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I'd like to learn how to cook well over a campfire and would appreciate it if you guys could chime in with your favorite campfire recipes.

The easier the better too......thanks!!!

Put hot dog on stick. Hold over fire till done.

my best campfire recipe is to heat two cups of water, and pour that boiling water in to a Mountain House pouch.

Yep, two of the best ever, and they share their most coveted secrets to campfire cooking. You should feel blessed

Lynn

have you ever seen or heard of 'hobo roasts'?
season burger, onion, tater and carrot and wrap in foil, cook in burnt down coals for a little over an hour turning once. when steam stops it's near done.
serve with heated canned beans and dutch oven biscuits or cornbread.
works good with chicken or pork too but may need to drizzle some o.o. onto.

Exactly.

Alright.....now I'm gettin' hungry!!

I am assuming your "Dessert" suggestion was going to be "S'mores", made with fire roasted marshamallows stuffed between two chocolate covered digestive biscuits ?

Lynn

Exactly.

first you build the fire and then....

throw on the hog!

actually, here's kind of a neat one.

Boiled Egg in a Cup

* Egg
* Paper Cup

Place an egg in a small paper cup. Fill with water. Make a hole in your red hot coals for the cup and sit the cup in the hole. The water will boil and the paper won't burn. Let boil 10 minutes, remove from fire and eat the hard boiled egg.

One more--

Eggs in a Hole

* Bread
* Butter
* Salt & Pepper
* Eggs
* Frying Pan

Take a slice of bread and cut out a circle about 2" in diameter. Toast slowly and lightly on both sides on a stick or campfire fork. In a frying pan, melt butter, put the toast in the pan and wait until it sizzles. Break an egg and place it into the hole. Heat slowly and evenly. Sprinkle with Salt & Pepper over the eggs and then cover. It will be done when the top of the egg turns white.

Get a dutch oven.
Dutch oven cobbler.

Required: dutch oven and an aluminum pie tin
Ingredients: 1 can apple pie filling
1 box Jiffy muffin mix
1/4 stick butter

Replace apple filling with any of your choice.

Try different types of muffin mix for variations.
Some people stir the muffin mix into the filling.

Instructions: Pour the filling into the pie tin.
Sprinkle the dry muffin mix over the entire surface.
Slice the butter into 1/8" thin squares and distribute across surface.
Put 4 or 5 equal sized pebbles in the bottom of a dutch oven.
Carefully, place the pie tin on top of the pebbles. (keeping the tin off the bottom reduces burning.)

Set dutch oven on a bed of pulled hot coals. Put on the lid and cover with coals.
Cook for 15 to 20 minutes depending on fire temperature.
Remove from fire and let set 5 minutes.
Serve.

See also: Boy Scout Recipes for Campfire Cooking

Also, core apples and stuff them with a mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon (to your taste) wrap them in foil but before fully sealing, toss in a splash of brown liquor or wine. Put em in the coals, rotate about every 5 min. Extract after they start to get tender. Enjoy.

And for heaven sakes ...get some pudgy pie irons too!
http://www.firepies.com/irons.html
They'll make you a campfire cuisine expert in no time

Those apples are really good. Also, works well with carrots and/or sweet potatoes. Even bananas or pears!

fresh fish
Split after gutting and put green stick along backbone on stomach side, using sharpened short sticks three inches longer than fish is wide,thread from inside of fish to outside, over back of fish through side to inside of fish. alternate between these sticks starting at outside through, over long stick and throgh from inside to outside of fish.
This holds fish on the long stick and opened. Salt and pepper if available. put end of long stick into ground at 45 degrees to fire, and support this with a y stick so it will not fall into fire. A low fire or coals work best, throw some green branches on to create smoke, and turn over to back side after inside appears opaque.

Any kind of meat can be cooked like this, but moose or deer needs to be cut thin so as not to toughen. Bear is excellent as better fat content.

I like to do a foil pouch of potato, carrot and onion slices with wild mint, fiddleheads when available and butter of animal fat, depending on where and how much you pack along. Put the pacage of veggies beside the coals while preparing the fish or meat to roast and turn occaisionally. Once meat or fish is started, pull some coals from the fire to the edge, place a lattice of green sticks over them and place the foil pouch over the coals. turn half way through the meat/fish cooking time, and be prepared for some great eating. Multiple sticks of meat ond fish can be cooked at the same time, and indeed making each eater responsible for their own meat and veggie teaches them, and empowers them for the future.

Randy

pudgy pie irons are an important bit of kit for our camping......if yah get the ones that can hold 2 sandwiches at once they work great for cooking steak, mushrooms and onions all together.....requires smaller steaks(a big t-bone wont fit) but works real well other wise.....

I'll have to check out the pudgy pie irons!! Thanks also for the BS campfire link.....

the irons work basically like personal sized cast iron skillets or the like....works real well, especially with older kids and when yah got several ppl who like things like steaks cooked a certain way cause everyone is in charge of their own food and unlike tinfoil packets they are real easy to check on how things are cooking......we mainly use them for grilled sandwiches, than put some pie filling in the middle of 2 slices of bread for dessert.....gotta watch it though wen yah got alot of ppl around a smaller fire or lil kids running around cause they are pretty effective branding irons aswell if someone aint paying attention.....