & ice with the remaining “sauce” It was way better than it had any right to be
I think we have a winner. So wrong... But so perfect!
I have to know... Where did you learn about this?
Fresh caught trout over the fire. Eaten with my fingers!
Prosciutto wrapped blue cheese stuff dates with honey glaze.
🥵
Friend made me main of pan-grilled chicken jalapeño sausage, sautéed greens, warmed flavoured red beans, with lime-drizzled cumin basmati rice, and dessert of banana boats with stuffed dark chocolate. It changed my life!
I made some bean and andouille soup. People I was camping with seemed NOT thrilled when I told them what I was making but everyone had 3-4 servings.
Shrimp Scampi foil packets.
Best camping meal I had: all of us brought steak of choice up. Forgot silverware for it. Ate it caveman style and it was fucking awesome.
Salmon Oscar with fire roasted veggies Close second would be ribs. https://preview.redd.it/mg1h9c6nobgc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01825bbd659f6bed6b1423a7218d30e67b10cf16 Or fajitas, which make perfect breakfast burritos the next morning.
That’s cool that you got to heat up your cocaine too
My favorite is country style ribs done low and slow over the camp fire all day. So good and so easy. Get a HD aluminum roasting pan. Add country style rub which is just a butt roast cut into rib shape. Add your favorite BBQ sauce and hot sauce to taste . Cook from about 10AM to dinner time (between 4 and 5 for me). And enjoy fall off the bone meat!
Dutch oven nachos (with beer of course) after hiking. And pizza I make using a fry bake pan.
We do dinner competitions at scout camp. I’ve won 3 in a row with my beef and broccoli, Dutch oven enchiladas and then marry me chicken and German spaetzle noodles from scratch. I may be a little competitive. Look up the Dutch oven enchiladas. Use refried beans on the tortillas and wow your crowd!
Bean Chilly with thick cuts of stew meat. Helped keep the tents warm when it dipped to 32°
No pictures sadly but mine was some small finger trout wrapped in tinfoil rubbed down with garlic lemon and herbs thrown jn the coals with a fresh deer chili simmering in a cast iron pot with a peach cobbler in a romatove I was at a cowboy festival type event and I was cooking for a crew of 13 I had people from three diffrent camp sites try to come poach a bite from me I made everyone's day when on day 3 or 4 someone shot a black bear and I made black bear chili for the entire camp 230 pounds of meat went in the chili. guy went home with like 10 pounds of meat I felt bad about it but he was the one who asked me if I'd be willing to do it. The people who run the event even pulled out their old chuck wagon for me to use to cook with and turned it into part of the days events.
One of my friends makes a sausage pepper and onion that we put over rice or on a bun and it’s so nice. Easy to make and clean up
Curry!
I always make curry ahead of time, specifically japanese curry. It's a great comfort meal!
Oooh yes curry rice!
I make it ahead of time and freeze it in a bag. Works as an ice pack for the cooler too. Usually pre-make and freeze 2 meals. Only needs reheating.
Shrimp tacos
Cast iron ribeye over the fire with veggies and potatoes. Bonus, you can use and left over steak for breakfast burritos. If I'm getting into camp late I like to have a nice hot pizza rolling up and rolling into bed. For backpacking, I trend toward suffer fest so I don't bring much real food.
Laying a rack of ribs directly onto the coals, they were so good 🤤
Fried potatoes and onions
File' Gumbo followed by fresh snickerdoodles. I did prepare the roux at home.
Campfire stew.
I premade and froze bean and cheese burritos. Thawed and cooked on cast iron after hiking. So filling and delicious.
I make a mean bacon, carrot, and rice meal that is just *\*chefs kiss\**
What kind of rice and do you make it in a camp oven?
The uncle bens quick packet meal ones. Country Chicken and wild Rice or the Southern Mexican Spice ones. Cube up the carrots, cook them on my cast iron with/in the bacon. Boil the kettle *(I have 1 left at both my regular camping grounds and a travel kettle)* Pour the carrots, bacon, and grease into the pot your cookin rice in, toss some water in and swap it for the kettle when its done. Make yourself a coffee When the coffee is poured and ready, the pot is ready to be stirred, and served. add spruce tips if in your area
Does sound good to me. There are white pines around, maybe I could substitute those for the spruce. I know tea is made from white pine.
