Garbage Can dinner

Someone from Bulgaria and Hong Kong visited my blog yesterday. I guess these camping posts are more exciting than I thought. Just kidding. Maybe.

Every year at my family's campout we do a Dutch-oven Dessert cook-off. This year it was decided to forgo the dessert part (seems everyone is on a diet or its too much sweets or some such nonsense) and the children would vote for their favorite meal and the family that was in charge of that meal would get the coveted trophy until next years campout. My sister Amy and her family were in charge of providing Saturday night's dinner and they made Garbage Can dinner. No lie. It was so cool. They bought a metal garbage can. Inside of it was placed the husks of corn on the cob, followed by layering of different kinds of veggies and meats. They used chicken, little smokies, polish sausages, zuchinni, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, onions, red peppers, green peppers, potatoes, corn on the cob (broke in half), and seasoned it with salt and pepper and season salt. Then she put about 6 inches of water in it and put it on their camp chef stove and let it come to a boil. Once it is boiling it doesn't take long for all the veggies to get steamed and the meat to cook.
When the veggies are done, you drain the water off.
And then dump the contents of your garbage can dinner on the table.

The kids went wild for it. No surprise that it was the winner of the favorite meal! The best part was that there is so much in it, that you just take what you like and leave the rest for someone else.
Fun, huh???