Caravan, camping and holiday cookery

Jay-Jay_4

Grate your cheese up and put it in a bag ready for use.

Tinned tomato soup with cheese sandwiches is a good quick lunch when you've been out walking all day.

When you've boiled up your water to make tea, keep half in a thermos flask to save switching the cooker on again.

If you're passing a supermarket on your way back to your campsite, buy a cooked chicken from their deli. Whip up some pasta or spuds and you're dinner's made!

Edinburghlass_2

Quackers wrote:

We always take our George Grill with us if we go to stay in a caravan

Apart from the fantastic toasties for breakfast its fab for grilling meat on too. Or burger if its raining!!

I'm with you there Quackers! When I bought mine and used it for the first time at the site the electricity on the whole site crashed and I hid from the wardens thinking it was me Fortunately it wasn't my fault but I soon converted all the other caraveners round me and before long everyone had their George set up for the breakfast bacon and sausages:j

I used to use it at night for a chop or something with salad and new potatoes. So Math, while you are looking for a slow cooker at the car boot sales have a look out for a George!

forevershopping

Anyone taking a baby or small child camping,take a blow up paddling pool,great to use as a bath, small children dont like the showers

Anne_Marie_2

Am sure that a George is just the much newer version of my old Rima grill, sadly long gone, but how I miss it, great for cooking toasties, doing grills, and it also had a roasting pan which I used to do various casserole dishes in. From what I remember you could use the roasting pan for fried eggs. Does the George come with a wee roasting pan? Or could it accomodate a little one? Might be tempted to get one if it could, when I've saved enough.
Getting back to original topic. With a coolbox, I always freeze cartons of fresh fruit juice, or bottles of diluted juice, (not fizzy drinks) to keep the food cold, rather than the icepacks. Obviously bigger cartons defrost slower than little ones, but a few of the little ones on top, never go amiss for a cool drink. Save a few of those little plastic bottles the kids use for their drinks, and re-use them, again and again. The fruit juice when defrosted goes into them for using during the day. A small coolbag is another good wee thing to have, to carry drinks about, few sandwiches, whatever you need to stave off the hunger pangs. (Wish I had taken one to Edinburgh last weekend - can't believe I forgot! Won't again, cost me a fortune in food!)

Sofa_Sogood

Had a caravan and the hassle was immense. It was a touring thing :eek:

The hardest thing we found was cooking a full breakfast? Any ideas would help - we're thinking of going back to it, but not where you pull your 'little house' on the back of a car more a caravanette.

Thanks in advance.

Jay-Jay_4

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Had a caravan and the hassle was immense. It was a touring thing :eek:

The hardest thing we found was cooking a full breakfast? Any ideas would help - we're thinking of going back to it, but not where you pull your 'little house' on the back of a car more a caravanette.

Thanks in advance.

Why was a full breakfast hard chuck?

The hardest thing is paying for it!!!! The price of sausage, bacon and Bury market black pudding is criminal.

Sofa_Sogood

Jay-Jay wrote:

Why was a full breakfast hard chuck?

The hardest thing is paying for it!!!! The price of sausage, bacon and Bury market black pudding is criminal.

All the pans involved and the washing up if I remember rightly. And black pudding? Lovely

It's just a matter of wondering how to do a full English on the minimum space and less pots and pans Cheap helps too btw!

foreverskint

jamie Oliver did a fry up type thing in one pan. cook sausages first add bacon then eggs. I've tried it adding some extras like black pud and so on. you end up with a big pan full all joined up by the eggs. Scrummy, and just one pan to clean!

Sofa_Sogood

foreverskint wrote:

jamie Oliver did a fry up type thing in one pan. cook sausages first add bacon then eggs. I've tried it adding some extras like black pud and so on. you end up with a big pan full all joined up by the eggs. Scrummy, and just one pan to clean!

I'll look that one up. Sounds like a whopping big sarnie to me. Which is good

Thanks

Jay-Jay_4

Cook sausies first in one pan, do bacon in the other, the when sausies are done do the eggs in that pan.....don't use the bacon pan for eggs.... they'll stick, put the black pudd in the bacon pan.....it won't stick :rolleyes:

stick the sausies on a plate and whack them into the grill bit to keep warm while you do the bacon and eggs etc....

when all the meat products are done do the beans...keeping the meat products on a plate or on a grill pan, under a low grill to keep them warm. Also, boil the kettle/water for a brew now.

Stuff toast....give buttered bread.... life's too short to be rotating toast on a camping cooker.


on second thoughts...COME ROUND TO MY HOUSE!!!!...I'll sort you out!