Solo trips, or on what I think of as “solo with companion”, where we are each in our own canoe and take care of our own needs, I bring very little in the way of cookware. Jetboil stove, insulated coffee mug, insulated cup/bowl, long handled spoon.
Plastic butter knife for spreading peanut butter, so I don’t use my sheath knife, or gawd forbid gum up the rescue folder on the PFD. Not that I would ever thoughtlessly do such a thing. Repeatedly.
On “I’ll have a campfire” trips sometimes a Purcell Trench grill and billypot that fits the Jetboil, actually a retrofitted Bento lunch pail pot.
http://www.canoetripping.net/forums/forum/gear/camp-kitchen/58042-​pot-to-nestle-jet-boil-stove
On family trips we once took a 2-burner Coleman (actually a series of them, salt water kills them), and various pots, pans and implements, but nowadays it’s the Jetboil or, often, two going at once, with the Billy pot and Trench Grill for campfire use. And pie irons. There is a 20 year family competition about “Who can toast the most perfect pie iron pizza?”
Competition and debate. “Whadd ya mean? That is perfection, I
wanted one side burned black”
And of course Reflectix coozies, still one of the handiest and easy to DIY of meal accessories, especially on off-season trips where the gruel grows cold faster than I can shovel it down.
Most necessary when rehydrating a freeze dry meal and eating it out of the pouch. “Let seep 10 – 12 minutes”, AKA “Let seep until barely tepid and then scarf it down fast before it is cold”
http://www.canoetripping.net/forums...reflectix-cozies-and-nashua-flexfix-foil-tape
Also handy for actual cookware pots and pans, when taking a group meal off the stove or fire to set aside for serve yourself.
I still have a half roll of Reflectix. Some improved freeze dry meal coozies might be fun to make.