I think it would be great to somehow collect some of the "hurricane" recipes in one place... There are apparently lots of good cooks on this board! So what is in your "hurricane kit"? Or, for that matter, what do you take camping?
Actually, there are different questions: one is what your special "cooking utensil" arsenal looks like and the other is what you cook...
I have my grandmother's pots and pans, including cast iron frying pans and dutch ovens, and also a manual percolator for over a butane or propane burner/wood fire, etc. One favorite item is an old cast iron waffle maker. Waffles are always a special treat, but a real treat under "camp-out" cooking conditions.
French butter keepers allow you to keep butter fresh without refrigeration. You do need to change the water, but we're talking a tiny amount of bottled water here.
My grandmother's ice tongs and ice pick have always gotten good use during extended power outages since they enable me to handle the big blocks of ice from commercial ice plants with ease.
We also have a wok and the bamboo steamer baskets. These are designed for minimum fuel consumption and you can make wonderful food in a wok. A small butane/propane burner or a hibachi is sufficient to cook for the family if a gas grill isn't available or you run out of propane.
Someone had posted instructions for making bread on a gas grill. The instructions used a couple of bricks to lift the pan off the grill and set grill to lowest possible setting... Should work for dishes like lasagne as well...
But what are some of the other recipes you've used? Tips and Tricks?
Hurricane-Camping Recipes??
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Grilled pizza. We do it over a gas grill at home or over a campfire when camping. Crust comes out crispy and yummy. Just spread out the dough and put it directly on the grill, after the first side has cooked you flip it and put the pizza sauce and toppings on. ( I find it easier to work with "personal" sized pizzas) I close the grill or put some foil over the top when using a campfire to help melt the cheese.
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It can be found in the camping section near the weiner roasting sticks at Walmart or KMart. It has two metal cups each about the size of a piece of bread which are attached by a hinge. 24" rods with handles are attached to the cups. Make your sandwich, close the cups together and hold on the fire. YUMMY
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Pburgh wrote:It can be found in the camping section near the weiner roasting sticks at Walmart or KMart. It has two metal cups each about the size of a piece of bread which are attached by a hinge. 24" rods with handles are attached to the cups. Make your sandwich, close the cups together and hold on the fire. YUMMY
yeah those things work great
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My Girl Scouts used to love coring the center out of a rather large baking potato length-wise, stuffing the hole with link sausage, wrapping it tightly in heavy duty foil and placing it in the coals of the campfire. Turn occasionally. Sausage flavors the potato and they just peeled back the foil to eat.
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Reading the postings on Storm2K for the past couple of years raises a question concerning hurricane preparation and aftermath...
When individual families "hunker down" or deal with the aftermath of a hurricane, is this generally done as individual families or do you end up with "extra people" or more than one family clubbing together, etc.?
In the situations where we've been hit by "hunker down" or "deal with the aftermath" (3 hurricanes, 2 Nor'Easters and a severe ice storm) where we were without power for several days to three weeks, it was never "just us." So we found ourselves often "cooking for crowds" and coping with a bunch of extra people... I'm not sure whether it was just the luck of the draw, or that we escaped damage when houses around us did not, whether it was because we had prepared or what, but the net result was that we were not cooking for 3, but cooking for 25... our neighbors often had food (and in early days) had good stuff in freezers that needed to be eaten but no way to cook it or knowledge of how to cook it without conventional ovens, etc.
Our cooking included cooking a large turkey over charcoal (with kids to turn on a spit), cooking baked beans in a dutch oven in a hole in the ground over charcoal, making vats of coffee for the neighborhood, grilling steaks (no mystery there) and roasting potatoes in the coals of charcoal "campfire" etc. It was sort of like "summer camp" in the fall for the warm-weather storms. Winter storms moved cooking inside into fireplaces, etc. We always have a way to keep one room warm enough to not freeze (and with enough people it is actually "warm" we found out). But again, the "how to" was more the issue for many people than some absolute lack of food. The other problem was that people don't store water. We had some big multiple of "recommended water" and it still never enough water... or it is barely enough water. We always ended up with some elderly people and some pets--usually lots of pets... Feeding the pets and keeping the pets from fighting with each other, etc. was always an interesting challenge... Hoping the pets did not eat each other was sometimes a challenge...
Do people in "hurricane belt" actually end up with more than one family or all the neighbors or friends, etc. come in with you for after the storm situations? Or is it nuclear family preparation all the way?
Just curious.
When individual families "hunker down" or deal with the aftermath of a hurricane, is this generally done as individual families or do you end up with "extra people" or more than one family clubbing together, etc.?
