When I was at the store picking up some last minute items before we took off to the coast to go camping I found these sandwich maker deleos. At first I thought no way, then I figured what the hell, might as well give them a try.
Made out of cast iron with 2 foot handles and your choice of a single or double sandwich maker, these have little weight to them. There is a little latch that locks the two handles together to keep the 2-halves of the cast iron cooking surface tight together. Keeping the contents of your sandwich inside. They seem to be built pretty well so how about we try to make pizza pockets with them over the camp fire?
First apply a good amount butter on one side of the bread and place it in one half of the sandwich maker. Pushing it down to create a pocket.
Slap on a healthy helping of pizza sauce
Next add some gooey goodness by putting a nice pile of mozzarella cheese in there
Pepperoni!!! Stack on some Pepperoni and add another pile of mozzarella cheese, fill that thing up!!
Butter up 2 more pieces of bread lay them on top and close the the two halves together. Make sure the two pieces of bread stay centered over each other so the cheese can’t escape. Then place them over the hot coals of your camp fire and cook them slowly. Flip them every few minutes to cook both sides the same. Don’t be afraid to take a peak in order to get them cooked just the way you like it. Make sure you use a good amount of butter on the bread to keep them from sticking. It took about 10-15 minutes to get these pizza pockets to look like this
Let them cool for a bit unless you want that lava like cheese and pizza sauce to burn your taste buds off and ruin your weekend. Plus it gives time for the outside to become crispy.
Now it’s time to see if these turned out the way I hoped they would...
Buttery crispy outside and the stretchy mozzarella cheese along with a thick layer pepperoni... Lord help me!!! These turned out amazing!! While I was chowing down on my pizza pockets, Mama-Splatts was coming up with ideas for all kinds of different sandwiches. Stuffed French toast, omelettes, and all kinds of hot sandwich ideas. Maybe we should have wrote them down??? I have a feeling we might even use these at the house whenever we have the washtub burn barrel going. One thing we think would make these better is to use a thicker bread when making pizza pockets. The combination of pizza sauce, butter and cheese softens the bread a lot and we had the cheese break through the bread on a couple of them causing them to stick a little bit. But all in all these camping sandwich makers are pretty awesome.
Until Next Time...
Hive On
and
Get Your
Grub On
and
Your Camp On