Cast Iron Skillet Salmon & Mango Salsa
Craving a seafood meal? Blend fresh fruits and fish with this cast iron skillet fried salmon and mango salsa campfire cooking dinner recipe.
Category Dinner Recipes
The perfect way to wrap up a day of hiking, kayaking, off-roading, or other outdoor adventures is time around the campfire. Take it to the next level by cooking dinner over the open flame. These are a collection of my favorite recipes. I particularly recommend the Down Home Shrimp & Grits! It’s my favorite recipe to prepare for visitors.
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Dutch Oven Cornish Game Hen
I am always on the lookout for something I can roast over the campfire in my dutch oven. Given that I like to cook over a live fire rather than classic coals, this generally means that I need something that is thick enough to take a sear without turning out well done but thin enough to be cooked through. So, when I saw Cornish game hen on sale after the holidays, I was thrilled. Not only did I have something new, but something well sized for my dutch oven with room for baby potatoes!
King Crab Legs
Enjoy our favorite campground seafood delicacy boiled in a dutch oven: king crab legs campfire cooking dinner recipe with drawn garlic dipping butter.
Tomahawk Steak
Grilling tomahawk steak over and open campfire is a challenging and delicious undertaking.
Panko Crusted Crab Cakes
I have a bad habit of collecting appetizing canned foods. Living on the road, I don't have a lot of space to chill perishable foods. So, canned goods are a handy and reliable fallback. Still, at some point, the time comes when I need to make a concerted effort to lighten the chuck wagon by cooking some of the canned food. Fortunately, it's easy to go eat up the crab meat with this relatively strait forward recipe.
Roam Lab’s Campfire Gumbo
There are so many ways to cook a gumbo. Some are regional. Some are familial. Mine is practical. After traveling through Louisiana and our Great Gumbo Excursion last year in New Orleans, it is time to make some gumbo ourselves.
Down Home Shrimp & Grits
Shrimp and grits originated as a hearty breakfast for southern fishermen. Over time, there has been many varying interpretations on the dish, but I've started with a pretty common recipe including cheddar cheese and bacon. My own contributions are little tweaks to better accommodate our nomadic limitations.
Campfire Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken Kebabs
After traveling through Kentucky, I got on a bit of a bourbon kick. So, along with a few other bourbon-y experiments, I thought it only appropriate to try out a recipe meant for a kitchen with power plugs and food processors. My results were the Campfire Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken Kebabs.
Chicken and Prosciutto
Some people think that bacon makes everything better. I maintain that prosciutto makes everything better. Tonight, I wrapped chicken thighs in prosciutto to cook in the cask iron skillet. Having learned from my time consuming first experience of cooking chicken over a campfire, I bought boneless chicken. It was skinless—the prosciutto would make a more flavorful replacement. While I did add some salt and pepper, truly, the prosciutto was what defined the meal.
Salmon, Green Beans, and Quinoa
Well that's just great. There is no grate. Since we couldn't find a camping spot in Glacier National Park, we had to settle on a private camping ground outside of the park. We settled on one what advertised having WiFi but whose router was on the fritz. But, hey, it was somewhere the sleep.