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Camps Cookbook - Mini Quiche
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A recipe and a book for Mum!

The Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook is a perfect present for a Mum who loves camping!  Produced and printed in Australia, with over 100 tried and true recipes from fellow travellers – means Mother’s Day will be sorted for you.  Most of the recipes are adaptable for campfires and BBQs, as well as stoves and ovens you’ll find in caravans or regular kitchens. Travellers also shared their favourite campsites and must-see destinations around Australia. Find it at: www.campsaustraliawide.com This recipe and photo was contributed by Claire Phillips who said this tasty snack was a fun version of mini quiches – so

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Karen Cooper's delicious Beef Casserole
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Recipe for you: Beef Casserole

By contributor, Karen Cooper – thanks for sending this in to the Camps Australia Wide Community Cook Book. I cook this in advance and freeze for our camp trips. It’s great with potatoes cooked in the fire, or mashed potatoes. Ingredients: 1 kg beef rump steak cubed 40 g (or 2 tablespoons) plain flour Olive oil 1 chopped onion 1 tablespoon tomato paste 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 500 ml beef stock 2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 4 chopped carrots Method: Coat beef in flour and brown in small amounts. Add olive oil to pan and cook onions until soft. Add any remaining

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Potato Bake in BBQ - Contributed by Leanne Heggie, Cake and Eat It 3
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Potato Bake in the Weber

Contributed by Leanne Heggie, Cake and Eat It 3 – check out their travels and educational tools for kids travelling Australia at www.cakeandeatit3.com  Another family favourite, comfort food at its best and boy does it smell good while it is cooking! We cook this in the Weber casserole dish, which we place on the aluminium convection tray. To save cleaning I place baking paper in the bottom of the casserole dish. Ingredients: Potatoes – roughly 5 should do it depending on size 600ml cream Chicken stock cube  Chopped garlic (optional) 2 onions sliced Grated cheese to cover top layer Method Place baking

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Beach To Reach - Matt Sinclair
Camping Cooking

A Progressive Outback Dinner Party!

The Beach to Reach is a unique event for anyone who loves food, fun and adventure! In September of this year, a bunch of intrepid foodies and travellers will gather for a week-long progressive dinner party starting in Rainbow Beach and finishing in Longreach ….an entree for The 2020 Outback Food and Wine Festival.” Led by Master Chef Matt Sinclair, you’ll wine and dine in the outback towns of Roma and Charleville along the way and with a couple of days between courses, there will be ample opportunity to take in the sights, sounds and tucker of other iconic bush

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Susan Edwards no fail scones
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No Fail Scone or Damper

Scones always please, and this recipe from the Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook  contributed by Susan Edwards. She has made seven batches of these in her caravan oven for her Tuggerah Lakes Caravan Club members. She served up damper with golden syrup and cream; scones, jam and cream plus date scones served with butter. They must live up to their name! In the book, Susan suggests more additions for savoury options, tell us why she loves to free camp and gives her favourite ‘must do’ experience in Australia – The Horizontal Falls (which we feature in this newsletter!). Ingredients4 cups

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David R Jones - Cooper Creek
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Cooper Creek Caramel Choc Chip Ice Cream

A perfect summer recipe from the Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook, David R Jones is pictured creating this recipe at Lawn Hill Gorge, (known as Boodjamulla, QLD site 388 in Camps 10). However, he first made this recipe camped at Kudrimitchie on the Cooper (SA site 691 in Camps 10). He said, sitting around the campfire eating it was wonderful. Both sites can also be found on the Camps Australia Wide App. David recommends Devondale UHF thickened cream or standard thickened cream. He also adds, ‘Make it at home for a dinner party – it is that good …’ Ingredients600ml

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Uki Hotel
Camping Food

On the verandah at the Mt Warning Hotel, Uki, New South Wales

We thoroughly recommend this lovely pub with friendly staff at Uki.  Arriving late (we lost an hour crossing the border into NSW), fortunately the pub was still open for meals. I snagged a table on the verandah, and sipped our cold drinks whilst we waited for lunch to arrive.  My niece said it was, ‘the best chicken schnitzel I had in a long time’. Real chicken breast – and the gravy is included. Likewise, our son loved his pizza, the rest of us ate the yummy schnitzels as well. I had our choice of two sides – for example: spuds,

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Honey Mustard Glazed Chicken

Thanks to Drew Burgess for contributing not one but two recipes to the Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook. Pictured is his photo of Pinnarendi Station (QLD site 341 in Camps 10 or find it on the CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE App) – which he votes has the BEST camp kitchen! This “one-pot wonder” lends itself to van life. It will keep for a night or two in the fridge, so a day on the pots frees up some time later in the week. (Editor note: Note this needs to be marinated overnight.) This chicken recipe came from June’s sister,  tweaked by

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Camps Australia Wide Community Cook Book
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Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook now available for purchase

Well only a few people have had the chance to read the brand new Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook. Here’s the recommendations from those who have… WHAT A GREAT BOOK!I found my mouth watering as I was flipping through the pages. I love the way each recipe is tied to the author’s favourite memory of making it. I’m off to buy a camp oven so I can try out some of the recipes next camping trip!Michael Brantz on Nov 25, 2019 THUMBS UPI particularly like the favourite memory which adds a special touch to the cookbook. I like the one

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