We are really enjoying all the fun cub scout activities we get to do with Hayden. One of the achievements is to plan and cook a meal outdoors. While I would have preferred to do this task in a warmer month, Hayden set a goal to earn his Wolf by a certain date, which meant that we got to do our outdoor cooking in February!
We searched on the internet for the best tin foil dinner recipes. We settled on roast beef with carrots and potatoes. We choped the veggies into small cubes, then Hayden tossed them in a plastic bag with salt and spices. We used a beef stew seasoning mix and a bit of water and tossed the meat cubes. We sliced up an onion. Then we carefully assembled each dinner with a scoop of meat, a scoop of potatoes, and an onion volcano on top (this idea courtesy Tepanyaki!). Daddy was charged with carefully folding each dinner. For Emma's diner, we tried a recipe we'd read about online: Pigs in a blanket. We carefully wrapped 2 hot dogs in some ready-to-bake crescent roll dough, then wrapped the dogs in tinfoil. We wrapped the remaining rolls from the pagage in tin foil, they would be our dinner rolls. We packed a few other supplies and headed up the canyon.
It was cold. It was windy. While we waited for the coals to heat, we made snow angels, walked trails near the river, explored a bridge.
Finally, the meals were ready.
They were delicious!!! We ate quickly because it was so very cold.
The rolls cooked more quickly than we expected (only a little burned on the bottom).
We were too cold to enjoy our planned desert of banana boats with chocolate chips and marshmallows. We'll try those out this summer. We had a great time, it was fun coming home smelling like campfire in February!
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