rnamiddleton
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We will be leaving for the Outer Banks in about 14 days for 10 days and it will be two 5 adults and 2 kids and I need help with planning the menus. I need some suggestions on what to cook, I already have the steak, chicken, smoked pork as some of the main dishes. Would sorta like things out of the ordinary, but yet easy. Any suggestions...
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wcbass
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How about grilled bratwursts with peppers, onions & kraut? This is one of favorite camping dinners.
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linbea2111
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How about pulled pork cooked in the crock pot and good old hamburgers and hot dogs. Happy camping.
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Cruzette
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Anything you can grill is easy. So burgers are a no brainer. Make some spaghetti sauce up at the stick house and just reheat at camp.
Tacos are an easy dinner too. Make a taco bar. Salad bars are sorta easy, if you chopped everything up before hand.
Check out the freezer section at the grocery store. Some great main dishes to pick from. When our group camps together, we often have a dinner of just appetizers and the freezer section is a great place to choose from. I like to serve the minature corn dogs. Easy to fix and easy to eat!
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I bought a Panini electric grill. A Bella Cucina Artful Food Panini Grill to be exact.
I buy flavored flat breads... garlic...pizza... even just flour tortilla's, brush a little olive oil on them before you put them in the Panini grill.
Then layer pepparoni, ham, turkey, cheese - whatever. Talk about quick...less than five minutes to get it off the grill and onto a plate, and no clean up other than wiping the Panini with a paper towel.
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stfnwuf
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We make spaghetti ahead of time and put it in a zip lock baggie. Then we just pop the spaghetti into a skillet to heat it up. Yum. Served with a salad and french bread.
Our last camp outing was to the beach and we bought oysters at the local oyster farm. We shucked them and cooked them in the half shell over the fire. Awesome! And I am not an oyster fan. You can also skewer shrimp to grill.
A friend likes to do fried chicken ahead of time and take for snacking. She will cook up two or three of them, depending on how big the group is.
I also like the bratwurst idea and the appetizer idea. The camping group we belong to will do an appetizer pot luck on the Friday night.
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Give_Me_Five
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How about making a little slaw or bean salad to go with the meat you already have, and cooking a little pasta and seasoning it with whatever you like (margarine, herbs, salt, pepper or garlic). Sliced cucumber, sweet onion and tomatoes stirred together and chilled with a little oil and vinegar makes a good salad. Deviled Eggs are always a good standby also.
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Grilled fish, basted with a mixture of olive oil, low fat margarine and lemon juice is delicious and good for you; serve with a baked potato or rice and steamed broccoli.
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I rarely plan dinner at home, and quite often, if you ask me at 4 p.m. what's for dinner, I still don't have a clue! However, when we go camping, I have EVERY meal planned in advance and have a chart that I use to keep track of everything.
I almost always make a batch of homemade sloppy joes. I put it in a gallon freezer bag and freeze it flat -- that way there's room for it in the RV freezer. When it needs to thaw, I just take it out and put it in a bowl in the sink for a couple hours while we're driving from one place to another.
Our kids LOVE chicken salad. I'll roast a whole chicken at home and make a big batch of chicken salad to we have easy lunchtime sandwiches -- BBQ or chicken salad . . . easy choice! Also, we bring hot dogs and buns, so the kids can have "sloppy dogs" instead of just sloppy joes!
Depending on how long it's going to be before I need something, I'll do all my chopping, slicing and dicing ahead of time. If I need a total of 5 chopped onions for stuff, I'll chop them all at home and put them in ziploc bags. That way, I have all I need already done. Saves a lot of prep time. I do the same thing with cheese. We're from Wisconsin, so use a lot of cheese. I buy it in blocks and shred it myself. I have a Salad Shooter that I absolutely LOVE and use that to shred all my cheese. Can do a 1 lb. block in a minute or so! Again, the shredded cheese goes in ziploc bags and into the fridge.
If I'm going to make something that needs to be marinated, I make the marinade in advance and put the meat in (you guessed it) a ziploc bag with the marinade and lay flat in the freezer to freeze. On the day I'm going to make that meat, I take the bag out and the meat marinates while it's thawing!
The kids didn't want sloppy joes on the last trip, so I made spaghetti and meatballs the day before for dinner (with LOTS of meatballs!) and put the meatballs in a leftover dish for quick meatball sandwiches for lunch.
Campfire pizza in a cast iron pizza pan or a cast iron skillet is always good and easy to do! Buy refrigerated pizza dough to make it even easier. OR, make your own pizza dough at home ahead of time and freeze it. If you've got everything chopped, sliced, diced and shredded, there's little work to do! I even cook up the Italian sausage ahead of time and freeze it. Just make sure to spray the foil you cover the pizza with with non-stick spray, or you're going to lose all your cheese!
Breakfast is usually a quick affair for us, but if we're relaxing for a day, I'll make something like my Mountain Man Breakfast and because there's always leftovers, we can quickly reheat them the next morning for a great, quick breakfast.
Hope this helps!
Julie
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Terryallan
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For us. Supper (Dinner, for you non Southern people) is the only meal we cook. For dinner (lunch, for you non southern people) we usually have tomato, and ham, sandwiches or banana sandwiches, with chips, or beanie weenies. Breakfast is usually instant grits, and cereal. The easier this stuff is. the better.
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