How is this for camp food

[eckilson]

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]

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

 

[Patrick Corry]

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

 

[Gamma1214]

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

 

[Penns Woods]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[kahel]

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]

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.

 

[PaddlingPika]

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.

Was this planned as a gentleman's trip or did it just happen to not have any women, or at least none in front of the camera?

I belong to two paddle clubs. In one club overnight trips have often had more women than men participants. The overnight trips in that club are more likely to be down river trips camping on a sand or gravel bar with everyone preparing their own meals. The other club has some guys who like preparing hearty meals by campfire at a near by canoe-in campsite on a lake. In that club back country camping seems to be more of a guy thing and I am sometimes the only female in the group.