Meals with no oven or hob!

merlin1

missychrissy wrote: »

I have a Kelly Kettle that I have bought in preparation for going camping. Mine came with a small pan and frying pan that are big enough in which to cook a few sausages and beans or boil a few eggs. I havn't cooked food on it yet but i have boiled water in it for free using a few twigs.

how good are they??! i work with a fisherman and he tested his new kelly kettle yesterday at work - alot quicker than a gas stove for sure! :cool:

Fire_Fox

Do you have an electric 'health' grill? You can do an entire meal in them. Or ... toasted sarnies in your toaster (little non-stick pockets from the £1 shop)? Barbeque if it's fine weather?

Chicken Noodle Soup: instant noodles (made up using kettle) in the bottom of a bowl, a handful of sweetcorn from a tin, thinly sliced spring onions, scraps of chicken (Rubber style!), stock from a cube or powder (kettle again) poured over whilst it's boiling.

There must be other things you can do with a kettle ... instant mash? Never tried it, but probably OK with a knob of butter in. Serve with some form of cold meat or fish and salad. If you had a microwave temporarily you can do beans on toast, eggs, jacket spuds, even reheat homemade 'ready meals'.

Mr. Fire Fox is a chef and has just walked in - he suggests angel hair pasta (kettle), pesto, grated cheese. Probably have to serve with salad to get your five a day, tho you could probably heat some veg through using hot water from the kettle - wilted spinach if your little one will eat that, peas if not?

SailorSam

Looks like it may be Pot Noodles.

Blackpool_Saver

have you got a bbq?

ChocClare

How about getting a couple of those disposable barbecues? They're only about a quid each in the cheapo shops, and you could cook on them perfectly happily.

Other than that, I'm afraid it's camping gear! On one of the prep forums I belong to, there's a very sweet little thing about a candle stove - have you heard of this? Basically, you take a wire coat hanger and squeeze, twist and turn the two ends and the hook over at right angles, leaving you with a triangle with three "feet". This is your trivet. Put it on your draining board. In the middle of the trivet (think snooker balls in one of those triangular frames), you place as many tealights as you can fit. Light the candles. Put your saucepan on top. Of course, you may have a more suitable trivet lying around the place - the rack from your grill pan or 3 small empty tins. You want to balance your saucepan over the candles but not TOO far away from the heat source - tall tins would be useless, for example.

I have successfully boiled water like this in a blackout (go me!). If you have an electric kettle, then you could pre-boil the water before transferring it to your saucepan, and the heat from the candles would keep it simmering for eg pasta.

If you could cook ahead eg a bolognese sauce, then you could reheat that in a frying pan (quicker) in the same way. You could also have scrambled, boiled or fried eggs. I'm not convinced it would be hot enough for an omelette! Soups would also work, which would be lovely with crusty bread. Similarly, I guess if you were really clever, you could pre-cook and freeze some pasta - once it's defrosted, it only really needs warming up by sitting in a bowl of boiling water which your kettle could provide.

If it's not FREEZING, can I suggest al fresco sort of food? Pre-made pasta salad, rice salad, cold meats, cold pies etc? I realise if you're moving it could be difficult to get that organised!

You don't say if you've got a fire or wood-burning stove - if so, you can do wonders, baking things in a biscuit tin you know!!!

overlykeensaver

I love the idea of a BBQ thank you! Hopefully it will be good weather so we can have an evening of sausages and salad at least. I also love the angel hair pasta with pesto recipe. thanks for all the great suggestions. I think we are in for a few days of sandwiches, cold meats, salads but will try to convince DH to get the barbie out!

downshifted

We have been in a rented house without a cooker for a month (second hand cooker bought for £40 fitted on Sunday = roast lamb yum) Meanwhile we ate salads, grills in the George Formby with salad or veg cooked in the microwave, microwaved baked tatties, microwaved fresh pasta and sauces (I also bought a microwave recipe book from the local second hand shop and did the kind of cooking we all did in the 70s and early 80s when microwaves were newish). All this together with slow cooker meals means we survived fine. Good luck x

overlykeensaver

thank you downshifted - you have reminded me that we have a "George" (we haven't used it for a while!) so hello to grilled chicken and burgers!

Jedilibrarian

You can do rissotto in the microwave and you can get packs of rice and pasta which you can cook in the micro too. Or if you will have a toaster too you could do my old fav, toast+beans+cheese=YUM!
Good luck

Edited to say I lived without a cooker for over a year so it can def be done!

seasideshack

Why not buy some of those toaster bags and make different toasted sandwiches.

Pork chops are yummy done on the george and soooo quick!