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[Bobbie Mayer]

Dinner, fairly quick cooking over a fire or gas burner, preferably one pot. Not too hearty (NOT stew or chili, for example.) Something lighter or different?

Any ideas?

[Glenn Baglo]

You buy a bagged Caesar salad or romaine hearts and tear them up yourself.
Grill a chicken breast that's been marinated in Italian dressing, cut it up, drop it on top of the lettuce, add dressing and call it dinner.

Or you can sub prawns for the chicken, quickly sauteed ( about three minutes ) in a dab of butter and splash of olive oil. Use whatever you like to spice the prawns. I use Clubhouse Cajun marinade.

Wipe out the non-stick pan with a paper towel and use it to start a campfire.

[knighth001]

Stuffed pork chops is a favorite of mine. I usually use box stuffing cause it's easy. Butterfly the chops. Mix up the stuffing to your liking. I sometimes add applesauce and cut up apples to my stuffing.

Fill the chops and close with a toothpick. Place in a pan or Dutch oven, pour extra stuffing around and cover with pork gravy. If not using an oven or Dutch oven, you may need to flip the chops to cook evenly.

I've done the chops stuffed on the grill and the extra stuffing in a pot on the side too.

[Steve Hammel]

Cook a bunch of rice before you head out put it in bags and freeze it. Bring soy sauce and your favorite ingredients/meats. I lean towards veggies. Fried rice is quick, easy, lite, yummy, and forgiving. I use lots of finely chopped carrots, celery for crunch, broccoli, soy sauce, sometimes an egg, chicken, pork, or beef.

[Bobbie Mayer]

Fried rice might be a good idea. Someone else is making salad so that's out, and I don't like pork chops. Oh, but the prawns reminds me of a good meal I had once, if I can remember what else was in it. They sauteed the prawns in a honey sauce and did something... lol, I guess that's the only part I remember.

[Glenn Baglo]

You didn't say it was for a pot luck.

As a minister's kid, I had my fill of pot luck suppers so I have nothing to offer.
Can't even pray for you.

baglo

[carlkeigley]

Originally Posted by Glenn Baglo

You didn't say it was for a pot luck.

As a minister's kid, I had my fill of pot luck suppers so I have nothing to offer.
Can't even pray for you.

baglo

As a pastor I have nothing to offer either.............ROFL.
Sometimes you have to just swallow the stuff.......

[Bobbie Mayer]

Not a potluck, just a few of us camping together. Sort of potluck in that one person wanted salad so is bringing it. I decided to make Reubens. Trader Joes has some delicious corned beef (Precooked) and that will be easy and quick and filling.

PS, Carl, don't worry about the meal, but pray for low pollen counts! Otherwise I may not know or care what I'm eating.

[Francesca Knowles]

I always make this taco/burrito/you name it thing when we group camp. I don't know what to call it since it can be served on taco shells, wraps, or our preference, those crispy flat corn tortillas.

In an iron skillet, brown a couple pounds of ground beef, drain grease, add a can of refried beans and a jar of salsa.

Just before serving cover the whole top with shredded cheese.

Put the skillet on the picnic table with bowls of lettuce, chopped tomatoes/onions/etc, and whatever else you might want and let folks build their own.

It'll stay hot quite awhile in the skillet and makes a pretty good cold dip even if it does cool down!

Serves up to eight hungry people and simple enough to easily multiply for bigger crowds.

Francesca

[honda03842]

Chicken and dumplings using a precooked chicken and refrigerated rolls. Fast and very good.

[stevebaz]

One of our camp favorites Sauteed Mushrooms and sweet onions. Butter, sweet onions, button cap mushrooms, ground sea salt and pepper. Large pan 1/4 stick butter start cooking the onions they take the longest when onions start to turn clear add mushrooms and more butter. Turn and stir while cooking until the mushrooms cook down. I usually use 1 medium onion to 2 baskets of mushrooms. cut the mushrooms in half and slice the onion 3/8 thick and then quartered.
Warning when done put your mushrooms on your plate first before submitting to the potluck they go fast.
Next time you go camping you will need a bigger pan and more ingredients.
it gets kinda out of hand when the pan gets around 18 inches and you still run out.
another variation start frying with a couple pieces of bacon chopped up and when mostly done start the butter an onions.

