Favorite Camp Food!!

[Spitfire]

What is your favorite camp food? How about snack food that you have to have sitting around the fire?

My favorite food would be my own special chili. followed closely by marinaded butterfly deerchops on the open fire.
My favorite snack isn't food but a nice cold beverage and a can of Skoal Fine Cut. Thats all I need for a fire side snack!

[BottomBouncer]

Man, don't get me started!!!! Well, okay.......

A good over the fire cheese burger, medium-well is TOUGH to beat!!!! My home made conqueso dip is the best.....

Breakfast on the camp fire......sausage gravy, bacon, fried tators!!!!

Sure beats the hamburger helper I'm about to have:o

[Ðe§perado™]

I'm with you BB. Cheese burger on the fire is great.!;)

[MadCatter]

Barbacued pork chops (thick) slow cooked over a wood fire, with baked potatos right out of the coals .. add some peas or corn and you are in camp heaven:D :D :D :D

[BottomBouncer]

HOW COULD I FORGET.......BEANS & FRANKS!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE BEANS AND FRANKS!!!!!!!!!


I hope there's no one in my camp that loves Frank's beans?


Okay, that was uncalled for:eek: :D :cool:

[OLDHAT]

You guys are spoiled.....I'll take Little Debbie..snack cakes that is!

Hell, they are cheap and you can't beat them...any hunter that doesn't eat Lil Debbie Snack Cakes to sustitute the 4 basic food groups is a NAZI in my book!

[Spitfire]

Don't worry about us Oldhat, we have those little debbie's in camp. How about those "Nutty Bars", those are the best!

[BottomBouncer]

Reminded me of a camping story...lmao.....buddy and I went to AEP to camp for the weekend. We had bologne, cheese, bread, little debbie oatmeal/cream cookies......something to drink. That's about it. And hot dogs......

[Q2XL]

any thing that dont move and a cold one

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I'm for the butterfly chops(vension) on the grill open fire.also crawdads in a pot over a open fire.
Snack around the fire peanuts then top it off with a fresh can of skoal wintergreen.

[OLDHAT]

BottomBouncer:

I can relate, a buddy and I went to Dale Hollow for 4 days....took a few lbs of bologna and a couple roles of bread and some mustard...threw all of it in the bass boat (with sleeping bags and tent) and stayed on the water for 3 days straight (well we camped on an island)..anyway, after 3 or 4 days of nothing but bolgna (outside of lil debbie lunch cakes), a guy gets to be in pretty bad shape. I didn't touch a bologna sandwich for several years after.

We did catch some good smallies though...pictures are still on the dock at Hendricks creek!

Oldhat

[atrkyhntr]

Ohhhhh boy...
I need my blackened steak, baked potatoes and fresh coffee... all cooked over a bed a fresh coals from the fire thats keeping us warm as we rotate around it LOL back front back front :D

Also love butter fly steaks off last seasons deer placed in foil with sliced potatoes, onions, mushrooms and butter then over the coals it goes 7 1/2 min each side NUMMY

lil debbies all day long with plenty of Nutty Bars... simply the best

[Spitfire]

Oh no, we have another Nutty bar freak. Welcome atrkyhntr, glad to have ya aboard. I might have to try that butterfly wrapped in foil. Is that all ya do is throw everything in foil and that's it? By the way, where do you do all your guideing at? Is it your guide business?

[Spitfire]

How about deer burger wrapped in foil with garlic salt and lemon pepper added. Ya throw it right in the fire and cook it for about ten minutes. Don't forget to poke a hole in each side for the grease to drain out. Ummmmm, is it good!!! Haven't had one for a long time. That might be a good lunch idea to put on the menu.

[atrkyhntr]

oh yea you can use either dbl wrapped foil or once wrapped with high quality foil... also can use deer burger made into a pattie too which is very nummy and no dishes too... just PLEASE don't toss the foil in the fire unless you know it will burn up... I hate seeing foil in sites that did not burn completly...

