I love to cook, both at home and at camp. A few of the most popular recipes on the site are shown below. You might also want to take a look at some posts with more specific recipes:
Do you have a recipe you’d like to share? Contact me and I’ll share it on my site.
Grilled Honey Lime Pork Chops Recipe
This is a really easy camping recipe. Do a little preparation before you leave for camp and you will have delicious grilled honey lime pork chops with almost no cleanup.
Ham and Sweet Potato Foil Packs Recipe
Don’t get stuck in a rut when making foil packets. This variation of the hobo meal features ham and sweet potatoes. Perfect for a fall campout!
Gooey Butter Cake Recipe
Gooey Butter Cake is a favorite type of coffee cake here in St. Louis. This version of the recipe is even easy enough for Cub Scouts to make. It is rich, so don’t cut too big of a piece for yourself!
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
We always carve at least one Jack ‘O Lantern in October. We never let the seeds go to waste though. We roast them and eat them instead. These never last long in our house.
Candy Cane Cookies Recipe
ZM really enjoy making holiday treats. To him, if it has a special shape, that makes baking extra fun. So these are a good Christmas treat to make with Cub Scouts. They don’t have a strong mint flavor, but are more like a sugar cookie.
Earth Treats Recipe
In honor of Earth Day, here is an Earth themed snack. Basically these are rice krispie treats shaped like the earth. You can make small “earths” or larger ones, but it seems to set better if you don’t make them too big.
Cub Juice Potion Recipe
A bubbling bowl of potion will add fun to any magic themed meeting. If your Cub Scouts have never seen what happens when dry ice is placed in a bowl of punch, they will be amazed. Use this idea with the Abracadabra theme.
Dutch Oven Spinach Rice Casserole Recipe
This camp spinach rice casserole can serve as a vegetarian main dish or a side dish. It is cooked in a Dutch oven.
Snowball Cookies
These are a family recipe. As kids we called them “snowballs” because that is what they look like – small ball shaped cookies rolled in powdered sugar. My mom always called them Russian tea cakes.
Apple Smiles Recipe
This is a nice recipe to make in the fall when fresh apples from local orchards are readily available. When assembled, this should look like two lips (the red sides of the apples) with two teeth (the marshmallows).
Loaded Campfire Potatoes
This variation of campfire potatoes is hearty enough to serve as a main dish.
Red White and Blue Bread Braid Recipe
This is a recipe for cooking with Cub Scouts. This is a little more involved than some recipes I used with my Cubs, but they really enjoyed kneading the color into the bread. And even if the colors don’t come out bright red, white, and blue, Cub Scouts will enjoy eating fresh baked bread.
One Pot Hoppin’ John Recipe
Hoppin’ John is traditionally served on New Year’s Day to bring luck through the year. You can have in anytime though. This recipe works at camp or you can cook it at home on your stove.
Sweet Corn Bread Recipe
This is a very sweet corn bread. In some areas, this would be called corn cake. The sweetness of the bread goes well with spicy foods like chili or ham and beans with lots of hot pepper sauce.
Ticks on a Toilet Seat Recipe
What’s the best way to get a picky eater to have a healthy snack? Make it funny!
Hearty Minestrone Recipe
Although this recipe has “minestrone” in the name, it is more like a stew than a soup. So if you are looking for a traditional minestrone recipe, keep searching. If you are looking for an easy to put together camp meal, then try this.
Campfire Cinnamon Crescents Recipe
Here is another easy recipe for summer camp season. The only real trick to these is to cook them slowly so they cook all the way through.
French Toast Recipe for Cub Scouts
This is a very easy French toast recipe. French or Italian bread works well in this recipe, but plain white bread will do.
Banana Boats
This is a classic camp recipe. It is easy and doesn’t take many ingredients. Enjoy some while spending an evening around a campfire.
Banana Wheels Recipe
Cub Scouts can make this snack at home for themselves or it would work as a snack at a den meeting.
Quick Jambalaya
This jambalaya recipe is not very authentic, but it is easy enough to prepare at camp.
Sharksicles Recipe
Nobody wants to go out swimming and meet up with a shark! But if you are at a Cub Scout meeting and the shark is your popsicle snack, that is another story. So to go along with this month’s aquatics theme for Cub Scouts, here is a snack idea.
Dutch Oven Cooking
Dutch oven cooking is one of my favorite ways to make meals and desserts at camp. Put the ingredients in, put some charcoal on the top and bottom, come back later, and voila! you have a delicious dish. Do you have a Dutch oven recipe you’d like to share? Contact me and I’ll share it.
Soil Sample Cupcakes Recipe
Scouts always enjoy playing with their food! This would make a nice snack for any den meeting based on one of the ecology lessons.
Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Pumpkin bread is a favorite snack bread and dessert at our house. This recipe is easy enough for kids to make.
Apple Crisp Recipe for Cub Scouts
Cub Scouts love to cook. They might need some help peeling and cutting the apples for this recipe, but they should be able to handle the rest of it with supervision. And they will love getting their fingers messy making the crumb topping.
Baseball Cookies Recipe
It’s baseball season. If you are doing a sports theme with your Cub Scouts, why not make some baseball cookies?
Recipes for Cubs in the Kitchen
Cub Scouts love to cook. There are several Cub Scout adventures related to cooking. And even if you aren’t working on an adventure, helping to prepare a healthy and fun snack or meal promotes independence. And it might also encourage a Cub Scout to try something new.
Candy Corn Mix Recipe
You could count this for Bear requirement 9b: With an adult, make snacks for the next den meeting. It isn’t the healthiest thing in the world, but it probably a little better than the bags of chips or ding-dongs the parents used to send for our den when we had our meetings right after school.
Pepperoni Crescent Wheels Recipe
Here is a “wheel shaped” snack to go with this month’s cycling theme. These are pretty easy to make and would be a good snack for a meeting. Younger Cub Scouts will need some help with these, but they are simple enough that they can do a lot of the recipe themselves.
Foil Pack Dinners
The most typical foil pack ingredients are ground beef, potatoes, carrots, and onions. But don’t get stuck in a rut! Try some new combinations.
Dad’s Favorite Star Cookies Recipe
Here is another Christmas cookie. These are not very sweet. ZM and LC like to sprinkle these with colored sugar before we bake them.
Easy Stew Topped Mashed Potatoes Recipe
This recipe is a good recipe for when you have time to let a stew simmer. Serve some fruit on the side and maybe some bread and you have a full meal.
Firecracker Burgers Recipe
Scouts BSA and Venturers can make this one at camp or your Cub Scouts can help you make this for the Fourth of July to help fulfill their cooking requirements.
Herb Casserole Bread Recipe
Fresh baked bread tastes wonderful when you are out on a chilly campout. This is a casserole bread which is pretty easy to make.
S’mores Nachos Recipe
Just because it is too cold to go camping doesn’t mean that your Scouts can’t enjoy s’mores.
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