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One-pot meals

Recipes for meals that can be cooked in one big pot and are ideal for cooking and eating outdoors

Cooking at festivals

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July 18, 2011
festival pie

Cath's three-day festival menu. Easy and delicious recipes you can prep at home then cook at the festival.
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Moroccan chickpea stew recipe

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May 18, 2011

An easy fruity stew to make from tinned chickpeas.
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Eridge Park venison stew

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April 26, 2011
venison stew and cath

Venison stew made over the campfire while camping in the forest where the deer roamed
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Foraging and campfire cooking at Wowo

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April 13, 2010
sausage stew and wild garlic cooked on campfire at Wowo

Cath goes foraging for wild garlic at Wowo campsite and improvises a sausage stew
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Just Pitched Dinners

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July 21, 2009
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.
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Just Pitched Veggie chilli

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July 21, 2009

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 is...
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Minestrone

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May 21, 2009

Serves 4 Tinned soup is the first food you associate with camping. Instead of opening a tin of Heinz Big Soup, get chopping fresh, seasonal vegetables, supplemented with a can of borlotti beans. If you are feeling adventurous, source fresh borlotti beans as they are around at the height of summer, but they do...
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Puy lentils and spicy sausage stew

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May 1, 2009

Serves 4 Sausage stew was the first meal we cooked when camping, made with red table wine from a plastic bottle and a Mattesson’s sausage that Math’s Mum had pushed into his rucksack. Things have moved on since then but the principle remains the same: a warming and easy dish that does not require...
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Paella

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May 1, 2009
Paella

Serves 4 You can buy an outdoor paella pan but that would too extravagant for us.  But you will need a large frying pan with deep sides to cook this dish. Paella can accommodate different seafood and meat – such as rabbit – but this is a basic recipe with chicken and prawns. The...
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Fish stew

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May 1, 2009
Fish stew

Serves 4 This is a nod to the bouillabaisse I ate on the balcony of the Peron restaurant in Marseilles, which hangs over the sea.  Perfect if you are staying near a market and can pick up a variety of fresh white fish.  Ask the fishmonger to skin and bone your fish if necessary,...
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