Camping is all about roughing it and being able to enjoy the great outdoors. Listed below are a few good recipes to help you do just that.

Biscuits on a Stick

Ingredients:

1 can biscuits

squeeze butter

1 stick

Preparation:

Roll out a biscuit with your hands so that it becomes elongated and about one inch thick at the center. Wrap it tightly around the end of your stick and pinching it as you go to insure that it stays on the stick while cooking. When done wrapping, the biscuit should take up about six inches of the stick. Heat over the campfire until golden brown. Pull it off the stick, pour butter down the hole left by the stick, and enjoy.

Tips:

Spruce it up by sprinkling cinnamon or sugar over your buttered biscuit. Or for a good addition to your dinner, sprinkle garlic powder over it.

Fish on a Stick

Ingredients:

Fish fillets

Your favorite seasoning

Hardwood stick

Preparation:

Thread the stick through the fish. Coat with seasoning. Cook over hot coals. Cook both sides until fish flakes at the thickest part.

Tips:

Serve with foil wrapped potatoes.

Steak Kabobs

Ingredients:

Pre-marinated steak cut into 1 inch cubes

Skewers

Cut up vegetable of your choice; i.e. bell peppers, onions

Preparation:

Alternate beef and vegetables on metal or wooden skewers. Grill over hot coals for 10-15 minutes until cooked. Turn and rotate often.

Tips:

Use cut up fruits with or in place of the veggies. Examples would be: pineapples or apples.

Apple Pie on a Stick

Ingredients:

1 Jonathan or Rome apple for each person
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon

Preparation:

Push a stick or dowel through the apple top until the apple is secure on the stick. Place the apple 2 or 3 inches above the hot coals and turn the apple while roasting it. As the apple cooks, the skin browns and the juice drips out. When the skin is loose, remove the apple from the fire (but leave it on the stick). Peel the hot skin off very carefully.

Combine sugar and cinnamon. Roll the apple in the sugar-cinnamon mixture, then return it to roast over the coals, letting the mixture heat to form a glaze around the apple. Remove from coals and let it cool.

Angel Food Cake

Ingredients:

Loaf of Italian Bread cut into six pieces (or more)

1 can of Sweet & Condensed Milk (Not evaporated milk!)

Flaked Coconut

Preparation:

Take the pieces of italian bread and cover with sweet & condensed milk, then roll in coconut. Put on a stick and slowly cook over the fire until nice and lightly browned. Enjoy! They really do taste like Angel Food Cake.

Tips:

Instead of coconut, you can roll your bread in finely chopped nuts or dried fruit.

Pigs in a Blanket

5 Servings

Ingredients:

10 hot dogs, (1 package)

10 refrigerated buttermilk biscuits, (1 tube)

cheese, (optional)

Preparation:

Wrap a biscuit around each hot dog, pinching the edges together. (Both ends of the hotdog will stick out.) Roast on a roasting fork (or stick) over hot coals (NOT flames) for 10-15 minutes, or until biscuit is baked and golden. Be patient and don’t get the hot dog too close to the hot coals or the biscuit will be done on the outside before it is on the inside.

Tips:

You can split the hot dog and put cheese in it before wrapping the biscuit around it. Just be careful your cheese doesn’t all run out before your biscuit is done.

Normally when imagining what food to make while camping, you think of fire-grilled and easy. Before going on your camping trip, a few ways to make the cooking process easier would be to make a list of recipes to shop with and be sure to keep it simple and nutritious. Listed below are a few quick recipes to tempt your tastebuds:

Apple waffle-wich

2 frozen waffles, toasted on a skillet, cooled

1 cheese slice

6 slices shaved smoked ham(or other prefered lunchmeat)

1/2 small apple, sliced

Maple-flavored or pancake syrup

Make It

TOP 1 waffle with cheese, ham and apple slices. Cover with second waffle.

USE syrup as dipping sauce.

