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Pompano
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Camping: Recipes -Tips - Fun Things
This one is fun with your kids ...and they will remember these family camping times fondly.
BREAKFAST IN AN ORANGE
Orange
Egg
Muffin batter
Ziplock bag
One of each ingredients per person. Cut orange in half and carefully remove the meat of the orange without tearing the cup shaped peeling.
Break on egg into one orange cup and fill the other with your favorite muffin batter mixed in a ziplock bag.
Place each cup on its own square of double thickness foil, then bring the four corners of the foil to the top and twist securely to seal. (Be sure to
leave enough room for the muffin to rise.)
Set the foil enclosed cups on hot coals for 10 to 15 minutes, then enjoy a delicious breakfast of orange slices, eggs and muffins.
Got some good recipes for family fun or some tips for camping? Post them.
[Edited on 5-3-2007 by Pompano]
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Omlettes
We do "boil in a bag" omlettes.....
Bring a big pot of water to a boil...........
make each individual omlette by putting two eggs into a standard zip-lock bag:
add ingredients such as diced tomatoes, chopped onion, avacado, crumbled bacon and/or chopped ham (or anything else you desire).............
mush up the bag to break egg yolks and mix ingredients.
using an permanent felt marker, put owners name on bag
drop bag into boiling water for about 5 minutes or till desired
done-ness.............
remove from water, open bag and dump on plate........
boil in a bag omlettes!!!!!!!!!!!!
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TREAT
Peel and slice an apple. Drop into a little olive oil, add sugar or sugar sub. Add a lot of cinnamon and place a flour tortilla over the mixture
until it is hot. Fill tortillas with apple and close your eyes. You will have the best apple pie
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Ah camp food! I don't know if these meals taste so good because of where and how hungry you are.
A cut of flank steak marinated as you like it or use the old standby
itallian dressing. put slices of onion,tomato and wrap tightly in foil. Heat on grill or directly on coals. comes out hot and
juicy. Serve with tortillas. Be sure to have a sharp knife to
cut up the meat. Flank steak is stringy. Cut cross grain for
easy eating.
You can also grill flank steak marinated in garlic salt,olive oil and lots of fresh pepper.Cut the meat into bite size pieces
crossgrain. Make a dipping sauce of your favorite barbeque sauce,
Pico Pica hotsauce and add a bit of honey to taste. If you like your dipping sauce on the hoter side add tabasco to fire things up.
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Food is a big deal on our camping trips,the menu is well tought out,most of the time.Family tradition for years while camping in Guadalupe Canyon, the
first breakfast of the camping trip has been CHILAQUILES ROJOS(RED),for the last 10 years.And you do not need a
ziplock bag for these,you just need alot of corn tortillas...
How to make Chilaquiles
1 kilo of tortillas
1 union
4 tomatos or tomato sause(blend tomatos with onion)
Put oil on a pan cook the tortillas untill they are crisppy,then add salt to taste,add the tomato sause mix it good and finally you will have
chilaquiles top it off with fresh queso, if you like it spicy add three ppepers to the mix,you can combine the chilaquiles with fry eggs and beans..
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Bajaguy!
We do omletes in a bag also! As a retired Pre-K teacher, it was one of our classroom kitchen receipes for the letter O. I was really happy to see your
post!
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
We do "boil in a bag" omlettes.....
Bring a big pot of water to a boil...........
make each individual omlette by putting two eggs into a standard zip-lock bag:
add ingredients such as diced tomatoes, chopped onion, avacado, crumbled bacon and/or chopped ham (or anything else you desire).............
mush up the bag to break egg yolks and mix ingredients.
using an permanent felt marker, put owners name on bag
drop bag into boiling water for about 5 minutes or till desired
done-ness.............
remove from water, open bag and dump on plate........
boil in a bag omlettes!!!!!!!!!!!! |
For my entry I'd like to add: Meatloaf in an onion.
Cut one large yellow onion in half.
Carefully hollow out onion(use left over onions in meatloaf) and fill both onion halves with meatloaf mixture.
Put both halves together, rub with oil and wrap in heavy duty foil.
Place on coals and wait till done.
