Campfire Cooking _ Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner Recipes.

Hey, I'm Maggie from Back to the Land Living, and in today's video, I'm gonna be sharing with you guys some outdoor cooking recipes that we really enjoy making, and especially in the winter months, it's fun to go out into the woods and make a campfire and cook some food over it. So we're gonna be sharing some different ideas with you guys, some snack ideas, lunch ideas, supper ideas, even some breakfast ideas. And so we'll be sharing them over a few days because we're gonna be making them and then eating them as our meals. I'll link all the recipes down in the description box below if you wanna check them out. I'll leave a link to over on my blog where I have them in the written format. So I hope you enjoy these recipes and they inspire you to get outdoors and do a little cooking over a campfire. The first recipe I'm gonna be sharing is one of my favorites, and I hope you like it too. So today we're gonna be doing campfire style pogos. We're gonna be making sausages and we're also gonna be making bannock and we're gonna be putting the sausage in the bannock so it's kind of like a pogo. So we're gonna get our fire ready to start cooking and gonna start making our lunch. This is Rocco, he's an old man. This is Ruby, she's a puppy. And so they're not gonna move out of the cameras. And so they're down here with us and they smell the sausage so they've moved in on us. Anyways, we moved our sausage down closer to the fire because it wasn't cooking enough up high like that. And now we're gonna get our bannock going and Eric's just keeping the fire fed. So I mixed up this bannock already up in our house and we just brought it all mixed up. But if you wanted to, you could mix this up in just the dry ingredients and then add the water to it once you get down in the woods. But I'm gonna wrap it just around a stick. So we chose a stick that is like pretty thick. And so for this stick, I took the bark off because it was kind of rough. The other one's pretty smooth bark so I left it on. And so you want your stick to be about the same size as your sausage is around because our goal, we're gonna try to put the bannock around the sausage like a bun. So I brought a bit of butter to grease the stick with so that it'll come off easier. It's kind of frozen now since it's cold out so we'll see if this works but I think I'm actually gonna warm the stick up first. I'm gonna rub some butter on it so that the bannock will come off easier. So the key with bannock to get to cook and not be like a raw lump of dough is to put it on pretty thin. If you put it on too thick, then it's not gonna cook very well. And so I'm gonna roll it out into a long snake and then I'm gonna stretch it and wrap it around my stick. If you hold it too close to the fire, then it will cook too soon and then the inside will be raw. And if you hold it too far away, it'll be just not cook. So they say the best is to put your hand up to the fire and if you can hold it there for 10 seconds and not burn yourself, then it's a good spot to put it. Okay, so I'm just gonna wrap it and I'm just gonna pull it as I wrap it and get it pretty thin. So as we cook our bannock, we have it kind of set up so they're holding themselves and we're gonna keep rotating it as it cooks. And you know it's cooked when you, if you try to pull on it and it'll come off of the stick, it should be done or when it's not cooked, it looks nice and golden brown. Don't you even think about it. ♪♪♪ That came off really nice. Okay, so that mine looks really good. So mine fits in really nicely, like a little pogo in a bun. It's a bit longer, but it works. Yeah, I think it's super good. Mine definitely was more successful than Eric's because my stick was a bit thicker. So make sure the stick you choose is big as your sausage. And these sausage are homemade sausages from our pigs this year. So it's homemade bannock over a campfire with homemade sausage. So it's kind of a very satisfying campfire meal. So we're gonna finish up our lunch down here and we'll see you with the next recipe. So this morning we're here at our bonfire pit and we're gonna be making breakfast over the fire and we're gonna be doing some omelets. So this is just where we usually do bonfires in summertime, but it's a good place to put our grill for cooking on our frying pan. So I'm gonna get started. It's a very, very simple omelet. All it is is eggs that we have from our hens and then salsa. So this is something I like to make also just in our kitchen on a regular morning, but it's also good for over a fire because it doesn't involve many ingredients. So all we're putting in it is our eggs. I have five eggs, but our eggs are really tiny. So however many eggs you want. Then I have some salsa that we made this summer. And I like that because it has peppers, it has onions, it has tomatoes, has a lot of ingredients that I actually would usually put in an omelet, but it's already mixed up for me. So I just put this inside and then I don't have