Orange rolls cooked in oranges over a fire

Jun 16, 2010 by

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We Went camping with our friends to Pismo Beach state park over the weekend and had a great time.  We love Pismo Beach and especially love eating at Splash’s Cafe.  They have the best clam chowder in the world.

I love camping and I love eating while camping.  It just all tastes better for some reason.

For breakfast on the last day, we tried out something fun with the kids and created some great orange rolls that we cooked inside of oranges over the fire.  My wife got this recipe from a friend and we through we would try it out, and it turned out great.

You will need:

  • Oranges
  • Pillsbury Grands! Orange Flavor Rolls
  • A Camp fire

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Madison was my little helper for this and she did a great job.

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Cut the oranges in half.

DISCLAIMER #1: No children were harmed in the making of these orange rolls.  Yes kids can use knives safely when supervised by adults.

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scoop out the insides

DISCLAIMER #2: All of the orange bits we scooped out were eaten and not wasted.

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Grab the Pillsbury Grands! Orange Flavor Rolls and put one in each orange half.

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Put the oranges onto a baking sheet or something you can throw on top a fire

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Looking good

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cover the oranges with tinfoil

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throw the cooking tray on the fire

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The rolls will rise as they bake

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these smell amazing as they are cooking over the fire

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Once the rolls have risen pull them off of the fire.  Watch that they don’t burn if you have a hot fire.

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Add the icing to the rolls

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sticky, yummy, and oh so good.

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Now you eat them and enjoy the morning campfire.

These were a big hit with all the kids as well as the adults.  We were all clamoring to eat these as we sat around the morning campfire.

Try these next time you are camping

Ben…

Thanks for all the comments on this post but WOW some of them are crazy!  Again, all parts of the oranges were eaten and no children cut off their limbs while helping make them.

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  • Jen

    The OP’s screen name is “nobody”

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  • Krissie

    Hmm…is it possible to do these in an oven, as well? I’m not really the sort to enjoy camping…

  • http://www.trulysimple.com Ben

    Yes you can do them in an oven but go camping.  Everything tastes better camping.

  • Krissie

    I’m not really the outdoorsy type, though ;-P I was when I was little, but I like warmth and my books

  • http://www.trulysimple.com Ben

    That’s what campfires and kindles are for.

  • Krissie

    True :P First I would also have to find someone to go with, and get time off.

  • http://www.trulysimple.com Ben

    try this… Go on your social network of choice that your friends hang out on. Post something like this: Hey I want to go camping this weekend, who’s wants to go with me? Grab the friends that respond and go camping this weekend. Take a Friday off if you need to. It’s just that simple and you will be the cool friend who made it all happen.

  • Krissie

    That might be fun :) I should try it this summer, right now my area’s getting a lot of rain.

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  • Shannon Corbin

    Well, they were a hit at last years camping trip, have already been hearing requests for them at this years!

  • http://www.trulysimple.com Ben

    Awesome!!

  • Monique Berger Sager

    I was a bit surprised to see your remark at the end about crazy commenters suggesting you were wasting oranges and endangering kids. I was curious, so I looked at your comments, scrolled through all 221 you had so far, actually, trying to find what you were talking about, and I found ONE person concerned about the knife usage and about a hundred people defending it, plus three people asking if oranges were wasted. You edited in a complaint at the end of your story to address 4 mildly negative responses out of hundreds? Sheesh, talk about seeing the glass as half empty, your glass is more than 98% full and you’re still not satisfied.

  • http://www.jamesdazouloute.net/ Dr.James Dazouloute

    This is a great share about the many uses of Oranges, and it helps even more by the fact that Orange is an immune booster food. Thanks

  • rafiki

    Oh my word… I came for the recipe but stayed for the comments… they had me laughing like a crazy woman. Seriously folks, lighten up…. knives are an important part of childhood. I’m 50 and used a knife when I was as “youngster”… still have all my toes (Mublety-peg), and fingers (whittling wood next to my grandpa)… and the scars all lend to the telling of the most excellent stories. Ben, you should have thrown in some pics of children around the campfire…. FIRE BABY! Kids and fire… an absolute MUST. As for the oranges… even if they did get thrown on the ground I am certain some colony of ants, a labor of moles, a flock of seagulls, a dray of squirrels or a nest of vipers enjoyed them…. so not wasteful at all. ;) Thanks Ben for the recipe, will be trying it out next week…. and thanks to those helicopter parents for making me REALLY laugh out loud…. not just the lol kind of laugh. p.s. my 20 and 24 yr old daughters survived knives and fires and much, much more. ;)

  • http://www.trulysimple.com Ben

    Yes the comments really took over this post.  I love it.  So much fun.

  • brett

    Do you know if this will work on a Coleman stove?

  • brett

    I have no Ide who Brett is or why it signed me in that way. Could you please reply back to paula @ frostedfingers dot com? I really would like to know if it’ll work.

  • laurelannb

    In Cub Scouts the boys have their Knife Class (as I call it) during 3rd grade. If they pass the (stringent) requirements, they are allowed to both carry and use knives on camping trips (with consequences for mishandling). 8-9 years old is a perfectly reasonable age to learn knife-handling skills.

    That said, if people are sooo bothered by a few oranges possibly being wasted, I’ll tell you what: When we try these (and we’re gonna try them!), we promise to toss the orange chunks into a container to be combined into fruit salad for lunch that same day.

    Problem solved

  • Mello

    When my kids were young I so wanted to go camping but my husband preferred 5 star hotels. The kids are much older now and I am still sad when I think about how much fun we could have had camping. :(

  • http://www.trulysimple.com Ben

    It’s never too late to create some fun memories.  Plan a camping trip and just go.

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