Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

[pab1]

Anyone else enjoy camp cooking using sticks and stones? Share your pics and/or techniques.

Here are a couple sticks and stones meals I've done to start the thread off.

Bannock bread cooked on a rock.

Whitetail backstraps cooked on the same rock.

Dinner is served!

I carved two spatulas to turn the bread and steaks for this meal.

When I was done, cleaning them was easy.

Snowshoe hare and bannock bread cooked on sticks.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Now Im hungery

 

[Phil Coffins]

Deer back straps at 10,000 feet.
IMG_1201 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Looks great except for maybe the hare. I cooked one over a fire once and it was tough as a boot. But, it was food.

 

[SOLANCO]

Looks great except for maybe the hare. I cooked one over a fire once and it was tough as a boot. But, it was food.

Not everything cooks well hot and dry. Wouldn't need a dutch oven otherwise.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Looks great except for maybe the hare. I cooked one over a fire once and it was tough as a boot. But, it was food.

Mature rabbits are usually tough. They still make a good stew but not fryers.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Ya gotta boil them first then flour,egg wash and a final dip of flour put them in a well greased cast iorn skillet and brown, use the drippings for gravy and some fried taters, fine meal.

 

[Ames]

Or bury them in the Dutch oven under the fire's coals for a day. Like making bean hole beans.

 

[pab1]

Looks great except for maybe the hare. I cooked one over a fire once and it was tough as a boot. But, it was food.

I've cooked a lot of hares over a fire and they were very good. Over cooking and too much heat can make any meat cooked over a fire tough. I try to cook them fairly slow, not too close to the embers.

On this camp I shot a snowshoe hare for dinner and cooked it over the fire. When making my spruce bough bed I found a rock under the snow to cook on. I cooked a few red potatoes and an onion on it to go with the hare. While they were cooking I melted snow for water in a steel bottle and cup.

The hare was delicious. I ate half of it with onion and two of the potatoes for dinner. I saved the rest for breakfast.

I cooked bannock bread on that rock in the morning. Because it was wedge shaped it heated unevenly. The dough on the thin part of the rock cooked faster than the dough on the thicker section of the rock.

I turned the bannock in sections as it cooked. Then I reheated what was left of the hare, the last potato and onion wedges.

Continuing to cook the bannock in sections.

It took longer than usual but before long the last of the bannock was done.

Snowshoe hare with stone grilled onion is delicious!

 

[Ames]

Your dog seems captivated by what you came up with.

 

[russellshaffer]

This would be my brother Doug.

 

[pab1]

Your dog seems captivated by what you came up with.

She was one of the best friends I ever had. She loved camping and obviously camp cooking. Unfortunately she has passed on.

 

[pab1]

On a winter camp in January of this year I brought along some brats and bannock bread mix. Originally I had planned to cook the brats and the bannock on sticks separately. As I was about to start cooking I came up with the idea of making pigs in a blanket instead.

I started by cooking the brats on willow sticks.

When they were ready I added water to the bannock mix and spread it over the brats.

Then I slowly cooked it over the fire.

Ready to eat.

They were good!

 

[appalichian hunter]

Looks good.

 

[maillemaker]

When I was a kid in Boy Scouts we discovered during the Wilderness Survival merit badge that we could cook with no utensils. Since we hated doing dishes, we tried to do this from then on. I did try the "cooking on a rock" thing but it was usually hard to find a suitable rock and you usually ended up with sand in whatever you were trying to cook. We were a big fan of cooking things on a stick and wrapping things up that could be stuck in the fire (like potatoes or stuffed peppers).

We also loved to build "fire tables" - a table with dirt on it so you could build your campfire at a comfortable cooking level.

 

[pab1]

When I was a kid in Boy Scouts we discovered during the Wilderness Survival merit badge that we could cook with no utensils. Since we hated doing dishes, we tried to do this from then on. I did try the "cooking on a rock" thing but it was usually hard to find a suitable rock and you usually ended up with sand in whatever you were trying to cook. We were a big fan of cooking things on a stick and wrapping things up that could be stuck in the fire (like potatoes or stuffed peppers).

We also loved to build "fire tables" - a table with dirt on it so you could build your campfire at a comfortable cooking level.

Gotta clean that rock a bit before you cook on it.

 

[BigAl52]

Living were you do kinda helps put a guy in the mood to do some of that stuff. It all looks way cool and it looks like it was alot of fun.

 

[pab1]

A few years back on a winter camp I smoked some deer meat on sticks.

I started by building a willow frame and carving skewer sticks.

I put the marinated deer meat on skewers.

I covered the frame with a tarp. I used a foil pan for the smoldering wood. I already had a burn mark on the ground from my camp fire at this site. I didn't want to create a second one. I used aspen I cut nearby to smoke the meat.

The finished product.

It was delicious!

 

[pab1]

Living were you do kinda helps put a guy in the mood to do some of that stuff. It all looks way cool and it looks like it was alot of fun.

I do enjoy it.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Cooking a whole side of moose ribs over a willow fire. They fed 4 of us for a couple days.
Kobuk river, Alaska '98 or 99. The fishing was great, too. Big grayling, 18" or so, sheefish, pike, and arctic char. We didn't hurt for grub!