Trail Menu Ideas

[Discoinjapan]

These are a lot of great ideas. Just the kind of stuff I was looking for when I asked.

Frank - Thanks for the service you have given to our great country. atriot: When I was in the Army doing comms, I had my own MUMVEE too and my trick was to lay the MRE main foil packet on the intake manifold, flip it after a couple minutes, add the hot sauce. That is how you turn shit into gold.

This past weekend I made the moose poop for brekfast and grilled cheese for a late afternoon snack. Lunch was postponed. Supper was grilled chicken breast and baked taters. Never bad. Never bad

I am also an assistant Scoutmaster with my son's troop and we cook in the dutch ovens. There is a lot of menu ideas on line for them. My favorite is dutch oven lasagna in one and cherry dump cake in another.

Lets have the Dutch oven lasgna recipie!!

 

[4x4stationwagon]

Lets have the Dutch oven lasgna recipie!!

I totally forgot about the camper pies. :smilelol:

Dutch Oven Lasagna in a #14 dutch oven is cooked in a wood fire with charcol on the side. This doubles as evening campfire.

Take the lasagna noodles out of the box, lay them in the bottom of the pot, cover with hamburger crumbles prebrowned (in 1 gallon zip lock bag in cooler). Then empty a can of tomato sauce in to cover the hamberger, fill the can 1/2 way to empty the leavin's, sprinkle cottage cheese on top of the sauce. Now repeat until you are up to the lid and leave the cottage cheese and motzerella cheese on top. Place the lid on, set in the charcol coals on the side of the fire and place 12-14 coals on top. Cook like this for 1 hour. Peeking a couple times and rotating. It is important to keep the heat consistant so keep hot coals on top and packed under. It won't burn if you added the water because it boils and the noodles turn out just right. This can't be beat after a hard days work and if it is cold ... you can't beat it. Serve with bread and butter to spread. I think I got it from memory. There are more on line at something like dutchoven cooking dot com or google search dutch oven recipes.

 

[DiscoS2]

I've been on the mountain pie makers past couple of months. A loaf of bread and anything you want in between. My son loves the cherry pie filling for breakfast; I usually do the ham and cheese. If your creative thats all you need.

I use these too. The cast iron ones are the way to go. I use pizza filling, PBJ, or just plain cheese.

 

[frank]

I totally forgot about the camper pies. :smilelol:

Dutch Oven Lasagna in a #14 dutch oven is cooked in a wood fire with charcol on the side. This doubles as evening campfire.

Take the lasagna noodles out of the box, lay them in the bottom of the pot, cover with hamburger crumbles prebrowned (in 1 gallon zip lock bag in cooler). Then empty a can of tomato sauce in to cover the hamberger, fill the can 1/2 way to empty the leavin's, sprinkle cottage cheese on top of the sauce. Now repeat until you are up to the lid and leave the cottage cheese and motzerella cheese on top. Place the lid on, set in the charcol coals on the side of the fire and place 12-14 coals on top. Cook like this for 1 hour. Peeking a couple times and rotating. It is important to keep the heat consistant so keep hot coals on top and packed under. It won't burn if you added the water because it boils and the noodles turn out just right. This can't be beat after a hard days work and if it is cold ... you can't beat it. Serve with bread and butter to spread. I think I got it from memory. There are more on line at something like dutchoven cooking dot com or google search dutch oven recipes.

im making this, this weekend. charcoal only though.

my favorite dutch oven food is peach cobbler.

actually, to be honest, my favorite dutch oven includes my wife and some bed sheets.:rofl:

 

[4x4stationwagon]

actually, to be honest, my favorite dutch oven includes my wife and some bed sheets.:rofl:

LOL It's always hard for me to say "dutch oven" without that thought. But, seriously let us know how the lasagna turns out. Peach cobbler would be good to.

 

[Mike_Rupp]

no one mentioned spam

I used to look down at Spam until I went to Hawaii. They do wonderful things with Spam. You aren't going to see it at the tourist restaurants or hotels. You need to fine the little dive places where the locals eat. I had a bowl of saimin with fried Spam. IT was really good.

 

[I HATE PONIES]

Why are there no pics?

Porterhouse ala grill with baked potato. I cooked it at home but I make the same thing while camping.

 

[HunterAK]

Porterhouse ala grill with baked potato. I cooked it at home but I make the same thing while camping.

If you cook that shit up while camping in Alaska, you're ass will be the next meal by a big hungry brown bear.

 

[D Chapman]

Looks like a piss poor attempt at Veal Marsala to me.

 

[frank]

Jesus. Well why dont you tell us how you really feel?

 

[Mike_Rupp]

Looks like a piss poor attempt at Veal Marsala to me.

I'm not sure how you prepare Veal Marsala, but mine looks nothing like a t-bone.

 

[I HATE PONIES]

Looks like a piss poor attempt at Veal Marsala to me.

Not at all. It is just a big ass steak and potatoe meal.

It's not a T-Bone either. It's a Porterhouse.

 

[I HATE PONIES]

If you cook that shit up while camping in Alaska, you're ass will be the next meal by a big hungry brown bear.

That's the idea. I cook this the first night. The second night I cook brown bear steaks.

 

[frank]

Lasagna was made yesterday

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Temp stayed around 275, an I cooked it for an hour. I think just a tad to long...45min would have been perfect I think.

 

[Uncle Roger]

When we go camping -- five or six families -- I crack a couple dozen eggs into a juice bottle at home, add some garlic, onion, and spices, pour in a bit of milk, and close it up. When we get to camp, in the morning, I pour 'em into a pot and make pot-bottom eggs. Just keep scraping the cooked eggs off the bottom until they're all cooked.

For dinner, we often do a pasta or rice dish with cubed and cooked chicken (cut up, cooked, and frozen in a ziploc at home). That makes it easy to add the chicken after the vegetarians get some. We do mashed potatoes a lot too, with red potatoes (no need to peel them).

 

[4x4stationwagon]

Lasagna was made yesterday.

Looks great. :applause: Aside from the crispy sides, tell us how it tasted! Would you dare make this out on the trail? I think it was a good idea for you to make it at home first to get the hang of it. The one thing I notice is the quantity compared to the time frame. I cook mine for 1 hour and the fixin's are up to the top. So 45 minutes on yours would be about right considering the amount cooked and the number of mouths to feed.

Uncle Roger - I love the juice bottle idea for my moose poop recipe. I can picture the ease with a large mouth plastic bottle that can be thrown away or burnt and the time saved by cracking my eggs at home. Less mess and speeds up the morning. Besides, that bottle will just get stuck in the cooler.

 

[landrovered]

Uncle Roger,

Do you really put garlic in your eggs, yuk! I had garlic eggs by accident once it was nasty. I like dirty scrambled eggs made in the same pan as the bacon or sausage but garlic?

 

[dtl]

I am a profetional chef so needless to say I cook. There are many good ideas listed above but if you really want to make life easy do you cooking at home. Buy a cryovak machine or buy zip lock bags and reheat your pre-preped food in boiling water......No dishes!

 

[dtl]

P.S. I can't spell or type.....sorry

 

[landrovered]

I spent 15 years in the kitchen myself and know as many egg recipies as have flutes in my gros bonnet and still can't get around the garlic in eggs idea.