We do quite a bit of cooking on the tripod grill over a burned down wood fire. I cook chicken breasts, pizza, fish, steaks, grilled veggies, pork chops - pretty much any cut of meet I would cook on my gas grill at home. I have seasons for different meats premixed and put into tiny, labeled ziplock bags meant for pills - you can usually find them in the pharmacy isle. I cook potatoes first in foil, either simply wrapping the whole potatoe, or cuting up into quarters with olive oil, onion, garlic, rosemary and sea salt - my family's fav way to eat potatoes. Then the meat and veggies go on the grill with the meat in the center and the veggies around the outside edge where it tends to be a bit cooler. Corn, julienned carrots with butter in a foil packet, mushrooms on a screwer. We also cook up green beans in the electric skillet with a bit of bacon.
I also use dutch ovens stacked with coals in between to cook a pot roast in the bottom and biscuits on top, or pulled pork on bottom, scalloped potatoes in the middle and an apple pie on top - the combinations are limitless and it is really pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
When I'm not in the mood for cooking and just want something quick, I brown up leftover potatoes in an electric skillet and warm a ham steak on the electric griddle. I also use the electric griddle make grown-up grilled cheese sandwiches with good shaved roast turkey deli meat with provolone, thinly sliced tomatoes, a bit of onion, all topped with a pesto sauce.
I think we eat better when camping then any other time!
Tom and Stacey
DD Nikki (14) and Kate (9)
Wrigley, our big black dog
