SpringyCamp 2023 Campfire chat! What's cookin'?
Share your best camping recipes here - whether you're cooking right over an open fire, or in your RV or cottage, let us know what foods you love to cook when you are camping.
Do you have a gourmet s'mores recipe or a tried-and-true method for campfire chili? Let's hear it!
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It's too hot for a campfire in August in Texas, even when the sun goes down. 😶 So when I've got a craving for low heat, no-hassle s'mores, I do it at the kitchen table. You need:
- Pocky — delicious chocolate-covered cookie sticks, likely available at your local Asian grocer, possibly at larger grocery stores. I've also seen them at the store Five Below.
- Marshmallows.
- A non-scented candle and FIRE.
Using a non-scented candle seems prudent, but that's up to you. 🙂 The Pocky can be fragile, so it's easiest to poke the marshmallows through with something more substantial (I used the stick from a lollypop, lol) to make a passage for the Pocky.
It's 3-year-old approved! 😋
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Okay - do we have seasoned wood for campfire? It's awful when people burn green wood.
I had a neighbor who always loaded their firepit with green wood - and our houses were very close.
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We love s'mores so much that we had a make-your-own gourmet s'more bar at our wedding. Along with cake, groom's cobbler, and lots of campfire seating, it was pretty grand!
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Uploaded my scavenger hunt - does it need to be image?
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Banana Boats!!! YUM!!!
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Hi @Groomej I believe you can add the images to this LibWizard thread: https://buzz.libwizard.com/f/springycampscavengerhunt2023
or in the scavenger hunt post:
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My favorite campfire food is to wrap up veggies and potatoes and [protein of your choice] with salt and [lightweight spice mix of your choice] in aluminum foil and place it in the coals for a while. So good!
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I love a baked potato wrapped in foil and any type of fruit cobbler baked in a cast iron dutch oven.
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FRUIT COBBLER IN A CAST IRON DUTCH OVEN.
That sounds positively amazing. 🤤 I'm also a big fan of veggie foil packs!
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Hobo packets are such a quick, easy, and filling dinner option. In a foil parcel, we add tender ground beef, veggies, made this all the time in Girl Scouts we make them ahead of time and freeze then by the time the fire was up and roaring we tossed our packets in to cook
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When I was 4 and my younger sister 3, we kept asking grandmother to make us camping eggs. Older sisters not on sleepover. Gram called dad and asked what are camping eggs? Dad: in large caste iron skillet cook a can of bacon, or pound of bacon. Remove. Then crack a dozen eggs and baste bacon fat over eggs.
Gram said no way was she cooking a dozen eggs for two little kids! She told that story until her last days.
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Best Cape Cod camping food (my mom was a terrible cook and liked to cook) - get Portuguese sweet bread from Provincetown bakery and eat it the next morning rather than mom's oatmeal.
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During my years as a Cub Scout Pack Master, I always looked forward to teaching campers how to bake a cake on the campfire using a dutch oven.
Campfire Dump Cake
1 bx yellow cake mix
1 can of cherry pie filling or crushed pineapple (if you are adventurous, you can mix half a can of each)
1 can of lemon lime soda- Prepare your campfire or charcoal fire
- Grease your dutch oven or line with foil and spray with cooking spray
- Dump the fruit filling in the dutch oven and spread evenly across the bottom
- Mix the cake mix and soda, spread evenly across the fruit filling
- Cover the dutch oven with the lid.
- Place dutch oven in the fire and place some coals or 17 charcoal briquets on the lid.
- Bake for approx 20-25 minutes.
Enjoy!
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My older son was in Boy Scouts. His troop was known for camp cooking. Fall camp out would be Trash Can Turkey dinner. Get a bed of hot coals about 15 inches diameter and have a spit sticking up in the middle. Get a steel trashcan that has NO paint, coating, etc. Clean turkey (store bought). Put turkey over spit (i.e. spit up the cavity you would normally stuff). Cook a few hours. Butter potatoes and carrots and wrap in foil. CAREFULLY with heavy grilling gloves, tip trashcan and put veggies on coals. Cook another few hours. Can also put flavorful woodchips
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OK, garrett_CDU's post reminded me of my other favorite camping food! You take a pie iron (shown in the image); lightly butter two pieces of bread; and you put whatever you want inside them, butter side out. Then you seal the pie iron and cook it in the fire/coals until everything inside is all melty.
Some things we made as scouts and, later, as adults with a fire pit:
* grilled cheese (any cheese, preferably a mix, plus any fixings you like)
* pizza (pizza sauce, mozzarella, a small amount of other pizza toppings you like)
* pie (jam or pie filling)
* "weird s'mores" (marshmallow, chocolate chips, maybe peanut butter)1 -
@Groomej I know that bakery in Provincetown and can definitely say that their Portuguese sweet bread was better than just about anything for breakfast! 🤩 (If only I could still eat it! Darn gluten! :insert shake fist emoji here:)
Also, thank goodness for decent gluten free graham crackers (Schar) so I can still make s'mores! I have also enjoyed taking chocolate Simple Mills Sweet Thins, spreading them out on a pan, putting marshmallows on top, and baking them. It was raining, so indoor s'mores were the thing! And we couldn't find any larger sized GF graham crackers that day…at least not from a brand we liked. This worked out well! …though maybe I'll take a page from @Springy_Meg's book and use a candle for marshmallow toasting in future! Anyone know if there's such a think as GF Pocky sticks? 😆
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It's hard to beat wrapping up veggies in some tin foil and just throwing that onto the coals of a fire. I do that every time I bbq with an onion or two. They come out so good—especially if you place them under the meat. 🤤
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