The '13 season is just around the corner (sort of). We're starting to consider thinking about getting ready to open the pup, tighten the lug nuts, and stock the storage bins. We ARE planning trips!
AND, we're thinking about what foods we'll eat when we're out under sky and stars and trees and sun.
How big a part of your camping trips does cooking play? Some people eat to live, some live to eat, and some are in between. What's you camp cooking preference?
I have cooked in Dutch Ovens for years and I love it. For me I live to cook while camping. Our kids are small so they are still happy hanging around the camp site and playing. This allows me plenty of time to use this method. I will typically cook biscuits, muffins or something in them for breakfast. Lunch is usually sandwiches or left over biscuits. Dinnertime or "Supper" as we call it in the south is another story. I will sometimes have 2-3 DOs going at one one time. Ribs, chicken, roast, stews, lasagna, pizza you name it and I will cook it. Cooking is a big part of the experience for me! It usually draws intrest from neighboring camps and passer byers.
We do our Paula Dean impressions at home; we're in it for the camping, hiking and exploring when we travel. As said, I would like to have clicked three above: #'s 2, 3 and 4. We prepare as much as we can for the grill and usually take frozen burgers already patted out along with some frozen sausage; they help the fridge get a "leg up" as we're traveling. We eat the standard fare breakfast; bacon and scrambled eggs in the bacon dredges; sometimes sausage from the night before. I grill at night as much as we can and she does sandwich lunches so we can be "back at it" as soon as possible. Food is a necessity, but we don't want it to dictate our outdoors time.
Well, the motto of another camping group I belong to is; "To eat as good as we can..."
DW keeps saying we're going to make it a simple. I threaten to leave the camper home and sleep on the picnic table.
But if its a weekend trip we're lucky if we bring anything more than cereal for breakfast. A weekend trip we'll do one nice dinner unless its a group trip with a potluck.
A longer trip will get fancier.
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DW keeps saying we're going to make it a simple. I threaten to leave the camper home and sleep on the picnic table.
Love it!
We're just above you, near Allentown. We run the gamut, as I said; sometimes we're lazy, and other times we really do it up. Either way, eating well while camping is sheer pleasure.
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We usually cook a big meal for supper. I am getting into the dutch oven cooking more and more.
Keep that extinguisher handy!!!
Dutch oven was my latest foray into camp cuisine, and I enjoy it a lot: fall-apart meats, stews, biscuits, brownies.......... Mmmmmm!
Happy cooking!
Our meals are usually easier as we like to hike, geocache, explore, etc. which generally doesn't leave much time to cook that long slow meal, or a lot of energy in the evening to want to cook.
Sometimes we will make meals ahead of time. Chili is almost always made at home and brought with us.
We also camp at parks with power. Most of our cooking is done on an electric skillet, or is it a griddle?
Toast, eggs, bacon in the morning.
Sandwiches and snack type stuff for lunch.
Chili, burgers and hot dogs, pastas, chicken, etc. for supper.
I want to get into DO cooking and will be getting a DO at some point but will do 90%+ of my DO cooking at home.
Sure would have been nice if I won the DO during the last sweepstakes. ;D
For us, its all about as gourmet as you can get. Peter, the chef of the family, likes of challenge of being able to create a dish to the same level or higher than at home, but using just the features of a campfire and camp stoves. Since most of the time when we camp, we are doing it as quiet getaway time, not necessarily filling our whole day with activities, the dinner is the high spot of the trip, so the bigger the better.
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For us, its all about as gourmet as you can get. Peter, the chef of the family, likes of challenge of being able to create a dish to the same level or higher than at home, but using just the features of a campfire and camp stoves. Since most of the time when we camp, we are doing it as quiet getaway time, not necessarily filling our whole day with activities, the dinner is the high spot of the trip, so the bigger the better.
And why aren't you guys coming to the Georgia spring rally thing? Lol
The group I camp with is well known for the full-on turkey dinner. I love when you put the bird on, wait about an hour when it really starts cookin', and then take a walk around the campground and others are wondering where that smell is coming from and I get to say that it's from my site. The drooling ... then there are typically about 20 or so of us together for the turkey dinner.
What I'm looking for right now is a container that I can stand all of my olive oil and vinegar bottles in to take them with me. I have gotten into the flavored oils and vinegars and hate leaving home without them. Last summer at a family reunion I did bread in the DO and introduced the whole family to dipping bread.
I've yet to figure out if I'm an eater with a camping problem or vice versa.
One meal will ALWAYS be steaks on the grill cook over wood. Crockpots help with long cook pot luck meals. We eat well at home and on the road.
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Breakfasts are either pancakes or biscuits (nice to have an oven!) with sausage or bacon, sometimes grits for DH or hashbrowns. (Those instant dried half pint hashbrown containers are cool -- just add hot water to rehydrate -- then grill.
Lunch is either cold cut or tuna sandwiches, hot dogs, soup and crackers/cheese, or a salad with fruit and nibble stuff. Ocasionally, chili is brought from home and served with the hot dogs.
Dinner - if planned and lunch wasn't too late - consists of grilled pork chops, steak, brats, or maybe hot dogs and beans. This time out, we tried and liked the pre-cooked vacuum sealed chicken and beef fajita strips. We stir-fried the chicken (never opened the beef) with peppers, onions, and canned tomatoes with some spices and had that on flour tortillas with sour cream and made on the spot guacamole.
We supplement with canned goods just for fiber ( :)) but also stir fry veggies and fruits (apples, pineapple) for sweetness.
Most of the cooking is done on our Coleman 3-burner stove but we also use a CrockPot and the camper oven/stove top. Both DH and I can cook home and at camp, so we know we'll never starve -- or have to eat bugs and worms! ;D
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