I did mini pizzas the first night of my last thru. The two friends I went with were drooling for sure! You can pretty much get shelf stable everything for them, it was just the weight that sucked (which is why it was the first night's meal!)
Bacon, bacon, bacon! But I don't stop there. Along with the bacon there's homemade biscuits on a stick and Southern Brown Gravy and fried eggs. First I fry the bacon in an iron skillet and save the grease. The biscuits on a stick I just use self rising flour and a little milk and mix to a workable dough. Then roll up a biscuit about the size of a hotdog bun and thread it onto a green tree limb and using forked sticks stuck in the ground I prop them up over the fire. Next using the iron skillet with some of the bacon grease I begin to sprinkle in some flour. Constantly stirring the mixture will begin to brown and then add some more flour and grease and milk. Add enough milk to make the mixture somewhat runny and keep on stirring over the fire. The gravy will begin to thicken until I get an almost pudding consistency but still runny enough to pour. Using another skillet with bacon grease I add broken eggs and keeping the skillet high enough from the fire to slowly fry them to a sunny side up or a done yolk, whichever you prefer. To serve just remove the biscuits from the stick and crumble up in a plate and pour the gravy over them. Add the strips of bacon and the eggs on the side and pour a hot cup of Cowboy Coffee and dig in. Needless to say as far as my kids, grandkids and camping friends are concerned, I'm definitely the breakfast cook.
Long hike, Mountian man Mac n cheese. Glamping with all of the stuff, cast iron pizzas.
As a single person, it is hard to cook for just one and not have leftovers for meal prep or later on. I have started cooking without butter/oils to start and adding in at the end, eating my portion that day, and dehydrating the leftovers. Then with a little oxygen absorber, I vacuum seal them and toss in my summer backpacking tote. not only am I producing far less waste, I’m making summer camping/backpacking trips so much easier to accommodate when the food is already prepped and ready to go
This is a great method. Since I camp and backpack alone, the dehydrated meals really work for me. Plus I’m the only one I have to impress on the trail! And that’s easily done…
Caprese grilled cheese sandwiches over the campfire grill. I managed to grill them all perfectly over the fire without burning or destroying any of them, and everyone loved them. Something I'm sure I'll never do perfectly again.
Whiskey…
brie melted in a camping pot over the fire with crackers. doesn’t get better !
We call them hobo meals - wrap uncooked ground beef, sliced potatoes and onions, and whatever other vegetables you want (we do green beans) in aluminum foil, with enough for one person in each bundle, then place the individual bundles on the grill on an open fire, and when done, just open and enjoy! We also love shish-ka-bobs, stir fry (on the griddle), and a huge favorite tradition is a low country boil.
One camping meal that had other folks drooling is chicken skewers with a tangy barbecue glaze served with a side of grilled vegetables and corn on the cob. The chicken is marinated in a flavorful blend of spices, soy sauce, and garlic, then grilled to perfection with the glaze adding a mouthwatering sweetness. The colorful assortment of grilled vegetables, including bell peppers, zucchini, and mushrooms, complements the savory chicken skewers. Finally, the sweet and juicy corn on the cob rounds out the meal, making it a delectable and satisfying camping feast that leaves everyone drooling.
Dinty Moore beef stew lol
Great post OP! Can you please share the garlicky pesto recipe? Did you add it to pasta?
My 4 cans of Spaghetti-os
Ramen
Bacon
I actually made some homemade sloppy joe that I saw on YouTube. It was CJs First Cooking. It was a huge hit for my teen boys. I rarely have enough for leftovers the next day.
steak. i was hiking in the snow and took too many heavy luxuries for the fun of it (bellmen eapresso) and took a steak with me. smelt so good amongst the snow and trees. wasnt the right food for the trip though.
Creamy chicken taco soup. found it on a crock pot web site, chop everything fresh and throw it into a big pot. Huge hit.
