Chicken and Dumplings in gravy with a Dutch Oven

This is a simple recipe which can also be made in a regular pot, but i prefer the Dutch Oven method. The most important thing for this recipe is good hot coals so I would recommend a chimney to get the as hot as possible.

Ingredients
     2 lbs boneless chicken breast cut into strips
     2 quarts of water depending on how much gravy you want
     4-8 cups of all purpose flour depending on how thick you want the gravy.
     2 teaspoons salt
     1 teaspoon pepper
     3 eggs
     salt and pepper/ seasonings to taste

Directions
     1. Pour water into Dutch Oven and place on coals to bring to boil.
     2. Add chicken replace lid and cook till tender.
     3. While chicken is cooking make the dumpling dough by combine 2 cups of flour, eggs, salt and pepper, and mix well.
     4. When chicken is finished slowly add remaining flour to dutch oven while mixing until gravy is at desired thickness. Salt and pepper the gravy to taste.
     5. Use a spoon to scoop chunks of dough into the Dutch Oven.
     6. Replace cover and heat oven over hottest coals for 20 minutes or until the dumplings are fully cooked.

Serve this dish with corn and bread to mop up the extra gravy. For something a little different you can add a can of peas and carrots wen yo add the chicken. I hope you like this recipe as much as I do and as always feel free to experiment, and don' forget to try it before you go camping so you know what you're doing.

Hobo Stew

For my first real recipe post I thought I'd keep it simple. Hobo Stew also called Tin Foil Stew or Pocket Stew refers to any stew made in a pouch of tin foil. When camping it is cooked by being placed in the coals of a campfire, but at home it can be thrown on the grill or baked in the oven.
Hobo Stew was always a favorite in my old scout troop because everyone could make it however they wanted since it is made in single serving pouches. Here is my recipe for Pocket Stew, but feel free to make it your own (this is the perfect time to try out your secret spice from my last post).
Ingredients (per serving):
     1/4lb ground beef
     1 whole potato diced
     1/4 of a medium onion ( more or less depending how much u like onion)
     1 cup mixed veggies ( I like peas and carrots)
     1/2 cup of water
     Salt and pepper/seasonings to taste
     1 piece of tin foil about a foot and a half long
Directions
     First you need to do the prep. I'd recommend doing it at home and storing it all in one ziplock bag till you're cooking it.
     1. To make the pouch or pocket that the stew will cook in first fold the tin foil in half long ways the rolling the two side perpendicular to the fold inwards to form a pocket large enough to hold all the ingredients plus a good amount of extra room.
     2. Next throw all the ingredients into the pouch. I recommend adding the ground beef in small chunks so it cooks faster.
     3. Roll up the opening of the pouch and place on bed of coals being careful not to puncture the foil.
     4. The pouch will puff up if there are no holes in the foil. This means it should be just about done because the water has turned to steam and blew up the pouch. If it hasn't blown up after about 10 minutes you should start checking every few minutes to see if its done.
     5. Find one of the larger chunks of meat in the stew. If its cooked all the way through your stew is done, otherwise roll it back up and put it back on the coals for a few minutes, but it will not puff back up so remember to check it.

So that's a basic recipe for hobo stew. You can use any seasonings you would like, and feel free to try other ingredients. personally I like mine with some beans, a some cut up pieces of bacon, ad either hot sauce or BBQ sauce. I hope you like this recipe as much as I do.

First Post

Hi I'm Kevin Kilduff. I love to cook and I love to go camping. In fact I learned how to cook through camping when I was a Boy Scout, and then I got a job as a cook in a seasonal restaurant on the Jersey Shore. I'm currently a college student trying to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life, and I have found cooking to be a way for me to relieve a lot of the stress of college life.  The idea for this blog started as a project I took up in my spare time to compile all of my camping recipes so that the Scouts in my old troop would have a place to find recipes when making menus for their trips. Then I decided why not share my knowledge of the foods I love so much with everyone, and now it has become this blog, and a cookbook I have in the works. So that's my story hope you like my blog.