Dutch Oven Corn Bread
This is a filling and delicious way to start the day in camp. This makes enough to feed a crowd, or allows for leftovers you can use with other meals, such as BBQ.
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Camping Stir Fry
Here’s another complete meal with meat, veggies, and rice. Fresh ingredients are great, but this is camping so canned ingredients might make more sense. This can be served over plain white rice, or make seasoned rice or a packaged oriental rice side dish.
Breakfast Skillet
This hearty breakfast is delicious, and the whole cooked eggs are a nice change from the typical breakfast casserole with scrambled eggs.
Campfire Skewers
Sure, these are a lot like shish kababs, but since I’m leaving the options open on marinade and seasonings I don’t want to call them that since shish kababs have a very specific seasoning profile.I like to cook the meat and the vegetables on separate …
Italian Pasta with Sausage
This is a tasty and filling meal. It can be prepared in your cast iron skillet, but it’s not quite a 1 pan dish since you need to cook the pasta separately. This goes great with some wine and a nice fresh salad.
Pork Ribs
Pork Ribs work great over an open fire. I like to use a grilling basket to hold the ribs if it’s just the two of us since one rack cut in half will fit. These go great with calico beans and cole slaw.
Grilled Steaks or Chops
Chops or steaks taste wonderful when cooked over a wood fire. For best results, let the fire burn down to red coals and place the grill over these. I like to use a grill basket to make it easier to handle and flip the meat. …
Foil Wrapped Fish
Here is another easy way to cook fresh caught fish. This simplifies the process by skipping the filet process.
Pan Fried Fish
I like to catch them, filet them, and cook them fresh when I’m camping. This is a simple recipe to make crispy and tasty fried filets.
Cinnamon French Toast
This is almost too easy to believe and incredibly delicious. For years, I used multiple spices to make French Toast, and then one day it popped into my head I could just use cinnamon swirl bread. I use either Pepperidge Farms or Thomas’s Cinnamon Swirl …