Tag: camping breakfast

Easy Camping Pancakes Recipe for Shrove Tuesday

Happy Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Tuesday! When I was growing up, the church I went to would serve pancakes on the evening before Ash Wednesday (Shrove Tuesday).

Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent in the Christian calendar. It is traditionally a day of feasting and celebration before the fasting period of Lent begins. In many countries, it is known as Pancake Day because of the custom of making and eating pancakes to use up rich ingredients like eggs, milk, and sugar before the Lenten fast. The word “shrove†comes from the old English word shrive, meaning to confess sins and receive absolution. Shrove Tuesday falls 47 days before Easter, so its date changes each year.

When I got to college, I continued the tradition with my college roommates who are still my good friends today. One of my roommates even started the tradition with her daughters.

Anyone who knows me, knows my deep love for the city of New Orleans! So I really don’t need Mardi Gras to get into the spirit of listening to my favorites Galactic, Trombone Shorty or Kermit Ruffins and whipping up some pancakes (or crepes if feeling French!) but will definitely do so on this day.

Another great time for pancakes is when camping because as my friends and I like to say “there are no calories when camping”. Sometimes I will get lazy and just bring some Kodiak mix but a lot of times I will pre-make the pancake dry ingredients and put it all in a gallon zip lock bag. When at the campsite, just add a couple eggs, a couple tablespoons of vegetable and a bit of liquid you have on hand (milk, buttermilk or water).

Note – This recipe makes about 9 pancakes so multiple by how much mix you would like to make. I usually multiple by at least 4 since the dry ingredients will last in the zip lock bag for a good while if you don’t use it all.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
Camping Pancakes with Bacon

Directions:

  1. Add 2 cups of dry ingredients into a bowl
  2. Add 2 eggs and about 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
  3. Stir in liquid (milk, buttermilk or water) to the bowl and mix until well combined (about 1 1/2 cups)
  4. If necessary to get desired consistency, add more liquid by tablespoon until reaching consistency you want
  5. Heat a griddle or cast iron pan and add either butter or spray to pan
  6. Pour 1/4 cup of batter onto the griddle or pan
  7. Cook until bubbly on top, puffed and slightly brown around the edges and then flip and cook other side until golden brown
  8. Top pancakes with butter, fruit, maple syrup or whatever your heart desires!

Laissez les bons temps rouler! It’s Mardi Gras Day!

Pancakes with sugared strawberries and whipped cream

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Easy Campfire Muffins Recipe to Try

Once I found this cute cast iron muffin tin, like this one, I knew I was going to have to test out some muffins for breakfast. I’ve mentioned this before but I used to make my own pancake/baking mix before a camping trip until I learned about Kodiak Pancake Mix which can be used for many different baking items, I haven’t looked back. It is easy to use, delicious and packed with protein! I highly recommend if you haven’t checked them out before.

Ingredients –

  • 2 cups Kodiak Pancake Mix
  • 2 Bananas
  • 2 eggs (I pour from my egg water bottles that I prep before the trip and gauge 2 eggs)
  • 1/2 cup cinnamon sugar mix (1 part sugar to 3 parts sugar like I use for monkey bread recipe)
  • 1 to 1.5 cup water
  • Brown sugar
  • Oil or cooking spray
  • Foil
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Easy Cast Iron Veggie Frittata for Camping

If you ever wanted to know how real my blog is (and that I’m not working to get influencers or likes), you can tell from my photos.

I have a good group of friends who go camping with me and encouraged me to make this blog because they LOVE my food and they thought others would like as well. In fact they recruit others who never go camping (including this summer) on the sole basis of my food

My motto is I don’t do the basics – hot dogs, hamburgers. Nothing against any of those things, I just love to push myself. And not all our winners, but when something is, I want to share this here!

I say this because my friends will be the first to tell you – I am so busy prepping, cooking and serving the meal, that a lot of times, I don’t turn on my phone to take a picture (I ALWAYS camp where there is NO signal so my phone is never on!). In fact a big group trip we had this summer, I had to have people remind me and we were all living in the moment, that out of 8 people, only one remember on one occasion!

I preface all of this because this meal is one of them. I saw the grill we had when we got there and realized it was not big enough to cook reasonably for 8 people completely in two cast iron pans. So I did a quick maneuver to make the frittata and it was so good, half of it was served up before I could take a picture (hence the first picture!)

The fun thing about this dish is you can play around. I made it again the next day with a couple different ingredients. We had half the group loving tomatoes which I say is a must for this, but another half hating them, which is why half the frittata has tomatoes. You can strategically place based on likes!

