Camping recipes

[purple vonny]

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[Pigpen]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

Chunky bits of baguette, cheese, pickles and salami. NO COOKING!

Baked spuds, beans and cheese

(see a cheesy theme emerging?)

I've run ot of ideas now. I don't do camping and if I did I would want to eat out every night.

...... so it would be
chicken kebab (healthy and cheap)
fish and chips
chinese take away at the tent
Indian takeaway at the tent
take away pizza ditto.

Remind me never to share a tent with you! Phew!

[Tunicates]

As long as there's a source of veg and fish, then you can eat like kings.

What we used to do when we camped is go to save up 6 35mm film canisters and tape them together. One has a mix of salt and pepper, the other 5 get your favourite herbs and spices. Take a bulb of fresh garlic, a jif lemon stock cubes and a plastic refillable bottle of the best olive oil you've got.

You dont need recipes, just chuck some chopped veg in a pan with your fav flavours and whatever meat or fish you found. You know its going to taste great.

[purple vonny]

Spider crab au gratin

spider crab curry

spider crab on toast

[Robin Jones]

A long time ago ca 1968 used to be able to get a whole tinned chicken which meant that my mom could serve up a standard Sunday lunch whilst camping.

Also sweetcorn soup is great, but is a big mistake when there are a load of corn flies about

[Simon Lamb]

Camping store dried food is often relatively tasteless. Much better option is boil in bag food from the supermarket. It is a little heavier (if you're packing it around), but far more tasty.

Jacket P's are great and versatile. My staple campsite breakfast is Jacket P's cooked in the fire the night before, break them up in the morning and fry with butter, bacon, beans and an egg or two. Makes a big potato omlete thing. Sets you up and is quick to make in the cold mornings.

To cook jacket p in the fire you need to wet them with water, rub on some sea salt, and double wrap in foil. Then just chuck them into the outside of the fire for an hour or so turning after every beer. The water stops the skin sticking to the foil. You can also bake them in a tin coffee can.

Porridge oats are another staple. You can have just porridge, or mix with corned beef or spam. Or smash up a fruit and nut chocolate bar and have chocolate porridge. mmmmmm.... Get the oats that mix with water, not milk.

Dried milk rather than milk milk. You wont taste the difference after a day or two and it doesnt go off.

Butter. A wedge of butter makes everything taste better!

Take plenty of salt, sugar and spices. You can make anything tasty with that.

Ginger tea. Lovely and warming for the morning.

[NotDeadYet]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

Yep! We've strugged with a fabric coolbag for three bloody years and they're useless. The amount of milk etc that we've chucked away.....

Soak an old hessian sack and put stuff in it if you don't have a stream. They stay cold/wet for ever, even on really hot days. Or just rob a load of UHT pots from the services...

Our cooker is the one that used to go on holiday with Turbs and his parents when he was little. His dad fixed four of the old-fashioned tapering sideboard legs to it, to raise it off the ground. It looks a bit weird, but it does the job.

You really cannot go camping for any length of time with a cooker!!!!! If you have any of the annual gypsy fairs near you then buy a kettle hook or a tripod for cooking over a fire. I've got a wrought iron tripod, you can hang a cast iron pot over a fire and do slow cooked stews or a griddle for frying. It was about 60quid but beats any camping cooker.

Recipes... left over mash, bit of flour, an egg, fry into potato scones. Packets of dumpling mix are great in stews. Sosmix will keep forever and you can have instant sausages whenever you want. Halloumi is lovely done over a fire, again it keeps well. Chinese supermarkets sell great packs of sauces very cheap which are good for camping if you can get veg. The little tins of tomato puree from the supermarket are essentials.

My fave for any shellfish, tomato and feta stew from Greece. Finely chopped onion fried for a couple of minutes, then some finely chopped tomato, another few minutes, tin of tomato puree, glass of white wine, slug of brandy, a couple of spoonfuls of dill, mix it up, chuck in the shellfish and let it all cook for a few minutes more. Crumble a load of feta over it, put the boat in the embers with the lid on and let it bake for 5-6min then a final sprinkle of dil. Crusty bread is absolutely essential!!!

A great book is Claudia Roden's old middle eastern cookbook. Most of the recipes grew out of campfire cooking so their modern equivalents adapt well to camping. Falafels are piss easy to make and babaganoush or teradot with a pack of toasted pitta is perfect getting pissed in the evening fare.

Cheers,

Stuart

[Madfish]

Wow, some of these replies make me wish I was going camping too. Apart from the ones including spidercrabs When I started reading this thread, I thought it would be 101 ways with baked beans - but YDers are a sophisticated lot. Spaghetti hoops would be easy too

Di

[MixedUp]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

Anyone got any favourite, easy, no weird/expensive ingredients camping food recipes they'd like to share with us?

Tins of baked beans. Just like in Blazing Saddles.

Steve

[Buoyant Babe]

Chopped garlic and ghilli in olive oil heated in a pan (with some chopped sundried tomatoes if you fancy). Toss in a load of al dente spaghetti. I'd put grated cheese on top but I know Turbs doesn't like it. Loads of salt and pepper on too.