A nice curry is easy, 2 pans one for rice, one for everything else or just one burner and some tin foil to keep the rice warm. :)
Pasta meals are easy, fry up some bacon add mushrooms and throw in pasta, salt and water to finish off, can be left to simmer for as long as you want.
Small amounts of veg are easy to carry around, and last a fair amount of time, even things like lettuce can be used in a stir fry if it starts to wilt.
You can just about cook anything on a camp fire with a bit of tin foil, bake, roast or fry, even steam if you want. Don't be less inventive just because you are away from your kitchen, you can cook anything you want with a bit of forethought.
Chopped cooked fresh potatoes. Chopped cooked fresh carrots. Or use tins to make it easier. Tin minced beef and onions. Tin baked beans and sausages. Mix all together and heat well. Serve with bread to mop up gravy.
Packet savoury rice cooked to instructions but while still slightly moist stir in tin chopped corned beef and small cubes of cheddar cheese.
Tried these recipes out on grandchildren aged 12,11,7 and they asked to have them again. Most surprised they all liked the same thing.
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Banana Pancakes - cut bananas in half lengthways then each half across, brown off in a frying pan with some butter, take out the bananas and wrap in pancakes, (shop bought ones are fine if you don't want to make your own) add some brown sugar and cream to the pan (add some vanilla extract if you've got some) and boil until the sugar dissolves, pour over the pancakes and hey presto!
Tins of stewing steak,tinned carrots tinned pots and crusty bread .....so pleased to see that you peeps do it too.......it has been our first night meal for years . Feeds hungrey bellies in mins.......so much better than queuing up for ages at the camp takeaway .My lot love it so much they pleed to have it at home. But no i wont let them as i know it wont taste the same as the pure joy of sitting outside your tent eating it with that lovely feeling that your on holiday........ah bliss
the pasta and sauce packets are like a ritual whenever i go camping - i have to have them once! Cheap and quick to cook. Very easily 'tarted' up with tins of something or just crusty bread.
Stewed steak is another good meal when used in conjuction with something.
After the last cooking thread however, im going to be trying some new things when i go in september
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Anything that can be cooked in the same pot is best, like a simple risotto or even something evn more simple like onions and those frankfurter sausages that hardly need cooking- a bit of stock and some tinned veg (including potatoes) and you've got a hotpot . Serve with chunky bread.
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Another store cupboard meal - which I cook at home too - uses one of those East European foods in jars you can buy in many supermarkets. I like the butter bean/tomato sauce/sausage mix: Fasolka. Fry salmon fillets and add some sliced courgette if you have it, then pour in the bean mix and heat through. Serves two hungry people with salad and/or bread. All in one pot too.
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We took a steamer and I came up with this sponge recipe on our last trip:
1 pack of supermarket own brand sponge mix
An egg and water as directed on the packet
Two grated carrots
Some mixed spice to taste
Raisins or other dried fruit
Follow the instructions on the sponge mix, then mix in the other ingredients.
Split it between a a couple of food bags and tie with a food tie, making sure the bag is a loose enough fit to allow the sponge to expand.
Pop the bags in a steamer for half an hour. I think it would also work boil-in-the-bag if you haven't got one, but I haven't tried doing it that way.
Chopped up crystallized ginger works well instead of the carrot, and mixed nuts can be popped into the mix. If you're feeling adventurous you could explore other flavours of sponge (coco might be good).
Our "we've got here and haven't found the takeaway yet" meal is:
In the largest saucepan you've got (our griddle in our case), heat some pre-cooked meat (so long as you can re-heat it!!), then add a supermarket mix of stir-fry vegetables, a couple of tins of veg to bulk that out (e.g. mushrooms and sweetcorn) and finally add a couple of the straight to wok noodles. Add lots of soy sauce
From burner going on to plate is about 10 minutes max! It's great for when we get to a campsite late.
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Topic: What`s everyone`s favourite camp recipe??
