Completely at random:
-= Canned bacon. Travels well but is very salty. Use it in recipes with potatos - takes some of the salt out.
-= Tin foil is your friend.
-= I get the 3 or 4 lb pack of smoked sausages (Hot dog size)
Fry them up first night
Then you can use them in several ways.:
Package mix Jambalya [sp?]
Cut into chunks and put in scrambled eggs (1 pan breakfast)
Trail food. Good either hot or cold.
-= Yes, the wrap it in foil and put it on the manifold thing works fine.
-= 1 can beans + 1 can hotdog chili + your seasonings = Good hearty chili.
-= Keep a tote of condiments, plastic ware, cooking utensils, trash bags, etc. etc. packed. Leave it packed for camping season. Then you don't think/worry about it/ forget anything. Just pack the cooler and go.
-= Boy Scout style messkits rock.
-= My EZ pot roast recipe. =-
This works in a dutch oven in the fire pit, or a crockpot (if you have elect site)
Tools.
1 Knife
1 Cook pot
1 Big spoon
Prep time 10 minutes.
Cook time 2 hrs in dutch oven.
Or all day in Crockpot on low.
Measures are approximate to feed 4. Adjust to suit.
3 lbs meat. Chuck roast, stew meat or what is on sale.
2 lbs New Potatos (Red skin small kind)
2 lb pkg baby carrots
2 medium onions.
1 Can cream of mushroom soup
1 Pkg Lipton onion soup mix
Salt & Pepper.
Rinse & Cut potatos in half or quarters (No need to peel)
Peel & Cut onions in quarters or smaller.
Put meat in first. Salt & pepper if desired.
Pour dry soup mix on meat.
Pour can cream soup over that.
Put all remaining ingredients in pot.
Rinse soup can with water to get rest of soup loose.
Pour half can water/soup over all.
Cook till done. Stirring once or twice toward end of cook time.
This is great if you can do it in the morning.
Then go wheel all day and come back to a nice hot pot roast waiting for you.
Notes/options:
You can add or substitute different veggies or potatos
Substitute 2 cans of course-cut vegall (drained) in place of potatos, carrots & onions.
If cooking in dutch oven (short cook time) hold canned vegall until half way through cook time. Or they turn to mush.
On cold or windy weather & crock pot.
Cover crock pot with a tarp and or blanket or put in a vehicle, tent or camper..
Otherwise it will not make enough heat to cook.
Learned this the hard way last year opening weekend at URE.
Smelled great, but never got cooked enough to eat it.
What a waste.
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-= Last day pot luck breakfast.
Usually everybody is down to not-quite-enough-to-make-a-whole-meal.
I got one egg. You have a can of Vegall, someone else has a couple potatoes left over etc.
Gather up contributions from everybody
Throw it all in one big skillet or pot and mix in season-salt and your favorite hotsauce. Tastes better than it sounds.
Like "Stone Soup"
-= Square containers fit way better in the cooler than round ones do.
-= Rub bar soap on bottom of pans before cooking over fire pit. Makes cleaning black soot off bottom much easier.