Yum.
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[Edited on 23-4-2007 by Paulina]
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Ziplock Omlettes
A word of warning on these! Make sure you get all the air out of the bag when zipping. (hang the bag over the edge of a table to de-air it).
Air will cause the bag to float and not get cooked all the way through.
It will also expand and can possibly force the zip lock open and drown your omelette 
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getting the air out of a ziplock bag..
..too easy, we have all done this, but I show it again anyway. We bag a lot of fish when camping UpNorth for camfires later in the day...simple and
easy.
Just submerge the ziplock bag in water right up to the ziplock part...but not beyond of course. Now zip the bag closed while just barely above the
waterline and presto...an airless sealed bag. You just saved $200 by not buying a Food Saver machine!
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 I'm taking notes. Gonna try some of these recipes.
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The thing that struck me immediately on most of these recipes is the easy clean up.
Keep 'em comin'
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Do-it-Yourself Campsite Oven
More than half the world’s population – three billion people – cook/bake their daily meals over a wood or charcoal fire.
CARDBOARD OVEN
1 large cardboard box with at least 5 sides (solid top)
Heavy duty Reynolds aluminum foil
Staple gun
About 4 wire coat hangers
With sharp knife or razor, cut around 3 sides of solid top so it will lift up as a lid.
Cover all sides on inside (top included) with 3 layers of foil, shiny side up.
Secure with staples.
Straighten wire coat hangers. Poke through box on both sides to form rack a little above halfway to the lid.
Bend both sides of hanger down on outside of box to form a hook.
Repeat with other 3 hangers with equal distance between them.
To Use:
Start charcoal fire.
Put single layer of hot coals in 9"x13" metal pan.
Set box on top of coals, open side down. Make sure lid is closed.
Now you are ready to bake.
When baking, make sure you check every 5 minutes or so. This oven has tendency to bake faster than regular oven. Inexpensive thermostats may be used
to gauge oven temperature.
..and pass me that last piece of banana cream pie, would you?
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Campfire cooking tips
CAMPER'S MEASUREMENTS
You're out in the Baja hinterland whipping up that souffle for the crew's dinner, and you can't find a measuring spoon or cup..so you improvise:
1 fistfull = 1/2 cup
5 finger pinch = 2/3 tsp.
4 finger pinch = 1/2 tsp.
3 finger pinch = 1/8 tsp.
1 finger gob shortening = 1/4 tsp
BROWN BEARS
1 c. sugar
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1 stick butter, softened
2-3 cans refrigerator biscuits
Mix sugar, cinnamon and butter together until well blended.
Take the biscuits and roll in hands to form long snake like pieces. Butter hands first to prevent sticking.
Wrap the snake like dough around a stick in a coil fashion.
Cook over an open fire until cooked (should appear brown).
Roll the cooked dough in the cinnamon mix and put some inside the hole the stick was in.
Grab yours before the kids get them all.
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More Ziplock Fun
Fudge in a Ziplock bag:
If you need something for a camping trip, try this one.
INGREDIENTS:
3 oz pkg of cream cheese
1 lb box of powdered sugar
2 packets of cocoa mix or 1/2 cup of cocoa
2 tablespoons of butter
2 1 gal zip lock storage bags
PREPARATION:
Place all ingredients in one of the zip lock bags, close and put it in the next zip lock bag. Give everyone a turn at squishing the bags to mix. Mix
until smooth... Enjoy!
[Edited on 4-24-2007 by Pompano]
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Wow, impressive Pompano--gonna have to try some of those!
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Here's some more on the box oven
http://www.macscouter.com/Cooking/BoxOven.html
They say figure each briquete is good for about 40 degrees; use 9 briquetes for 360 deg.
Neil
| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
More than half the world’s population – three billion people – cook/bake their daily meals over a wood or charcoal fire.
CARDBOARD OVEN
1 large cardboard box with at least 5 sides (solid top)
Heavy duty Reynolds aluminum foil
Staple gun
About 4 wire coat hangers
With sharp knife or razor, cut around 3 sides of solid top so it will lift up as a lid.
