Aaark! What have I *DONE*???

[Anniepoo]

My bf's a screen writer. He's working on an indie movie, and they're going to have a 4 day shoot at a remote location.
Stupidly I've volunteered to be the camp cook.
They're renting one of those cruiseamerica C30 RV's, and I've got to feed 12 people light breakfast, lunch, snacks for 4 days.
They need to all be fed lunch at the same time.

Anybody have any bright ideas for how to cook 12 meals at same time from an RV?

Recipe advice?
Prayers?

[Sandersmr]

Cook outside - seriously! If you have a 12" or 14" cast iron dutch oven, it can be done easily. The Boy Scouts do it all the time. And I have done it before as well. If that's not an option, gas or charcoal grill. Or if you have one, a larger crock pot. You can also do quite a bit in a large skillet, if it's electric or on the stove.

Camp stoves - Camp Chef makes 1, 2 and 3 burner ones and you can get griddles to go over them. Then breakfast can be bacon and eggs or pancakes.

[mitch5252]

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Ditto what Maggie said.
But I'll add some prayers!
Don't forget the paper products! That's far too many dishes to wash!

[Azusateach]

If you can do any cooking ahead of time that would be good. I'd get stuff like brisket, crock pot it, freeze it, and then when you want to use it, either throw it in a Dutch oven, or use a crock pot at the site. I'm assuming that you'll have an on-board generator since it's a motorhome, but could be wrong.

There are lots of fix-ahead things that can be reheated and still taste good.

Have fun!

[BarbaraRose]

Sloppy joes are easy to make ahead of time. Hope you have a very large crock pot!

[Bethers]

I'd do something in the crock pot each day, or stove top, say crock pot just to keep warm., then have side dishes. Lunch could also be cold cut platters one day. This doesn't have to be hard, especially if you plan it ahead. The cooking mentioned above would be hard for me, lol. Inside is my element.

[dpf]

I do believe you will need more than the 6 CF refrigerator in the RV for 12 people for four days. Better stock up on coolers and ice!

[MrsHomeSweetRoam]

Get a fold up table(s) and electric cooking tools and an ice chest or two.

Cereals for breakfast
Pancakes on one of those electric flat things to do many at a time.
Crockpot for Oatmeal (let them add their own flavors to it)
Crockpot for scrambled eggs OR boil a bunch of eggs before leaving and keep in cooler or fridge
Recreate a continental type breakfast situation- like cheap hotels have!

Sandwiches and soups or chili for lunch?
(crockpots and such)
Do all your prep work (cutting, etc) at home before and just assemble or put together for recipe

[Liz]

And prayers!

[KarenS]

I cooked sloppy joes for people at work yesterday there are usually 8 of us only 6 yesterday but with leftover sloppy joes you can add noodles and I call it goulash it is good however last nite I added some sloppy joe to mac and cheese it was yum and of course filling with a little salad and bread you have dinner. also I take a boston butt and put in crock pot with a pack of Lipton garlic and herb and cook it for several hours then about 2 hours before it is ready add yellow rice then with caeser salad and hawaiin bread it feeds a lot of people and is easy. Karen

[Anniepoo]

After action report -
I've been away from this forum for a while. Thought you all might enjoy how this turned out.

It was 8-12 people, and then a couple weeks later it was 12, except the day of the fight scene, when it was 15... er 16...

And the crazy number kept climbing, climbing... by the time we actually shot in mid march, it was, GASP! 27!

We brought my RV along, and did some of the cooking on an outside BBQ grill. Somehow I managed it, though I was completely
exhausted and we had our share of 'incidents'.

[BirdbyBird]

...and I am thinking extra stories to tell....

[bluepinecones]

Yes, we need the rest of the story.
Good to see you post again

[BarbaraRose]

I was wondering how that ever turned out. We need to know about these "incidences" you mentioned...

[Anniepoo]

The craziest 'incident' was when I was washing dishes. The rental RV had the door across from the kitchen,
so lots of people would come in behind me and ask for things. The guy playing the number two man
came in one day and asked if I'd fix him up with a straw (the actors used straws to avoid ruining makeup).
I turned around and just about jumped out of my skin. He had a very, very ugly looking broken arm
with a long jagged bone sticking out! Yikes! Strangely, he didn't seem bothered by this.
Took me a minute to realize it was makeup.

Ok - I can now die saying I have yelled 'Action' and 'Cut' and so on in a real live movie.

One night they were shooting (a sex scene, if you must know) in the upstairs bedroom.
People working outside couldn't hear the yelling.
The purpose of the traditional yelling, if you've never been on a set, is to make sure everybody is
quiet before they start taking sound. Even somebody outside hammering is too loud.
The problem that evening was that nobody could hear the shouts from outside, but they could
hear our banging about as the grips assembled a bunch of lights.
So I got posted at the door to repeat whatever the Director yelled. He'd yell 'Quiet on the set!' and I'd yell
"Quiet on the set!"

I spent a fair amount of time sitting outside doors feeling silly that evening. The previous day we'd shot a fight scene. The scene involved a fair amount of the leading lady being thrown about and she was pretty bruised up. Not so good for our naughty bits scene!
Turns out the makeup department had a cure for this. They posted me outside the rental RV's door with firm orders nobody was to come in, and strange giggling noises started coming out. Eventually the leading lady came out, wearing only a big overcoat thing like a poncho and a pair of flip flops. Turns out they'd taken an
airbrush and painted her whole body!

I also got to read lines. The leading lady wanted to practice her lines for an upcoming shot, and needed somebody to read the other part. Everybody said I'm a natural actor!

Lest you think it was all fun and games, let me tell you, cooking for that many people is pretty crazy when you don't have any facilities. I tried to boil a huge mass of spaghetti for spaghetti and meatballs and discovered
it doesn't work, one end is still stiff when the other's too done.

Foo - I'm in a starbucks and they're closing. Have to tell the rest of the stories in a separate post, I'm out of time now.