Tailgating Recipe and Tips of the Week
Tailgating Recipe
Beef, Beans, Bacon and Potato Feast
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
* 2 pounds ground beef
* 1 pound thick cut hickory smoked bacon
* 12 ounce can baked beans
* 2 pounds baby Yukon gold or favorite potatoes
* 1 medium/large Vidalia or yellow onion
* salt and pepper, to taste
* 1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
* 1 teaspoon chili powder (optional)
* crusty bread
* butter
DIRECTIONS:
Chop onion into medium dice, cut bacon into 3/4 inch pieces, and cut potatoes into bite size chunks. In a large pot, add ground beef and season with salt and pepper. Cook for a few minutes adding onions when beef begins to brown. While ground beef is cooking, add bacon to heated skillet and cook until crispy. Drain about 1/2 bacon drippings, but leave enough to fully coat potatoes. Add potatoes, season with salt and pepper and continue cooking. When ground beef is no longer pink, drain all juices from pot and add baked beans, bacon and potatoes. Season with garlic and chili powder and add salt and pepper, if needed. Cook until mixture is hot and potatoes are fully cooked. Ladle onto plate with bread and butter and enjoy a hearty and delicious meal around the campfire.
Servings: 6-8
Tip: Cut bacon, onions and potatoes in advance to eliminate preperation time. Small spuds reduce preparation and cooking time. Also, maybe add some chopped carrots
and mushrooms!
A piece of rope, a bungee cord and a tie strap can save
whatever catastrophe that duct tape can't
TAILGATING TIPS
Put a strong piece of string or rope through the tube of a paper towel roll and tie it together, so it's a loop. Hook it to the end of your picnic table, off the rear view mirror, around the bracket on your camp table…
If you forgot or lose something to cook in, use a can. Make two holes in it, run a stick through it and place it in the coals to cook your food.
For small children or drunks around the campfire, set up caution tape/ribbon around the perimeter.
Here's a good tip for keeping mosquitoes away from your camp site. Take some glass bottles. Fill them with kerosene or lamp oil. Roll a rag for a wick leaving the wick out of the lip of the bottle about 1/2 inch and light. Set 3 or 4 around your camp site. Works great!
CAUTION! As with any improvised torch or candle be careful you don't start a fire.
Submitted by: Jeff
BLANCHED EGGS To keep eggs fresh, dip them in boiling water for exactly five seconds and then let them cool. This creates a film inside the shell, which makes the eggs airtight. Done properly, the treatment should preserve the eggs for weeks without refrigeration.
Forgot your alarm clock? Drink a good draught of water before retiring and let nature wake you. The more you drink, the earlier you’ll wake.
No need to lug a sharpening stone to camp. Take a couple of strips of emery cloth—one fine and one rough. The strips roll up small, don’t weigh much and should take care of most of your sharpening needs.
Ice lasts longer in a cooler lined with Reflectix, a thin laminate of foil-wrapped air bubbles. Found in many home improvement stores, Reflectix is easily cut to size to wrap individual frozen food items as well.
Racemama tip: Hey ya’ll this works great! I also have used the silver stuff you wrap around your hot water heater to insulate. That works great too
Should the need for a vise arise in camp, you can make one by cutting a sapling five or six inches in diameter about two feet above the ground and splitting the stump downward through the center. Pry open the split with an ax or wedge to insert the article you wish to work on or examine. If there’s not enough pressure to hold the object, put a rope around the stump just below the split, rig a tourniquet with a stick, and twist the stick to tighten.
Thumbtacks are useful in a campground. Use them to pin a tablecloth in place and to fasten down paper plates as well.
POTASSIUM FIX. Press banana slices into pancake batter after it’s poured on the griddle or skillet. Brown both sides and serve as a special treat. Bananas provide potassium, which helps keep your muscles from cramping after a long day of walking around the track.
To keep batteries from discharging if a flashlight is accidentally nudged on during travel, put the batteries in backward. Rearrange them as soon as you reach your destination.
Keep your roll of toilet paper dry by packing it in a coffee can with a plastic snap-on lid.
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