What is your favourite meal to have in Algonquin Park?

I'm looking for ideas for my trip to the park this summer.

My favourite is pan-fried fish with Fish Crisp and mashed potatoes on the side!

Aaron Weber
aka "Trainman"
Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one. -Tom Thomson

My favourite dinner is the first night's meal.
Steak (pre-marinated for 1-2 days), baked potatoes, some kind of veggie packaged in tin foil, accompanied with a nice red wine.

Followed up with an evening by the fire smoking a big cigar, and watching the sunset. Can it get any better??

Thanks,
Aaron

German style french fries and fire pit coal cooked hamburger
cooked by Bo Knows and washed down with a lake cooled brewski

Serious the hamburgers are easy and french fries in the park are not
difficult and these have been cooked numerous times.

If you don't want to bring the veg oil then potatoes chip or pringles
are a adequate substitute

Raton Laveur
aka


*Rac n*

First night - thick juicy hamburgers!
Mid Trip - Penne noodles, powdered sauce (its good) with smokey, spicy sausages!
Last dinner - KD baby!!!!
Breaky - Instant otmeal, Mueseli bread
Lunch - PB and J on a tortilla

Top favorite of all time - fresh caught fish, fried in hot oil coated with Rocky Madsen's fish batter. Shore Lunch! (or dinner)

...and I forgot

Snacks - home made beef jerky!!!

I like either:

Venison Stew
Fresh baked Biscuits
A cold drink
and for desert
German Chocolate Muffins (the big ones, about the size of your fist) with coconut pecan frosting and fresh perked coffee

or

Venison Chili with sweet green peppers
Fresh Baked Corn Bread
a cold drink
and fresh baked peach cobbler for desert.

a dehydrator and reflector oven are wonderful things!

jay

or carrot cake muffins (hot out of the oven) with cream cheese frosting. They it the spot too.

jay

salt cured ham cooked on the grill with a side of asian noodles.
The ham I used was vacume sealed and did not need refrigerated
The noodles where prepacked just boil some water and simmer

For snacks at night bannock stuffed with some pepperoni and cheese

I'm always a fan of a good breakfast. Since I usually only have oatmeal or a power bar, the mornings I make an Egg McMuffin (Egg, sausage/ham, cheese, buttered English Muffin) are always good.

Hands down, the best lunch is peanut-buttered chocolate chip cookies.


Tenzing

http://tenzingsadventures.blogspot.com/

even though I pack pretty lightly, I always make an exception for steaks and baked taters on the first night in the backcountry. It's about an extra pound per person but is worth the effort. I usually have delmonico steaks pre-seasoned with montreal steak seasoning and frozen solid so that they're thawed by the time they need to hit the grill. Besides the first night steaks, I'd say my favorite meal is fresh trout with Zatarain's black beans and rice.

For breakfast we usually go light with just oatmeal or bars but have done pancakes with maple syrup and they taste fan-frickin-tastic. We'll also pick through and swipe a few dried blueberries out of the trail mix bag to toss into the batter. Mmmm-mmmm good.

Lunch favorite is peanut butter and homemade strawberry jelly on a pita or tortilla...and I never skimp on the peanut butter or jelly so it's typically oozing out much like a dripping ice cream cone in mid-July!

There's nothing like cooking on a open fire. First night l always start with a nice slab of boneless breast chicken with a baked potato. Second night a nice piece of pork chop with a side of pasta or rice. Third night, the long awaited jumbo steak cooked with my favourite spices and bbq sauce. And another potato or pasta/rice mix with some mushrooms cooked in tin foil with some garlic butter. Mmmmm. And of coarse bacon or sausage, eggs with home fries every morning. And to add what AAron said, a nice cigar and red wine. I was in Cuba last spring and been hooked ever since.

Fettucine with home-made pesto and caesar salad, all washed down with a nice merlot.
For dessert, rice krispie squares Mrs Foxco made up before we left. It's amazing what punishment they will take in a pack.


Formerly Foxco, Now ?????

Southern Georgian Bay
Ontario

Fire grilled burritos. My new favourite.

@ racoon..

what the hey are german french fries?

Wow, some great ideas.

"For snacks at night bannock stuffed with some pepperoni and cheese"

Do share this recipe... i've never even tried making bannock, but with pepperoni and cheese this sounds extremely tempting.

The Zatarain's stuff sounds good too.

A staple in my group is vacuum-sealed smoked chops. Pretty much good for any night, we freeze before we leave. Steaks for the first night as others mentioned, premicrowaved the potato and wrapped in foil (won't take so long to cook!).

We made the "mistake" of bringing chili for six 20 year old males on a 4-night trip. I don't know why we didn't eat it the first night, but you can imagine how heavy that barrel was. Still, it's a common meal on shorter trips (one or two nights) or ice fishing adventures. Hearty and good...

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but peameal over the fire... put it with anything or eat it plain, it's damnnn good. Even with the Kraft cheese slices atop an English muffin, you're in for a treat.

Do tell! What are German style french fries? I googled it and it sounds like just home fries or hash browns. Sounds better of what you call them.

Steak with potatoes, onions and garlic in a foil pack.

or!

Honey Garlic chicken stirfry. Pre barbequed and frozen.

Someone said they ate their steak the third night. How did you manage that?

"Someone said they ate their steak the third night. How did you manage that?"
Food poisoning the fourth night?
How much do your packs weigh, did you bring a BBQ too? LOL

Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits

Quinoa and Spinach Soup

Pasta

Black Forest Brownies

Laurie
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Laurie Ann,

I want to go camping with you!!! With menus like yours, I'd never leave the park, ever....

Michael

I wish I didn't have to leave the park ever. That said, I haven't been up yet this year (been poking around the Chiniguchi region). I'll be up in August. I am teaching a cooking workshop - probably the first Tuesday of August (I'll have a confirmed date tomorrow) at the Pavillion and then I'll be off to take some friends on their first interior trip. I can't wait... I miss the park.

Laurie
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Rather than cut the potatoes like French Fries

slice then to look like a silver dollar coin or Deutsche Mark

( perhaps a Euro nowadays is more PC )

Sliced really thin... you can make Potatoes chips
German Fries are about 3/16" -1/4" thick


P.S. They taste great with beer
( Bier mit der kartoffel das ist gut!!! )

Raton Laveur
aka

*Rac n*