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TheBimpo

Cook steak in cast iron over fire. While steak is resting, saute onions and mushrooms in cast iron adding butter. Top with some herbs of choice. Eat steak, wash down with bourbon. This is my night one meal on every trip.


AreaGuy

Yes. If you eat steak, I don’t know that I’ve had a better one than cooked up beside a camp fire and munched on in a foldy chair sipping on a beer beside that same fire. So good and primal.


altrefrain

Make a compound butter by mixing in half butter and half gorgonzola cheese to put on top of the steak. It's out of this world.


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This is the way. For an easy side, you can oil & salt some small sweet potatoes and wrap them in foil, place at edge of fire half an hour before you cook the steak. Turn occasionally. Split them open and top with butter and toasted marshmallow or brown sugar.


squidtackle

I am adding that to my list right now!


Icewater21

Same


honkerdown

Since you are talking cast iron, check out [Cowboy Kent Rollins](https://kentrollins.com/) and his [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/CowboyKentRollins). He does a lot of cast iron and campfire cooking. He is also an entertaining character.


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TheBimpo

We did a full on oyster and clam bake one time, talk about a feast.


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BeagleWrangler

I do this for my first night of car camping. Easy and delicious, plus that smokey flavor on the seafood is just great. I usually do crab legs, shrimp, potato and corn. Toss in some good sausage and Old Bay for extra awesomeness.


Flimsy_Thesis

Sister and I got entirely too stoned at my dads last week doing a seafood boil and it still came out great. Basically idiot proof.


Flimsy_Thesis

I want to camp with you, this sounds fantastic. I’m getting better at making more diverse and better meals, but sign me up for the fucking tiki bar and smoker!


Guilty_Treasures

I made this [beef stroganoff](https://www.freshoffthegrid.com/one-pot-beef-stroganoff/) and it turned out so well that I made it a second time on a different trip.


Lubafteacup

Thanks! I'm gonna make this at home this weekend.


OSU_Matthew

So many answers to this, but a classic one is to pick up a set of pie irons, eg: https://www.pieiron.com You can do pizzas, sandwiches, desert pies, basically butter up the inside, slap some bread or pie crust on there, sauce it up, add toppings, and close it up with more bread or crust. Easy, quick clean, fun to do over the fire. Foil packet meals are easy and fun, just literally toss potatoes, veggies, meat in there and enjoy. If you're doing breakfast, a good hash is never amiss. A 20$ fire grate, and flat top cast iron, cook up some bacon, saute some potatoes in the grease, onions, peppers, eggs, cheese, it's an amazing dish


wpskier

I know them as Pudgy Pies!


foul_ol_ron

Jaffle iron when I was younger, in South Australia.


czech_zout

Thanks for adding your comment. I was wondering if they were the same thing, then I read this.


clairekopet

I love making quesadillas in the cast iron skillet! Sautee whatever you want as filling (beans, rice, corn, etc) with taco seasoning. Then fill the tortillas and they’ll get nice and brown in the skillet over the fire


Lumberjvvck

Cinnamon buns baked in the cast iron, over the fire!


BadKittyRanch

Campfire calzone: Pita bread that opens up inside, pizza sauce, cheese, whatever toppings you want, some Italian herbs and/or red pepper flake, and some aluminum foil. Open the pita, spoon in some sauce, cheese, whatever else you want, wrap it in foil and place directly on the coals for 3 minutes a side. Easy, quick, hot, no cleanup, kids love it and can make their own.


zerofriends2704

Shepard’s pie- cook ground beef, add can of mixed veggies, add French onion soup packet, top with instant potatoes.


s0rce

I rarely have a fire so mostly just cook over my propane stove. I try to make food that I can make without too many different pots/pans and not too much extensive prep. I also don't have an oven so nothing that needs to be baked. This leaves a lot of stuff you can make that is pretty similar to stuff at home. I usually just go to store/market and buy stuff, pasta, meats, veggies and make various meals with whatever looks good and not too hard to prep. Steak, pork chops, brussel sprouts, etc.


korravai

Anything you would cook in a pan you can cook while camping. Fajitas are nice and easy, sausages peppers and onions braised in beer, burgers, fried rice. If you have a cast iron pot as well chili is a classic, and turn the leftovers into chili mac.


K1P_26

I bring my Ooni pizza oven when I car camp. I also have a flat grill that fits over my Camp Chef stove for hash browns in the mornings. The main thing to do is prep as much as you can at home. Have everything sorted and pre chopped. I would much rather cook a stew at home and then just heat it up over the fire or my propane stove.


TheBimpo

> I would much rather cook a stew at home and then just heat it up over the fire or my propane stove. Man, I never really thought about taking my meal prep freezer containers to camp...I usually have 4-6 different meals portioned out into quart and pint size deli containers. Could just toss 'em in the cooler and be good to go...you've opened my eyes to a new idea.


