If your name is on the KP list for a meal, your best friend is a roll of aluminum foil. It easily serves as lightweight hiking “cookware” or for easy no fuss resident camp cooking.
A few tips on using aluminum. You need to spray the part touching the food with PAM spray.
And it’s a good idea to write your name or initials on the outside of the packet BEFORE it goes into the coals … so you can recognize yours when it comes off the fire.
Silver Turtle
This meal in a pouch is the time tested traditional easy 2nd Class Scout meal requirement – just cubed meat of your choice (chicken, or pork) or a plain old hamburger patty lying on a bed of seasonings & sliced vegetables – usually just a potato, and a carrot – lightly salted & wrapped tightly in an aluminum foil pouch … and cooked about 20-30m on a bed of hot coals.
You can jazz up the old turtle dinner by adding any or a few of these …. Garlic powder, Mrs. Dash seasoning, cabbage leaves, mushrooms, ketchup, apple sauce, salsa, pasta sauce, onions, black olives, cashews or anything else you think might be good.
OK … so we’ve jazzed up a classic. What else can we do with foil packets? Well, how about these ?
Shrimp BBQ
Shrimp (cleaned & peeled work best / “guess-timate” about 20 per Scout)
1 small “tub” margarine
Garlic powder – 1 TBLSP
Dried parsley – about ˝ TBLSP
Tabasco sauce (optional)
Salt & pepper to taste
PAM spray
Hot coals or charcoal briquettes
Stir margarine up to soften it. Add spices, and mix well.
Tear off a 12 inch strip of foil, and spray with PAM. Place desired amount of shrimp on foil. Put a tablespoon of margarine/spice mix on top. Shoot some Tabasco sauce on it if you want to.
Seal up into a tight packet. Put it on the coals for no more than 5 minutes – turning it every minute or so.
Garlic Bread
Take a French bread loaf. Make several slices ALMOST through the loaf – at this point, you don’t want to cut the bread completely into pieces. Sort of connected but “dangling”.
Take some margarine, and rub on both sides of each slice. Sprinkle garlic powder over both sides of every slice.
Wrap loaf tightly in aluminum foil. Place in hot coals for about 6 minutes – turning every minute.
Remove from coals and eat.
Banana Boats
To make one “boat” -
1 Banana
12 Small Marshmallows
Chocolate Chips (small handful)
Raisins (small handful)
Peel back a long strip of banana peel on the inside of the curve, leaving one end attached to the banana
Scoop out some of the banana and fill with marshmallow, chocolate and raisins.
Replace the strip of peeling and wrap in a piece of foil that has been sprayed with PAM.
Bake in the embers (about 15 to 20 minutes) until banana, chocolate and marshmallows are melted and blended.
