I figured it was best to start an unattached thread for camp cooking recipes rather than have a couple others going at once.
My wife likes coming along camping and we always believed we should eat good while out in the bush, so we do. 25+ years later, my wife still comes camping with me. :-)
I have more than a few recipes, this duck one is for a lazy afternoon around camp when you have lots of firewood like we do in the Canadian Bush. A covered BBQ can work too.
This is a marinade for spit roasting a duck. I would double or triple the volume as needed for more than one duck.
1 Cup red wine vinegar. 1/4 cup olive oil or other vegetable oil will work. Juice from 1 lemon or liquid lemon juice equivalent. 1 Cup brown sugar. 1 med onion diced. 2 cloves of garlic pressed and chopped. 2 tablespoons of soy sauce. Darker will make darker skin. 1/4 tsp. of Oregano. 1/4 tsp. of black pepper.I mix this up and marinade the duck in it overnight.
I get a nice bed of coals going and usually manage to set up a wind break with chunks of logs or sticks set in with 'tin' foil or like last summer, big slabs of bark. I use a green stick wrapped in foil as a spit and use foil or a cookie sheet as a drip tray.
I keep the duck at a point where a steady drip of fat is running off it for at least 6 hours. The skin will go dark, but still tastes great and the meat just falls apart. 7 hours is usual. It is done when the skin starts to sizzle and darken and it stops dripping fat.
This can be cooked in an oven or covered BBQ on low. It then takes about 3-4 hours but the skin needs a couple strips of bacon on top for the last half hour or more to help crisp it up.
Billy Ray has started a Camp Cooking photo site which has the last duck's photos and an oven chicken I made traditionally, stuffed and baked in Steve and Jo's Coleman oven. I now have a Coleman oven I got for xmas and have some recipes for that too, but this is the first one.
I am really interested in the 'tri tip' idea. We don't find that cut in Canada, but if I ask I bet I can get one. We get the top sirloins, not the bottom for some reason and I'll bet a top sirloin would work too. I can get nice ones of those I bring on runs. We have some day trips where everyone chips in and I have put together steak, escargot, potato salad and garlic bread lunches.... I think one of the last ones ended up at $6.00 or so each.
Mike
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