Camping recipes
Cath has devised a selection of delicious camping recipes for adults and children that are ideal for cooking and eating outdoors
Just Pitched Dinners
Camping requires a lot of planning and prep. Don’t leave the first meal to chance. After all that packing, travelling, unloading, and pitching, you deserve to eat something good in front of the perfectly pitched tent.
The trip to the supermarket to load up on pre-packaged picnic stuff just doesn’t do it for me anymore,...
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Just Pitched Veggie chilli
I love veggie chilli, I serve it at home with wholemeal soft flour tortillas, pickled jalapenos and guacamole. What you take to camp is really what you can manage. Like many stews, chilli benefits from a day’s rest before eating so is perfect to heat up on a one ring stove. This recipe...
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Just Pitched Chicken Pie
Serves 4
I made two little pies with asparagus and chicken for our tea when we went to Glastonbury. As I burnt the first load of pastry, which I had bought, I had to then whip up another batch. So we had one pie with shop-bought and one with home-made, the home-made won the...
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Just Pitched Spanish meatballs
Serves 4
Prepare this at home and take it with you in two pots: one containing the sauce, and the other holding the meatballs.
Once at camp, all you need is a one-ring cooker, (or two-ring if you are cooking rice or potatoes), a large, lidded saucepan and wooden spoon. Once pitched, all you need to...
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Just Pitched Spanish tortilla
Serves 4
I have been making this tortilla for years, it is a real store cupboard recipe. Waxy potatoes are a must, floury ones like King Edwards will fall apart and leave you with just oniony mashed potatoes. Older new potatoes are ideal, as they are waxy, but less work than new potatoes because...
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Five-a-day barbecue
For a carnivore, a barbeque can easily become too meaty: a sausage, a lamb chop, a chicken drumstick, oh and one of those minute steaks too – it all adds up. Ketchup does not count as one of the five-a-day. Here are my recommendations for vegetable dishes to cook on the barbecue to...
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Sardines stuffed with chermoula
Sardines are good value compared to other fish and their oil content makes them perfect for a spicy sauce and will help keep the flesh moist on the barbeque. Stopping fish from sticking on the grill can be a problem, but a light coating of oil on the skin and a fish holder will...
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Banana chillis stuffed with halloumi
Serves 4
This recipe requires the larger pale, green, mild chillis common in Middle Eastern supermarkets, but I have known my local supermarket to stock them too. When you choose the chillis, bear in mind you will be stuffing them so get the fattest ones. They go well with tomato salad, pittas and lamb kebabs....
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Vegetable kebabs
Serves 4
These kebabs need as much love and attention as sausages and will take a similar time to cook, so don’t leave them until the last minute, nor put them on when the barbecue is at full heat.
Ingredients
1 aubergine, cubed into 2cm pieces (chop these first and salt them as below)
2 courgettes, cubed into...
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Sweetcorn relish
This relish really goes well with barbequed chicken or home-made burgers. If you don’t like chilli or you intend feeding the relish to children, omit the chilli. Start cooking this as soon as you can on the barbeque so that you can eat it with your meat. The relish will save in...
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