Can't go wrong with the classic staple of rice mixed with whatever you got or anything on a stick. I'm also a huge fan of crawfish layed near the fire. Some more free association typing: Heating up a flat rock and cooking things on it while there are coals under it is a great way to get a flat surface for cooking meat, grilled cheese, etc etc.
Bisquick or cornbread mixed a little dry, poured on a very hot flat rock in the coals (as floydian said) then sprinkled with whatever wild berries you can gather and allowed to bake. I can eat that every night on the trail in Spring and Summer. And since you only need water it's pretty lightweight.
I have been doing a lot of tin foil cooking the past few years. Cut up potatoes and carrots with some onion or wild chives are really good in tin foil. I like the tin foil because it is so easy to clean up just throw it in the fire and get it out the next morning and it is burned clean and the animals don’t smell it and it is ready to put in the recycle bin when you go to town. Meat is OK in tin foil but a grill is better I usually buy 4 or 5 used metal refrigerator shelves and hang them in trees by my favorites spots after I cook on them I put then in the fire over night to burn the smell off of them and hang them in a tree near by for next time. Nice juicy steak grilled over the coals with some roasted potatoes, onions and carrots one of my favorites.
If I'm not ultra-lighting, I carry a grilliput and firebowl. http://www.campmor.com/webapp/wcs/s...6&storeId=226&catalogId=40000000226&langId=-1 http://www.campmor.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=39209705&memberId=12500226 They're light, I can cook in a pot on them, and there's no need to to clear an area to start a fire.
cooking in aluminum foil is a real easy way to cook awkward things on a fire too. Things that don't easily sit on a stick or grill. Another trick I've done was to cook cornmeal / muffin mix inside an orange rind. You can make little cornbread or muffins like that.
lol I actually think most of em taste pretty good... I'm not much of a back country chef, besides some wild onions and Fish on occasion. Now car camping, thats another story!
pie-iron pizzas. delicious and cheap. and eggs sammichs in a pie iron w/some cheese, oh yeah .. .good stuff
I buy dehydrated veggies at this organic market in College Park and make them with some wild rice. I can't stand packaged foods unless there's nothing else. Though I like the MH cheescake. But after a week or so on trail anything sweet is heaven.
I didn't specify. Having a two year old and a one year old, I seem to not be out in the backwoods as often as I used too. If it's just me I still go quite a ways, but it's difficult carrying supplies and babies. I think my son(the two year old) is old enough this year to start going a bit further, but still nothing major.
