Camping
Cooking at camp
Some ideas to get your campground menu-planning started
Spending time in the great outdoors is a great way to work up an appetite. But if you’re camping, you want to keep things simple — meals that require just a few ingredients and are easy to prepare without a lot of fancy (or heavy, especially if you’re hiking or backpacking) equipment. That doesn’t mean, however, that you’re stuck eating hotdogs, S’mores and beans from a can for every meal. Here are some recipes from Colorado Parks and Wildlife to help get your menu planning started.
Trail Mix
Prep time: 10 mins Total time: 10 mins Servings: 2 – add more ingredients for bigger groups as needed Ingredients: • 2 cups chocolate chips • 1 cup almonds • 1 cup raisins Barr Lake State Park / Colorado Parks and Wildlife • 1 cup banana chips Take your camp cooking beyond S’mores with some recipes that are great for the campground. • 1 cup dry cereal • 1 cup dried apricots or cranberries in a small-unused garbage bag, Add pasta and boil until pasta is tables and meat through the woodInstructions: Use a bowl to mix shake the bag and serve! tender. Serve with French bread en skewers and squeeze lemon all ingredients together. Use small and butter. over kabobs right before grilling. plastic bags to portion out trail mix Macaroni Soup for your hike. Kabobs Chili Cheese Dogs Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 20 mins Prep time: 30 mins Prep time: 15 mins Garbage Bag Salad Total time: 25 mins Cook time:1 hour Cook time:15 mins Prep time: 5 mins Servings: 4 Total time: 90 mins Total time:30 mins Cook time: 5 mins Ingredients: QUICK TIP: Assemble the QUICK TIP: Chop onions and Total time: 10 mins • 2 pounds of ground beef (or kabobs at home to save on prep shred cheese and put in plastic Servings: 4 – add more ingrediother meat, chicken or turkey) time, soaked skewers will not bags and refrigerate until needed ents for bigger groups as needed • 1 quart of water burn, smaller pieces of meat will at campground. Ingredients: • 2 cans of stewed tomatoes cook faster! Servings: As needed • 1 bag of prewashed spinach or • 1 medium onion Servings: 8 Ingredients: mixed greens • 4 handfuls of pasta Ingredients: • Hotdogs • Sprinkle a desired amount of • Salt and pepper to taste • Wooden skewers • Buns seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower • French bread • 2 lbs. boneless skinless chick• Chili (canned or homemade) seeds, • Butter en breasts • Shredded cheddar cashews, sliced almonds, etc.) Instructions: Put meat in a • 2 lbs. sirloin tips • Chopped onions • Dried cranberries medium sized pot with water. Cut • 2 bell peppers (red or green) • Mustard • Sliced carrots or cucumber onion into small pieces and add • 2 large onions • Relish • Choice of salad dressing (blue with canned tomatoes to the pot. • 1 lemon Instructions: Grill as many hotcheese, ranch, balsamic vinegar, Bring all ingredients to a boil. Use Instructions: Cut the chicken dogs as desired for the number of etc.) a spoon to break up meat and cook and beef up into pieces, slice up people in your camping party. Heat Instructions: Put all ingredients until meat turns brown. See COOKING, pg. 19 onion and bell peppers, place vege18 • APRIL 17, 2021 • OUTDOORS 2021 SPRING/SUMMER • PRAIRIE MOUNTAIN MEDIA
