How is this for camp food

eckilson · 2025-07-13T17:33:45-0400

How is this for camp food:

Saturday night dinner

Salsa and chips
Charcuterie and cheese
Cedar-planked brie with crusty baguettes
Italian sausage with spicy zucchini
Steak Frites (steak and fries)
Watermelon
Carrot cake

Sunday breakfast

Dutch oven cinnamon rolls
Bacon, eggs, sausage and home fries in the Big Daddy skillet

This was the menu for this weekend’s overnight trip. Our local club does two a year – a summer Bastille Day trip, and a winter New Year’s trip. No one ever leaves these trips hungry.

Few pictures here:

Pawcatuck River Overnight - July 12-13, 2025

Explore this photo album by Erik Eckilson on Flickr!

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SouthernKevlar · 2025-07-13T18:27:28-0400

Looks to be a fine time had by all and no one looked hungry. That is SOME breakfast skillet!

Patrick Corry · 2025-07-13T20:09:56-0400

dang, I don't eat that well at home, let alone out by the fire...

Gamma1214 · 2025-07-13T20:32:45-0400

Looks (and sounds) like a feast (or two) for sure. Definitely one for a non-portage trip.

Penns Woods · 2025-07-13T21:46:30-0400

At my age I like to eat good when in camp. Breakfast is always a big event at my camp. I always plan and start the day with real food, eggs, meat, toast, or pancakes washed down with plenty of coffee. With a good Farmers breakfast under my belt I can go hard most of the day till afternoon, then a quick snack followed by a good evening dinner. I know I sacrifice weight and convenience, but I feel it's worth it.

eckilson · 2025-07-14T06:15:09-0400

SouthernKevlar said:
That is SOME breakfast skillet!

The Big Daddy skillet. Lisa Dehart did a video on the Big Daddy. This is the 20" version and it is stainless steel. We did breakfast for 8 in that one pan - bacon, sausage, homefries and eggs. Didn't make it into my picture album, but here is Dan adding the eggs.

The other thing that I had never done before was deep frying in the Dutch oven - it worked great. We did French fries for steak frites.

Helpful to have a thermometer. The Therma Pro meat thermometer worked great. I have an infared temperature gun, and that worked good too. We were able to keep it right around 350 degrees. Dealing with the oil was kind of a pain. We poured it back in the bottle and took it home with us. If you were on a trip I guess you could re-use it to fry other stuff.

Not stuff you would probably do on a long trip, but it is fun to play around with it.

Penns Woods · 2025-07-14T08:25:41-0400

eckilson said:
The Big Daddy skillet. Lisa Dehart did a video on the Big Daddy. This is the 20" version and it is stainless steel. We did breakfast for 8 in that one pan - bacon, sausage, homefries and eggs. Didn't make it into my picture album, but here is Dan adding the eggs.

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The other thing that I had never done before was deep frying in the Dutch oven - it worked great. We did French fries for steak frites.

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Helpful to have a thermometer. The Therma Pro meat thermometer worked great. I have an infared temperature gun, and that worked good too. We were able to keep it right around 350 degrees. Dealing with the oil was kind of a pain. We poured it back in the bottle and took it home with us. If you were on a trip I guess you could re-use it to fry other stuff.

Not stuff you would probably do on a long trip, but it is fun to play around with it.

Congrats on feeding so many people. Eight people is a lot to feed for a meal. Sometimes a hot "stick to the ribs" meal can make a trip. We still talk about the breakfast we had after two days of tent bound cold rain.

eckilson · 2025-07-14T09:06:27-0400

The best thing to have along on a trip is a good cook, and we had several on this trip.

kahel · 2025-07-14T09:19:55-0400

eckilson said:
The best thing to have along on a trip is a good cook, and we had several on this trip.

One for all, all for one.

ppine · 2025-07-14T12:21:06-0400

Camp food can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.
I once had steak and lobster on a backpacking trip in Nevada at 9,800 feet.
Some crazy guys packed in dry ice, fresh food and even ice cream.
We made ice for the bourbon with the dry ice.

How is this for camp food

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