Fun Creative Recipes?!
Fun Creative Recipes?
I want some fun creative recipes for camping for the kids. I am already making smores, grilled pineapple, hot dogs on a stick, etc.
Answers:
Gold Miner's Packs
Ingredients:
1 package of polish sausage cut into 4 links
1 small bag of hash brown potatoes
1 small onion
4 tspns of cooking oil or butter
salt and pepper
4 pieces of aluminum foil
Directions:
Place 1 polish sausage link, 1/4 of the hash browns, 1/4 of the onion, and 1 tspn of cooking oil or butter in a piece of foil. Fold it over and seal it and place it either on the grill or in the hot coals along the edge of your campfire for about 20 to 30 minutes. When it is done, salt and pepper to taste. Easy to fix and clean up is a breeze
Orange Cup cinnamon Rolls
4 Oranges
1 Can of biscuits
Cinnamon
Powdered Sugar
Little bit of milk
Cut 1/3 of the orange off and scrape pulp from the insides of both pieces. Take 1 biscuit and mash out. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar and cinnamon and layer with another biscuit and repeat. Usually takes 2 or 3 biscuits. Roll up the layered biscuits and put into the hollowed orange. Add about a tablespoon of powdered sugar on top and a teaspoon of milk. Replace top and wrap in tin foil. Place in coal of fire for about 30 minutes. Remove, unwrap, pull top off and out pops a delicious cinnamon roll with a hint of orange
Hobo Dinners
Grocery List: Potatoes, Carrots, Onion, Hamburger, Heavy Duty Aluminum
Foil, Butter
Hint: If making several at one time, an "assembly line" with a couple
extra hands make
creating these dinners faster.
Peel & slice (1/4" thick) the potatoes, carrots and onions. Put each in
their own pot or bowl and set aside. In the potatoes add cream of tartar
and water until covered, stir until dissolved. This will keep them from
turning brown.
Make patties with the hamburger and set aside.
Tear 24 inch long aluminum foil strips. The number of strips depends on
the number of dinners you are making.
On each strip place; a hamburger patty, a handful of potatoes & carrots,
and several onion rings. On top of this
put 2 or 3 tbs. butter, salt and pepper.
With the aluminum foil laying length wise in front of you, pull up the
long sides of the strip and roll down until snug. Roll both ends until
also snug against the food.
Lay prepared dinners on grill over campfire. Turn occasionally and cook
until done.
When done unwrap and enjoy. You may eat right out of the aluminum, if
you choose to do this, you may wish to put down some "newspaper place
mats" to make clean up a snap.
Any extra veggies? Just wrap them like above and cook without the meat!
Have fun
Alphabet Biscuit Recipe
* Refrigerator Biscuits
* Melted Butter or Margarine
* Cinnamon and Sugar
* Grated Cheese
* Poppy Seeds
* Sesame Seeds
PREPARATION:
Remove one or two refrigerator biscuits at a time and form them into the shape of letters... Why not spell out your whole name? Set them on a cokie sheet.
Prepare small bowls of sesame seeds, poppy seeds, grated cheese, and/or cinnamon sugar; also put melted butter into a small bowl. Brush the biscuits with melted butter and then sprinkle with whatever treats in the bowls you want. Bake as directed on the biscuit roll package.
Eat while warm - these are great with a little peanut butter and jelly!
Confetti Bars
1 pkg. (18 oz.) NESTLé? TOLL HOUSE? Refrigerated Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bar Dough
2 cups miniature marshmallows
1 1/2 cups (about 4 oz.) milk chocolate-covered pretzels, broken into pieces
1/3 cup rainbow sprinkles
1/4 cup NESTLé? TOLL HOUSE? Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels, (optional)
Directions:
PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
PRESS cookie dough into prepared baking pan.
BAKE for 13 to 15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Sprinkle marshmallows over cookie; bake for an additional 1 to 2 minutes, or until marshmallows are puffed. Distribute pretzels, sprinkles and morsels over marshmallows; press down lightly. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars with wet knife.
"Ants on a Log" are usually a hit for campers...celery sticks fill the cavity with peanut butter and sprinkle raisins on top of the peanut butter.
If you get some pie irons
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there are a bunch of possibilities. Sliced bread, pizza sauce and pepperoni for something savory. sliced bread and apple or cherry pie filling for something sweet.
One thing that we always make when we go camping is pie iron pizzas and pie iron pies.
You need to have a pie iron to begin with, but I think they are well worth it, sometimes a bit of work, but definately good.
If you take a roll of pizza dough (bought in the same area as cresent rolls, and the like) unroll it, and cut it into 8 rectrangular pieces. Then each individual section should be stretched out so that it is a bit wider than the pie iron, and a bit longer than twice the length. Then add your filling. For pizza, there is pizza sauce, cheese, and then meat (pepperoni, sausage) and if you (or your kids) want vegetables (mushrooms, pepers). For the pies, just get a can of pie filling (cherry and blueberry seem to come standard) or make your own. Fold over the crust, and then cook in the pie iron (usually some spray is needed, like pam).
The other thing, (this one made at girl scout camp) Was essentially dough on a stick. (sorry, I forgot what we called them) if you buy or make some bread dough, then put a small glob of it on the end of a stick, then roast it over the fire. Be carefull, it can fall off (especially if you use too big of a glob). but this is part of the fun of making them, is figuring out how much to put on (and how to turn it properly to keep it from falling off)
Remember to let both of these cool before you let the kids eat them
When I was a day camp couselor, we used to make spaghetti on the campfire. Just fill a big stock pot with water, set it on the fire until it boils, throw in the pasta & cook that, then drain it and dump a jar of sauce on top of it. And here's a trick for cleaning the soot off of the outside of the pot: before you start cooking, rub the outside of the pot with a coat of dish soap. The soot will wash right off.
We love packet potatoes.
Take a piece of tin foil (not the cheapest you can find, it should have a bit of weight to it), about 12" long.
Dice potatoes (one for each person) into roughly one inch cubes.
Place onto the tin foil, at one end, and bring up about a 1/2" so that you have a very small box/container for the potatoes.
Put a good drizzle of olive oil and/or about 2T of butter/margarine cut into little bits onto the potatoes (this is why you bring up the edges - so that you don't get olive oil all over the place). Add some of the following on top: garlic, dried minced onions, basil, oregano, curry powder. Choose the things you like.
Then, fold the other half of the tin foil onto the potatoes, crimp the edges up so that you have made a packet of potatoes.
Place the packet directly onto the grill. Depending on the heat of your fire, you'll want to grill between 10-15 mins per side. Your goal is crispy but not burnt.
You could also make one packet per person and your kids could flavour however they want to. Obviously, this is a car camping, rather than a backpacking recipe, since it's ingredient heavy.
It's fun and yummy!