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alexbeer
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Camp Cooking
#188937 - 31/08/11 07:48 AM

Okay, you are off for a couple of days (and nights) hunting or fishing, and you are camping out. What would be your normal camping food, and how do you cook it?

My hunting camp example:
Get out of the swag an hour and a half before daylight and light the fire, put the billy on and make a brew of coffee (or tea). A few slices of toast, another cuppa, toss a handful of muslie bars and a water bottle into the day pack and head off.

Get back to camp 3 or 4 hours after daylight, light the fire again and cook up a good feed of bacon and eggs, drink more tea or coffee. Hang around camp till 1:00 or 2:00, cutting firewood, snacking on cheese and biscuits and drinking the odd cuppa etc.

About 2ish, I will get something going for dinner in the camp oven, usually a shoulder of venison or a pair of wild duck, maybe a rabbit. Normally just put the meat in the camp oven with a packet of dry French onion soup, add a chopped onion, pour in a can of Coke-a-cola, put the lid on and bury the whole she-bang in the coals of the fire and forget about it till we get back from the evening hunt. Then we’ll cook up some vegies, potatoes peas carrots etc and serve it up. Really good tucker!!! The meat is tender and very tasty. Desert is usually something like tinned peaches and cream.

Then we will wash-up, stoke up the fire and sit around with a favourite liquid refreshment in hand, swapping hunting and fishing stories (you know, the normal campfire B-S) till it’s time to hit the swag.

Whats your camp food like??

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ALEX

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500Nitro
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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: alexbeer]
#188939 - 31/08/11 07:54 AM

Mine sounds similar to you. I take whatever I normally eat at home but with the plan to throw in what I shoot / catch etc - ducks, Galah's, fish or whatever so I might take a bit less meat.

I do "lean" towards things that keep longer in the heat and / or are not messy, however now that I have a fridge / freezer that is less of a concern.

I like making stews out bush because everything, meat, veggies can be thrown in one Billycan.

In the mornings, courtesy of Marrakai, I have taken a liking to the Small rectangular milk drinks as a starter when first up - quite filling. However I can't go without coffee !!!

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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: alexbeer]
#188979 - 31/08/11 07:02 PM

Alex

Your meals sound quite pleasant.

I'm a bit of a barbarian as a lot of my hunts early on and over the years have been in hotter climates. Not the lovely cool Victorian mountains or green pastures of Tassie.

So more packet and canned foods. Hunted hog deer once and didn't even think to take fresh meat unlike everyone else! As it would usually spoil at home if hunting for several days. Engels make life a lot more pleasant.

Usually I'm up and will have a breakfast of some simple foods such as mueslie bars, honey biscuits, ANZAC biscuits etc. Alternatively something like a ham and cheese sandwich perhaps toasted. Plus a small choc milk carton, fruit juice, maybe tea or coffee quickly heated and made.

Most often hunting all day, so lunch is carried. Similar to breakfast, maybe if carrying the extra weight, can of stew heated on a hexamine burner. Maybe a ham and cheese sandwich instead. Plus always carry some extras, jerky, food bars, etc as emergency supplies if one gets lost.

Dinner is the main meal, with preferably, now we have Engel fridges, a steak, or sausages, plus vegetables or rice. If no fresh food, a packet of curry and rice, a can of stew etc. I'm a big liker of a curry in the evening, and the boil in the pack ones are quite edible and little work. Desert, maybe some chocolate. Good coffee to finish.

If returning to camp for lunch, lunch is often a cooked breakfast of bacon, eggs, baked beans or spaghetti, bread or toast etc, plus tea or coffee.

I like good brewed coffee. But I have also taken a strong liking to chai, made with condensed milk, no sugar and no fresh milk. This has the closest flavour to what the Indians gave us when there. Very rich and quite sweet.

Sometimes, will take the afternoon off to cook a decent evening meal, and use the camp oven. Haven't used it in a long time, but it needs to get pulled out more often again. We used to make a camp oven meal of feral goat, potatoes, carrots etc just like you describe, leaving in cooking in the coals and returning to a great meal in the evening on dark.

Goes well with a nice bottle of wine.

A good port or fortified is nice on a cold evening, as is a brandy/cognac.

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Ben
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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: NitroX]
#188981 - 31/08/11 07:45 PM

You blokes have style!

