Camping recipes

[steelemonkey]

Tin of tuna or salmon, tin of asparagus bits, packet of fresh pasta spirals and a tin of cambells condensed soup (spicy tomato is good) Mix and heat gently. Works well in a caravan oven too.

Paul.

[Simon Lamb]

Originally Posted by NotDeadYet

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.

Absolutely. Stoves are for girl guides.

How on earth can you drink beer and talk shite round a coleman gas burner. Madness.

I am also a proponent of lighting the fire 'properly'. With bark tinder, moss, vasaline soaked cotton wool etc and a flint. None of this townie fire accelerator mumbo-jumbo. Doing it old-school makes the whole thing more satisfying.



Si

[NeilB]

Pah! Amatuers the lot of you

About 4 years ago I cooked the whole Christmas dinner on a bbq using charcoal and wood at the beach. That included roast potatoes and bread sauce!

An easy veg dish is to take lots of root vegies and wrap in tinfoil with a little water and butter, salt and pepper. Place on heat and allow to cook in own juices.

Potatoes boil nicely in seawater and need no seasoning.

Steak is an easy and obvious bbq standard.

Breakie we go for the Jamie Oliver one pan job. Cook the sausages and mushrooms, then add the bacon and black pud, last thing, throw in beaten eggs. The whole thing sets and you eat from the pan. If you don't beat the eggs I find that the bottom sets but the yolk stays raw.

If you think about marinading the meat before you go avoid soy sauce as it slowly cooks the meat.

HTH

Neil

[Simon Lamb]

Originally Posted by NeilB

About 4 years ago I cooked the whole Christmas dinner on a bbq using charcoal and wood at the beach. That included roast potatoes and bread sauce!

Outstanding.


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[Scubee]

If i am only going for a day or two, I will cook some freezable recipes. Shove them in a cool box, and they are OK.

Corned beef hash is OK, PeeBee's is a standard. i always chop up an onion and give it a bit of a fry before adding CB and beens.

Minced beef (always easy to get hold of) browned off and cooked with a jar of dolmio or ragu, serve with fusili or conchigli (spaghetti is too difficult).

Cook up a white sauce, add plenty of parsley and a tin of salmon.

Disposable BBQ's are great. We had difficulty getting one going last year (it was a cheepie one) only way we managed it was by creative use of a nitrox cylinder

[big_si]

Although not (yet) done whilst camping I do a mean butterflied leg of lamb on the BBQ

Whip the bone out, open it up, stud it with garlic and rosemary, marinade in olive oil with lemon and lime zest and a bit of juice...... Very very nice indeed! One of my favourites now!

[DiveBuddy2]

BBQ'd chicken breasts, stabbed and garlic gloves in the holes, wrapped in tin foil, new potaotoes thinly sliced in a pan, and a cheap bag of mixed salad and extra cucumber and tomatoes.

Toasted Marshmallows for a treat.

Oh Happy memories.

[DiveBuddy2]

And forgot the sweet, toasted marshmallows on the remains of the BBQ.

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by Scubee

If i am only going for a day or two, I will cook some freezable recipes. Shove them in a cool box, and they are OK.

Corned beef hash is OK, PeeBee's is a standard. i always chop up an onion and give it a bit of a fry before adding CB and beens.

Minced beef (always easy to get hold of) browned off and cooked with a jar of dolmio or ragu, serve with fusili or conchigli (spaghetti is too difficult).

Cook up a white sauce, add plenty of parsley and a tin of salmon.

Disposable BBQ's are great. We had difficulty getting one going last year (it was a cheepie one) only way we managed it was by creative use of a nitrox cylinder

I asked my instructor what 80% was good for. his response- getting barbies going but 100% is better.


step forward Odin

[pieater]

OK - I once fed 120 people from an open fire and that wasn't something I'd like to do again.

BUT, one thing that is simplicity itself:

You need:
A nice crusty cobby type loaf.
Horseradish mayo (mayo with the stuff in a jar stirred in)
A bag of mixed salad
an onion
some tomatos
a very nice steak. Spend a tenner - but it'll feed two.

To do:
On your fire (you are using a pukka fire aren't you - best ones are in the sand on the beach burning driftwood you've sawn up on-site) Heat one smoothed stone to "extremely fooking hot indeed"

Cut loaf in half lengthways, smear with mayo mix on cut edges.

Arrange salad on loaf in the obvious fashion.

Thinly slice onion into rings and add to salad.

Same with tomatoes.

Slap the steak on the vibratingly hot stone. Leave for a couple of minutes per side (thickness dependent).

Rest the steak

Put the meat on the loaf

Cut loaf / salad / steak combo into slices and enjoy. You really will. Open fires. It's the future!