Morally of the story, I hope you come here to find new recipes, try them and love them and share! And if anything, just know I’m 100% authentic!! Cuz I promise I am and just want you all to enjoy – bad pictures or not 😂

Breakfast Veggie Frittata

Ingredients –

  • 2 tbsp vegetable or olive oil
  • 1 yellow or white onion, diced
  • 1 – 2 tomatoes, diced
  • 2 tbsp minced garlic
  • 1 cup spinach
  • 8 – 12 eggs (depending size of group), whisked
  • Sliced mozzarella and/or Mexican cheese
  • Any leftover meat or deli meat you want to use up (optional)
  • Any other veggies you want to use up (optional)
  1. Slice all veggies and mince garlic
  2. In one cast iron pan, pour oil into it and heat
  3. Add onions and garlic and sauté until tender
  4. Whisk eggs in a bowl with veggies and cheese
  5. For easy cleanup, line another cast iron with aluminum foil (if only one pan, skip this step)
  6. Pour mixture into pan
  7. If omitting any veggies for the group, do not add them in the bowl in step four and carefully place them on top of the eggs in the pan here on one side to separate from total
  8. Cover pan with foil
  9. Place over indirect heat on the campfire
  10. Cook for about 35-45 minutes until the eggs have set in the pan (don’t jiggle in the middle when you move the pan)
  11. Top with hot sauce, if desired
  12. In the first picture, instead of shredded cheese, I topped with American cheese. Also good but recommend shredded!

I would love feedback! If you have tried this recipe, please rate below and/or comment!

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Delicious Campfire Breakfast Sandwich Recipe

Last Christmas one of my sisters and her husband got me a new camping tool.  So last December, I started looking up ideas on what to use it for and breakfast sandwiches were my first thought.  Even though we believe there are no calories during camping, I still went with a healthier turkey breakfast sausage vs. other meats but you can use whatever type of breakfast meat patties you are craving.  If you would like to do turkey breakfast sausages, please check out my previous recipe post here – Homemade Turkey Breakfast Sausages

Ingredients –

  • Breakfast sausage patties
  • Eggs
  • English muffins
  • Sliced American cheese
  • Cast iron cooking iron like this one

Directions –

  1. Scramble eggs in a pan either on campfire or propane grill if you have one
  2. Warm (or cook if you didn’t make ahead) the breakfast sausages
  3. Assemble sandwiches by layering a sliced English muffin on the bottom of the cast iron, top with a meat patty, some scrambled eggs, a slice American cheese and top with the top of the English muffin
  4. Close cast iron cooking iron and hold over the campfire for about 5 – 8 minutes until the cheese has melted and the English muffin is toasted
  5. Remove and add hot sauce (if you are into that type of thing) and enjoy!

I would love feedback! If you have tried this recipe, please rate below and/or comment!

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Delicious Camping Breakfast Chilaquiles

I just recently tested out this new take on camping breakfast and it was a huge hit!  I might test with different ingredients over time but this recipe was so great, I don’t need to.

Ingredients –

  • Corn Tortillas
  • Oil
  • Yellow Onion, chopped
  • Salsa verde (1 1/2 – 2 small cans)
  • Eggs
  • Queso fresco, crumbled
  • Cilantro
  • Radishes, sliced (optional)
  • Avocado, sliced (optional)

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Directions –

  1. Add oil to a small skillet.  Once heated, add one corn tortilla and fry until crispy (about 3-4 min).  Flip and fry other side until crispy.  Remove and place on plate with paper towel – *Note: This step was done on my propane grill just for convenience but can be done on a campfire in a cast iron
  2. Cut each fried tortilla into 8 triangles
  3. In a cast iron pan over a campfire, heat oil and then add onions and saute
  4. Add salsa verde to pan and put over direct heat of the fire
  5. Once it begins to bubble, stir in beaten eggs – Since I pour my eggs into water bottles before the trip, this just requires pouring into pan
  6. Stir eggs periodically until thicken
  7. Add chips and toss gently until they are covered in sauce
  8. Remove from campfire
  9. Sprinkle with cheese
  10. Top with extra onions, cilantro, radishes and sliced avocado

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I would love feedback! If you have tried this recipe, please rate below and/or comment!

Rating: 5 out of 5.

How to Make a Delicious Bloody Mary for Camping

So years back a friend of mine who is a bartender told me a secret for any great Bloody Mary Mix – A1 sauce. I don’t make this a lot cuz of tomato juice but now with my new Yeti, I see this more often in the future. Because who doesn’t love a breakfast with eggs, bacon and a bloody?

  • Two 64 oz. tomato juice
  • 2 lemons, juiced
  • 2 limes, juiced
  • 1/2 bottle of Worcestershire sauce – I use organic because fun fact – I’m allergic to fish oil! So for any vegetarian or just non fish people, if you want to be considered use organic because having anchovies in Worcestershire is not organic. My vegan coworker told me not to watch the videos not like I ever wanted to. 🙂
  • 5 tablespoons horseradish
  • 8 tsp salt
  • 5 tsp Tabasco
  • 5 tsp celery salt
  • 1 bottle A-1 sauce or steak sauce
  • Heavy dashes of black pepper – go crazy!

