11 buddies and I are headed up to URL for our annual ice fishing trip. I am in charge of Thursday nights meal. I have done chili, burgers, pasta, yada yada yada. Anyone have a good idea that is quick and easy? I don’t want frozen pizza or ramen, but something good, filling and easy. Thanks dudes.
Pans of Lasagna or pans of egg bake… both can be prepared ahead and just need to be heated 
Plus, they stick to your ribs 
Good luck on Upper Red 
big G
A big pot roast either beef or pork seasoned up real good, sear on all sides in a cast iron skillet and some oil. Put in a huge crock pot or elect. roaster, couple cans beef broth mixed with a couple cans golden mushroom soup, then stuff peeled carrots, baby red potatoes, coarse sliced onions, celery, and whole mushrooms all around the roast. Pour sour mixture over the roast and veggies. Set temp on low and go fish’n all day. When you come back, check to see that everything is cooked, and the roast is falling apart. Drain juices into a pan, take some cool water or milk and add a couple heaping table spoons of corn starch and wisk real well add to pan of drippings and heat till boiling, stir till thickened, take off heat and ring the dinner bell! Get some hard rolls from the bakery and serve some butter and jam along side.
Couple of suitcases from White Castle should do it 
Pre cook some meatloaf. Warm it up eat hot and use for sanwiches the next day.
Jambalaya. Rice will stoke your carb furnace and Tabasco and Tony will warm your soul. Travels light too.
Crock pot is the way to go!! We do one night with beef roast, potatos, onions, carrots, and another night with a pork roast and sourkraut. Put it all together in the morning, let it cook for 8+ hours and you have a warm meal at the end of the day. 
Spaghetti and garlic bread.
Make your sauce ahead of time and all you have to do is heat it up and boil the noodles. The bread you wrap in foil ahead of time also and then set it top of the furnace an hour or so before you want to eat. Simple.
If you like ribs, Lloyd’s BBQ ribs vaccuum sealed from Target 12.99 FULL rack and are microwavable or Tony Roma ribs from Wal-Mart $9.99 15-20 minutes in oven and you can do mashed taters in bucket, also microwavable. Somewhat quick easy and not much mess. All the above sounds good too and have done them all. Just another idea…
Several of my favorites have already been mentioned, but french dips are good too. Beef broth, garlic, onion, some seasoning, a few pounds of roast beef and french bread.
Quote:
Jambalaya. Rice will stoke your carb furnace and Tabasco and Tony will warm your soul. Travels light too.
This is exactly what I thought of when I saw this thread, couldn’t be easier, and you can add different meats and amounts of them. Plus it’s kind toss everything in a pot and it turns out, I think I’ll add it to my ice fishing cooking list, cause I think it’s a darn good idea.
Quote:
A big pot roast either beef or pork seasoned up real good, sear on all sides in a cast iron skillet and some oil. Put in a huge crock pot or elect. roaster, couple cans beef broth mixed with a couple cans golden mushroom soup, then stuff peeled carrots, baby red potatoes, coarse sliced onions, celery, and whole mushrooms all around the roast. Pour sour mixture over the roast and veggies. Set temp on low and go fish’n all day. When you come back, check to see that everything is cooked, and the roast is falling apart. Drain juices into a pan, take some cool water or milk and add a couple heaping table spoons of corn starch and wisk real well add to pan of drippings and heat till boiling, stir till thickened, take off heat and ring the dinner bell! Get some hard rolls from the bakery and serve some butter and jam along side.
Shame on you. I’m going to be starving all day after reading that and I’m not even fishing. Wish I was. 
Is this a sit down meal or buffet style, if Buffet brats/hot dogs and sauerkraut is quick and easy also can be kept warm for continued munching, Chile works well for that too.
Sit down a roast sounds good, maybe ham, hot dish of some sort works well, sloppy joe’s/BBQ beef, the list goes on.
Be careful with seasoning, we had a guy make chili once that was so hot, nobody in our party of 8 could eat it other than him.
Al
I know you said you didn’t want pizza, but if you haven’t had HEGGIES, its worth a shot. You can pick some up on the way to Red. Great stuff, and doesn’t get much easier for cooking / cleanup.
Mike
Awesome ideas! It is like a buffet I guess. Put a bunch of food out and tear it up. I like a lot of these ideas I now just have to decide. Thanks guys!
Deep fry a turkey
I’d stay away from the Heggies pizza idea if people are going to be drinking. Things tend to get a little explosive in the bathroom if you follow my drift. Not a good thing with a bunch of guys in a fish house together.
How about fish and fried potatoes.
Crock pot full of taco meat then bring soft and hard shells and all the fixens.
Ha! Yeah pizza and booze are definatley a lethal combination but these guys could eat a bowl of cereal and it would be bad. Luckly we are staying in some cabins that have a few bathrooms. That brings me some comfort. Again great ideas, thank you. 
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
