Campsite cooking

[Bungleaio]

I'm going away with my girlfriend for a few nights and I'm wondering what to cook whilst I'm there. We will have a BBQ and gas hob/burner thing. Breakfast and standard BBQ stuff is easy but I'm wondering what else to do. Prep space is going to be limited as well as only having limited equipment.

It's the first time I've done this, has anyone got any suggestions?

[sherman]

Pasta and sauce
BBQ a pile of meat one night from the local butcher
Stirfry

[SVX]

Can't go wrong with camp fire curry. Lot's of recipes on here, but I'd suggest you make a good base sauce to your own tastes, then freeze into a block in a zip-lock bag or similar, and add fresh meat/praws/veg as needed.



This was taken on my first camp out of the year - late February.

[MagicalTrevor]

Find the nearest pub

[DoubleD]

Yeah find a pub. Campsite cooking is a pain. Saying that you could make something at home and freeze it, then all you have to do is warm it up. A chilli would work well and have it with nachos.

[Bungleaio]

Cheers guys, stirfry and curry sounds great.

[jjones]

Bungleaio said:

and curry sounds great.

Only if the campsite has porcelain thrones!

[C0ffin D0dger]

Always managed to produce some decent grub though we tend to BBQ where possible. When we had our extension built the double burner / grill thing we've got for camping was used quite a lot as unfortunately at the point the wife told the builders to dump the old cooker we had we thought it would be a month max before they finished, turned out to be quite a bit longer than that so we're well used to cooking with limited facilities now. We did have a microwave too though.

[utgjon]

utgjon said:

Just got back from camping over the weekend and the following went down very well indeed:

Make a fairly sizeable square of tin foil and add:

- Sweet Potato
- Onion
- Garlic
- Broccoli
- Runner Beans

Season with:

- Olive Oil
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Salt & Pepper


Leave cooking for 30 mins.

Google 'hobo dinner' for more ideas.

Quoting myself from another thread... Swap any of the veg to your tastes. A dash of tabasco or some fresh chilli would also work really nicely.

[captainzep]

Camped this weekend. Made a passable camping paella.

I wanted to try out my new rocket stove, so nipped up the road to the local shop and bought:

Chorizo,
an onion,
diced chicken breast,
frozen prawns
2x Uncle Ben's (pre-cooked) chicken and vegetable rice
a lemon

Sliced up chorizo and diced onion. Fried chorizo until it released its oil. Added onion, chicken until browned and then prawns. Had a glassful of white wine left over from night before so tipped this in, then the rice and stirred together until all was cooked through. The occasional little spash of water to stop it drying out. Gave it a decent squeeze of lemon when ready to serve.

Very easy, particularly as it was mainly dumping stuff in the pan straight out of the pack. Pre-cooked flavoured rice means cooking time is only 15-20 mins.

Not authentic but easy and tastes great for something cooked in one big frying pan using ash twigs for heat next to a tent.

[hondafanatic]

You need two burners, one frying pan and one heavy based sauce pan for this...but your bbq will work too.

Fillet steak - they can survive not being in the fridge for hours/a day
Fried mushrooms in a blue cheese sauce (bit of beef stock, red wine, reduced, splash of cream, st load of Stilton)
Sauté potatoes (boil some new potatoes while your putting up the the tent, let them cool, sauté in the pan after you've done the steaks which are resting in foil)
Good bottle of red

Then bask in the glory of not resorting to stty camping food.

And I reckon a proper full English done while camping is where it tastes best.