Camping and food

Two things that go hand in hand as good camping and food. It seems like our appetite on their all-time high for the sake of the exercise and fresh air. If children or young adults go together, pack enough!

After years of camping in the great Northwest, we have several recipes and foods that are a must for found or trips and I thought I would then share with you-who knows, one of them can become one of your favorites like in our family and friends.

We always take a large cooler and fill in the according to the size of the crowd. When friends arrive, they have also done the same thing-the more variety in food, the merrier. We also had a riverfront property that we owned and were able to keep a propane stove with a flat top and BBQ there so we don't have to pack them back and forth.

Usually we just hot dogs and sausages from mild to spicy that we roaster over the campfire. This was a lot easier than travel after work and having to make a great meal.

We serve breakfast every morning-seems that young'uns are always super hungry after their night sleep. We serve mostly eggs, sausage, bacon (we make enough of hamburgers later in the day), and potatoes. One of our favorites was created by a friends who combined tater tots, cheese, crumbled bacon and green onions in a casserole dish and baked. We don't know why it tasted so good that different than it was not a breakfast we had to make, or the tastes just perfectly overflowing. The best cheese is a Mexican mix of cheese available in the shop. For and extra kick, just use peppered bacon and pepper jack cheese.

Lunches varied widely. Everyone's favorite was what became known as the "River citizen". We usually warmed up the bacon on the flat top. Using the bacon fat, we saut ed mushrooms and onions (kind of like what you get on the stock exchange county would). We then the balls on the flat top baked and after turning them over, slice (s) cheese to put and let it melt. The citizens were messy, but excellent after stacking it all on a roll.

Other lunches ran the gamut of sliced cheese and deli meats for sandwiches, BBQ ribs and potato salad or beans, left on prime rib sandwiches of the evening before.

Dinner-more recipes here than I can show. Our labor day meal was always done at the prime rib BBQ and slowly cooked over wood, charcoal and apple, until the internal temperature up to 150 degrees. We would then take-off of the BBQ and the tent with foil for hours.

Another favorite was the shrimp boil with pearl onions, small red potatoes, and pieces of fresh maize still on the ear. This was very easy to cook. Fill a large stock pot about half full with water and use an old Bay Seasoning pack (or more if you spicy foods), and cayenne pepper to the choice of heat. Just dump it into the water. Start the potatoes cooking. When it is about half done, throw in the ears of corn, then the pearl onions. When almost add your shrimp and cook until shrimp are pink.

The funniest was coating the top of a table with newspaper and casting the entire works that on the table in a large hill. That way everyone sat around the table and helped themselves. The corn on the cob is great and the herbs seem to settle in around each kernel of corn.

Another favorite was what choices of ribs that we wanted to use. I marinated them in a mixture of soy sauce, honey, rice wine vinegar, chopped garlic, chili oil and sesame oil. The marinade should a salty and sweet taste at the same time. The ribs dump in the marinade, put them in the refrigerator for 4-7 days. Then they are ready for the BBQ and a simply the best ribs you'll ever have. You can also get some of the marinade for dipping sauce boil. This marinade also works well for flank or skirt steak (you only have them for a few hours-then BBQ marinade).

These are some of our favorites like camping. Try them and allows them to some of your Favorites, too. Yet there are so many choices, and so little time.

If you try them, please respond to campingsupplyoutlet.com and let us know.

By Susan Anderson
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Susan Anderson
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