Camping Recipes
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Smortillas
Roast a marshmallow as you normally would but instead of sandwiching it between two graham crackers, use tortillas instead. Salty, sweet, crunchy, gooey all at the same time! So good, but should come with a warning: highly addictive!
Ilana Balint, Seattle
Yurt Camping with Best Friend’s Family
Day 2
Rise and shine and pop in a stick of chewing gum in lieu of tooth brushing. Take two huge pulls from gallon water jug. Start coffee. Feed your two children half a banana each and pour Cheerios into the one coffee mug you can find and use the leftover Starbucks cup from the car for the less picky kid.
Use leftover Cheerios milk as creamer and pour coffee. Drink it all. Pour second cup. Begin the REAL breakfast.
• Leftover chicken breast from last night’s dinner. Chopped.
• Use the leftovers of last night’s onion you used for tacos.
• Half bag of spinach.
Cook down enough to stir in 4– 6 eggs.
• Salt and pepper. Oodles of your favorite cheese. Plop it into a tortilla and douse with salsa.
Next cup of coffee has Bailey’s. Then the cards get shuffled and day two begins. Kids are riding bikes in their jammies and boots and you don’t need to move for another hour. It is now barely 7:30 a.m. and your kids are playing rooster for the neighbors. Life is good in Oregon. Thank goodness the kids are FINALLY old enough to sleep through the night, pee in the woods, and seek out marshmallow sticks, frogs, and magic fairy houses all day long!
Not exactly a recipe for food, more like a recipe for a relaxing vacation for parents and kids of a certain age . . .
Rebecca Miller
Beaverton, Ore.
Orange Cakes
Ingredients
• 1 box Jiffy cake mix (if you want vanilla orange, use the yellow. If you want chocolate orange, use the chocolate mix)
• 6 large oranges
• Water and an egg (Or not! We forgot and just added some extra water and it still worked fine.)
• Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil
Directions
Cut the oranges in half and spoon out the orange guts, while not wrecking the peels. The cake is going to cook inside the peels, so scrape nicely!
Make the cake batter per the instructions on the box.
Fill 6 orange shell halves full of cake mix, stick the other half of the orange back on top and wrap in foil.
Chuck the whole thing in the fire and bake in hot coals or on grill about 20 – 30 minutes, turning often. Pull one out at 20 minutes and see how it’s doing. If it’s not done, re-wrap and toss back in.
Libby Mongue-Wymore
LaCenter, Wash.
Dutch Oven Taco Soup
See photo above by Liz Sapp
Ingredients
• 1 pound ground beef or ground turkey (meat is optional)
• Half of a medium onion (chopped)
• Taco seasoning packet
• 1-8 oz. can tomato sauce
• 4 oz. water
• 1-15 oz. can chopped stewed tomatoes (plain)
• 1-15 oz. can corn, w/juice
• 1-15 oz. can black beans (drained), 2 cans for big eaters
• 1-15 oz. can kidney beans (drained)
• 1-15 oz. can pinto beans (drained)
• 1 can (small) green chilies
• Grated cheddar cheese
• Tortilla chips
• Sour cream (optional)
• Fresh cilantro (optional)
Directions
Brown ground beef in pan; drain. Add the onions and cook for a few minutes to soften. Add seasoning packet and tomato sauce; then fill the 8 oz. can with water and add. Stir in stewed tomatoes, corn with liquid, drained beans and simmer over coals until heated through. Can cook in a 12-inch-deep Dutch oven with 15 coals on the top, and 8 on the bottom for about 30 minutes or use a crockpot or big pot on the stove.
Serve
Serve topped with grated cheese, crumbled chips, a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of chopped cilantro.
Enjoy! Very easy to enlarge for crowds.
Liz Sapp,
Pasco, Wash.
EXTRamen
• 2 packs of Shin Ramyun (similar to ramen but more spicy)
• 1 can of coconut milk
• 1 can of salmon or shrimp
Mix ingredients, heat, and eat.
Andy Pelz
Seattle
Adventure Goonie Squad Stir-Fry
Ingredients
• 1 handful of squash
• 1 handful of fingerling potatoes
• 1 handful of mushrooms
• 1 handful of boiler onions
• 1 handful of green onions
• 1 handful of smoked salmon
Directions
Chop all ingredients. Combine the first four ingredients in a small frying pan with a splash of olive oil over a one burner camp stove. Stir diligently until cooked. Add green onions and smoked salmon at the end, and heat until warm.
Cameron Preston
Bothell, Wash.
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