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    Hello All. I am typically a lighweight backpacker, or at least I try to be, and it has been years since I have done any car camping. However, my wifey and I now have a child a little over a year old and it seems a little early for an extreme type of adventure. We've done lots of day hikes together, but for our daughter's first overnight camping experience, I think Lake Harris Campground is the perfect choice... So, car camping it is! Looking forward to copeous amounts of cold beer and good food.

    What are some of your favorite meals to cook when you're "car camping?" I'm looking for old favorites, tried and true. We'll have a coleman two burner stove (for heating water, or using a frying pan, etc.) and a propane grill (Q-grill) too. And, I love cooking dinner right on a nice bed of hot coals.

    So what do you like for breakfast? Dinner? Snacks?

    I once made a nice chili (vegetarian) in advance of the trip, at home and froze it solid. Then we simply heated it up in camp for an easy, tasty, healthy, lunch. Of course, for dinner I can simply cook burgers and dogs on the fire, or tin foil wrapped potatoes, chicken on the babby, or whatever. One time I marinated sausages, onions and apples in beer and grilled them on the open fire. They were amazing.

    But... What are some of your faves?

    An adventure in the mountains is truly the poor man's therapy...

  • #2
    Chicken Cacchitore or Chicken Parm in the Dutch oven. Vension grilled on the open fire. Potatoes/onions and Jalapenos in tin foil. These are a few of my favorite things that we cook with scouts.

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    • #3
      I like grilling a steak, foil wrapped baked potato in the coals, corn on the cob soaked in water then thrown in the coals or on the grill. Foil pouch for the onions and mushrooms for the steak.

      I don't get out too much anymore so I like to treat myself when I do.

      Breakfast? Breakfast burritos of course! A little Jimmy Dean or Bob Evans sausage (or bacon or both), peppers, onions, and scrambled eggs. Roll it up in a tortilla.
      "Buddy, I think I ate your pop tarts!"

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      • #4
        Anything in a dutch oven.
        "There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go." -from "The Call of the Wild" by Robert Service

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        • #5
          Prometheus. I do those burritos even when backpacking.

          Still havent made a garbage plate in the woods yet though. Its on my list.
          "There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go." -from "The Call of the Wild" by Robert Service

          My trail journal: DuctTape's Journal

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          • #6
            There's a bunch of stuff you can make with a pie iron as well. Most of my cooking is with this, my dutch oven and foil.

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            • #7
              I forgot the exact name, but when I did my first overnight I brought these large bags of food you can buy in almost any store where you just add hot water, wait about five minutes, and you are good to go. I think I might have had the lasagna one, or mac and cheese, I'm not sure. The one I had was supposed to serve 2 or 3 people but I was so hungry after the day's hike (Macomb, S. Dix, E. Dix, and Hough) that I just ate the whole thing myself! lol
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              • #8
                It's always hard to beat bacon & eggs for breakfast unless it's Johnsonville brats and eggs?
                "Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold."

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                • #9
                  While car camping near Inlet, NY we typically pack too much food and have an abundance of adult beverages. Two favorite meals when car camping have always been.
                  -Ham with potatoes and carrots in 14" dutch oven.
                  -I store all my cast iron stuff in an unused metal garbage can that can double as an oven for a 'Trash can turkey'. Place turkey in dutch oven bottom, cover with garbage can, fire up for 6-8hours. awesome.
                  Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take. ~Author Unknown

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                  • #10
                    I'm all about the mre's

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by adirondackcamper View Post
                      I'm all about the mre's


                      Yup. Tough to beat 'em
                      Give me the mountains, or give me death.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by adirondackcamper View Post
                        I'm all about the mre's
                        Originally posted by Crokit View Post
                        Yup. Tough to beat 'em
                        Come on guys...MRE's when car camping?
                        Well for me, I have a truck so I like to call it "tailgate camping", and I don't do it much, but when I do you can bet that there are plenty of good eats & drinks to be had...Same thing goes for canoe camping...
                        I'm a big fan a meats cooked slowly over the campfire...steaks, chops, chickens, burgers, hotdogs, fish, kabobs, etc with maybe some potatoes, pasta, rice, onions, peppers, corn on the cob...mmmmm!
                        For breakfast, it's usually bacon or sausage, eggs, maybe more steak, home fries, bagels or english muffins...again cooked over the campfire.
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                        • #13
                          Justin I agree, excluding backpacking trips, we usually eat gourmet style when camping. Everything seems to taste better on an open fire. We eat better than we do at home!

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                          • #14
                            Justin - I'm with you...if you're car camping, why not eat well?

                            And don't forget the Bandit!
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                            to go with the steak!
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                            Breakfast - I'm partial to fried eggs and baked beans, but my kids like something the Scouts call a 'mountainman breakfast' - start with frozen hashbrowns, cook them until brown, add onions and peppers, then sausage, and then eggs...a bit of mess, but good.
                            “Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.” Carlos Castenada

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                            • #15
                              Chardonnay with steak? Ouch!

                              Ed

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