Breakfast

Pita Pocket Breakfast

• 1 lb sausage (pork, turkey or ground beef)
• 1 medium onion, minced
• 6 Pita breads, medium
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 bell pepper, diced
• 12 eggs, beaten
• 1 jar salsa

Pre-heat Dutch Oven (@12 coals on the bottom). Brown sausage drain fat, saving 2 TBS. Stir in onion, garlic, pepper, sauté with sausage. Add eggs, sausage fat and cook together until eggs are scrambled. Spoon into Pita Pockets top with salsa to taste. (Hints: Brown sausage and sauté garlic onions and peppers in advance, refrigerate or freeze in Ziplock bags. Add 2 TBS of Olive Oil when cooking in camp in lieu of sausage fat. This will save time and reduce the sausage fat that will need to dispose of).

Lunch

A Novel Way to Cook a Haut Dawg

A hot dog cooking idea that I'd never heard of before: Have each camper bring an empty carton of milk, 1-quart or 1/2 gallon. Place hot dog in bun. Wrap in tin foil. Put in milk carton, and place carton in fire circle or other safe burn spot. Light top of carton. By the time the carton is burnt to ground, THE HOT DOG IS COOKED!!

Add chips and a drink.

Dinner

Rocky Mountain Baked Beans

• 2 cans pork and beans (1 pound 13 ounce size)
• 1 pound lean bacon, cut in pieces
• 2 medium onions, cut in chunks
• 2 large green peppers, cut in chunks
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 cup catsup
• 1 cup brown sugar

Combine all ingredients and put in large Dutch oven. Bake,  covered at 325 F for 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Uncover the last 30 minutes of cooking.

Marinated Flank Steak

• 1 flank steak
• 1 small bottle soy sauce
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 cup hot water

Mix thoroughly, marinate steak over-night. Cook over charcoal fire, about 6-7 minutes each side. Slice thinly on angle against grain.

Walking Salad

• one large apple
• some sort of salad dressing
• some sort of nuts
• toothpicks (optional)

Chop the top off, core and scoop out the inside of the apple, leaving a 1/4 inch shell. Throw away the core, chop up the apple scoopings, mix with nuts and salad dressing. Put it all back in the apple, put the top back on the apple (with toothpick if necessary). Eat as you would an apple.

Desert

Banana Boat

• 1 firm but ripe banana
• chocolate chips, about 1/4 cup per banana
• mini marshmallows, again about 1/4 cup per banana
• nuts, but why complicate things

Slice the banana down the middle lengthwise, skin and all, not cutting all the way through the skin on the opposite side. Place banana in a piece of foil large enough to wrap around the banana. Sprinkle the chocolate chips and marshmallows (and nuts) into the middle cut of the banana. Seal the whole thing with foil. Place down in the coals of a grill for about ten-fifteen minutes. Unwrap and eat.

Snacks

Granola

Make at home to take on camping trip.

• 5 cups non-instant oatmeal
• 1 cup sesame seeds,raw
• 1 cup sunflower seeds, raw and shelled
• 1 cup wheat germ
• 1 cup honey
• 1 cup peanut oil
• 1 cup powdered milk
• 1 cup slivered almonds
• 1 cup Soya flour or soybean flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

Mix and bake on cookie sheets at 275 F for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Page Revised 03/27/2010