The best campfire meal I've ever made has got to be foil wrapped kalbasa, potatoes, and green beans.
Chop the kalbasa and potatoes to your preferred sizes (you can chop the green beans too if you want - I usually don't)
Season with some salt and pepper (I usually add garlic too)
Toss the kalbasa, potatoes, and green beans all together onto a single sheet of foil
Wrap the foil up completely in a dome shape, leaving a bit of empty space for convection.
Only thing left to do is throw it over a fire for 5-10 minutes.
The flavors meld together so well... In the summer I recreate this on my firepit and bbq in the backyard. Lol.
Vicki and I did all our meals at the rally in foil packs. We spent a couple three hours the day before we left prepping and cooking our meals. It is easyier cooking at home this way than in camp. We heated the packets in a cast aluminum pot with a wire rack in the bottom with a cup or so of water to steam packets. No prep or cook time, no cleanup afterwards either! The sky is the limit as to what you cam put in them. So good, so quick and easy! As far as we are concerned, i'ts the only way to go.
Roasted red taters, corn and brocolli. Soooo good!
Roasted reds, asparagus with smoked sausage. As Alton Brown says, GOOD EATS!
Vicki and I are going to try the whole hobo packet meals for the rally this year. I know we cant have a fire, so gonna try and use a 10 inch iron skillet with a round cake cooling rack to keep from burning foil packs. Will use camp stove for heat source. Will keep posted how that works!
It's kind of like a camping wok! That's fantastic!
Kyrin, go on you tube and type in scottle cookery. You will be amazed. So simple to cook entire meals as well as heating up foil packed ones.
I have no idea what a scottle is. Lol.
I have great plans to make my DIY version of a "scottle" and thought maybe that would be a kewl way to heat up precooked foil packet meals.
Someday, go on a trip with Tad Johnston, Hood River. His friends Chuck and Alice often come along... Alice is probably the best camping cook I've ever met! Up in the morning, and instantly making a huge breakfast for the whole group! Alice is AWESOME! :) Honestly, she just cooks up a bunch of great food, morning and evening.
True true.
That’s usually when Joyce and I break out the mason jar salads and cold cans of baked beans. Lol.
These are great! The only real problem is that by about June or so, we're often in a "no campfire" season until it starts snowing in October... :( Most of the time on my summer trips, no fires are allowed. So, I bring a stove. Even got a propane "campfire" last year so we could at least enjoy a pretend campfire. Haven't tried cooking on it yet. Doesn't seem well-suited for that task.
[drool]
It's so easy too - which is the best part about it. No on-site prep or mess, just throw it on the fire and grab some forks!
This year I'm going to try to come up with a few other "one pot" meals like this.
Have to say your RIGHT!
Vicki and I did this with steak, sliced red spuds and asparagus last weekend. Made up breakfast burritos for bfast the next morning. Started us in a whole new direction!