I love camp cooking

[catmanriff]

I'd cook every meal, given the choice. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Usually it's breakfast and dinner though. Breakfast is eggs in some form, a meat, like bacon, ham, sausage, and a starch, like potatoes, or bread.

Dinner? Spaghetti with a veggie....steaks on the grill with potatoes, bbq chicken, rice, or  stuffing. Tacos are fun. Augmented hamburger helper( add spag sauce, parm cheese, olive oil) Mac & cheese with sliced hot dogs!  Shrimp and salmon are nice. Baked beans ,mmm. Corn, green beans. Yummy. Salad is always nice.

Dinner usually has a drink special in our campground: sangria, margaritas, gin & tonics, beer, vodka & whatever...

I love the process.

The Magma stainless nesting cookware has been very nice
My Iwatani butane grill is handy, a nice extra heat source. great for morning coffee percolator too. If it's raining, cook soup or chili inside.
Cutting boards, colander, knives, foil trays have become standard.
I put together a minimal spice & extras list: olive oil, butter, sea salt, pepper grinder, garlic salt, Parmesan cheese, soy sauce. Pam no-stick bbq spray.

Trader joes marinara has been easy and tasty.
Instant oatmeal for breakfast is quick, simple.

What else?

[Pinstriper]

Bring a mini-wheel of brie from costco and a bottle of sparkling wine. $10 Korbel is just fine. Take a plate, grind a bed of black pepper, put half the wheel down and grind more pepper over the top. Microwave 60-120 seconds - until it just starts to run. Serve with the bubbly and crackers such as wheat thins, sesame crackers, triscuits. Repeat the second night. Don't overlok the value of a home made pot pie or casserole, frozen. Throw it in the convection oven when the time comes. Grilled sausages/brats. Fish/clams/crabs you caught after arrival. (Will be doing mussels this year now I know where they're at). Bake an apple crisp at home for desserts - or any time, really. Keilbasa with kraut and sliced potatoes in the same pot - brown the onions in butter, rinse and drain the kraut so it is only mildly salty then brown that in the butter. Add keilbasa slices and potato slices, cover with water, add black peppercorns, caraway, dill seed. Simmer until the water is gone then serve. This meal will keep you warm all night in cold weather.


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[Merlin]

I enjoy cooking too. On short haul trips we've been making and freezing things ahead of time like sloppy joes and beef stew and soups (corn chowder and potato are favs). We've been making use of the microwave for baking potatoes as either a vegetable or as a meal with toppings. On longer trips when in a different campground every night we keep it simple, both for cooking and for clean-up. One our dinner favorites is breakfast for dinner, with scrambled eggs (with green peppers), toast, and bacon. Lunch is pretty much always microwaved soup with either crackers/humus or sandwiches. I appreciate the ideas so far because I'd like to expand our menu!

[pjcd]

I smoke about 15 lbs of pork shoulder in the spring and vacuum seal it, turns out great and I have enough for the summer. I defrost and put the vacuum bag in boiling water for a few minutes.

[DavidM]

Joan BBQs a mess of pork ribs several times each year. She has a killer rub and sauce that is to die for. We typically cook 2-3 racks at a time and freeze what we can't eat in a few days. Then thaw them out, put them on the grill for a few minutes to char, slop the BBQ sauce on and dig in.

We will bring enough to feed the hoards at the Maine meetup in early August.

Y'all come.

David

[rideandfly]

Since I can't cook like the previous posters, Took these photos at a LivinLite gathering in SC during 2015  , as you can see, I take too many photos :

[billmoore]

Something we discovered recently is the vacuum packed partially baked loaves of bread at Costco. Very long shelf life, no refrigeration required. While cooking dinner, throw a loaf in the convection oven, and 15 minutes later you have fresh baked bread.

[catmanriff]

nice tip. I need to figure out a simple over solution for my camp kitchen

how many are using disposable plates and flatware? We don't but it's attractive on short trips instead of dishes.

[Pinstriper]

nice tip. I need to figure out a simple over solution for my camp kitchen

how many are using disposable plates and flatware? We don't but it's attractive on short trips instead of dishes.

Not us, but if we dry camping I would.


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[billmoore]

We use the cheap thin paper plates when dry camping. Depending on what you are putting on them, you can double or triple them up for more strength, and since they are just paper, when done eating you can throw them on the campfire (if there isn't a burn ban in effect).

[pjcd]

We switched to paper plates when we had the kids. It just made camping easier, wether we were tenting or dry camping with the TT. I never liked paper or plastic cups or plastic silverware, for those items its been the rear deal.

[Sean]

We switched to a stainless steel set of plates, cups, and flatware. The plates are easy to rinse off and with only 3 people using them clean up doesnt take much time at all. Plus they dont rust or go bad so I never worry about how long they have been in storage.

[Merlin]

For us it all depends on water. If water is not hooked up, we use paper/plastic and if water is hooked up, we use the dinnerware below, along with SS utensils. The non-skid bottoms on this dinnerware comes from our like-minded folks in the marine world and it's perfect for using on a variety of surfaces without having things slide around.

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/galleyware--blue-compass-16-piece-dinnerware-set--8314890?recordNum=16

[pjcd]

Very nautical looking!   

[Paul]

I need to try that banana with chocolate!


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