In the course of RVing...

[Cloud_Dancer]

An excellent meal is:

A small loaf of the best bread you know.
Some lobster bisque from Costco's.
Two lobster tails from the fish market.
A bottle of Beringers White Zinfindel.

Barely cook the lobster tails, remove the meat and cut it into chunks.
Add lobster chunks to the hot bisque.
Warm bread hot enough for butter to spread and melt....

You can figure out the rest.....

[magnusfide]

JiminDenver wrote:
Years ago friends asked us to go camping, we had no gear so we threw what we could in the van and went. For the first meal we wrapped potatoes and corn on the cob and tossed them in the coals while we caught/ cleaned a mess of trout. We wrapped those too and it all came together perfect. Good food, good friends and the perfect start to a life camping together.

The other meal that stands out is equally as boring. I had started the fire on a freezing night while Honey finished up squash chili and brought it to me on a tin plate. That hot plate felt wonderful as we soaked up the silence between the popping and hissing of the fire. I thought to myself this is camping. This is why we go through the hassle and spend the money to be here and do this.

Great stories, great memories!

[JiminDenver]

Years ago friends asked us to go camping, we had no gear so we threw what we could in the van and went. For the first meal we wrapped potatoes and corn on the cob and tossed them in the coals while we caught/ cleaned a mess of trout. We wrapped those too and it all came together perfect. Good food, good friends and the perfect start to a life camping together.

The other meal that stands out is equally as boring. I had started the fire on a freezing night while Honey finished up squash chili and brought it to me on a tin plate. That hot plate felt wonderful as we soaked up the silence between the popping and hissing of the fire. I thought to myself this is camping. This is why we go through the hassle and spend the money to be here and do this.

[Matt_Colie]

bukhrn wrote:

Cloud Dancer wrote:
An excellent meal is:

A small loaf of the best bread you know.
Some lobster bisque from Costco's.
Two lobster tails from the fish market.
A bottle of Beringers White Zinfindel.

Of the ones posted so far,This might get my vote, except for your place to get the Bisque, I mean Costco's, really? :h
Perhaps you're right, I may have to allow myself to be surprised, but I find it hard to believe that it'll be better than the bisque anywhere in Bar Harbor.

If your bumper happens to be hanging over cold tidal water, that might (note he says might) be true, but I did live most of my life on the upper east coast and Kickland Lobster Bisque is about as good as I have had - ever (with the possible exception of what my own mother would make when my father had put the pots (bug traps) up). Try and be ready. It isn't cheap, but you won't regret it.

Matt - a refugee from the east coast megopolis

[Cloud_Dancer]

Whenever I boondock at the lake, I get up at the crack of dawn and fix me one of my favorite ethnic breakfast, enchiladas and eggs and coffee:



Sometimes, I look out one window and watch the birds and the water, and sometimes I look out another window and see this:

[hokeypokey]

New potatoes and creamed peas fresh from the garden, homegrown fried "spring chicken", fresh homemade buns, a big glass pitcher of ice tea, cherry pie - all made by Mom!

[xaugievike]

For me it's a plate of baby backs, with cheesy potatoes my grandma taught me to make, and a pan of my smoked baked beans. Paired with an IPA (I saw someone reference Great Lakes brewing...commodore perry would be a favorite) or a stout depending on the season.

[G7ARYM]

After a 350 mile day driving down the coast on Hwy 1 into a 25-35mph headwind with record rains from a left over typhoon we pulled into a campground which was only slightly awash. A throw away poncho was of little help hooking up the water, power and cable but all was worth it after I got inside and dried off. The wind was still howling but the aroma of a big pan of lasagna with garlic bread and a good red wine meant all was right with the world. Then sit back and watch Sunday night football and go to sleep to the sound of the rain pounding down. Even bad weather is better in the rig.

[Tvov]

Pretty much any meal while I am camping is great! I'm away from work and the house (so I am not bothered with all things I "could be doing"), and just relaxing.

We go up to a friends Vermont hunting cabin a lot. I was on the deck with him one morning having coffee. Cheap, basic coffee. That tasted great. We both commented at how everything seemed to taste better up there - similar to camping, everything just seems to taste better....

For breakfast while camping, my wife many times will make buttered, toasted bagels using a fry pan in the morning. It is just something we usually only do while camping, and it always seems to taste great!

Best, most memorable meal? Probably two:

Back to our friends with the Vermont cabin... we also have camped with them a lot. One time we met them up at Acadia, Maine, at Blackwoods campground. They put together a "seafood boil" -- when done, they basically poured it out onto a table covered in newspaper. We just dug in, eating for what seemed like hours. Fantastic food, fantastic location, fantastic friends.

Second. Camping out with same family, plus another, at a campground in Rhode Island. Plus a few kid's friends. Must have had about 15 people total maybe. One morning, we all got together for breakfast. Pulled a couple grills together. Cooked sausage, bacon, biscuits, potatoes, eggs, cheese, toast, ham, steak, and other food, including leftovers from other meals. We have a couple pictures of food piled on grills and tables. Was a fantastic breakfast feast with good company! Even managed to actually fill up teenage boys!

Good camping!

[Laman]

Cloud Dancer, so nice to see someone use the proper name for those tasty speckled panfish. My favorite way was to ease along a quiet bayou in a pirogue, catch a mess, than get up on the bank and cook them there with french fries and a cold beer.

Yes I used to carry a real pirogue camping until some low-life stole it!

[pira114]

scbwr wrote:
Well, after you have the two selections posted above, add a nice steak grilled to medium rare with a pile of sauted onions, a fresh salad, and a cold beer....Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold or Conways Irish Ale! Follow that with fresh coffee and apple, blueberry, or any other great pie!

I would agree, but......Why over cook a decent steak like that??? When I take a bite of my steak, I want to hear the cow scream in pain! :B

[Cloud_Dancer]

Take the ole fishing boat out on the bayou, catch a mess of sac-a-lait, get into the fishfry mood, and you end up with something very good:

[Okie_in_Wyoming]

We have a fish fry that would tempt anyone! Fish, French fries, homemade cole slaw, fruit, corn on the cob, and very cold watermelon!!!!

The best meal!

[Traveler7]

Garlic rubbed and lightly seasoned Bone-in Rib Eye Steak grilled to perfection (pink middle) with a crisp Cesar Salad and an Idaho Potato foil baked in the campfire decked with butter, sour cream, cheese, chives and bacon bits. Tempranillo Red wine and fizzy water for beverage finished with baked Anjou Pear halves and heavy sweet cream and espresso. Also a limoncello apertif.

Serve with view of the Tetons at Sunset!

MMMmmmmmmmmmm!

[2milesup]

Whatever's on the neighbor's grill when he's not looking...

😉