Other tips

Apple Waffle Melt

Prepare as directed and then grill in a skillet for approximately 30 seconds on each side.

Pizza-dilla

1 flour tortilla (6 inch)

1 Tbsp. pizza sauce

1/4 cup mozzarella cheese

Pepperoni or canadian bacon slices

Make It

SPREAD tortilla with pizza sauce.

TOP with remaining ingredients; fold in half.

Grill on skillet for approx. one minute on each side or until cheese begins to melt.

Other Tips

Prepare as directed, but do not grill on skillet.

Special Extra

Add chopped leftover cooked chicken to the other filling ingredients before grilling as directed.

Pepperjack Quesadillas

Prepare as directed, using pepperjack cheese slices. Serve with salsa, if desired.

Steak on a Stick

strip steak

favorite seasoning

Make It

You can use sharpened sticks or long-handled double prong skewers. Thread strip steak onto stick/skewer, lightly season, roast over coals until preferred doneness. Prepare with foil-baked potatoes and vegetables.

Other Tips

This can also be served on a hoagie bun with cheese and veggies.

Doughboys

Pillsbury Doughboy Crescent Rolls

Butter

Your favorite dessert or fruit filling(ex: chocolate syrup, jelly, apple sauce, etc.)

Tin Foil

Make It

While it is still light out you need to hunt for the perfect stick. A doughboy stick needs to be about 1 - 1 1/2 inches thick and long enough to hold over the fire.

Wrap the end of the stick in tin foil. Butter the foil.

Unravel the dough so that you get several triangles of dough. Each triangle is a separate doughboy, unless you want to make a super big one. Wrap the dough around the foil making sure that there are no holes and pinch the end closed.

Toast the dough in the fire.

Make sure you don’t lose it in the fire. You want the dough to be a nice golden brown on the top. When the dough is cooked you should be able to slip it off the stick.

Fill the dough with your favorite topping or filling.

Other Tips

Be creative; you can even mix in some nuts or raisins with your favorite filling.

For some great dutch oven recipes, check out the The Geezer Cookbook by Dwayne Pritchett.

The cookbook has over 350 recipes that Dwayne compiled into an electronic format and which you can download and print for FREE! All you need to be able to download and print the cookbook is Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Dwayne was a Scoutmaster who loved Dutch Oven cooking and spicy foods. Like many of us, he collected recipes on various scraps of paper. Dwayne eventually decided to compile his recipes and share them with his fellow Scouts and Scoutmasters.

Dwayne passed away in August of 1995 after batting cancer. Mark Michalski, who had the opportunity to know Dwayne “Medicine Man” Pritchitt is sharing Dwayne’s story and recipes so his spirit of friendship and sharing can continue on.

You can download and print the cookbook, and also continue the spirit of sharing by letting others know about the cookbook.

There are recipes for appetizers, breads, desserts, breakfast, main dishes (from beef to pork to chicken to fish and other seafood to venison), salads (the dutch oven isn’t needed for every salad but there’s some great salad dressings you can make in the dutch oven), sandwiches, pasta and rice, gravies and sauces, soups, vegetables, and there’s a great “hints and tips” section that first time dutch oven cooks as well as experienced dutch oven cooks will find helpful.

Some of the recipes in the cookbook include: Geezer Come and Get it (a yummy dip), firebird casserole (spicy), armadillo eggs (an armadillo free recipe!), road kill stew (for venison lovers), monkey bread (made from scratch and a little time consuming but who doesn’t love fresh, warm bread?), camper’s breakfast (made with Spam, a favorite of my husband’s), black bear chili (no black bears, just black beans and flank steak), and blackberry cobbler (if you’ve never eaten blackberry cobbler, you’re missing out).

I’ve been doing dutch oven cooking on my camping trips for a little over a year and I love it. The food is great. With a little dutch oven know-how there’s no need to eat burgers, hot dogs, and marshmallows your entire camping trip (unless you want to).

To great this great FREE cookbook, go to macscouter.com.