how elaborate do you get cooking when teardroppin?

[bdosborn]

You need to go to a teardrop gathering. Teardroppers eat good!



Look at all these people upset over the food.



Bruce

[Mukilteo]

I don't spend any more time than I have to fixing meals.
I keep it simple and quick.
I usually eat out of the pot it was prepared in so I have fewer things to wash.
It should be obvious that I solo camp.

[caseydog]

Slow, if you are not a good cook, don't try to make things that are hard to cook.

I eat very well when I camp, but I love to cook. I did a lot of the cooking even when I was married.

One thing that makes my camp cooking easier, is preparing at home. Any chef will tell you that the first rule to good cooking is to prepare all your ingredients BEFORE you start cooking. With camp cooking, much of that prep can be done at home.

I like a good country breakfast when I camp. I cut up my veggies, portion my sausage and cheese, and even crack my eggs into a Gladware type container at home, and pack it in the cooler. When breakfast time comes, it is easy to cook a killer breakfast.

Invest in a Foodsaver vacuum sealer. I use mine to vacuum seal chicken that is seasoned and ready to toss on the grill. I can freeze the chicken in the vacuum bag, and by the time I am ready to cook, it is thawed out. That is one of my most popular pot luck dishes at gatherings.

Stir fries are easy when camping. Prep all your ingredients, and put them in individual zip-lock sandwich bags. The, when you are ready to cook, it is a matter of dumping food into a hot pan with some oil, and stirring.

If you are not a skilled cook (yet), then keep it simple -- and PREP IN ADVANCE!!!

Same goes for waffles, which are easy once you get the hang of it, but hard if you are "culinarily challenged." DO NOT start to cook until everything is ready. Get your batter ready, THEN turn on the heat and get your waffle iron up to temperature. THEN you can cook your waffles.

One step at a time. ONE step at a time.

CD

[PKCSPT]

Sandwhiches usually, cereal for breakfast or sandwich. Dinner I might get my little hand held grill thing and do a hamburger patty or stab a hot dog. If I am camping I don't want to cook or clean up after.

or I sneak off with my kids who like to make fresh caught fish. Even easier.

[doug hodder]

I eat better and more extravagant camping than at home. Doug

[madjack]

...by ourselves...Little Debby for breakfast and a samitch for lunch...some sort for grilling/barBque for supper...try for one pot items to keep cleanup to a minimum...

...a gathering...47 dutch ovens with anything you can think of for breakfast...too full for lunch...gumbo/jambalaya/etoufee/etc for 150 or about that many pot luck items for supper...

...it all depends on what you're doin'.................................
madjack

[Gage]

I don't cook. Come meal time, I walk around to the different camp sites with my trusty tool kit and sample. I never starve.

[stumphugger]

I like hotdogs roasted over a campfire with a side dish of chips and salsa. If I'm near a town, and it has a bakery, I like to go get real donuts for breakfast. I live in a place that has no bakery so it is Hostess or nothing....I prefer nothing.

[caseydog]

thanks for the great replises folks and the wonderful advise. i think even this summer camping season will be a nother learner seasion even.

slowcowboy. caseydog I was wondering last month about how easy one could do a stir fry. sounds like its not that bad. I am going to give that one a try. great advise too.

Stir frying is really easy. All you need is a decent non-stick pan. The trick is, like I said before, get all your ingredients cut up and ready before you turn on the heat. Then, spray a little PAM on your non-stick pan, and dump your meats in first, then your veggies, and stir, stir, stir, until it looks done.

It is hard to go wrong.

CD

[caseydog]

I don't cook. Come meal time, I walk around to the different camp sites with my trusty tool kit and sample. I never starve.

So, I guess I need to make a little extra when I cook at LCG6.

CD

[bdosborn]

Cobbler and a DO. It doesn't get any easier than that:



West slope peaches. Yummmm.

Bruce

[Maverick71]

Howdy,

I like fresh road kill the best. No need to take meat along when one can find it fresh on the road.

Usually, I carry a spray can of phosphorescent orange or green so if I can slow down enough to spray the road kill when I go by, I know that when I double back to get it around supper time, I can always find it with the head lignts.

Sometimes it is good to leave it marinate all day long in the hot sun.

Vension steaks are my favorite. The scavengers can have the rabbit, racoon, skunk, possum, squirel and wild boar; but pheasant under glass is real good with the trimmings.

Take care,
Maury

[GPW]

A little 90wt keeps those waffles from sticking ...

[pete42]

I like Gage's idea mooch.....
I can't afford his fancy food kit so I'll use plastic stuff from McDonalds it's free if no one is looking...........

[Gage]

I like Gage's idea mooch.....
I can't afford his fancy food kit so I'll use plastic stuff from McDonalds it's free if no one is looking...........

I can't either. A fellow teardropper saw it at a garage sale and gave it to me as a gift. I also used to use plastic from McDonalds.