Mine are pretty rough. A drink of water on wake-up, then a mad rush to ready gear and depart camp, with a few muesli bars in the pack, which are munched an hour or two later. Toward lunchtime, I get back to camp nearly dead, and sit for awhile before mustering the energy for some tinned fruit and perhaps some potato crisps (need to replace the salt). Then I swelter in a camp chair feeling miserable and questioning my sanity for a few hours (or pleasantly dozing or reading, depending on the temperature), before trying to toughen-up and go for a walk for the last couple of hours of daylight. Hopefully a few cold soft drinks have been consumed at camp throughout the afternoon, fresh from an esky full of ice. Back in camp after dark, I often have to sit for awhile before I can face a meal, which is usually something out of a tin, heated on a little gas stove, with mozzies buzzing and moths flapping and spiders crawling outside the mozzie dome (there are tens of thousands of these bugs). Somewhere during the day would be a cup of tea or two, also. If I'm having desert, it is usually more tinned fruit with cold custard from a carton in the esky. Generally a couple of panadol feature somewhere during the day to prevent or end feelings of nausea or headache.

Some camps are nicer, though - or perhaps I should say that some days (in the middle of the year) are nicer.

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500Nitro
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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: Ben]
#188985 - 31/08/11 08:05 PM

John remembered the important things that I forgot
- Wine and Port.

Can always be added to stews and steaks to add some more flavour !

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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: Ben]
#188999 - 01/09/11 12:20 AM

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Back in camp after dark, I often have to sit for awhile before I can face a meal, .... with mozzies buzzing and moths flapping and spiders crawling outside the mozzie dome (there are tens of thousands of these bugs). ..... Generally a couple of panadol feature somewhere during the day to prevent or end feelings of nausea or headache.

Yes sometimes one thinks, "why am I doing this?" but soon after a hunt, one thinks "I wish was hunting again!"

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Some camps are nicer, though - or perhaps I should say that some days (in the middle of the year) are nicer.

Ben, hunting in the Top End from Sept 1, it starts to get hot, then later from Oct 1, stinking hot, then from Nov 1, unbearably hot and humid .....

And if in Nov, I can understand the comments re the middle of the day, especially if inland in the Katherine region. The hot baking sun and humid air, with no breeze ...

I only have done a late November banteng hunt, and thankfully it was on the coast on a peninsula with lots of water on most sides to cool things off, but inland ... I remember flying up and a bunch of Aussie Greek hunters were helding off to hunt near Katherine. Tougher bastards than me. We also shared the same flight back home.

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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: NitroX]
#189023 - 01/09/11 05:37 AM

Easy ...

"Oh Cook, another G&T please. And let's have that haunch of lechwe in about one hour."

Oh - you don't hunt like that?

My bad.

It sure costs a hell of a lot to live in hot dusty tents and chase animals that have a decided dislike for you.

- Fun though -

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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: poprivit]
#189024 - 01/09/11 05:52 AM

"Oh - you don't hunt like that?"

Up NT way, yes, Alchohol of that type seems
to be in liberal supply.

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Ben
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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: 500Nitro]
#189028 - 01/09/11 07:25 AM

Yep, John, the human mind is a wonderful thing with a propensity to forget most of the bad and focus on the good, so that no-sooner are we back in civilisation than we want to get-out into the bush and do it all again!

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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: Ben]
#189029 - 01/09/11 07:28 AM

Also, I find that the hunting I've done up around Adelaide River, closer to the coast, is the toughest. We get back to Katherine and breathe a sigh of reflief, for while it is still really hot, the humidity isn't quite as repressive.

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Dr_Deer
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Re: Camp Cooking [Re: Ben]
#189050 - 01/09/11 03:20 PM

This really depends on where I'm hunting and who I'm hunting with.
If going alone chances are I'm trying to fill the freezer rather than empty it, with dehydrated food being the norm. In stark contrast have been recent "social gatherings" where there seems to be a competition as to how many species of game can be eaten in the one camp.
My favourite breakfast on a recent hunting trip was brewed coffee with homemade cake that tasted suspiciously of stroh rum, a quick hunt less than a km from camp yielding a deer each, followed by a stroll back to camp and cook up the fresh liver with speck and onions.

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