to add any more ingredients except for some cheese that I also have. So we're gonna put our frying pan on, put some butter in to get it warming up. Then we're gonna add our eggs and our salsa and let it cook. So we want the pan to be pretty hot, but not too hot. So I'm just gonna move it over this way where my fire is smaller. So I beat my eggs up already in my mason jar and I added a little salt and pepper to it. And I'm just gonna pour this right in. Such a bright yellow color because our chickens are pretty young, so they have a really nice yolk. So we're gonna let that cook. And once the sides start to become cooked, I'm gonna add in my salsa. So that's cooked around the edges. I'm gonna add some of my salsa in. So I know this is probably not the proper way to make an omelet, but it works good for me. There we go. We're gonna let it keep cooking. Okay, so now it's cooked a little bit more with the salsa in there. And now I'm gonna add my cheese. Ooh, there's someone coming to get some cheese. Rocco, you want some? I need some. Oh, yummy snack. Here you go, buddy. There we go. So now that it is pretty well cooked, the top is a little bit wet still, but almost done, I'm gonna fold it in half or I'm gonna attempt to fold it in half. We'll see how it goes. Sometimes I fail at folding in half and then it just becomes like a scrambled situation, but it still tastes the same. So do the best you can. I think I need my mitt. Hold on to it. See how I do. Hey, not too bad. It's starting to leak a little bit, but pretty good. Good enough to eat. So we're gonna let this cook for a couple more minutes and then we're gonna serve it up and have ourselves some breakfast. Nice, you can move your chips. You can put them in your tub, buddy. See how it tastes? I think it's gonna be really hot at first, but. It'll cool down fast. It's good. It's good? Mm-hmm. Ooh, hot. There you go. Very good. See, this is a really nice, quick recipe. That only took us about 10 minutes to make this, where some of the other recipes over a fire can take a little bit longer. Really yummy, great way to have a little breakfast outside if you're camping or just wanna make a little bit of food. You want a little bit, buddy? I'm gonna hold that for a minute. Give him just a little bit here. Want a little bit, bud? Sweet. Let it cool down, buddy. There, nice for you. Here you go. Give him that. How should I like this? It's good. I was hungry. So today, I'm out here at my camp with my husband, Eric, and my sister, Leah, and my dad, Joel, and we're out here. We came out for the weekend, and we thought we'd do a few outdoor cooking recipes. And today for lunch, we're gonna be making some bannock pizza. And so this bannock recipe is the same recipe we used for the pogos, and also I'm gonna be using it again later for a sweet treat. So campfire pizza is pretty basic. All you're gonna need is a pan, like a cast iron pan, or something you can put in the fire. So it could be a Dutch oven, or something that can be in the fire. So we're just using a cast iron frying pan, and we're gonna be putting it on a bed of coals. So this fire's a little bit big, so we're gonna be moving some of the coals out and just getting a nice bed, because if it's too hot, it's just gonna burn the bannock, which is like the crust of the pizza. And so you want it to be a nice coal bed to put your frying pan on. And we're just gonna be putting the bannock in, and then once the bannock cooks on one side, we're gonna be flipping it, and then cooking it a little more on the other side, putting the toppings on, and we'll have ourselves a little campfire pizza. So now that we have the frying pan in the fire, we're gonna be adding our bannock. So the bannock is just the same recipe as I used before, and so I have it all made up beforehand. It actually, it's been frozen because it's so cold that it actually froze on the way over here. But I'm just going to make it out into a nice thin disc the size of my pan. I might need to take my frying pan back out of the fire, push it down in it, and then put it back on. And so I'm just gonna get this ready, and then I'm gonna cook it until the underside starts to look a little brown, and then flip it over to cook the other side of it. And that's when we'll put the toppings on. Oh, that looks nice and big. It's like a pizza crust? Yeah. Okay, now we wait. Okay, so now that it's all cooked, and it's kind of a golden color, I'm gonna flip it over. An important step that I forgot to mention earlier is to grease your pan. Honestly, I didn't do that this time. I've always done it in the past. Don't know why I didn't do it this time, but it just makes the process a whole lot easier if you grease your pan before you put in your bread. But now I'm gonna just flip it over. So because I didn't grease it, I kind of had to get it up a little, took a little more effort, and so I got a little hole, but whatever, it's a campfire. And if you do grease it, it does work a lot better because I've done it in the past. So now I'm gonna give it a flip. So now that