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Karen Cooper's delicious Beef Casserole
Camping

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
Camping

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
Camping

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
Camping

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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Camping

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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Karen Cooper's delicious Beef Casserole
Camping Cooking

100 recipes – our cookbook will be out before Christmas!

I am so very excited! The last of your recipes are now with our designer. Thank you, what a response! Over 100 of them for our first CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE COMMUNITY COOKBOOK! These recipes bring back not just the taste of camp cooking, but also the freedom of the road, relaxing around the campfire or eating under the stars. What is even more inspiring, are your memories that have been recorded with each featured recipe. There are camping traditions – meals that are great for the first night, some always saved for the last night, other recipes handed down over

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Enter your Recipe in our Camps Australia Wide Cookbook
Camping

Cooking up a storm

Thank you so much for the wonderful recipes that are coming through for the first ever printed Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook! We know a few of you had challenges uploading the recipe via our messenger bot (our apologies for that) – so we wanted to give you more ways to share your recipe. If your recipe/s are included in the book you will receive a FREE cookbook as a thank you! Our due date is almost here – October 25, but we encourage you to send it in today – or just as soon as you can before there

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Kingscliffe North Holiday Park
Beaches & Coasts

Is this Australia’s best camp kitchen?

Yes, the view is impressive, but so is what is inside! After Kingscliff Beach Holiday Park had their makeover, I do believe this camp kitchen may be THE best I have seen yet! What do you think? Where have you found amazing camp kitchens? When we lapped with our tribe, we were grateful to find a stove! Once we found an oven. Salivating we purchased oven fries, crumbed chicken, and an apple pie. When we got back to the caravan park, we found out the gas oven was not even hooked up! Apple pies don’t go so well on a

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