Camping: Pocket Pizza

A dutch oven recipe our girl scout troop tried at out first Camporee. This can actually be made at home oven and used as simple school lunch.

Ingredients

6 pita breads
1 14oz. can pizza sauce
12 oz. grated cheese
1 7oz. pkg sliced pepperoni
optional: sliced black olives, mushrooms, pineapple chunks, diced peppers, ... (use precooked items since you are just heating it up)

Also required:

dutch oven or aluminum foil

campfire coals

long fire tongs

Steps

1. Cut each pita bread in half to form two pockets and spoon pizza sauce into pocket spreading it evenly.
2. Add 4 or 5 slices of pepperoni, 1 ounce of cheese, and other toppings. Don't over stuff it or it will tear.
3. Repeat to make a dozen pockets.
4. Stand the pockets up in the dutch oven.

5. Put lid on the dutch oven and Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Note: You can also make these directly in fire coals by wrapping each pocket in foil and placing in coals. Cook for a couple minutes, flip, and cook another two minutes.

Camping: Fizzy Fruit Cobbler

This is a recipe learned from Girl Scout camping training class and tried at our troop's first Camporee.

Ingredients

1 can fruit pie filling
1 box cake mix
1 can soda
1 Tbsp. topping (optional)

Any combination of flavors that sound good to you can be tried. This example is apple, yellow cake, lemon lime, and cinnamon. Another might be cherry filling, chocolate cake, cola, and powdered sugar. Or, blueberry filling, white cake, grape soda, and cookie sprinkles.

Steps

1. Spread the fruit filling across the bottom of the dutch oven.

2. Sprinkle the cake mix on top of the filling do not stir it.

3. Pour a little more than 1/2 of the soda on top of the mix from a low height so it does not splatter all over.

4. With a fork, mix the soda into the cake mix, being careful not to mix it into the filling too much a little is okay.

5. When the cake mix is stirred, sprinkle topping on top. (optional)
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.