In the situations where we've been hit by "hunker down" or "deal with the aftermath" (3 hurricanes, 2 Nor'Easters and a severe ice storm) where we were without power for several days to three weeks, it was never "just us." So we found ourselves often "cooking for crowds" and coping with a bunch of extra people... I'm not sure whether it was just the luck of the draw, or that we escaped damage when houses around us did not, whether it was because we had prepared or what, but the net result was that we were not cooking for 3, but cooking for 25... our neighbors often had food (and in early days) had good stuff in freezers that needed to be eaten but no way to cook it or knowledge of how to cook it without conventional ovens, etc.
Our cooking included cooking a large turkey over charcoal (with kids to turn on a spit), cooking baked beans in a dutch oven in a hole in the ground over charcoal, making vats of coffee for the neighborhood, grilling steaks (no mystery there) and roasting potatoes in the coals of charcoal "campfire" etc. It was sort of like "summer camp" in the fall for the warm-weather storms. Winter storms moved cooking inside into fireplaces, etc. We always have a way to keep one room warm enough to not freeze (and with enough people it is actually "warm" we found out). But again, the "how to" was more the issue for many people than some absolute lack of food. The other problem was that people don't store water. We had some big multiple of "recommended water" and it still never enough water... or it is barely enough water. We always ended up with some elderly people and some pets--usually lots of pets... Feeding the pets and keeping the pets from fighting with each other, etc. was always an interesting challenge... Hoping the pets did not eat each other was sometimes a challenge...
Do people in "hurricane belt" actually end up with more than one family or all the neighbors or friends, etc. come in with you for after the storm situations? Or is it nuclear family preparation all the way?
Just curious.
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i haven't really had to deal with long-term electricity loss since i lived in st. petersburg, fl during hurricane elena's time.
my parents' house is on a dredged up island that they shut off power well before a possible strike--as far as eating that was before i realized what a kitche was for!!!
i do go to music festivals where camping is the only way to stay.
one thing that might work is to take some deep dish pans before the storm and make your own block ice (so you don't have to fight the traffic). that way the food can last longer and a full freezer/fridge also stays colder longer and even uses less energy when the power is on.
you can also make some meals in advance and freeze them (i.e. stew or chili, pasta sauce--meat sauce) and if the power is out for awhile it is already made and will eventually thaw out or with a propane camping stove you can thaw it out on very low heat.
block ice works wonders though. i went to one music festival in tennessee (bonnaroo) and was able to keep many items frozen in a cooler (5-Day style cooler). even when i got back 5 days later i still had blocks of ice.
hard-boiled eggs made ahead of time will be good for camping, etc as well
i haven't really had to deal with long-term electricity loss since i lived in st. petersburg, fl during hurricane elena's time.
my parents' house is on a dredged up island that they shut off power well before a possible strike--as far as eating that was before i realized what a kitche was for!!!
i do go to music festivals where camping is the only way to stay.
one thing that might work is to take some deep dish pans before the storm and make your own block ice (so you don't have to fight the traffic). that way the food can last longer and a full freezer/fridge also stays colder longer and even uses less energy when the power is on.
you can also make some meals in advance and freeze them (i.e. stew or chili, pasta sauce--meat sauce) and if the power is out for awhile it is already made and will eventually thaw out or with a propane camping stove you can thaw it out on very low heat.
block ice works wonders though. i went to one music festival in tennessee (bonnaroo) and was able to keep many items frozen in a cooler (5-Day style cooler). even when i got back 5 days later i still had blocks of ice.
hard-boiled eggs made ahead of time will be good for camping, etc as well
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If you saved your grandmother's ice tongs (or find some at a flea market, etc.) you can go to an ice plant and buy 25 or 50 pound blocks of ice--even after a storm--because no one else can handle these huge blocks of ice, so they don't sell out and they don't melt quickly. These are the things the ice man used to deliver. You need an ice pick if you need to make "smaller" blocks out of them--but if you wrap one in newspaper and put it in your frig, it will stay cold about a week... (use a thermometer in the frig to be sure). The ice plants that sell those big chunks of ice expect YOU to move them, so you do need the ice tong thingies--but it's surprisingly easy with the right tool...
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alicia-w wrote:before the last couple of hurricanes, i'd never eaten Spam or Vienna Sausages. my mother always told us they were welfare food, whatever that means.
pretty tasty when you're hungry!
Well we were never on welfare and we always had vienna wieners in the house. I still can eat them every now and then, not like I did as a kid but I still get a hankering for them. My kids love them too. As far as spam goes I don't think I ever had any that I can remeber only because I heard it was nasty, so why go there. But hey it may be something I like. And I think what your mom meant was it was poor people food. A little bit of a prejudiced and ignorant comment on her part.
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