Are you hungry? Looking for great food that’s easy to make over a campfire? Stop. You found it here.
Sometimes when you are headed out for a camping trip you know that the weather or the location isn’t going to allow you to cook the way you normally would. In those cases it’s great to be able to create a high energy food to take with you.Todays camping bar recipe is just the ticket…
Get on the boat, get on the banana boat… OK, yes that is a jingle for sunscreen, but hey, it works for today’s recipe. Warm melted chocolate, gooey marshmallow, and banana wrapped in its own skin. Campfire desserts are wonderful items and this recipe is easy to pack and carry.
Making a baked potato in the hot coals of a fresh fire is one of the best culinary campfire experiences you can have. Taking a piping hot baked potato out of the fire that is coated with melted, slightly caramelized, butter and salt and eating that flaky flavorful starchy interior goodness is one of life’s…
Is there anything better than comfort foods? After the success of our simple beans and weiners recipe, it just made sense to share a one pot beans and spam recipe. Simple, easy, and tasty.
Survival bread, hardtack, pilot bread, ship biscuit or sea bread, is an inexpensive non-perishable food that keeps almost indefinitely. It has been used throughout history during wars, long sea voyages and in other survival situations, to feed many people with very few ingredients. Survival bread is still baked and eaten today by survivalists, hikers, and…
In the world of simple recipes, today’s is about as short as they come. With only 4 ingredients and very simple prep, you can have a tasty pizza over the fire that allows everyone to create their own taste.
I love a good Reuben sandwich, the sour of the kraut and the tang of Thousand Island dressing on a sandwich is a great combination. Not too mention once again it is a simple recipe that leaves you feeling full and giving plenty of energy from protein and carbohydrates.
When you’re roughing it in the great outdoors, a hearty breakfast is in order. We turn to the classics: pancakes, bacon, and eggs, cooked in a cast iron skillet over an open fire.
Today’s recipe is courtesy of the folks over at CanCooker. It’s an all in one portable cooking system that makes your camping experience a whole lot easier.
Sure this is a very simple meal, but with a few little twists to take a simple kids meal and turn it into a more robust and filling meal with lots of energy.
Each year I visit the Outdoor Expo in Harrisburg PA. I am always happy to see the folks from CanCooker and to taste whatever they have cooking that year. What I haven’t done is share some of their delectable recipes. That changes today.
Like most things, animals you hunt taste better when they are field prepared. Something about replenishing the energy lost hunting an animal by eating that animal is very satisfying. Combined with the always amazing Dutch Oven and you can make a veritable feast from very little.
It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s a moonlit night with a chill wind and a warm fire. Whatever the situation when the weather turns colder a campfire favorite is eating a stew. Hearty, filling, and warming eating stew cooked on the campfire warms not just your body, but your spirit as well.
As a Boy Scout, we spent months out of each year camping, hiking, staying in tents, and cooking over campfires. It’s one of the reasons I still love cooking over the open flame under the morning sun, or when it’s raining lightly. It just tastes better. One of the main things you will need for…
It’s cold. you have a fire, and your trusty pot and pan. What do you make? Chili of course, in this case, chicken chili, sometimes known as white chili. Why is it called white chili? Because instead of red beans you use white beans.
What do you get when you add melted cheese to anything? A better whatever that cheese is added to. Melt that cheese on a cold night over a warm campfire and you get the best whatever you cover with cheese ever.
If there is a universal truth in life it is that meat cooked over a fire tastes better. In the case of today’s recipe it’s technically cooked “in” the fire.
In a perfect world every campfire would include S’mores, and every candy dish peanut butter cups. What if your cookout and your candy dish could include S’mores and peanut butter cups? we are scientists but we are pretty sure even Quantum Physics doesn’t have a calculation capable of figuring out these planetary repercussions.
I cannot take credit for this recipe. I was lucky enough to stumble across it perusing the interwebs one evening, and I couldn’t resist trying it. After trying it, I couldn’t resist sharing it.
Sure the title sounds simple but these are anything but your normal pancakes and bacon.
