Best Campfire Recipes To Try Out At Your Cottage Or Cabin
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Creating A Campfire For More Than Marshmallows
Now that the warm weather is here, many become weekend warriors and head for their cottage or cabin. There are only so many roasted marshmallows that one can eat over the summer, so here is our list of the best campfire recipes for you to try this cottage season.
Best Campfire Recipes
Stock up on tinfoil and long bbq tongs, heavy duty metal skewers and oven mitts . It’s time to take campfire cooking to the next level!
Campfire Corn On The Cob
Leave the husks on your ears of corn and soak them in a bucket or cooler of water for an hour. Next with either use your long bbq tongs or heavy duty metal skewers (depending on grip or weight) to roast the corn over the open flame until the husk becomes a very dark brown. Set roasted corn aside to let the steam to do the work and finish the cooking. After that put on your oven mitts and remove the husks from the corn and serve.
Spider Hot Dogs
This brings a bit of fun to the typical weiner roast. Start by scoring cross or x pattern into the ends of the hot dog with a knife. You are begining to start the legs of the spider. Now slice into your scoring a bit but not too far into the weiner. You don’t want the legs to char and fall off. Then insert your metal skewer into the hot dog and roast over the campfire. As it cooks you will see 4 legs form on each end of the hot dog, because as the weiner roasts the ends begin to curl up.
Tacos In A Bag
Being that your are at the cottage/cabin chances are you plan on grilling some hamburgers. Put a few extra on the grill and save the leftovers for this campfire recipe.
Start with a small bag of nacho chips (Doritos work best as their bags are foil lined and chips are flavoured already). Squish the bag a bit to crunch up the chips into smaller bite size pieces. Next chop up your cooked burgers and taco toppings (lettuce, peppers, cheese etc). Open the top of the nacho chip bag, add the toppings, roll up the top and give it a good shake. Then use the bbq tongs to hold the bags over the fire so that the cheese melts. Next set aside until the nacho chip bags are cool enough to hold. Slowly and carefully open the bags to let out the steam. Then once the bag and toppings are cool to the touch, eat the concoction right out of the bag, splitting it down the side as you get deeper into the filling (or eat with forks).
Campfire Cones
Think of it as all the fun of s’mores in an easier to manage ice cream cone. Begin with a sugar cone and fill with your sweet toppings, marshmallows, chocolate chips, caramel sauce, berries or any dessert toppings you like. Wrap the cone in foil. Use the bbq tongs to hold the package cone over the campfire to cook the ingredients. After that, let it cool and unwrap this portable dessert.
Memorable Moments At The Summer Cottage / Family Cabin
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20 Responses to “Best Campfire Recipes To Try Out At Your Cottage Or Cabin”
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We’re not a camping family, but we do love to roast marshmallows t home in our firepit.
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Those spider hot dogs sure sound like a blast. These are fun ideas.
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Roasted marshmallows bring back so many memories!
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Bon fires with hot dogs and marshmallows!
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We love to camp. We have only done hot dogs and smores. I have heard a lot of great things about taco’s in a bag!
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Oh I can’t wait to go camping and try some of these out!
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These are some good campfire ideas! There’s nothing like roasting over an open campfire.
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What great signs! I love the Canadian Maple one! They are so so very nice!!
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I like the campfire cones! have never had this. We are planning a camping trip this summer and will make a note of some of these ideas.
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Such a nice way to add some fun to a campfire. I really like the idea of smores in a cone!
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I would love to have a campfire in my back yard. I so want a firepit.
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What a great idea for a post! And… I have never done the nachos or even thought about how I would – in our house nachos are our Friday tradition! Thanks for sharing!!
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Campfire meals are always delicious! Thanks for the ideas – I’ll be sure to try them out.
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So fun! These will definitely be on our summer list up at the cottage.
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Camping is one of my favorite summer time activities. I can’t wait to try some of these recipes.
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When I was younger, for me it was sleeping in the tents – and those marshmallows….
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I love all of these recipes! They all sound like a lot of fun to have with your family over the fire! I am definitely adding it to our camping menu!
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Thanks for your post! My family and I love camping and our favorite campfire treat are SMORES! Can’t resist them! So yummy!
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These are some great recipe ideas that I would love to try out anytime. I always love trying out different variety of tacos & recipes that are made of corn. Camping is always fun & it is great to have such recipes on the list.
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we LOVE walking tacos. My kids enjoy campfire cones too. Our other favorite is potatoes in foil and we bury them under the fire.
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