cooking

[nicki_xx]

I will be running cookery alongside another girl. Anyone done this before and had any good/bad experiences? Any ideas or recipes to share? Would be a great help!! xx

[Trees]

Very cool! Is it in a kitchen, campfire, camp stove, or a combination?

My main suggestion is to make sure you're teaching them to REALLY cook... not to heat up cans or stir together mixes. Your job sounds really fun.

[Smudge]

yeah - def make them cook properly but make it fun.

We cooked muffins in orange rinds. you mix up a basic muffin mix and add chocolate chips. you then slice the top of an orange and scoop out the insides.
Pour the muffin mix to the 3/4 point and wrap in foil. Then cook in the embers of a fire till cooked - then you will get a lovely orangey chocolatey muffin. You can then make orange juice from the scooped out insides of the muffin.

[prideeinpynk]

Oh wow, those muffins sound great and fun!

[Smudge]

They are and they are really yummy - i am looking forward to making them this summer.

[prideeinpynk]

I'll have to remember them for the next time my friends and I go camping. I don't know if it would work at my camp.

About how long do you keep them in the fire?

[c3divers]

Check out this site for some great recipes.

http://www.scoutorama.com/recipe/index.cfm

[Smudge]

I'll have to remember them for the next time my friends and I go camping. I don't know if it would work at my camp.

About how long do you keep them in the fire?

What kind of camp are you going to - I did at 2 diff camps. Am not sure how long to keep them in the fire - we left them there until they smelt cooked.

[clarabelle1985]

well we did pretzles, bg cakes and decorated them and i beleive there was a cookie threater where the kids made a decorated cokkies of all the characters in joseph and baked them on sticks decorated them and then put on play with them it was very cool

[Smudge]

another thing i did and this was an experiment that worked.

M&M's in a tortillia wrapped in foil and stuck in the coals for about 5 mins (long enought for the choc to melt)

Tried it cos we were having rainbow pudding and I couldn't eat so I took some of the brown M&M's (cos they aren't used in rainbow pudding) wrapped them in a left over tortillia from the main meal and cooked them in the coals and it was yummy.

[prideeinpynk]

Well, I'm not familiar with the camp I'm going to, so I can't assume we're allowed to cook in the campfires. :)

[Smudge]

you could do the orange muffin thing in an oven but not sure cooking times prob - 15-20 mins.

If you are using a charcol BBQ it would work by putting the oranges in the coals.

But I dont think it would work in a one of those little gas stoves.

[camper]

at my camp we have cooking and it's with a regular oven...it's one of our most popular activities when the kids go to the hobby center. the challenge for us is that our boys camp is entirely peanut free so everything done in cooking has to be peanut free...including any mixes we use. we have managed it, but sometimes the girls get frustrated! haha.

[Smudge]

yeah that can be a challenge - my last camp was but if you cook from scratch it isn't as much of an issue cos you know what you are putting. I know this cos I am allergic to sweeteners and I have to cook alot of my food from scratch to avoid them.

[Trees]

To get them thinking more creatively--try themes, like a Vietnamese meal, or an international meal with dishes from many different countries. Give them some random ingredients and tell them to make a dish. Give them one ingredient (say, "apples"--and have them invent a recipe or find one in cookbooks depending on their skill level. Have a taste-off. Do mystery recipes: they get the directions, but they don't know what they're making.

This should be so much fun for you!

[happy_camper]

Trees -- like Food Network Challenge with the mystery ingredient!

[Smudge]

you could combine the cooking with orienteering - you could have them follow compass directions to a site and them at that site they get either the first insruction or the first ingredient and directions to the next and so on until they reach the location where they will be cooking the meal. That way they learn 2 skills for the price of one so to speak.

[phcamp]

Try bread on a stick.
- Take biscuit mix, add water and knead until doughy. The kids can each clean off a stick as big around as two fingers and as long as their arm, or thereabouts. They pat a litle butter on their fingers and twist the dough around the stick like a snake. Roast it over the fire until golden on all sides. Then they can dip it in melted butter or cheese or anything you think of.
Has anyone done the smorsgasborg? Instead of plain chocolate bars for smores, put out an array of chocolate bars with almonds, Crunch bars, Kit-Kats, Peanut Butter Cups, York Peppermint Patties, the list is endless! And you'll never go back to plain smores again. Except on retro-smores night.

[campnerd99]

Try bread on a stick.
- Take biscuit mix, add water and knead until doughy. The kids can each clean off a stick as big around as two fingers and as long as their arm, or thereabouts. They pat a litle butter on their fingers and twist the dough around the stick like a snake. Roast it over the fire until golden on all sides. Then they can dip it in melted butter or cheese or anything you think of.


Bannock! It is pretty much the greatest overnight food ever. We usually put melted butter and brown sugar or jam on ours.

[Strand]

The best meal of all is being left out. A good old fashion Fish Fry. Depending on how many people you, you can pull off an awesome fry.


big cast iron pan, largest you can find
enought oil to cover the bottom (Canola, peanut oil)
breading (Smashed crackers)
milk
eggs

Depending on how much fish you catch, buy(If you don't catch enough)

[happy_camper]

Smudge -- there's a name for that [travelling dinner type thing], but it has currently escaped me...

[tajarbud]

Are you thinking "progressive dinner".:)...when you go from site to site and eat part of the meal at each site? :) :D

[Smudge]

possible that is what haapy camper means but that is not what I meant!