Make sure to bring the right pots and pans. If you have one or can get one, a Dutch Oven comes in handy.
Most camp sites have a fire pit and usually a cooking grate. You should try and building your fire to one side of the grate so that part of the grate is over the fire and the other part has no flame under it. This will allow you to be able to regulate the heat that gets to your cookware. The further you move it from the coals the more you will need to rotate it. The heat from a fire comes from the hot coals not the flame. Get it going real good before starting.If you are cooking directly over the coals, rotating is not neccasary, but you will need to stir often. If you are cooking to the side of the coal, rotating the cookware every so often and stirring the content will allow an even heat distribution to your contents. The grates sometime will adjust up or down, this also helps.

At home we like to BBQ as much as possible. So when we go Camping, cooking by campfire and a small Weber BBQ comes easier. The BBQ is for cooking food not in cookware. The grates that are at the camp grounds could never be scrubbed enough for me to cook food on them.

Once you master cooking on an open flame (not that we have mastered it) you should be able to cook just about everything on it. We also always bring along our campstove for some conveniece!

Here are a few ideas for dinners.