Ingredients:
1 potato
2 onion slices
1 carrot
1 hamburger patty
margarine
salt and pepper
At home:
You can slice the vegetables at home if desired.
At camp:
Place hamburger patty down on a doubled piece of foil. Put carrots
over hamburger on one side and thinly sliced potato on the other. Put onion
over all. Dot with margarine and sprinkle with salt and pepper, if desired.
Seal tightly. Cook in coals 25-30 minutes, turning often.
Variations:
This is also very good made with other meats, chicken (par-boil at home
to insure chicken is completely cooked) or pork chops, or even a ham slice.
Vary the vegetables to suit your taste or to take advantage of what you have
available or what is in season.
You can add gravy over the top. Use your favorite homemade gravy or a store-bought variety. Canned condensed cream type soups (cream of mushroom, cream of celery, cream of chicken etc.) make great gravy right out of the can - just put a couple of spoonfuls on your foil dinner before you seal it up - the juices from your meat and vegetables will mix with it making a delicious gravy. We like to add 1 envelope of dry onion soup mix to 2 cans (10 1/2 ounces each) of cream of mushroom soup for our gravy.
We have also stirred uncooked instant rice into the cream of mushroom soup & dry onion soup mix gravy (make the mixture rather soupy) and used that in place of the potato in the recipe. Excellent with chicken when you stir chopped broccoli into the rice mixture (I always tell the girls we're having mini-trees for supper - sounds so much better to them then broccoli for some reason.)
Try sweet potatoes and a slice of pineapple with ham.
Foil Dinners has always been a favorite with the girls but we never make them the same twice - most of the time we don't even have any duplicates at the same meal. Just make sure you know where you put your dinner on the fire when they're cooking! :o)