We’ve done a lot of experimenting with different types of outdoor cooking in our 12 years of girl scouting and we’ve tried cooking lots of gourmet recipes indoors and outdoors.
In October 2010 we hosted an encampment at Sweetwater Regional Park in San Diego County for Sunnytrails Service Unit and the highlight of the weekend was a Saturday afternoon cookout featuring many different types of outdoor cooking methods and many favorite recipes. Each troop researched and cooked up a different tasty item and participants got to wander from campsite to campsite learning about outdoor cooking and trying samples of different treats. We put together a book that is a compilation of those recipes, tips and directions, it’s called Outdoor Gourmet. You’ll find recipes for Sensational Solar Soup, old camp favorites like S’mores with some amazing variation ideas like substituting a mint patty and chocolate cookie for the chocolate and graham cracker. We also have recipes that will delight the kids in your family like Armpit Fudge and Box Oven Pizzas. It’s great to have in an emergency because none of the recipes use electricity or an indoor oven and makes a perfect gift for the boy or girl scout on your gift list.
The book costs only $5 plus $1.50 shipping. We plan to use the proceeds from the cookbook to travel to Maine and volunteer at Camp Sunshine, a camp for children with life-threatening illnesses, next summer. Thanks for helping us with that goal!
Click on the pages below to see Inside the Book!
