👨Hobo Dinner👴
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My wife and I just bought a travel trailer and plan on taking the kids out camping as much as possible. One of the things I have stumbled across is something called a "Hobo Dinner."
Basically, it is assorted vegetables and/or protein wrapped up in heavy duty foil and placed on burning coals to cook.
Does anyone have any recipes that are simple to make?
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Simply wrapping potatoes in aluminum foil with sour cream, butter, and salt is a nice meal to have and sorry I don't know anymore at the moment.
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I have seen a few things such as potatoes, carrots, and onions topped with garlic and butter.
I also read that it is easier to use canned vegetable rather than fresh or frozen. My guess is probably due to storage space and refrigeration.
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Those sandwich roasters are fun for a camping dinner. You can put all kinds of stuff between two pieces of bread and roast them in the fire. Beef stew, eggs/sausage/potatoe, pie filling, whatever you're brave enough to try. And the kids will try anything.
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For a decent dessert, take an apple and wrap in foil. Put it right on the coals and roast for several min. Makes good apple sauce....
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Hobo dinners and those sandwich cookers are both amazing. Although My favorite camping meal is browning a pound of hamburger than adding a can of beans to it. Taste amazing being cooked over an open fire.
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On second thought to add to the hobo dinner part. Be careful what hobo you pick up, some of the hobo's taste nasty from laying in shit and piss all day, try to find ones that are 30-40. Good eating that age group. Anything younger is skin and bones and anything older is to tough.
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I use one of these for camping...
http://www.kellykettleusa.com/
It boils water in minutes with just a couple of sticks or pine cones. You can also use the base as a mini grill and set a pot on top.
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Look up MRE's, they're good meals that you can make anywhere... They're not super cheap though
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〓 J C 〓 wrote:
They are also disgusting.Look up MRE's, they're good meals that you can make anywhere... They're not super cheap though
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Fry breaded; salmon, cod, or halibut, cheap and delicious! 😀
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Tweek wrote:
The breakfast ones aren't so terrible....〓 J C 〓 wrote:
They are also disgusting.Look up MRE's, they're good meals that you can make anywhere... They're not super cheap though
But don't get the meatloaf 😜A pie that I created one camping trip...
Lay out a cross of tinfoil X
Unroll premade buiscuit dough onto tinfoil. Dosent have to be perfect. Top with corn, beans(baked or refried) and meat. Hotdogs work well, as does sausage, cut into chunks. Fold tinfoil over itself to close the pie.
Make sure it's reasonably closed, place in coals/fire.I'm afraid I don't have a cook time, always eyeballed it... Possibly 15-20 minutes, please dont blame me if it burns.. :P
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Take a banana, split it down the side and stuff it with chocolate and marshmallows. Wrap it in tinfoil and throw it on the coals.
Banana goes soft, the chocolate and marshmallow melts and your mouth has a party. Great dessert and fun for the kids.
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Corn on the cob like that is great. Just add butter and any seasoning you like. I usually do some salt and just a little chili powder for some spice.
You can cook just about anything like that if the temperature isn't an issue. I wouldn't do steak or fish, but I've done chicken breast and just about any vegetables I'd want to eat.
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Just thought of another possible few recipes that follow as such. 1.asparagus wrapped in bacon along possibly with mushrooms(never tried with mushrooms just something that popped into my head but could possibly be good) 2. Steak marinated well and browned. 3. Deep frying fish in oil in a cast iron pot (cast iron retains heat better and lasts much longer in my opinion) 4. Soup beans in a Dutch oven left to simmer over the day with a ham bone in the pot to add flavor with cornbread crumbled in a bowl of that is awsome. 5. Pan pizza (ours was messy but delicious) sorry that's all I think I can fit with the letter limit hope you like them.
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Sorry some of these go off the course from Hobo Dinner but all of them are great camping foods and I can tell you that your kids would love the pan pizza anyways have fun camping with your kids free mason.
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I found a few on YouTube but most of those people looked as if they would eat anything. What I am finding is that prepping the food ahead of time makes a big difference.
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Oh that's what you meant, I was thinking Roadkill....
Some of these sound good. Will have to try and remember when I get my family out camping. Cheers all.