I run my service in Morgan County but have guides in Morgan, Noble & Muskingum Counties... I started this service over 13 years ago by word of mouth when I would take turkey hunters out for gas/food money LOL and the chance to get to call in more birds :D

I never realized how many hunters had no place to hunt (quality) or simply had sons or daughters of their own and wanted to get back into the sport again after years of not going thus loosing contacts for land and huntable game... The you have those who simply like to hunt with guides... I rarley guide anymore I have several who do most of my guiding... Chris & Mark have lived their whole lives in the area and have added alot of private land to our hunts, more then I had permission for on my own... Tenbears is a taxidermist amoung his many other talents he also guides for me and we will be starting a trapping service this fall where he will teach trapping over the course of a few days and the clients can keep what is caught. Robert and Ernie both come from Pa and guide for me during the 1st week of spring turkey. Robert is an outifitter in Pa and Ernie is a retired Pa game warden who also bounty traps qual ranches down south each winter.

[Spitfire]

Sounds like you have a heck of a set-up going. That would be great do to that for a living. Thats like my brother-in-law, he traps grizzly bears for a living in Montana and just started another job trapping wolverine. He is in charge of doing that for Montana State University. I would love to do something like that. There are only a few jobs that I would like to have and you guys have two of them.
I am going to try that butterfly chops in foil, that sounds delicious! I hate that to, you get to a camp site and there is all kinds of trash in the burn ring.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Boy that does sound yummy will have to give that hamburger a try this year.

[atrkyhntr]

Ohh I don't do this for a living but as an added income + all the benifits of using mine and others talents to help people become better outdoorsman and woman. I had been donating hunts to the N W T F Convention but had a falling out with a local RD... Seems his bow shop was broken into and he blamed one of my guides because he was in our lodge and saw some new arrows hmnmmnn... Well after he had our camp my top guides store and house searched he then reconted his story and said it was a black truck that he saw not a white one which my guide owned... anyway boy did I get off track LMAO :D
Something else I found out too because we had some racks confiscated... if you use real deer antlers for rattling better make sure they are drop offs (sheds) cause if you cut the horns off with a hacksaw or such the wardens will take them away :eek: :mad:
Guess when we see a huge set after a road kill and cut them off we're really breaking the law????? hmnmnmnmn

My guide Ernie is living the life... Here is his typical year starting in Jan he and the wife packs up his 5th wheel and heads to Canada to hunt caribou for about a month then back home to pack-up and he heads for my camp to guide for turkey and do some hunting on his own too... He also goes to flint ridge to dig up his own flint which he then makes spears, arrow heads and knives out of to sell, trade or barter away LOL After that he guide for Robert in Pa and hunts somemore... After which he heads up to Erie Pa for the summer to walleye and perch fish till the fall when he heads to Ark to bounty trap then he heads to Georgia to bounty trap... Keeps the Bobcats whole and frozen and sells them for $20-30 each... WHAT A LIFE LOL

[BottomBouncer]

What do you do with bobcat?

[atrkyhntr]

Ohhhh you have not ate till you'v tried bobca...... :confused: :eek:



What I do is have them mounted then sell the mounts or as my one guide does he bleaches the skulls and sells them on Ebay... I have him mounting one for me that will have a gobbler in its mouth as if just caught but limp with no motion inparted... Saw one mounted like that at the N W T F Convention couple years back and have wanted that mount ever since ... I never saw any here in Ohio till I saw 3 in the same weekend 2 years ago... AWESOME!!!

[Spitfire]

We will definately try the hamburger and the butterfly's in foil!

[Ohio Bill]

BEER, Venison Jerky, mmmm did i say BEER..lol:D

[Spitfire]

That beverage goes with anything in camp.

[george tinkham]

Beans and weenies in a little pop top can.YUM YUM

[atrkyhntr]

I cook as often as I can and really enjoy cooking at a primative camping site with coals from a fire or simply use charcoal when using dutch ovens to keep the temps pretty close to what the recipie is I am cookig at that time.
I never cook over an open fire if baking is involved or anytime really unless its simple like hotdogs or burgers. A fire is way too hot to control and can burn food faster then coals...

Click HERE (http://www.hbtclub.com/cook/dutch_oven.htm) to view a website page I created that will help you understand, with easy to understand tables, how to figure out the temp you are cooking with.

No camp, kitchen for that matter, should be without a good sourdough starter. Many a fine meal have been topped off with fresh sourdough biscuits, breads or deserts with the camp cook, of course, getting back slaps all around. First lets start with the basic starter recipe.

