Cooking ideas

[bt01]

I'd like to start a forum to share different ideas on cooking on camping trips... any special recipes or cooking methods anyone would like to share.

 

 

 

I would like to know if anyone in here has ever roasted a suckling pig on a camping trip. I would like to do that sometime in the near future, but I do not have much of an idea as to how it needs to be done. If anyone has any information regarding pig-roasting, or if anyone would like to share any creative meals they've cooked on a camping trip, feel free to post in this forum.

 

[le Voyageur]

Okay......here's a MacGyver

 

you'll need the following

 

- an innertube (I like the small ones used for boat trailer tyres)

- a 3/4" thick plywood baseboard (cut square, a few inches bigger than the inner tube)

- a piece of glass, about the size of the baseboard

- a piepan

- a smallpot with lid that fits inside the tube, but not flush.

 

Paint one side of the base board, the outside of the pot/lid, and the piepan flatblack.

 

Center the piepan on the base board and fasten with screws.

 

To use....add rice pilaf, soup, stew, etc to the pot.

 

Under a hot sun, place the inflated innertube on the baseboard, the pot on the pietin, and the glass over the tube to form a seal.....the meal will cook in a few hours....

[Eamonn]

I swear that I will not roast another Pig as long as I live.

The museum next door wanted to try a square dance and pig roast.

Most of the people involved in the museum tend to be blue haired ladies that at more at home playing bridge in the country club than anyplace else.

I was asked if I could roast a pig. I said sure!!

I found a guy called Zip, who was supposed to be an expert pig roaster. He had a trailer type thing with a spit. I met with Zip he gave me one of his caps. I still have the cap. On the front it reads "Zip Eat My Pork".

We ordered the pig a beast of an animal close to 160 pounds. Zip and I met early to get the pig a roasting. The spit weighed a lot, the pig weighed a lot. We cooked the pig for about nine hours. Everything was fine until we wanted to remove the pig from the heat.

The spit stuck, I burned my eye brows off, when we did get it free I managed to drop the darn thing on my toe, and broke my toe.

The next day was OJ's baptism, people came from Canada, Ireland, England for the event.

I still have photos of me with a burnt face and no eyebrows and remember limping all through the church.

Some years later we started hosting a wild game dinner. Where local hunters donate game and we cooked it raising money for pet charities (You know mine!!)

Someone said something about cooking a wild boar. I very quickly said I wanted no part of it. So they dug a trench in the back yard lit a fire early in the AM and started cooking the boar. It was a hot day, the fire was hot and soon the pig roasters got into a few cases of adult beverages, every now and then basting the poor pig with half a can of what made Milwaukee famous. We saved the pig and send the pig roasters home to sleep it off.

Eamonn.