My family and I will be going camping in Sept. We are going to Inks Lake Sate Park. Does anyone have any camp fire recipes they would like to share? We love to cook over the fire, with a dutch oven, on the grill and so on. I’m looking for new breakfast and dinner ideas.

check the recipe section, there is a dutch oven post there.

In Sept. it might be kinda hot for this.....but I fix it every time I go camping, and it's easy. Get a BIG can of Wolf brand chili (or 4-5 little ones), brown 1/2 lb to 1 lb spicy pan sausage, drain the grease, mix it with the chili and dump in a jar of salsa. Boil and then let simmer about 30 minutes. Take plenty of Rolaids, Pepto, etc. with you

LOL you will definately need crackers!!

I like to cook biscuits on the grill. Buy the cheap whomp'm can buiscits not the flakey kind and lay them right down on the grill. Keep flipping them with your fingers and they'll rise up and cook just like in a pan. It always trips people out the first time they see you do it.

Breakfast in a bag was always fun when I was a kid....

Serves 4.

1/3 pound bacon
4 lunch size paper bags
8 large whole eggs
4 long handled cooking forks (or just sticks)

Cut each slice of bacon in half. Open lunch bag and line bottom with 2 half-slices of bacon. Close the bag by folding the top down 1 1/2 inches. Make a second fold about the same size. Pierce the bag (through the fold) in the center with the cooking fork or a stick. Hold the bag (by the cooking fork or stick) over a bed of hot coals. The bag should be about 1 inch above the coals. Cook for 3-5 minutes until bag starts to get soaked with bacon grease. Remove bag from heat, let cool for 1 minute.

Break open 2 eggs and drop them into the bag on top of the bacon. Stir eggs, refold bag and pierce in center with cooking fork. Hold the bag about 1 inch above coals for about 15 minutes or until eggs are firm and bacon is cooked. Eat bacon and eggs right from the bag.

Keep em coming guys. Thanks.

Here's a dutch oven one for ya...It's sort of a cold weather dish, but throwing it out there for ya anyway. It's easy and you always have leftovers.

Take 2 cans of chili (big cans), preferably with beans. Pour it in the D.O. Sprinkle heavily with cheese. Mix 1 pack of cornbread mix (I prefer Mexican cornbread mix) and pour the batter on top of chili. Again sprinkle heavily with cheese. Close and cover with about 10 briquettes, or evenly space coals. Roughly, put about twice as many on top as bottom.
Cook until cornbread is done.


Tip: you can also mix cream of corn and more cheese into the cornbread mix before you pour on.

Another tip...make sure you have plenty o' toilet paper for the next morning!

Breakfast pizza in dutch oven.
Brown pan sausage.
Pre heat lid with about double coals as bottom.
Grease bottom of oven.
Cheap dinner rolls the kind you have to bust open. Lay bisciuts on bottom and pinch edges together.
Add beaten eggs, deer sausage, precooked bacon, ham and what ever else you like. Onions, bell peppers, tomatos, mushrooms, corn, leftovers and anything else you might have.
spinkle layer of cheeses. More than one type of cheese.
Cover and let cook 10 -20 minutes depending on heat.

Pre heat lid. More heat on lid than under dutch oven or you'll burn biskets.

or just grill some fatijas over mesquite

Camp cobbler in dutch oven.
Line oven with aluminum foil.
2 boxes of white and or yellow cake mix
Can of cherry pie filing.
Can of pinapple chunks
2 cans of sprite (maybe 1 can)
Dump ingredients in and just swirl once.
Pre heat lid and more coals on lid than bottom.
When it smells done, check n see.

Other fruits can be used like mix apple and pears.
Fruit cocktail and cherries.

Regular pancake mix.
Use heavier beer like Budwieser instead of water.
Dice apple / s
Chopped Pecans
vanilla flavor (Dash)cinnimon or brown sugar.
Mix
Use plenty of oil and get pan hot. When batter hits it, it cooks quick. Taste similar to funnel cake.
And for a fluffier pancake mix in 1 instant oatmeal packet.

Bake potatos in foil in coals
Fresh corn on the cob, just soak whole husk in water befor putting on coals.
Ribeye or T bone steaks with plenty of sliced onions on top.
A variation on potatoes. Grilled
Slice longways 1/4" or slightly thicker. Coat paters with olive oil and spinkle with Tonys or some type of steak seasoning. Baste potatoes with olive oil and butter seasoned lightly with garlic and Tonys (some type of Canjun seasoning)
Turn constantly until light light brown
If this is a family cookout you'll need two cooks in the "kitchen" the grilled potatoes needs a seperate cook.

We cut up potatos, jalapenos, onions, butter and some seasoning and throw em all together in foil. Cook on low heat. They turn out great.

JG

Have you tried Hobo dinners?

They're alway a hit when we go camping.

Boneless chicken breast, hamburger patty, pork ternder loin or echridge sausage. (what ever you prefer)
potatoes (sliced)
onions (sliced)
baby carrots
salt and pepper (or Tony's seasonings)
butter
non-stick cooking spray
foil

I usually marinate the veggies in Italian dressing the night before but not necessary.

get you a big sqare of heavy duty foil, and you can double it up for reinforcement, spray cooking on foil (shiny side). Throw in your meat of choice, add veggies and potatoes on top. Big glob of butter, then add your spices.
don't overload your foil because once you've finished adding the food, you will be folding it up and sealing it tight. Bring the sides of the foil up and fold the edge over a couple of times so nothing will leak out. Then do the same thing to both ends. if you've had a camp fire going for a while, get a shovel and seperate a bunch of hot white coals off to the side in a flat layer. Lay your hobo dinners right on the coals. Cooking times may vary but they're usually done between 20-35 minutes. Get some good gloves and flip foil packet over every 10 minutes. These are awesome around a campfire and the best thing is you can change them and experiment with them forever.

If your camp fire has a fire ring with one of those big flip over grills, you can put your dinners on that if you have a really big pile of coals or charcoal underneath.

Here's one of my previous posts, great with kids:

http://www.texashuntingforum.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/895106/an/0/page/1#Post895106