Creative Camp Cooking: Cajun Stuffed Potato | Backpacking Trail Meals

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In this series, Bryan explores some interesting, unique, and creative backpacking or camping trail meal ideas. You don't always have to eat oatmeal and GORP! Today, we're making the stuffed potato, or "spud plug" from our New River Gorge episode!

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if you're backpacking for a few days or just going car camping there reputa is where you crave a meal that's a little different from the usual oatmeal org or with a little creativity you can enjoy tasty and interesting meals while on the trail today we'll be cooking up an evolution on the baked potato the stuffed potato or the spud plug as we like to call it we'll be preparing two types a dinner and a breakfast variation aside from the potato the ingredients you choose to bring are up to you we've chosen ingredients that will last on the trail during a multi-day trip first a russet potato next some cheese you can go with shredded or you can opt for a block of cheese if you want something that will last longer outdoors for meat pre cooked bacon bits canned meat like spam and cured sausage all things that don't require any refrigeration and finally eggs if you're nervous about ringing whole eggs you can either bring powdered eggs or you can carry them in a protective container like one of these to cook the stuffed potato you'll need some aluminum foil and a shallow camping pot or pan to start slice a small piece off of one end of the potato then use a spoon to start hollowing out the inside of the potato set aside your scraps to use later if you don't have a spoon you can also scrape out the potato carefully with your camping knife afterwards you should have a nice hollow potato next take the hollowed out scraps and add them to a ziploc bag with seasoning of your choice we're using salt and spicy Cajun seasoning for a little kick by putting the seasoning in a ziploc bag it'll be easier to bring and you can mix in the potato without making a mess for our dinner potato will be adding bacon and cheese and why not let's cram some spam into the spud fill your potato with the ingredients of your choice we'll be putting some spam on the bottom our potato mix in the middle and more spam on the top make sure you pack the ingredients down well grab your foil cap off your potato and wrap it tight and make sure it's completely covered for the breakfast potato we'll be using an egg which you can scramble if you prefer and some sausage which we cut into smaller pieces [Music]

if you have any extra scraps you can cook these separately over the fire by the time you've finished preparing the potatoes you should have a good fire going with a nice pile of embers bury the potatoes in the embers but don't forget to add extra wood to keep the fire going cook the potatoes in the embers for 25 to 30 minutes while you're waiting go ahead and cook up the extra potato scraps you can also try other ingredients like onions avocados garlic french fried onion toppers mozzarella and pepperoni and for the adventurous eater anchovies sardines and even curry seasoning carefully remove the potatoes from the fire once they've cooled to the touch gently unwrap them

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and now the moment of truth tasting and judgment oh so excited to Ibiza I actually purposely didn't eat anything beforehand oh man anticipations will you be one of these dinner ones is the breakfast oh that's really good is that the breakfast one yeah okay I'll try the practice one then two he's actually turned out perfectly it's like I'm always worried that it's gonna burn to the fire but every time we tried it it turned out really well hmm wow so good it's got like just made amount of flavor too and actually I'm surprised that the egg didn't leak out at all but it worked well yeah then kind of glues everything together I'm gonna try the dinner one we've got our sort of shredded potato combination it's like a Cajun seasoning spam potatoes bacon and cheese with the turkey spam in there huh it really tastes like some sort of like Thanksgiving dinner or something yeah right I mean the spice we use just really got a lot of kick yeah yeah you don't have to use spicy ones pretty don't want to any seasoning that you want you can use but meat and potatoes when you're camping this is kind of like it just goes together yeah yeah wow it's really good I'm gonna try the shredded potatoes

it's almost kind of like scalloped potatoes if you brought oil could grill it more like a hash brown hash browns or something it's a little like underdone but I actually like the crunch like it's not super country it's really cooked through but there's still some nice bite to it you know it's really a matter of preference on how you wanna cook it the real question is which one do you like better the breakfast or the dinner oh yeah both really good I feel like the only problem is the breakfast ones need to put more sausage in it mm-hmm I can agree with that oh I change success though yeah the spud plug is the delicious and hearty backpacking or camping meal but let us know what your creative food ideas are in the comments remember to give the video a like and check out our new River Gorge episode where we ate these for the first time and be sure to join our patreon community where you can get access to behind-the-scenes content exclusive live streams and more