Mix all together and then taste and add to taste. I like to add more lemon and salt and pepper but you do you 😊

Put in a well sealed container and add to cooler chest.

At campsite, add in cup with ice and vodka and top with some bacon!

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Easy Pancake Mix Recipe for Camping

One of my favorite traditions is this week – Mardi Gras!  Also known as Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday and the main reason I love it – Pancake Tuesday.  I love a good breakfast for dinner sometimes, and during college, I always heated up my pan and put together crepes, or pancakes, with all the fixings for my roommates and I.  Of course some hurricanes always paired nicely.  So this week, I give you breakfast!

I make large batches of this mix before the summer starts so I always have it ready to go for camping trips throughout the season.  It’s also great just for an easy breakfast on the weekends.  Just bring this mix, a small thing of buttermilk and 2 eggs.

Fun camping hack!  Before every trip, I crack open eggs into a large bowl and very slightly beat (just to fit through the funnel).  I then use emptied and cleaned plastic water bottles that I collect before preparation and insert a funnel into one.  Then pour the eggs in through the funnel until full.  Seal tightly and save in the fridge until you load your cooler.  Of course you can’t do any crazy egg varieties this way (sunny side up, over easy) but works great for scrambled eggs, breakfast burritos and recipes like this that ask for 2 eggs!

Also this is one recipe I do on my small propane grill that I also bring.  You can very much do it on indirect heat in a cast iron on the campfire in the morning but I’m usually doing such a big breakfast, I’ll have both the small propane grill and campfire grill going at the same time and just end up doing the pancakes on the propane grill.

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Last year I got these stack-able pots and pans that I absolutely LOVE (see above)!  GSI Stackable Pots

They even come with a small cutting board.  It saves on space when packing the car, and gives you two pots, one saucepan and a cutting board all in the size of the big pan.  Totally worth the money and less stress of trying to find the right pans to bring.  If you are going to do the pancakes on the grill, I recommend a cast iron pan and melting a half stick of butter in the pan first to reduce sticking with the heat of a campfire.

Multi-use Baking Mix Recipe (adjust this to how much of a batch you want to make)-

  • 3 cups Flour
  • 1 tablespoon Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 teaspoon Salt

Recipe –

  • 2 cups of Multi-use Baking Mix Recipe
  • 2 cups (475 ml) buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • Butter
  • Optional – chocolate chips, coconut, fruit slices you have at camp
  1. In a large bowl, whisk together 2 cups baking mix, 2 cups buttermilk and two eggs until well blended.
  2. Melt a little piece of butter in a medium saucepan (or half stick in a large cast iron).  Put 1/4 cup batter at a time into the skillet.
  3. If you want to add other items, spread on top of pancakes here.  Chocolate chips are of course a big hit with the kid campers!
  4. Cook edges look slightly brown and firm (about 3 – 5 min), then flip.
  5. Cook other side until golden brown and firm.
  6. Repeat until batter is gone.

I love to serve up with bacon and french pressed coffee!

Another fun tip – if you want to get people up at your campsite to start the day, start cooking bacon 😉

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

I would love feedback! If you have tried this recipe, please rate below and/or comment!

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Delicious Campfire Monkey Bread Recipe

Campfire Monkey Bread

I have to admit, the first time I made this for my friends, I had never had monkey bread and had no idea how it would turn out.  It was such a hit (devoured in minutes) that it is a must have for at least one breakfast during every camping trip now!

Campfire Monkey Bread
Campfire Monkey Bread – Cinnamon Sugar Bread

Ingredients –

  • Cinnamon Sugar Mix (1 part cinnamon to 3 parts sugar mixed in a zip-lock bag.  I usually do 1 cup sugar to 1/3 cup cinnamon)
    • I will make this before we leave for the trip
  • 1 can of  Pillsbury Grands Original Flaky Biscuits
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1/2 c. brown sugar

Instructions –

  1. Line a cast iron page with foil.  I usually double up to ensure easy cleanup.
  2. Remove biscuits from can and cut into fourths.
  3. Add a couple biscuits to cinnamon sugar mix and shake until coated
  4. Add biscuit pieces to the cast iron pan.
  5. Repeat until all biscuits have been coated with cinnamon sugar and lined in the pan.
  6. Melt 1 stick of butter and 1/2 cup of brown sugar in a small pan.  I usually have a small propane grill with me that I will use for this but can do on a campfire as well.  Once melted and mixed together, pour evenly over the biscuits in the pan.  Cover cast iron pan with a layer of foil and put over the campfire in indirect heat.  Make sure the pan is not completely over the flames as this will burn the bottoms more than you want. (A little burnt is bottom gives it a crunchy finish)
  7. Bake for about 45 min to an hour or once all of the biscuits have puffed up and look finished.
  8. Note: This is best cooked over hot coals with a lower flame

Remove from the fire, pull a piece off, and enjoy with a cup of coffee!

I would love feedback! If you have tried this recipe, please rate below and/or comment!

Rating: 5 out of 5.