[Bobbie Mayer]

The taco dish sounds great but one of the other people is doing burritos on her night. The mushrooms sound great, too! Dumplings I think are too slow to cook without a dutch oven. (Though they also sound great.) (Is it lunchtime yet?)

[Francesca Knowles]

Hey, Bobby!

Here's my "Italian" version of the taco dish:

Small meatballs heated in spaghetti sauce with grated parmesan on top. (Homemade meatballs are easy but time consuming... do NOT hesitate to buy a bag at Costco )

The skillet goes on the table next to hard rolls of some kind that have been hollowed out just enough to make room for a meatball or two and a dollop of sauce. This one will go a long way due to the "fill factor" of the bread!

The hollowing out can be skipped if one's in a hurry, but it does make for a nice presentation.

Francesca

[carlkeigley]

We can take what we call a taco salad that always becomes an empty bowl.
Basically a large bowl of salad with Ranch Style beans (well drained) which can be prepared ahead of time. Then just before serving add Fritos and Catalina Dressing.
Doesn't seem to matter what the theme is. And then there's the Potato Salad & Deviled Eggs. Might be risky in hot weather.

[honda03842]

Bobbie, the chicken and dumplins is literally a 20 minute meal including the dumplings.

We attempt to use some pre-prepared food when we do our cooking, like a grocery store roasted chicken in this case.

Most of our time is out somewhere exploring the area. When we want a meal we want it quick and tasty. Except for breakfast, we don't cook in the same style we do when home.

We have also used the meal for a potluck.

Another item we carry is smoked salmon, usually we have 4 8oz packets. They seem to keep forever without refigeration. A quick meal is smoked salmon cream sauce over fettucinni.

We have also used the salmon to make salmon cakes with a green salad, also fast and easy.

We have also used our slow cooker to make a gigantic blueberry muffin when we're somehow bound to the trailer.

[Bobbie Mayer]

Oh, I like the smoked salmon creamed sauce idea. Thanks!

[honda03842]

Bobbie,

We're big user of the Allrecipes android app. I like it because there's always a lot of reviews where people describe what they did to improve or modify the recipe.

As well have a slow cooker app. The slower cooker is really more capable than I ever imagined.

We eat a solid breakfast every mornnig and usually one other meal is pbandj. My favorite varient is pb&j buttered and toasted in a frying pan with a half banana inside.

[Bobbie Mayer]

No electric on this trip. Slow cooker would be a good idea otherwise.

Lots of good future ideas, though.

[Dudley]

Here is two you can try. We had them on our last camping trip and they were quite good. Dudley's other half
Skillet Macaroni and Cheese

camping
1 pound hamburger
salt and pepper
4 cups Water
1 can evaporated skim milk
1 teaspoon Salt
2 cups macaroni; uncooked
8 ounces cheese
3 tablespoons mustard
Brown crumbed hamburger in skillet. Drain fat and remove to foil.
Combine seasonings, water, milk and bring to boil. Add macaroni. Cook covered 15 minutes.
Add cheese, mustard and browned hamburger. Stir until cheese is melted.
Top each serving with snipped parsley. Serve with carrot sticks.
Notes: One Burner Gourmet Yield: 3-4 servings Preparation Time: 00:30
Spanish Rice

camping
bacon; diced
onion slices
1 can tomato soup
1 can Water
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 cup white rice; uncooked
Dice a few strips of bacon and sauté with onion slices.
Add tomato soup, water, sugar, salt and pepper. Add uncooked rice and team, covered 25-30 minutes.
Variation: use Italian sausage rather than bacon.
Notes: One Burner Gourmet Preparation Time: 1:00

[tristinamullins]

sounds wonderful im gonna try it bet kids will love it super easy too!