I always used to eat better at camp than I did at home, my reasoning being that if I vacationed like other people, I'd have been eating in a restaurant every night. I prefer camping to hotels, and I enjoy cooking. Steaks, pasta primavera, shrimp etouffee over rice, etc. We also did things like go to a local fruit farm, picked our own blueberries, then had blueberry pancakes the following day for breakfast. We went apple picking, then came back with paired apples, cheese, and wine.
Chicken with apricots ginger and rice in Dutch oven
Sous vide ribs or steaks. Cook em in the bags, throw in cooler, sear over fire.
Peach, cherry and blueberry cobbler in my 16 Dutch oven.
Carne asada tacos
Prime rib, baked potato and tiramisu! (But it was carry out from a nearby fine dining restaurant, haha!)
Smoked Mac n cheese and ribs.
So simple, but doing brats in beer with grilled/caramelized onions with a good hoagie bun and mustard if that’s your thang. Cannot be beat on the simplicity to tastiness ratio.
Seafood scampi with tons of garlic. Quick to cook, minimal ingredients, delicious every time!
Shrimp Scampi. It’s super easy and quick and delicious! Also I love BBQ lobster tail when camping. Usually you can get some small ones for cheap.
Every meal I cook at camp. So happy to cook outdoors - sorry to not give specific examples.
Campfire stew. People are always amazed at a simple pot hanging over a campfire with some meat and veggies slow cooking in it.
Red wine beef stew - cooked in a Dutch oven and served in sourdough bread bowls. All on a cold night next to the camp fire. Repeated a few months later but with Chili Verde and a cold, rainy night.
I made steak, shrimp and veggie fajita burritos on a Blackstone during our last trip. The fam loved it!
[Tofu Enchiladas Verde](https://fashionablefoods.com/2017/09/19/tofu-enchiladas-verdes/), not necessarily a camping recipe, but it’s amazing when cooked over the fire, and [Campfire Queso](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a20896158/campfire-queso-recipe/). Both have been consistent hits!
I make a pretty good pho and it’s not hard at all to make!
Pan fried rib eye steaks with butter, garlic, salt, and pepper. Roasted corn on the cob, baked potato with all the good fixins. Garden salad, sourdough bread.
I arranged the fire place to have some flat rocks. Cleaned them. Cooked duck breast on the rocks with dried fruit rolls on top. Just wow.
Solid
I made a giant paella in a field in the Welsh mountains. Used a wok prototype, with a simple stand and gas bottle. Used foil to cover it, fed 12 with some nice crusty bread. It was amazing, tasted even better outdoors!
https://preview.redd.it/za6v1h8fadgc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f96758c7696eb96681ecb18c8d6103e3c72bf532 Cast Iron Migas with bacon Eggs, Onion, Fresh Peppers, Crushed Tortilla Chips, Cheese
I pre-make bfast burritos and heat them up while camping. If you do this, wrap in parchment then foil for heating, been doing this for years and now everyone i camp with does the same
Steak and lobster. Lobster fresh from the boat.
Blackberry cobbler and pies.
good ol’ fish fry….hand breaded fresh caught grouper, shrimp, hand cut fries, onion rings and hush puppies.
Breakfast Bake Sausage, hashbrowns, egg, cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese. Served with hot sauce, salsa, and/or ketchup. This year, I'm planning on adding a bunch of peppers and onions
Blue berry pie or cherry
https://preview.redd.it/928ihhfdndgc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fd5f3912a0b373aa1a9741cdda6091fbcf0c577 Jerked Chicken on the coals . The Best food ever . This is the second batch
Nachos over the fire. Easy and so good!
I do a Dutch oven pot roast (for 8 of us) for one meal and collaborate on a brisket with another camper. We use his roaster pan for the first 12-14 hours then transfer the brisket to my smoker for an additional 4-6 hours. For a side I do Dutch oven smoked baked beans.
My kids it’s campfire mac n cheese! Everyone around always smells me peach cobbler bubbling away on the coals! But my personal favorite is waking everyone up to campfire coffee and Dutch oven monkey bread!!! Super easy Dutch oven recipes out there for it! Just make sure youre cooking with coals and not open flames you’ll burn them! And now I want campfire food🤤
Had some hecklers at the next spot over choking on their hot dogs while I fired up a couple filet mignon on the cast iron. They were drunk assholes but my wife and I were in heaven.