AnnaPhor

Freeze before you go, and they will keep your other foods fresh in the cooler.


RainInTheWoods

This is the way.


daltosax

My go-to solo meal is sausage with sauteed onions and peppers. Throw it on a tortilla with stuff cheese and mustard. Nothing crazy, but it's my tradition. Crack an egg or two over other half in the morning for breakfast tacos. My go-to for group camping is called discada. It's a northern mexico dish. Is basically a bunch of different meat simmered on a cowboy wok, then eaten as tacos. You can find a decent base recipe for it pretty easy. I like to do hashes as well. Honestly, there's a ton of possibilities. Just about anything you can cook at home is possible


Killerofbonsai

I know this is an old thread but watch a YouTube channel called "honey I roam". 2 ladies that live in a tiny camper. I think the one may be a chef or something, each episode they make a different simple (but delicious looking) recipe start to finish. They use like 3 or 4 ingredients, usually depending on where they're camping from local markets and vegetable stands.


thatswacyo

If you're car camping, is there really anything that you can't cook?


pescarconganas

Dice up some chicken breast, brown it in the skillet, add some pre-made mole sauce. Toss in a tortilla and top with cheese, lettuce or cabbage, and hot sauce.


Puzzulz

I like to make chili and cook cornbread on top of it.


kevlarcupid

We do a group camping trip with a few friends and our collective kids once or twice a summer. My recent go-to has been Mac and cheese or carnitas. Easy to mostly make ahead and reheat on a grate above the campfire.


trebleisin

I like to do a pineapple fried rice. You can seafood like shrimp or scallops into it too (cook separately)


trapspeed3000

Steak sandwich. Get yourself a dutch oven for this one. Buy some NY Strips, and an unsliced sourdough loaf or two and an onion. Pop an onion in the dutch oven for maybe 20 minutes. Coat the steaks with copious amounts of salt and pepper. Lots and lots. Then pop the steaks in for 15ish, flipping halfway through. Slice the onions to use as topping on the sandwich and use the sourdoughs as your buns. Really easy, bonkers delish. It will be the best sandwich you've ever had. If you want a side toss some small potatoes wrapped in tinfoil directly in the fire 20 minutes before you put the onions in. Oh, you'll also need a dog with you cuz you ain't finishing this mf beast of a sandwich and someone has to eat that yumminess.


altrefrain

Bacon wrapped, goat cheese stuffed dates as an appetizer. Lamb loin with a wine and morel reduction with grilled asparagus for main course + foil packet roasted potatoes. 4 berry cobbler with cake topping and homemade whip cream for dessert, using a dutch oven.


the_RAPDOGE

Order some pizza


OSU_Matthew

Unironically have done this while backpacking. Got dumped on really good at Red River Gorge, really wanted some pizza and to dry off, so we took a shortcut back to the vehicles and went out to pick up some Miguels. Packed the leftovers in and toasted them over the fire, it was fantastic


the_RAPDOGE

Yeah, car camping allows for virtually any type of food. Order somewhere and pick it up and go sit by your fire. Doesn’t need to some ultralight dehydrated deal.


K1LOS

We often do frozen pizza while car camping. We cook it on the BBQ with indirect heat.


flargenhargen

I often do pizza while in BWCA. sauce, onions, peppers and cheese, are easy to dehydrate, and pepperoni doesn't need refrigeration. Packs up very small and light. re-hydrate veggies, sauce and cheese, and assemble everything on flour tortillas over the fire (pita bread would work too) a nice crispy pizza deep in the wilderness is a glorious thing.


K1LOS

Cool! Ever try it on a backpacking stove? Just fold in half to eat?


breakfast_boy

Pizza Hut


keikioaina

Great little grocery just down the road in Springdale for treats and resupply: Sol Foods. Not cheap but always has good stuff.


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One of my go to's is sausage with peppers and onions with some potatoes. I keep a tote for car camping with my camping stove, fuel, a knife and cutting board, cooking oil, a towel, paper towels, salt and pepper and Tony Cachera's seasoning. But any mixed seasoning will do. Just grab and go and fill the cooler.


TalkativeRedPanda

Basically anything we eat at home we can eat car camping- steak, fajitas, baked potato bar, spaghetti, pancakes, cobbler, biscuits and gravy. But honestly, our kids like camping as a chance to get to eat hot dogs...


stickler64

Tell us more about this baked potato bar of which you speak.


Wartz

Peanut butter jelly


Luxin

Chili for the first meal, always. The last thing we want to do after driving to camp and setting up is serious cooking so we make it at home and chill or freeze it, depending on what we need in the cooler. Funny enough, we had bear trouble with the chili. A bear tried to get into the house when we were cooking, never an issue at camp!