foil dinners

[pastorp]

Before TV dinners and even after for camping we made foil dinners. Heavy weight foil with a piece of meat, sliced potatoes and onions, your choice of veggies. and a pat of butter, salt & pepper. Fold the foil and seal the three sides.

To cook, simply drag a shovel shovel full of coals out of the flame and place your dinner on them. In about 6 min on each side and your ready for a feast. When my kids were growing up I made these up and put them in the freezer and they cooked them in the oven at home. Made a tasty meal. 

Regards,

[Arier Blut]

I do the same thing at work. We have to let the engine run the whole time on shift. The tinfoil goes on the intake manifold. I do fish, fowl, beef, venison or pork about every day. I just keep veggies, spices and fruit in the lunchbox now. Since there isn't a whole lot to do at work I bought a field guide for edible plants and just started trying some of them in it in the last few weeks since the weather has warmed.

[bilmac]

Yup, we used to cook on the manifold too. Seems like some of the best meals I've had were cooked in foil, either over a fire or on the manifold.

[Victor3]

 My Wife, Son and I do a lot of foil meals while camping. Who wants to do dishes (work) on a campout?

 Last time out she diced up a roast with onion, red bell pepper, sliced mushrooms, peas and corn with some Lawrys seasoned salt and pepper. For desert, it was sliced apple with rasins, sugar, cinnamon and butter. All was prepared and wrapped up in foil at home before we left.

 It's great. A few paper plates, cups and napkins that go into the fire when we were done eating, and all the trash we have left is the foil.

 Dishes? Three forks!

 A variation on the foil/campfire baked potato we do is sliced red potatos, Lipton's onion soup mix and butter. Cooks a lot faster than a whole 'tater and makes a fantastic side dish for hot dogs cooked on a stick (with buns warmed in foil of course  )

[Badnews Bob]

we've always made "camp taters"  Slice up a couple three or so taters a nice sized oinion and maybe a halpino or two some Tonys seasoning and butter wrap up tight in foil and place on the coals. Thats good eatin right there now.

[outdoorlover]

Nice tips. In addition, here's some tin foil dinner recipes that may come handy for future camp outs with the children:

http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/camping-recipes/tin-foil-dinners.htm

Try it, I'm sure your family will love it

[Sameeee]

this is a gat way to have dinner waiting after a long day enjoying your camping,

wrap in layers of foil and freeze before your trip,

a deer or beef roast
potatos, carrots, onion, your fav seasoning
mix flour in a little water or beef broth

after building up your fire in the morning, dig out a hole in the center, put your wraped up roast in and cover with coals and build up the fire somemore
go have fun, when you get back at dinner time dig out the roast and enjoy

 

[billy_56081]

We always called these hobo dinners.

[NuclearMeltdown]

Made me go out and try this a few weeks back.







Tastes good.  Some crispy edges, though.  About 10 minutes on each side.