Sourdough Starter
1 package dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water ( 105 - 115 degrees )
2 cups all purpose flour
3 table spoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups warm water ( same as above )

Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water, let stand for 5 minutes. Combine flour, sugar and salt with your 2 cups warm water in a non-metal bowl. Stir real well and mix thoroughly. Add yeast mixture and stir again real well. Cover loosely with moist/damp cloth and let stand in a warm place (85 degrees) for 72 hours. Your starter will look cream colored and smell fermenty and sweet.

Whenever you use some starter simply replenish by adding equal amounts of water and flour to replace what has been used. To use sourdough for making bread and rolls simply take 1 cup of starter for every package of yeast called for in your recipe and add 2 cups of warm water along with 2 cups all purpose flour and mix well, bake as instructed by your directions.
ENJOY!

[Dear_Hunter]

I like a big old pot of wild game stew that cooks all day on the open fire. Loaded with game meat and tons of veggies. Can allmost taste it now. Fresh cornbread on the side. I cant forget the spicey crawdads loaded with cajun seasonings:)

[george tinkham]

deer hunter.Did you suck out those spicey little brains in those crawfish?

[Dear_Hunter]

Yep I did but can tell you one thing they dont taste like chicken:)

[Dear_Hunter]

I really like to eat boiled Lobster diped in butter. I have a friend that moved to Maine and when ever he come for a visit he will bring down a 30 gallon can full of lobsters on ice for me. :) He bought a big timber farm there.

[george tinkham]

They taste like musturd.

[bks]

Man, this is making me hungry. Ok, how about this, pan blackened walleye, frog legs, fried potatoes & onions, with an ice cold coka-cola.:)

[Q2XL]

i can deal with everything but the frog legs::eek:

[bks]

Originally posted by Q2XL
i can deal with everything but the frog legs::eek:

Ok, that's more for me:D

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Did someone say frog legs man i haven't had a mess of those in a long time ,I'm up for some legs too,Man sounds like we are going to have some vitals for camp.Heck all this talk we will have people just stopping by for dinner.

[Q2XL]

you can have my share of frog legs there CARIBOU

[Caribou Dreamer2]

mmmmm them are good taste like chicken:D

[Hoytme2]

Since you guys are liking the cooking on the grill so much, I will bring down my "Zaleski Grill" to do the cooking. We did that BBQ chicken last year and it was great!!!!!!

[BottomBouncer]

All the good populations of frogs that I used to know of are now almost gone. I never frogged any of them, hunted around the area.
Any of you guys go to AEP for frogs?

[Spitfire]

Never been to AEP.

[wilybuck]

nothin beats a good ole hotdog that has been dropped in the ashes, cooked to a hardness of a diamond, then coat the thing with ketchup....all the while drinking a mountain dew that ole spitfire has spit some of his skoal grains/slobbers into....then after that cookin up some marshmellows and munchin on them after they have played the part of a tiki torch for a couple minutes...... man this sounds like heaven.....

[Spitfire]

Sounds to me like you miss coming to camp! I knew you would say something about ketchup.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Hay wily coming back to camp this year or do we have to wait another year to see if you make it back down.I

[Q2XL]

hey got connections on some crawfish.looks like we will be havin some crawfish this year after all.yum yum

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Crawfish man that sounds good they will go good with those hot wings.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Hay wick dont forget that hot sauce me and no noodle will eat some we need some for those crawfish and wings.

[Dear_Hunter]

The Crawfish are the jumbo's and they are already well cajun seasoned and finger licking good . :D

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Cant wait to bite into the crawdaddies should be a good menu for camp this year. some good food!

[Q2XL]

oh they are good had some durin the game last night .hurry up deer camp i need a vacation.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Beer

[Spitfire]

Don't you mean beer & wine?

[Caribou Dreamer2]

If you say so

[Spitfire]

I don't say so, you do!

[Q2XL]

yep:D :D :D :D :D

[Spitfire]

See, Q2XL even says so!

[Q2XL]

yep got to have my beer and wine

[Q2XL]

beer with the meal and wine with the crawdads

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Nothing wrong with a little wine here and there cleans out the memory:D

[Spitfire]

I was told once that only old women drink wine. I was telling the wife about you two wine-o's and she said that. "Isn't wine for old women"! Laughed my butt off!!!

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Ahh but wine will bring in the "biggen's":D

[Q2XL]

who cares ITS ALL GOOD:cool:

[Spitfire]

I'll take your word for it!

