Help!
We are leaving for our Christmas camping adventure in a couple of days and I am trying to come up with some meal ideas for while we are away. We’ll have a decent sized gas burner to cook on, and probably access to a BBQ and possibly other ‘camp kitchen’ facilities, but no refrigeration other than ice in an esky. We’ll have access to shops but not close shops (like a 45 minute drive to anything more than the camp kiosk) and plan to buy most of the food we’ll need when we get up there, but we’ll take a few staples and one or two easy cook meals if I can come up with some ideas. We’ll be there for Christmas day and would love something easy but special we could cook for that.
Come on, hit me with your best camp cooking ideas!
Kate says
Have fun – camping breakfasts for me always include french toast and bacon – ot very practical with only an esky ion the heat, but always tastes better when you are camping.
Andrew says
i always do a risotto when away, a one pot wonder.. we are camping too and will have this issue, lots of pasta/risotto and other stuff.
Stitch Sista says
We used to camp a lot pre-kids (oh and with my stepkids LOL) and I would actually make a couple of meals, freeze them, and then they would slowly defrost in the esky thereby serving the dual purpose of keeping things cold, and being a ready made meal. So something like a bolognese sauce for example, and the cook up the pasta on the day.
Alternately you could get some of those simple stir in pasta sauces on standby which require no refrigeration…grate in some vegies and boil some spaghetti and you’ve got yourself a meal!
Chris says
Rice and steamed veggies or veggie pasta dishes (I used to almost live on these when I was bicycle touring and didn’t even have the luxury of an esky, though it was relatively easy to stock up on veggies every other day). Veggies tend to store better than meat if you don’t have perfect refrigeration. Egg dishes…eggs tend to last quite well without being refrigerated, unless it’s stinking hot. One of my favourite camping/no esky dishes is:
Add some oil to a pan, break in a few eggs and break the yolks. allow to cook a little, then break up the egg into smallish bits and stir until cooked. Add a tin of tuna (preferably in springwater), some boiled and strained rice, a handfull of spring onions sliced pretty thinly, and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Some friends of mine buy a dried product from the supermarket (not sure what it is, a sort of dried tofu or soya bean or something) that I can’t remember the name of. It doesn’t take long to rehydrate and they use it like you would use minced steak, ie good for spag bol. Pity I can’t remember what it is called….
Sarah says
I’m with Stich Sista on this pre-prepared and frozen risotto works well (except when you run out of gas or firewood).
Fresh corn still in its leaves can be cooked on a fire, grill, hot plate or electric BBQ (at all camping grounds everywhere), just soak in a bucket of water (pointy ends up) for 15 minutes before BBQing on 4 sides then peel and eat (yum).
tiff says
I can only think of a dessert…
Mars bar apples.
core the apple, stick one of those mini mars bars in the middle wrap in foil and chuck it in the hot ashes of a fire.
yum… mars bar apples. A little legacy of my girly guide days.