we've just flipped this over, it's time to add our toppings. So we're going to add some pizza sauce. This is homemade, so it is thin, but we're just gonna add a bit. And also we're gonna be adding some cheese, pepperoni, peppers, onions, whatever you want for your pizza, you can add it on. And we're just gonna be letting this cook. Pretty much this is just warming and melting. If I had a cover to my frying pan, or if it was a Dutch oven, it would be good because I could have put that on earlier when the bread was baking, and it would have sped up the process because it kind of like steams the bread. And then also I could put it on to melt the cheese after. But now I'm gonna add my toppings, and then we're gonna, once it melts, we're gonna have ourselves a nice pizza. I'm just leaving one quarter without toppings like this because my little scissor doesn't like anything except for cheese and pepperoni. Okay, now the cheese is not grated because we realized we don't have a cheese grater out here at our camp, so I just cut up. So we're gonna leave this over the coals until the cheese starts to melt. And that will be the whole pizza. ♪♪♪ I love it, Heidi. So for this next recipe, it is one of my favorites. It's a nice little sweet treat to have over the campfire. It is called the Bannock Bites. It's what I call them anyways. And it's made out of the same Bannock recipe I use for the pizza and also for the Pogos. So it's really easy. I actually just kept this leftover from the pizza recipe. So we make the full recipe that I have on my blog. About half that is the amount you need for your pizza. And the other half I'm using for making Bannock Bites. I actually already made some of these with the leftover Bannock at our camp on the wood stove. But I saved a little bit to make over the fire out here at our bonfire pit. So it's a really easy recipe. All I'm gonna do is have my frying pan here on the fire heating up. And I'm gonna put some butter in it. A decent amount of butter, not too much, but enough to coat the bottom and have a little bit extra. Then I'm gonna put in little bits of Bannock and kind of smush them down pretty flat and they'll puff up. And then once they're golden on one side, I'm gonna flip them over and let them get golden on the other side. And then take them out and toss them in some cinnamon and sugar. And they are delicious. They taste kind of like a beaver tail, I think. I don't know if you're Canadian, if you've heard of the dessert beaver tail. It's like a fried dough with cinnamon and sugar. But if you have, comment down below. And let me know if you're not from Canada, if you've heard this dessert and if you have it. So it's really delicious. So let's get to making our Bannock Bites. Woo, it's hot. I think we got a fire a little too hot. I'm gonna pull it back. I think I'm gonna let this fire die down a little bit just because we got the flames a little too high. We don't want it too hot. We want it sizzling, but not browning too much. So to this, we're gonna add a decent bit of butter. That's probably good. It's a little bit like a deep fried donut, but you don't need too much butter for it. It's like a shallow fry. So I have my butter now in the pan, and I'm gonna add my bannock. I'm just gonna rip off a little bit. You can make them whatever size you want. The smaller you make them, the quicker they cook. But I'm just squishing it down pretty flat. So like a quarter of an inch or less. So it's like a little tiny disc like this. And I'm just gonna pop it right in the butter. Okay, so I'm just going to be kinda keep pushing them around, checking, and then when they're brown on the bottom, so like this one is brown on the bottom, I'm gonna flip it. So I don't, those are a little bit dark. Sometimes it's hard to regulate the heat on an open fire like this. But just keep checking them and flip them once they're golden. So now that these are done on both sides, I'm going to take them out and toss them in some cinnamon and some sugar. So I just mix them in sugar beforehand. I just like equal parts. I'm going to bring this over to the edge so it stops cooking. And I'm just going to take one and toss it in. Toss it in the cinnamon and sugar. And then it's done and ready to be eaten. So I usually do little batches of these, take them out, toss them, and then eat them. So if you do one and you notice that it's doughy on the inside, it just means that you cooked it on too hot of a fire. So just let your fire die down a bit, or move your pan out of the way, and just cook them a little bit slower in the next batch. But they're super easy to make. They take like two or three minutes to fry up. And they are delicious. Want to try one out? Sure. Yummy. So that is it for our campfire cooking recipes. I hope you've enjoyed these ideas and get a chance to try some of them yourself. If you've enjoyed this video and want to see more like it, I'd love to have you subscribe and follow us along. Thank you so much for being here. Have a great day, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.