Three Great Campfire Grills

Camp Chef Mountain Man Over The Fire Grill

If you enjoy cooking over a campfire, a campfire grill is very handy. With a portable campfire grill, you can cook hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks, even pancakes over the fire! Pick between one of these great campfire grills.

Dutch Oven Lasagna

Dutch Oven Lasagna is a delicious pasta dish to cook in your dutch oven. Here are some tasty lasagna recipes for you to try..

What type of fuel should I use?

When you are grilling or bbqing, there are a number of types of fuels for you to choose from. Your choice will be affected to a degree by whether you are cooking on a propane or charcoal grill, or over a campfire (or possibly other locations). Below are several choices for fuel and the advantages …

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Book Review: Cooking Backyard to Backcountry

I recently had the opportunity to review a very interesting book, “Cooking Backyard to Backcountry” by John Rittel and Lori Rittel. John and Lori siblings who up on a guest ranch in Montana, spending much of their time outdoors.  They share their outdoor cooking expertise in this book. One of the big reasons that I …

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Outdoor Oven

Here’s an easy way to make an outdoor oven that you can use to cook chicken or even a turkey. Best of all, you can make it anywhere. For this outdoor oven, you need 4 three foot long metal stakes (you can use rebar), a tripod (just made of three straight sticks, chicken wire, aluminum …

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Cooking Baked Apples

Baked apples are a fun, easy dessert to cook in the fire when you’re camping.  The basic idea is to core of the center of the apple, fill the center with a filling, wrap the whole thing in foil, and cook it in the fire. To core an apple, I take a paring knife and, …

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Cooking Rice in Foil Dinners

I like rice in my foil dinners.  But it requires some moisture.  Usually I make up the foil packet, leaving one end open, and then pour 1/4 to 1/2 cup of water in open end and then seal that end up. Unfortunately, it seems like my foil packet is never quite air (or water) tight …

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Smoked Ribs

BBQ Ribs

Ribs are one of the cuts of meat that taste great from smoking.  See some of these great articles about smoked ribs: Razorback Ribs gives some great information on using a normal charcoal grill as a smoker for smoking ribs. Monkey See has a good video on getting ribs ready for smoking Some delicious looking …

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