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Suggest meals for two! Two nights, one & 1/2 days. Level of difficulty? Try me!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

It would help to know a few more details about what equipment or utensils you might have available to you.

Do you plan to cook over a wood fire? A campstove? A hibachi? Do you have a cast iron dutch oven (the finest and most versatile cooking utensil ever made for camping)? Or just the usual assortment of cast-off, odds-n-sods sort of pots and pans most people take on camping trips?

Any info you can provide shall assist the award-winning ILC staff in planning your menu. Thank you.

― Aimless, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

i have a cast-iron skillet & a mess kit. we do most of the cooking over a wood fire. i have a campstove, but rarely use it. i USED to have a dutch oven, but lost it in my "divorce" with my ex-bf. (he got all of the camping gear, i got all of the kitchen gear) for now, we'll have to do w/o. i'll probably come back for consultation when we get a new one.

i love that "award winning" bit. THANK YOU!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

may i add that we make a show of the cooking part of camping, thinking that our foods make other campers jealous. (they're not) but, you know, it's one of the highlights aside from elk tramping through the camp. and floating in a canoe.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have a heavy lid for the skillet? And, do you want to haul raw foodstuffs in to prepare, or bring precooked stuff to finish in the fire?

― Jaq, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't have to be precooked, it usually isn't. i do have a lid.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Can't help with good camping food since we tend to survive on sausages and beans and cup-a-soups, but I can highly recommend poking wee bits of chocolate into a slit cut into a banana then wrapping it in foil and putting it in the embers of a fire and then pouring lots of rum on the resultant cooked gooey chocolatey bananay mess.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm. Or, flame it in the skillet.

― Jaq, Monday, 30 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm always one for potatoes/yams roasted in the embers. For the envy factor, I'd do a spit roasted chicken or pork loin or salmon. The wonderful smell would drive everyone crazy as they sat there with their reconstituted stroganoffs and chilis. (would take awhile to cook though, be warned!) Apples baked with plenty of maple and cinnamon in the covered skillet and served up with some heavy cream.

― Jaq, Monday, 30 April 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god I'm a big fan of a really dry cheddar cheese packed with Lenders bagels and a summer sausage, all of which will keep for like four days if dry and, even better, slightly cool. But that's not cooking. :)

― Laurel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

BEANS

― jergïns, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Frying bacon in the morning will make your campsite neighbours very jealous.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

LENDERS BAGELS? laurel, for shame. you might as well use wonder bread buns! at least with those you know what you're getting, vs lenders which says "bagel" on the package but is really a roll with a hole in the middle.

― lauren, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

No, I know, but they don't go stale! Plus the last time I was srs about hiking was in West MI, where we didn't have "bagel shops" until after I went to college.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Frying bacon in the morning will make your campsite neighbours very jealous.

this really works! it made my vegetarian sister & her BF jealous, too.

so far on the list: sausages & kraut. that's easy, but it sounds so good. i need to go buy some supreme mustard.

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

we're off today! because we had car troubles earlier this week, we had to shave off of our camping budget, so the food is pretty simple. sausages, kraut, cheeses, bacon, avocado.

in my dream, though, we had patron tequila, so i think i'll probably stop by the liquor store on our way out. tomorrow is cinco de mayo, but we don't need an excuse.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

no, no, you don't

― jergïns, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

my standbys:
-for breakfast, bacon and eggs w/ the eggs scrambled in the bacon grease.
-smokies, sliced and stirfried with carrots, onions, garlic, celery, zucchini, etc. the smokies will provide all the flavour necessary - no sauce.
-pasta! simple linguine or spaghetti with a jarred sauce.

we have lately been doing a curry as well. bring a can of sauce (korma, balti, whatever), veggies, coconut milk, and rice. easy.

we use a coleman stove that runs off of little propane canisters and rarely use the fire, unless we are doing steaks.

― derrrick, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

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