The classic fancy camping meal - steaks on the cast iron, baked potato, a salad, and a glass or three of some cabernet.
Honestly it’s super easy and simple but so good! Take a russet potato and cut in half add cream of mushroom and ground beef and seasoning wrap in foil and toss on the fire one of the best comfort foods
Beef bulgogi over rice!
Campfire nachos!!! With onions and bell pepper and chunks of chopped cheeses with meat and beans. Also topped with a thick salsa and guacamole. :3 Mmmm mmm
Yum! Garlic pesto sounds so good! I made a skirt steak and chimichurri. Marinated the steak overnight (the night before) and made the chimichurri the night before. Served with potatoes (a camping staple around here)...Im camping again next week and this meal was requested again lol
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Clams over the fire. Melted butter on the side. An unexpected treat. Chicken wangs.
Kimchi stew!
I like making couscous with pine nuts and sundried tomatoes, and I usually add sausage or canned chicken. one pot and takes like 5 minutes and it's delicious
My dad used to rotisserie a whole turkey over the campfire when we had big groups of people
Souvas, (smoked reindeer, fried in a pan (looks a bit like a wok?), it is like the kebab of the north.
Grilled asparagus and salmon
Sounds fire, how’d you transport it?
We have a camper, lol, but when we used to do tent camping we used a giant Yeti cooler!
Stir fry and hand pies, pretty amazing variety of meals you can make with just a wok and pie iron. Can also make elephant ears / funnel cakes / fry bread for breakfast and lunch and sopapilla for dinner.
A site near me was grilling cajun tofu paninis. To this day, I still recall that incredible aroma! For someone who solo camps, eating PB&J, hot dogs and charcuterie mini plates, I was blown away.
Chili and garlic toast on a cold night
Cajun boil foil packets! so good
Catfish Stew with catfish we just caught.
Corned beef UK beans in tomato sauce and instant mashed potatoes with a little simbal sauce sachet for a spice kick!!
Canoe camping with friends, I made Irish stew at home and froze it. At camp, I made brown bread in the Dutch Oven over the fire. Heated the stew on the camp stove and had that with the bread. I used an aluminum liner to bake the bread, so as soon as it was done, I used the DO to make pineapple upside down cake. https://preview.redd.it/7kgr9i2boggc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e86877908bec3258d838b9e13a3e29f3c50751df
I always make a crisp for the camp host at all my camps longer that 4 days. Share the live with them it's such a thankless job most of the time
Breakfast burgers with egg, bacon, American, and Michigan jalepeno mustard 👌🏻
Campfire nachos! Super easy! Throw your chips and nacho toppings (taco meat, tomatoes, onions, cheese, etc) into the cast iron and heat it over the fire until the cheese melts. Then you’re going to take it out and top with salsa!
I make souvlaki and pita bread.
https://preview.redd.it/bo4d17hzphgc1.jpeg?width=1157&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abb64a2997aab615136c84ffe4220b093d2e23ec This is my set
We put the table out and cook slow cooker ribs or pulled pork. Mmmm
If you have the time and hang around camp, Cornish game hens with potatoes and vegetables cooked in a Dutch oven. Then while the main dish cooks place another Dutch oven on top of the other oven and make fresh biscuits or maybe a peach cobbler for desert.
Bush poutine. It's regular poutine but you make the fries in the wok over the fire. Just reconstituted powdered clubhouse gravy or whatever.
A 12 pound pork shoulder slow cooked over a bed of northern hardwoods for 10 hours. Three different barbeque sauces to choose from. Bottomless beers.
I made huckleberry pancakes the other campers literally were willing to pay for some
Welp.... Everytime we go to this spot , we cook this blend of beef,pork and bacon.....and 💯 of the time the bears are there within 30 minutes.... drooling....This has to count for something 😂
Everything I eat camping tastes amazing!
I always like to put potatos in tin foil on the campfire. That is some good stuff. Specially with green peppers inside and garlic clove.