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Are you kidding??? Alum the fish ya caught after cleaning it and wrap it up with lemon, oliv oil and dill. Won't take long just till its white! Kids will freak to eat what they caught.
We did have bagged beef stew ready and it was awesome -
Not sure what kind of protein it is, but if it's fish I would recommend a chermoula marinade. You can mash up a couple cloves of garlic with mortar and pestle, add 1/4 c olive oil, juice of one lemon, salt and paprika. Just toss on grill when you get there.
Love the grilled apple idea as well. You can also pack slices of tomato in tin foil pockets with dried basil, olive oil, salt and cheese (feta or mozzarella work). Toss pockets on top of grill, they're done quick.
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Kaͣrͩaͩs wrote:
THIS. I think they're called banana boats. Anyways, way better than s'mores.Take a banana, split it down the side and stuff it with chocolate and marshmallows. Wrap it in tinfoil and throw it on the coals.
Banana goes soft, the chocolate and marshmallow melts and your mouth has a party. Great dessert and fun for the kids.
Also, my favorite hobo dinner is some steak, onions, a potatoe or two, and whatever vegetables I can find.
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mojopilot wrote:
Yum! Or just leaving them in the husks and frying them over the fire on a grill or something.Corn on the cob like that is great. Just add butter and any seasoning you like. I usually do some salt and just a little chili powder for some spice.
You can cook just about anything like that if the temperature isn't an issue. I wouldn't do steak or fish, but I've done chicken breast and just about any vegetables I'd want to eat.
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In scouts, we used to make "Silver Bullets" which was essentially chopped up vegetables (whatever you wanted) and seasoning, and the mixed in raw ground beef. Place it all in tin foil and cook over coals.
If you have a Dutch oven, I recommend picking up a regular cookbook, or a Boy Scout cookbook for simple, but easy meals (Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert!).
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You can also make "walking tacos" by cooking taco meat and then putting some in Frito bags with lettuce, cheese, tomatoe, etc. There's also chilimac using Kraft Mac and cheese, and a can or two of chili.
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❌❌ZebulonPike❌❌ wrote:
Raw meat? You aren't setting me up for the shits are you? LolIn scouts, we used to make "Silver Bullets" which was essentially chopped up vegetables (whatever you wanted) and seasoning, and the mixed in raw ground beef. Place it all in tin foil and cook over coals.
If you have a Dutch oven, I recommend picking up a regular cookbook, or a Boy Scout cookbook for simple, but easy meals (Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert!).
My stomach can withstand pretty much anything but my family can't.
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Called hobo dinner you take a hobo ya put salt on him maybe even a little sauce and you roast him alive then you eat him
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Dirty Hobo wrote:
...Called hobo dinner you take a hobo ya put salt on him maybe even a little sauce and you roast him alive then you eat him
What???
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When we used to go camping we used to make this... Very good! All we used was potatoes and carrots and butter
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Potato bombs
Get a potato. Core out using an apple corer. Fill it with whatever you want
Butter, cheese, BBQ, bacon, anything. Cut the tips off of the core you took out and use them to plug the ends. Wrap it in foil and bake over the campfire. -
ƑƦཇཇ☠ཀaʂ٥ท wrote:
If you cook the beef long enough, you'll be fine. Haha.❌❌ZebulonPike❌❌ wrote:
Raw meat? You aren't setting me up for the shits are you? LolIn scouts, we used to make "Silver Bullets" which was essentially chopped up vegetables (whatever you wanted) and seasoning, and the mixed in raw ground beef. Place it all in tin foil and cook over coals.
If you have a Dutch oven, I recommend picking up a regular cookbook, or a Boy Scout cookbook for simple, but easy meals (Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert!).
My stomach can withstand pretty much anything but my family can't.
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ᵇSͣŦͩƸΛLŦℍ꜀˳ wrote:
This is a sweet idea!!! I am going to try this next time I go camping.Potato bombs
Get a potato. Core out using an apple corer. Fill it with whatever you want
Butter, cheese, BBQ, bacon, anything. Cut the tips off of the core you took out and use them to plug the ends. Wrap it in foil and bake over the campfire.
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