10 comidas clásicas para acampar

Las comidas para acampar tienen que ser muy simples. Deben usar ingredientes que sean fáciles de empacar y almacenar, y deben ser fáciles de preparar. Además, una buena comida de campamento llena lo suficiente como para proporcionar combustible para la actividad física requerida para acampar, caminar, andar en canoa y cualquier otra actividad que realice al aire libre. La comida no tiene que estar prefabricada o preensamblada, y es aún mejor si se trata de una actividad grupal divertida para cocinar algo.

También es bastante bueno preparar algo que no querrías o no podrías tener en el interior de tu casa. Aquí hay 10 recetas probadas y verdaderas para fogatas para mantenerlo alimentado durante su próxima excursión al aire libre.

1. Chile
2. perritos calientes
3. Panqueques
4. pan de maíz
5. pastel de chile
6. francos y frijoles
7. Patatas al horno
8. Pescado Asado
9. Empanadas y sándwiches vagabundos
10. malvaviscos

Una gran olla de chile es una cena ideal para acampar. Casi cualquier cosa que quieras o necesites poner viene de una lata o un sobre y sabe muy bien, y es tan versátil que, más allá de los ingredientes básicos, son adecuadas muchas variaciones. Una nota: los enfriadores mantienen los alimentos fríos y relativamente seguros, pero no a los niveles del refrigerador. Entonces, si vas a cocinar tu chile con carne molida de res, pavo o venado, hazlo la primera noche que estés allí si acabas de comprar una hielera; no querrás enfermarte comiendo carne en mal estado y arruinar un viaje.

Después de dorar la carne sobre el fuego o una estufa de campamento en un horno holandés, vierta parte de la grasa y agregue dos latas de tomates guisados, dos latas de frijoles (uno de riñón y uno pinto), una cebolla picada, tal vez algunos jalapeños y un paquete de chile en polvo o mezcla de especias de chile. Agregue aproximadamente una o dos latas vacías de agua limpia y déjelo hervir a fuego lento hasta que todo esté suave y tibio.

Asar carne es una de las formas de cocinar más antiguas, sencillas y fáciles del mundo. Hay pocas cosas tan maravillosas como asar un hot dog en un palito sobre una fogata rugiente, cocinarlo lo suficiente para que cuando lo muerdas, la piel salte y salga un poco de jugo. Los perros calientes se han mantenido como un alimento básico para acampar porque son económicos, vienen al menos ocho por paquete y, debido a que están procesados, se mantienen con refrigeración mínima. Y si bien puedes asarlos en una estufa de campamento, todo lo que realmente necesitas es un palo y un buen fuego encendido.

Panqueques, hotcakes, flapjacks: como quiera llamarlos, son una comida simple y anticuada, algo que es fácil de hacer y muy abundante. Requieren pocos ingredientes, todos los cuales son fáciles de empacar y almacenar.

Aquí hay una receta simple que data de la década de 1860: tome tres cucharadas grandes de harina (blanca o de trigo ), agregue una pizca de sal y agregue suficiente agua para hacer una masa cremosa. Cubra el fondo de una sartén con grasa (tal vez grasa guardada al cocinar tocino o salchichas) y vierta la masa. Voltee cuando los bordes se doblen. (Otra receta, del siglo XX: 3 tazas de harina, una cucharada de sal, una cucharada de levadura en polvo, dos huevos, dos tazas de leche; mezcle la seca y la húmeda, y luego combine).

You could bring a premade cornbread mix, but it's just as easy to make it from scratch in front of the fire. All that's required is cornmeal, salt, water, a little grease and a skillet. Pour half a cup of cornmeal into a bowl and work in spoonful of fat (bacon grease or butter). Stir in water, and add salt to taste. Coat a skillet with grease, and heat over the fire until it starts to smoke. Pour in the mixture, but leave room on each side so you can flip the bread over, because you'll have to flip it over when the bottom is browned. When it's done, serve warm, and cut into triangular slices like cake or pizza .

It's a pie in name only, although the end result does mimic a pie, with chips for a crust and chili and other ingredients as the filling. Chili pie, also known as chili cheese pie, is a popular item at food stands and sporting events in the South, but it started off as an easy campfire meal made from mostly nonperishable ingredients. Heat up two cans of chili (or make your own, of course) in a Dutch oven. Line a bowl with corn chips or tortilla chips. Top the chips with the warm chili, diced onions and shredded cheddar cheese.

If camping had an official food, it would be beans. These can be prepared and served any number of ways, but this is a simple method with just a couple of extra ingredients that turns beans -- which are filling since they're loaded with both fiber and protein -- from a side dish into a meal. Cut up a package of hot dogs into slices and fry them with some onions in a skillet until the onions brown. Pour off the excess fat. Add a can or two of baked beans, and stir constantly to prevent sticking. Serve it hot -- and, if you've got some, with ketchup.

We've covered skillet and pot cooking, open fire cooking, and stick cooking—have you ever cooked anything outdoors in just tin foil? Similar to how potatoes get baked and steamed to fluffy perfection when they're at the bottom of a clambake is the campfire method. First, poke some holes through the potatoes skin with a fork. Wrap the potato in tin foil, making sure to pack it tightly. Place the potato on a hot bed of coals or on a rock next to a low fire. It'll be ready in about half an hour, but check to see if the potato is cooked by poking it once more with a fork.

If you're camping near a waterway, you might be lucky or skilled enough to catch yourself a main dinner course. Broiled fish, particularly trout, is a camping must. It's also another way to "rough it" and practice some camping ingenuity by making what the "Boy Scout Handbook" calls a rustic broiler (which works for steak as well as fish). Find a forked branch, hold the fish inside it, and then run two or three sticks in across the width and length of the fish, with the ends resting alternately on the top and bottom of the sides of the branch so as to hold the fish in place. Place the handle of the broiler in the ground so that the "netting" of the broiler and the fish rests over the coals or fire. Broil for about five minutes on each side.

What's for lunch when camping? Sandwiches, and hot sandwiches at that. But you probably won't find a place to plug in your panini press, so for pocket sandwiches filled with hot, juicy fillings, invest $20 in a cooking iron, also known as a hobo pie maker or camping press. It consists of two small, hinged metal plates that fit together at the end of two long handles (for safe handling over a fire). A hobo pie is a specific foodstuff, and usually a dessert: two slices of bread, butter and pie filling mashed and heated in the cooking iron until it's an encapsulated, compact treat. You can make all kinds of hot, simple panini sandwiches with a cooking iron, particularly grilled cheese or even Reubens.

So s'mores aren't technically a meal. But a s'more is a great snack, and after all, camping is a vacation, so why not have a graham cracker-marshmallow-chocolate sandwich for dessert?

S'mores originated among campers in the early 20th century. Who exactly invented them is lost to history, but the snack's popularity spread after it was mentioned in the 1927 edition of "The Girl Scout Handbook." (And yes, "s'more" is a contraction of "some more," because you can't eat just one.) They're a great camping food because none of the ingredients require refrigeration and anyone who can hold a stick can make one. Here's how you put one together: Take two marshmallows, poke them on a stick, and toast them on an open flame, turning until the marshmallows are brown. Place them on half a graham cracker and make a sandwich with a square of chocolate on the other cracker half. If you're camping in August, make sure to make some s'mores on Aug. 10 -- National S'mores Day.

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