Tips from canoe camping days

[_tiredTeacher]

I picked up an idea during my days as camp cook for weeks-long canoe trips: using shelf-stable, canned meats in recipes. Not only the usual suspects (think Spam, corned beef) but also seafood.
One of my wife's favorite meals is a can of Progresso Manhattan-style clam chowder with a can of clams added to boost up the content. Or, by also adding a bit of tomato paste and some Italian seasoning, you've created "vongole in salsa rossa." Serve over pasta.
Canned crabmeat can be used to make anything fancy. I use crab along with a box of instant fettucine Alfredo to produce a tasty dinner. All shelf stable.
Here's another hint. Miniatures from the liquor store. Keeping minis of sherry and brandy in your larder will do wonders for packaged and canned meals.
Now that we travel in a trailer, we still keep a few of these items on hand in case our stay is extended, stores are far away or we're to tired from the road to cook much.

Bon appétit!

[Super_Dave]

ppine wrote:
If you have an Rv you probably have a refrigerator.
Most of our river trips are around a week. We bring fresh food in a large cooler with blocks of ice. Even in summer, canned or vegetarian meals are usually the last day or two.

What the heck, no one brings a fishing rod? Lol!

[ppine]

If you have an Rv you probably have a refrigerator.
Most of our river trips are around a week. We bring fresh food in a large cooler with blocks of ice. Even in summer, canned or vegetarian meals are usually the last day or two.

[magnusfide]

These are all great ideas!

[All_I_could_aff]

That’s awesome. Sounds like you got to live out my Huckleberry Fin fantasy!

[ppine]

I like to cook on a fire. We have a campsite in the backyard. A Dutch Oven goes along on all canoe and raft trips. A couple of years ago we did a week on an unnamed river in Oregon for my 65th birthday. I baked a cake. One of the best nights in history.

[Big_Katuna]

Grew up tent camping. Six people in a sedan. Coleman stove, pot of water, peel and chunk 2-3;potatoes, bag of egg noodles, add a sliced onion halfway thru, drain most of the water off (reserve some) add a can of corned beef, fork it up. Sometimes a can of peas. Served on paper plates. One pan dirty, no dishes to wash. Nothing to keep cool.

Dad was the camp cook. He had quite a few no cooler meals.

[magnusfide]

Now that tuna, crab, and salmon are available in the vacuum foil pouches (they taste better too), they can really sass up those quick dinners.

[_tiredTeacher]

ppine wrote:
Why would you quit canoeing?
Just wondering.

Health issues involving strength, balance and mobility. I can, and do, still paddle every now and then.

[ppine]

Why would you quit canoeing?
Just wondering.

[fpoole]

Kewl, I'm alway looking for 'Easy ways' to cook when I'm just too lazy to.. so the crab thing looks good, I'll have to look more closely at them next Wally-run...
Thanks.. fun eh?? heheh... luv cooking..