Making Hobo Packs With Jimmy Kennedy

The smell.
Brings back a lot of memories, good ones.
Hey were out here at the Anchorage today.
We’re down at the beach and
set up at the cabins and we
got a nice fire going.
Got some kids running around here and
we’re going to build us a lunch.
We’re gonna make a hobo pack and
it’s also called a
foil packet and growing up
in rural Northeast Mississippi,
I got to do a lot of camping and
I was very fortunate.
Spend a lot of time in the Woods and do
a lot of campfire cooking.
And of all the recipes this one
brings back more
memories than any of the others.
Whether it was camping friends,
the Boy Scouts or even a weekend.
Camping trip with
the family seemed like everybody
made hobo packs or their version and
it also seemed like they
were always made with hamburger or
ground beef and that’s
what we’re going to do today.
But since that time I’ve
used whole trout, salmon,
venison, just vegetables.
It’s a great way to cook and you
just cook right in the coals.
We got a good bed of coals going.
It’s pretty rewarding when you open
up that packet and you got this steam.
You got the smell, it’s
it’s a great way to cook.
Ground beef and I’ve got this
is about 8 ounce Patty here.
Flatten it out.
And have your kids, have
your family make their own and
we’re going to do what
I call the standard and that
is just onions, potatoes and carrots.
Put a couple of those in.
This is salt, black pepper and a little
bit of dried thyme.
and this is my secret
ingredient, which
is Worcestershire sauce.
Not so secret, but
it’s so good on ground beef.
Just about anything really.
Some more onions,
potatoes.
I like to mix it up.
You some sliced potatoes
use the little mini potatoes.
Onion.
And there’s really no
right or wrong with this recipe.
It’s what you like to
make the ground beef,
potatoes, onions, carrots.
It’s like I said,
it’s a standard, it’s it’s pretty.
Pretty basic, and
when you steam all this together
in the coals, it’s absolutely delicious.
So once we got that.
I like to take the long edge or the foil.
Just fold it up nice and tight.
And what you’re trying to do
is to get a seal that
will not leak once you put
it in the coals.
We got that, turn it.
Fold each end as tight as you can.
You don’t want this leak
in the fire ’cause you might have to flip
it at least once just to get it cooked.
This takes about 20 to 30 minutes
on a good bed of coals.
That’s all it is to it.
We’re gonna get this thing in the fire.
Oh yeah, alright,
this thing should be nice and done.
It’s been in there about 30
minutes oh yeah.
You could eat right out of
the aluminum foil, but I suggest
putting it on a plate – paper
plate the whole thing just like this.
You don’t want to do much
of transferring or anything.
Oh my God so good.
And there is our
hamburger steak right there guys.
That’s gonna be so good.
Potatoes are perfectly done.
Got that thyme in salt and pepper on it.
And the smell —
Brings back a lot of memories, good ones.