Camping Cooking Recipe?

Question

I have a girls scout camping trip coming up during the labor day weekend. I've volunteered to make homemade dumplings, but a mother has said that it's too complicated for camping and all meals have to be simple. I've decided to have my mom chop everything up the day before and store everything in a few huge ziploc bags and reserve it in the refridgerator. Then at the camping site, i pour everything in a pot, mix, make dumplings, and put them in a pot of boiling water.

If this is still too complicated, could you send me a simple receipe for the camping dinner meal?

P.S. I'm a 12 year old girl on a budget, not a Food Network chef.

Answer 1

from 1 old girl scout to another... make the dumplings but bring a few bags of wide egg noodles. you can boil them up and serve the mix over the noodles if the dumplings don't turn out properly

i also used to make hobo stew. just like stew you do at home but you throw in what ever you have on hand... you can try that. just leave out the meat if you don't have a way to cook that up or wait for it to be cooked thru.

good luck.

Answer 2

Well, the easiest dumplings when camping are made with a stew or similar meal. Cook a good stew, chicken and noodles, or similar one-pot dish with solids and a liquid/sauce and when there is about an hour to go, mix up the dumplings using Bisquick and the recipe on the box. I make mine in a Zip-lock bag.

I like doing this with stew, since stew is cheap and dirt simple- just remember that the dumplings are supposed to sit on the solid materials, not float on the liquid.

What I do is:

Get a big Dutch oven. Oil up the inside and get it warm. heat up a few spoonfuls of oil.

Cut some stew meat into 1" cubes and lightly flour each cube. Toss the cubes in the hot oven and brown them. Take them out, and saute some chopped onions and garlic until they begin to brown.

Take the oven off the heat and add a big pile of chopped potatoes, carrots, and turnips. Drop in a bay leaf and whatever green seasonings you like. Put the meat back in, and add water to cover. Heat on coals, and put some coals on the lid. Let it cook for about 2-3 hours.

(Note on pre-cutting- I don't bother precutting the veggies- they travel better whole and don't even need to be in a cooler! I can chop them just before I start.)

Add some chopped celery, and other stuff you like- cabbage, peas, corn, etc. that does not take as long to cook. (One of the best stews I ever had had a cut up apple added for an interesting taste! Raisins are good too!) Taste and season- I almost always need to add salt at this stage. Recover and cook until hot.

When everything is pretty much fork-tender, add the dumplings to the simmering stew (take out some broth if it totally covers the stuff). Just drop spoonfuls onto the hot foods, then recover, add some coals to the lid, and let cook/bake for about 10 minutes until the dumplings get golden brown on top.

This sort of cooking is nice because you don't worry a lot about quantities, times, or temps- you just check things and see how it is going and work from that.

Answer 3

I found a bunch of recipes from KOA. Just for kicks, we tried some at home, to decide if they would work..... and boy howdy do they ever! Coffee Can Chicken What you need: Heavy duty aluminum foil Aluminum coffee can, with holes punched in the bottom about 1 inch apart (outside edge, not the very bottom) 18 charcoal briquettes 1 whole chicken bout 3 to 3-1/2 lbs. butter salt pepper Place the 18 briquettes (no more, no less) in the bottom of the can, and light. (You may want to put the can in the fire ring) Rub the chicken with butter, making sure to stick some under the skin. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Wrap the chicken with heavy duty foil, twice. First in the side to side direction, and then top to bottom, making sure the fold is at the end that will stick out of the can. Once coals are white, place chicken on top of the coals. It's okay for the bird to stick out of the can. It *will* cook. Leave it alone for 3 hours. When you pull the bird out of the can, and put it on a platter or cutting board, it will literally fall apart. Serve it with what ever side dish you want. It's absolutely WONDERFUL. A great side for this, is baby red potatoes You'll need about 20 baby red potatoes, 1 packet of Good Seasons Italian dressing mix and olive oil. Cut the potatoes into bite sized pieces, place in a large bowl and toss with olive oil and Good Seasons packet, until lightly coated. Wrap in foil, put near coals, and cook until potatoes are fork tender. For breakfast, you can do a scrambled egg in a bag. You put your egg(s) in a zip top bag, mash the egg up and add milk. Then add your cheese, ham, bacon, sausage, veggies.... what ever you desire. Drop the entire bag into a pot of boiling water. Check the eggs every once in a while, and shake the bag, to cook everything evenly. Once the eggs are done to your liking, open the bag, and pour the eggs onto your plate. Yum. Gee... some fresh coffee and toast, and I'll be joining you! lol Have fun.

Answer 4

Hello sop8hia:

If you want to use dumplings, we used to make chicken soup stock and put instant canned biscuits on top. 15 minutes at a strong simmer will cook the dumplings. You can use your idea, for the stock, and just use the instant biscuits.

When you go camping, you want to enjoy the outdoors, not spend four hours preparing a meal that will be eaten in 10 minutes.

Keep on Scoutin'

Answer 5

What my daughter did was asked a local bakery to save those HUGE cans tomatoes are stored in..really big ones and they made Buddy burners. They took long pieces of cardboard, coated them with liquid wax and rolled them up and put in a wick. They cooked with those and cooked burgers and hotdogs and pancakes. I would take foil with me if it was me as those are aluminum...but that's what they did.

Mostly they made Mac and cheese, all the junky stuff...SMORES...soups, grilled cheese, that kind of stuff.

Are you sure everyone will like dumplings? Usually the girls took a vote and pooled their money together and shopped together for what they wanted...(the local chapters) as everyone kind of cooked for themselves there.

Not sure if that's anything like what you are doing, but hey, if you're going to boil a pot why not just make spaghetti and serve with jarred sauce...no fuss no muss. Serve with salad (it comes backed and ready to serve, croutons, bacon bits) and garlic bread which you can grill.

Answer 6

We always make our own foil dinners. Get a good size piece of heavy duty foil. Make a hamburger patty and season it. Layer it with thin slices of potatoes,carrots,onions. You could also use broccoli,mushrooms or cabbage. Just about any vegetable you like. Wrap it tightly and cook over fire. You can eat it right out of the foil pouch. No mess to clean

Answer 7

That is not even to complicated, Make sure you prep everything at home, I cook everything from pot roasts with potatoes and veggies, to homemade beans and ham, chili, pretty much anything, its all in the prep. you must do at home.

Answer 8

Ok, when you arrive at the campsite, tell everybody to grab a small stick and go hunt for snails, stab the snail and collect it all and put it together on a plate, and then go connect some beetles and place them on a big leaf or so, and then wrapp them up, then go collect some worms and place them in a glassware... ok.. so diinner time......

you roast the snails over the campfire and wa la, you have toasted crunchy snails,,,, and nex you heat up the beetles on the leaf over the fire, and sha bammm, you have a tasty and crunchy buritto of juicy beetles, then lastly, you heat up the worms on the glass plate, and pour some ketchup oveer the worms, and sha sha sha shammmm, u have a juicy ketchup speghetti of tasty worms..... and how much that cost? nothing... all from nature