Cover all sides on inside (top included) with 3 layers of foil, shiny side up.
Secure with staples.
Straighten wire coat hangers. Poke through box on both sides to form rack a little above halfway to the lid.
Bend both sides of hanger down on outside of box to form a hook.
Repeat with other 3 hangers with equal distance between them.
To Use:
Start charcoal fire.
Put single layer of hot coals in 9"x13" metal pan.
Set box on top of coals, open side down. Make sure lid is closed.
Now you are ready to bake.
When baking, make sure you check every 5 minutes or so. This oven has tendency to bake faster than regular oven. Inexpensive thermostats may be used
to gauge oven temperature.
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hungry for these again...get out the Dutch oven.
Italian zucchini
Coat and marinate zucchini or summer squash (one per person) for 30 minutes in a mixture of 1/2 olive oil and 1/2 lemon juice (A half cup of each will
coat enough zucchini for 20 people.)
Place one layer of the marinated vegetables in the bottom of the Dutch oven. (A 10-inch oven works great for up to 15 people.)
Sprinkle salt, pepper, and a good coating of grated Romano cheese over the layer, then repeat the process, layer upon layer, until all the zucchini is
used or until the oven is almost full.
Sprinkle extra Romano cheese on the top layer.
Place the lid on the oven and cook for 30 to 35 minutes. This is a marvelous tart and tasty vegetable treat, guaranteed.
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Coffee has two virtues...it's wet and it's warm.
Here's a place to share your 'secrets' to making a good cup of campfire coffee. There are lots of recipes for making coffee in a plain pot over a
campfire or for your camping coffee pot. Here is a traditional recipe to get you started.
This ain't Starbucks...Cowboy coffee
You gotta love cowboy coffee, if not so much for the taste, as for the setting.
(The legend of "cowboy coffee"? It was said they made their coffee by putting ground coffee into a clean sock and immerse it in water heated over
campfire. When ready, they would pour the coffee into tin cups and drink it.)
Bring one quart of water to a boil in a saucepan.
Add 3/4 cup of ground coffee.
Return to boil.
Immediately remove from heat and cover.
Wait till the grounds sink (approximately 5 minutes).
Serve
Pretty simple, but good stuff. What's your favorite campfire coffee recipe?
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Time for breakfast at your camp?
Here are a couple good camping breakfast recipes.
These are fun with kids.
EGG IN A HOLE
Butter
Bread
Eggs
Butter bread lightly on both sides, place bread on flat object; I use butter bowl lid.
Cut hole in center of bread with small glass or cup.
Place piece of bread with hole in it on frying pan.
Break open egg, put in the hole of the bread. Break egg yellow.
Cook on medium heat until lightly brown or however you prefer your eggs, and toast.
Here's another winner with the family.
FRANCES' EGGS IN THE NEST
1 can corn beef hash
6 eggs
Salt
Pepper
Butter or margarine
Make six, 6 inch squares with aluminum foil. Butter each square.
Make a nest with corn beef hash on each square of aluminum foil, big enough to hold one egg.
Heat nest on foil for 2 minutes in skillet.
Break egg into center of nest. Salt and pepper to taste. Add one teaspoon water to skillet and cover.
Remove from skillet when eggs are done. Serve with toast.
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when in the navy i would heat c rations bu pokina a vent hole in the can and settint it some where on the engine to heat works well, did that in
baja with a can of chile with my cherokee and forgot about it ,sure messes up a engine compartment
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ah.. 'mulligan de manifold'...I knew it well on many a hard day's drive. Works for extraordinary purposes, but not a camping recipe. 
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Coyote Stew
3 lbs. lean coyote meat, aged
1 cup neatsfoot oil
2 lbs. diced prickly pear
1 quart mesquite beans
2 chopped horse apples
1 dozen ground tumblebugs
1 dozen red habeneros, chopped
1 keg cold Budweiser
Brown coyote in neatsfoot oil, put into pot of boiling stock tank water. Add the remaining ingredients except the keg of Bud....set it aside. Simmer
pot for one hour while you sample the keg of Bud. Call all old Baja friends you have to come eat the stew, you drink the Bud. Enjoy.
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