Favorite Hunt Camp Meal???

Our tradition for Sunday night ... before the opener is a Spiral sliced Ham with scalloped potatoes ( generates some leftover ham for sandwiches ) and a veggie of some sort.

Camp meals have consisted of wild turkey in the turkey fryer, BBQ'd moose tenderloins, roast pheasant, duck tenders wrapped in bacon with a slice of water chestnut, fresh moose calf liver w/ bacon & onions, a stew or homemade chili or a spaghetti sauce, any of which which may be moose or venison-based, a duck or venison stir fry, even oysters on the half shell as an hors d'oeuvres. Most of the cooking is over, or in the oven of, a 100+ year-old hard maple burning wood stove, although we have a gas BBQ and turkey fryer as well. Traditional bacon & egg with home fries for breakfast, and anything from bologna or old cheddar and Vidalia onion sandwiches and a camp made soup for lunch. There is usually a great Caesar Salad somewhere in the week, and some wonderful homemade desserts as well. Oh yeah, bread baked nightly from frozen dough ... it "final" rises through the day.

There are a couple of accomplished home-cook "foodies" in the group. Never know what they can come up with ... or who brings what kind of game from earlier in the season !
The other four are good wood providers, water haulers, dish washers and clean-up guys who can set a nice table. It works !

There is absolutely no attempt at reducing calories or "eating healthier" at camp. Vegetarians and vegans are not welcome and will not be tolerated.
 
On the night before the deer opener we will go to a restaurant and usually have burgers/wings and treat our hosts. Most of the meals in the field are easy - lunches are cold cut sandwich's, nut bars, coffee/tea/soup in thermoses. My breakfasts in the field are always cold - hard boiled eggs, sausage, apples, and cheese. Washed down with coffee or tea. Dinner in town is usually chilli, stew, or meatloaf - all easily made meals. For the controlled hunt in December the lunch and dinners are the same. Breakfast is hot corned beef hash and eggs in a big thermos. and eaten out of canteen cups.
 
scrambled eggs and hot dogs sliced up (sometimes sausage), cleans the bowels as well as quick and easy!
 
Dukester said:
Used to be liver/heart/tenderloin on first deer kill. Now pretty much just use the tenderloins. Still fantastic.

The organs now go to a dog treat recipe the wife has where they are ground, mixed with some other ingredients, pressed into large flat casserole dish and baked. Those are my dogs favorite meal out of camp. !
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My friend's mom likes deer liver, she gets it, if it looks healthy.
 
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The first night hunting is usually a booze fest and a very good party, after that things slow down.
 
257Roberts said:
Venison stew and biscuits, always a treat at our camp.
One or 2 pot meals means less clean-up.

Tried spaghetti with venison sauce once but it was not for everyone.
Roast Beast with potatoes and carrots all in the same pot.
Really does not matter what type of beast it is.

David
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Im sorry but Have to ask what sort of deer hunter can't eat a venison meat sauce?
 
Pepper stew. Old can of IGA fine pepper that's impossible to measure a reasonable amount of. Lives at the camp. Only sure thing about pepper stew is there will be meat, some beer, vegetables and it will taste like pepper.
 
Haven't group hunted alot but we shared meals so that made it easier. Coffee and an energy bar at first light - lunch around 11 then big dinner in the evening. Worked well.
 
Biscuits in the Dutch oven and premade deer stew heated up is a favorite.
One of our traditions is a lunch of canned bully beef on crackers and a pot of coffee brewed on the tailgate on Nov 11th.
 
Everyone at our camp is responsible for a meal so we eat well.... Wings and fries, lasagna, t-bones, beer can chicken etc etc.. Never lose a pound of weight at hunt camp!!
 
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