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Recipes for the Outdoors

Recipes for the Outdoors

Many of the outdoor activities have some element of food to them. While food is a necessary part of outdoor activities such as backpacking and family camping, it is also a fun and exciting activity. Some of the recipes do not require very much preparation whereas some of the outdoor recipes have some challenges.

Make Your Own GORP - GORP Recipe

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GORP is an acronym for Good Old Raisons & Peanuts and it may be called Trail Mix. This is the simplest recipe for kids and it requires very little supervision by adults. The ingredients listed below are suggestions and you should substitute whatever your family likes. Just because the name says peanuts and raisons, it does not mean you must include those in your mix. The point of the mix is to create an energy snack that be be consumed while on the trail hiking. GORP is excellent for backpacking since it can provide a steady stream of energy while calories are being used at a high rate.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Gather all packaged ingredient items
  2. Open the packaging for each item and place on kitchen table
  3. Place large mixing bowl in middle of kitchen table with a large wooden spoon in it
  4. Have each child dump a liberal amount of each item into the bowl
  5. Let each kid have a chance at mixing the ingredients into the bowl
  6. Serve up batches in quart-sized zip-top bags writing each person's name on the outside of the bag in permanent marker.

Trail Pizza

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This is a favorite for the boys while backpacking. It has little bit of weight to carry in order to prepare it. However, it is well worth it for the enjoyment of this type of food while out in the wild. If you are backpacking, you will need to pack the mozzarella and pita bread carefully.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Put your frying pan on your backpacking stove on a low setting
  2. Drizzle a small amount of oil in frying pan
  3. Place whole pita in frying pan
  4. Add sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni on top
  5. Place foil tightly over top of skillet (or lid if you have one)
  6. Cook after several minutes paying attention not to burn the bottom

Lightweight Chicken Noodle Soup

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This is a better option than packing any cans of soup as it is a fairly lightweight and tasty alternative.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Measure water into pot according to noodle packets
  2. Add dry ingredients
  3. Bring to boil
  4. Add chicken from foil packet

Dutch Oven Apple Dumplings

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This is a car camping favorite along with s'mores below. Cooking with a dutch over cooking using a campfire has many possibilities. This is one of the simpler ones. A dutch oven is usually a large cast iron pot with a solid lid and thick wire handle. You cook in it by creating hot coals in your campfire then placing the dutch oven directly into the coals. You also take some coals and place them on the lid generating heat from above and below. Be careful not to get ashes in food if checking the contents while in fire. Use large branch through carrying handle to move oven in and out of fire.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Peel and cut up apples into wedges
  2. Spray inside dutch oven with canola oil
  3. Mix apples, water, sugar, and cinnamon then pour into dutch oven
  4. Make biscuit mix in separate bowl
  5. Spoon drop 1/4 cup amounts of biscuits across top of apples
  6. Liberally place pats of butter throughout the mix and on biscuits
  7. Place in fire with plenty of coals on top for 30 minutes or biscuits golden brown on top

How to make the camping classic S'mores

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Oh yeah! S'mores have to be the most famous of camping of treats. Everyone tends to have their own method for roasting a perfect marshmallow. With children be careful of flame outs, dropsies, and burnt tongues. The roasting skewers are not swords or lightsabers. The best method for a hot, crispy, golden brown marshmallow is to stay far away from flames and slowly rotate it near the hot coals.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Lay out graham cracker square with chocolate bars before roasting marshmallows
  2. Attach marshmallow securely to long stick
  3. Roast marshmallow
  4. Squeeze marshmallow off of stick by making graham cracker and chocolate sandwich around it
  5. Enjoy!

 

by Ana and Johnny 4/1/2009

 

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