What Are Good Things To Cook in a Camping Stove?
I am going camping/rock climbing this weekend and I have a Jetboil Flash stove, I would like to know some good meals that you guys cook while camping. And some things that are not really expensive or things that I will have to carry a lot to make.
Thank you guys so much!
Anything you can cook at home you can cook in the wilds. Bread, cakes, stews, soups, Indian, Chinese, French, anything …even casseroles….yup, casseroles in an oven.
The oven is a biscuit tin. Nice over a slow burning heap of cinders but a camping stove will do it. Bit pricey on fuel though.
You can bake potatoes round a heap of cinders too wrapped in foil. And meat and fish. Does great for that. Or dig a pit for them and build the fire over it.
Cover the foil-wrapped goodies with an inch or two of earth first to get an even heat.
Pit oven. Good for rabbits, pheasant, partridge, briskets.
You can serve a three course meal on silver trays if you take some silver trays.
Extreme silver service gourmet dining anyone? We’ve done the ironing.
On bikes.. http://www.oneinchpunch.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/extreme-ironing-05.jpg . ..
From a rope..http://hovanitz.com/images_scc/2003ExtremeIroning.jpg . . . . .
Gourmet meals are easy outdoors.
Camp near a trout stream so you can cool the wine in it. Nice for catching dinner too….coming up.
And you can cook three lots at once if you take a couple of disposable barbeques.
They pack inside the biscuit tin and you don’t have to barbeque things on them.
Boil stuff, use a frying pan, or your biscuit tin oven.
Bake bread or a cake in it, roast beef, lamb, fish, rice pudding, soufles (stand it the other way up for that…soufles rise). Fresh apple pie or banana loaf.
Use half what’s provided to burn if you want. Empty half of it out and use it later.
Bacon and French omelettes for breakfast with camp bread, and a sweet and sour fish for lunch freshly cooked. Put the roast in the oven so it’s cooking while you get up the White Lady or Jacob’s Ladder.
Very good for camping is a wok…do a stir fry or steam fish or vegetables in it on a trivet. Fierce heat from a camp stove is better for stir fries than an electric cooker at home…get the heat up the side. Get the wok hot all over, not just the base. Tumble stuff around and everywhere it touches the wok cooks it. Light airy fried rice…not stodgy stuff cooked on the wok base instead of flying all over a very hot wok.
And done in half the time.
At home I use a big petrol stove outside for stir fries….proper stuff then. The electric stove is rubbish for it.
Done in seconds..extreme wok from an expert… hot
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x75ei4_cuisine-au-wok-au-thai-village-a-au_travel . . . . .
See how quick this egg browns…30 seconds.
Hot wok…light and fluffy then like a French Omelette.
Plenty of space to work in and the shape helps too.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/food-and-drink/7249188-frying-an-egg-in-a-wok.php?id=7249188 . . . .
It’s just the same on the top of Ben Macdui cooked on a camp stove turned up to full power…no difference.
Heather baked trout is very nice if you’re near a trout stream in the mountains.
Run your fingers along the heather stems to clean the leaves off. Just the tops but you soon get a tray full.
Lay the trout over the bed of freshly picked heather tops on a tray and seal it with foil so you don’t lose any juices. They keep the heather soft then.
When cooked remove the trout and keep them warm in the oven while you prepare the sauce.
Add the water from the veg and thicken the juices and softly roasted heather tops the quick way with cornflour or properly as a roux sauce….butter and flour required for that but worth the trouble.
Do the same for loin chops or a small shoulder of lamb or a brisket but large briskets are best done overnight in the pit oven. Whisky (no e) in the heather works wonders.
Just take a few herbs and spices in small pots for the exotic things and for flavouring soups and casseroles.
Done it for years on mountains, in deserts and rain forest.
And on boats.
Catch it cook it and eat it. All in twenty minutes. Fresh fish that.
Example….on the rocks
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100403032754AAjs5GL . . . . .
One you might not want to know…Rainforest special breakfast.
You’ve seen moths round a light bulb. You just need a hotter one.
Put a tarpaulin on the ground when darkness comes.
Light a paraffin pressure lamp and hang it centrally over the tarpaulin.
Go to sleep.
In the morning get the hot oil going.
Fold the tarpaulin so it’s got a central channel and pour all the fallen insects that got burnt round the lamp into a wide woven bamboo pan…all 2lbs of them.
4lbs if the night guard remembered to pump the lamp up half way through the night.
That’s a bucketful.
Pick through it to get bits of muck and leaves out.
Oil is smoking hot now so pour all the lovely clean insects into it.
Deep fry for one minute or until crisp.
Scoop out, drain, and allow to cool.
While cooling prepare the milk from dry powder.
Distribute the crispy fried insects amongst the breakfast bowls
Pour on milk and add sugar.
Enjoy your delicious bowl of Camp Cornflakes a la Malayasia
Feeling well? O good.
Luncheon in three hours…Snake Cutlets poached in Jungle Juice….hic
How to get a trout without a fishing rod or a net…tickle it.
(Don’t get caught doing it)
Lay on the bank and when you see a trout close to the bank where they lay resting and enjoying the scenery and all dozy and dreaming of the big tasty flies coming around when the sun goes down, gently put your hand in the water and under the trout….
…softly softly catchee trouteee
Softly stroke it’s belly….hardly touching it….ickle trouty goes all Hmmmm that’s nice….ahhh….gone all sleepy…ahh hmmmm..Ssshhhh….you’re not there…ssshhh.
Trouty sleepy den? go sleepies….ahhhh
Gotcha!….cruel it is. Not as bad as some animals are….they play all sorts of tricks in nature…some plants do worse than that.
Big rivers you can be less stealthy sometimes…easy on this one….trout’s away with the fairies, zonked…but he put it back in the water…public film. Trout tickling isn’t legal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tszDNiPqm5c . . . .
Or you could live on sandwiches and baked beans..but what a bore…
Bon Appetit
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