The Camper Returns

[Chefzhat]

Thanks to Star, Kabs, Julia1pin, and Mandarin2j for their camping recipes. I took the rice and beans, hot and smokey beans and a watermelon. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/cool.gif We all ate well and the hubby was impressed with the quality of food available (he's a HUGE food snob). Here's a thank you recipe for you all: (but it's not LITE, just GOOD)

1 banana split in the skin
24 chocolate chips
6 - 10 mini marshmallows

Stuff banana with chips and marshmallows, wrap in tinfoil and roast in the campfire for about 20 minutes. Open and spoon out - tastes like a banana split! The kids loved it.

[GayeC]

This sounds like something my kids would love! Can you elaborate on "split in the skin?" I am not getting a mental picture of this (I'm sure everyone else gets your point -- just call me dense). Thanks. Gaye

[Julia1Pin]

I'm glad you had a good time, and thanks for the thanks (?) http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

The banana split sounds like something I might have to make on our BBQ one of these weekends.

[erinyyc]

Glad you had fun!! I must agree that camping and eating seem to go hand in hand for us too!!
Just a tip on the pie makers, make sure you get a cast iron one. We've had a cast iron one for years but bought a second one that wasn't. By the second outing the hinge snapped from the heat. I guess you get what you pay for!
We tend to use it for late night munchies. My DH loves ham, onions and cheese and I like cheese and tomatoe sandwiches. We've also made ham cheese and fried egg ones, just add ham and cheese, then cut a hole in the middle of the bread and crack in an egg. With this one you need to butter the bread and also spray the maker with veggie spray so the egg doesn't stick. Very yummy!!
Of course if you don't eat meat just leave it out.
Erin http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

[kabs]

Chefzhat- Glad you had a successful camping trip. The banana split recipe sounds very yummy- will have to give it try on my next camping excursion.

On our last trip we had just acquired a "mountain pie maker" and went nuts with that. It's a pie iron about the size and shape of two pieces of bread- you put a little butter and a piece of bread on each side, then put filling inside. (We used apple pie filling.) Close it up and stick it into the fire until its hot and nice and gooey inside. It comes out like a toasted sandwich of sorts. YUM! We've also made mountain pies with pizza sauce and cheese and pepperoni inside...

[Carrie W]

We used to call these "Banana Boats" at Girl Scout Camp. The easiest way to prep the banana is to hold it in your cupped hand so that the banana looks like a boat with the two ends curving upwards. Use a knife to cut the length of the banana along one of the "ridges" that run the length of it. Or, break the top like normal and just peel down one piece of the peel. You'll end up with either a single opening that you can hold open, or a flap like one piece that you'd normally peel when eating a banana. We did it the second way. Then, we scooped out one of the "thirds" of the banana (when you normally bite into a banana, look at the cross section and you'll see that the fruit looks like three pie wedges -- you can do this with a spoon or just with your thumb), and then stuffed that space with goodies. Put the peel back down, wrap in foil, and stuff into the coals.

Hope this helps, Gaye!

[Chefzhat]

Gaye, Carrie's got it right, just follow her directions. It is YUMMY! Kabs, we have pie makers too, we call them Hobo Pie Makers, and we use pizza ingredients, fruit pie ingredients, and peanut butter and banana. Now you all know my secret, I only go camping to eat!!!!