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Fish for Good Friday? Here’s a recipe from our Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook thanks to Greg and Glo Lawrence from Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia.
by Jim and Vickie Salmon This is an easy to make quick meal using food items usually on hand when camping or caravanning. Plus it is great for leftovers the next day! Ingredients: 1kg mince, beef is best 2 large onions Plain flour 1 can tomato soup Potato and mixed vegies Salt and pepper to taste Milk optional Method: Roll mince in to rissole size balls (add salt and pepper or extra flavourings if required). Place flour in a bowl and roll mince balls through flour and coat well, then place to one side. Cut onions in to rings. Heat
Lyn Moore cooking her Braised Lamb Chops, Tara, QLD By Lyn Moore. This recipe is so simple. Just heat up your camp oven and your meal will be ready in approximately 1-1/2 hours. Enough time to enjoy the ‘fivies’ get together. Serves 2. Ingredients: 4 lamb neck chops 1 onion (roughly chopped) 1 carrot (sliced) 1 potato (cubed) 1 can tomatoes 250 ml chicken or vegetable stock (or use stock cubes) 1 clove garlic (finely chopped) Parsley or any herbs you like to use Salt and pepper to taste 250g dried noodles (I use small spiral noodles) Method: Heat up
I love that this delicious soup has converted cauliflower haters to cauliflower fans. Perfect for a winter campsite! My family love this soup – it is our winter favourite. It is creamy and delicious, and best of all simple to make, with very few ingredients. You wouldn’t even know it was dairy free. I guess you could serve with cream, but it is so flavoursome – you don’t need it! Ingredients: one cauliflower 3 bacon rashers, chopped 1 large onion, chopped chicken stock 1-2 litres pepper and salt Method: Combine bacon and onion in large saucepan, cook, stirring, until onion
This recipe is so quick and easy and absolutely scrummy. It was sent into the Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook by contributor, Adele Davison. Makes 12 pieces. If you don’t have a microwave on board – try it in the oven or camp oven – or wait until you find a camp kitchen! Ingredients: 150gm butter 200gm block dark chocolate 3 eggs 1 ½ cups raw sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup plain flour, sifted ½ cup cocoa, sifted Method: Melt butter and chocolate in a small microwave safe bowl. Depending on your microwave, 1 minute, stir, then another
If you are going camping for Christmas or New Year’s you might need some cooking inspiration for the trip. Camping doesn’t have to mean eating baked beans and cheese toasties by the fire try these quick, easy and camping friendly recipes! 1. Camping Fondue Fondue may be attributed to fancy dinners and restaurants, but you can do it camping too! Ingredients:One 220g block of chocolate (or bag of choc chips)A dash of longlife milk (add to desired consistency)Fruit or marshmallows (for dipping) Method:Heat saucepan over fire and add chocolate.When the chocolate has melted, add milk and mix until combined.Use skewers,
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
Thanks to Terry Conway for this recipe. He told us: “I am an enthusiastic cook, in and outdoors, we have a home-made Wok burner, pizza /bread oven, smoker etc. I make sourdough regularly, and I preserve our olives and make prosciutto etc.” And another tip from Terry: “Weber BabyQ is the bees’ knees, but make sure you put a chain on it!” IngredientsFresh green prawns or scallops (or both)Japanese Kewpie mayonnaiseOlive/avocado/peanut oilSkewersGas gun/blowtorch Method Skewer 2 or 3 prawns on each skewer so they lay straight. Scallops should be on two skewers to facilitate turning. Lightly coat with a little
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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