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Yea what he said it all about the smack aint that right wick "smack"

[Q2XL]

yea ,all about the smack:cool:

[Spitfire]

Is there an echo in here or what? or what? or what? or what?

[Dear_Hunter]

Not again with wine Who care if there is wine at the camp not me. :)

[rjolenic]

It's all about the Natty Blue and marinated Venison Backstrap cooked on the HOYTME2 patented Zaleski Grill over the fire. OK .... the grill really isn't patented


rjo

[Dear_Hunter]

Boy rjolenic does that ever sound good grilled marinated Venison Backstrap I can't wait.:D

[rjolenic]

Wick's Grilled BBQ chicken over the Zaleski Grill will come in at a respectable, but not close second to the marinated backstrap.

rjo

[Spitfire]

Marinated venison backstrap!!!!
That is what is on the menu for tonight. I'm using the back straps out of my muzzleloader kill. Let them marinate all day and put them on the grill to cook slow on low heat. When you bite into it, it will fall apart in your mouth. Add some real mashed potatoes and gravy with a side of green beans and you got yourself a damn good meal.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Man old man what time is dinner,I bet it would be good ,stay warm around that grill.

[Spitfire]

Not a problem, it sits right out the back door. With it being on low heat on the top rack I won't have to check that often. I'll go out to smell it more than I wil to check it.

[Spitfire]

I would invite you if you weren't working. Besides, if I invited you everyone else would be here also.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

You never did tell me what time dinner is?

[Spitfire]

Are you going to be home tonight or something?

[Caribou Dreamer2]

No just giving you a hard time have to work tonight this weekend and next weekend and next weekend after that: WHAT THE M(*&%&

[Spitfire]

Well then i'll let you know how it tasted! LOLOL!!!!!

[Spitfire]

What are you doing on Sunday?

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I bet you will,This sunday not for sure yet why they were talking about going to upper sandusky to shoot.

You need some wood

[Spitfire]

Yea, I need some wood but I thought I would go do some shed hunting and maybe pull that stand. If your interested.

[rjolenic]

Deep fried everyting. Unless it's deep fried, I'm not eating it!

rjo

[Spitfire]

I forgot to tell you how good that Marinated back strap was. Oh, my, gosh!!!!! Man was it good! Slow cooked those big chunks of meat on the top shelf of the grill on low heat for almost 3 hours. Holy crap were they good. You missed out CD!

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Boy old Boy does that really sound good. Thanks spiter maybe next time i will catch you.

[Spitfire]

I can't even tell you how good it was. Lets just say it was better than all those butterfly chops we cooked on the fire at deer camp two years ago! It was that good!!!!!!

[Q2XL]

man that was a heckof a meal with all those butterfly chops that night .nothin better than cookin on an open fire

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I'm not sure if anything can beat those butterfly chops

[Spitfire]

I think that night we would have eaten anything! We were all pretty tanked. You never know if we had been sober it might have tasted like crap. I doubt it, but you never know!
I finished the leftovers for lunch and it tasted better today. I think tomorrow I will slow cook a roast and shred it for barbecue.

[vvarmitr]

I don't know how I got here on this thread, but for me when I go camping is quality hotdogs slow roasted over a open fire. I X cut 'em on each end then make light slits on the sides. I rotate 'em as each side starts to smoke over hot coals. After all sides are cooked I put 'em through some open flames lightly. I'll eat 'em right off the stick or sometimes dip 'em in hotdog relish. HEAVEN!
Then for desert, browned marshmallows. Never burnt!!!! :irked:
Wash this down w/ a craft brew while savoring a fine cigar lit from a stick in the fire.:coolgleamA:

Come on Spring! I'm hungrey!


Oh yea, Little Debbie Nutty Bars rock!!!!!!!

[ap0317ah]

Baked bean deer chili.
Tom

[Wildman18]

Each person brings left overs from Thanksgiving. I bring a very big pot of deer stew. Easy to heat it last the first 3 to 4 days of camp.
I have made it for the last 6 years. Add some jerky and my buddy's chilly. It doesn't get better than that. It makes a very inexpensive 6 to 7 day trip. The most expensive part is the beer and chew. Well two years ago it was GAS!

I know the guys next to us deep fry a turkey.

I forgot one year I brought 3lbs. of king crab legs cooked on the grill That was a nice treat.
Can't beat a little surf and turf!!!!!