Experimental cooking

Rebob

I have this last couple of weeks decided to experiment with some different ways of cooking. :whistle:

On camp the other week I made cups of tinfoil (moulded it on the bottom of a cup) dripped in a spot of oil and cooked eggs on the griddle plate of my cobb bbq oven.

Earlier I tried the method of cooking a swede whole in the microwave then scooping out the insides (saw this on here).

This morning I cooked my porridge in a flask! Want to easily make porridge when camping instead of buying the porridge pots. Just put 3 spoons of porridge oats in the flask with boiling water, leave to "cook" and then stir in a couple of spoons of milk powder. Yum

Any other different/unusual ways of cooking everyday stuff?:think:

emilykf

Rebob wrote: »

On camp the other week I made cups of tinfoil (moulded it on the bottom of a cup) dripped in a spot of oil and cooked eggs on the griddle plate of my cobb bbq oven.



Any other different/unusual ways of cooking everyday stuff?:think:

Possibly not QUITE what you're asking, but I sometimes do homemade sausage, bacon and egg muffins (we don't do fast food restaurants!). In order to get the eggs just like that well known restaurant, I use shallow, round yorkshire pudding tins, put them in a hot frying pan with oil in, crack an egg in, then pierce the yolk with a chopsick! Makes a perfectly round, McD like egg. Although 100% egg

Steve059

Try this ...

THREE TIN SOUP

Serves 2 – 3

INGREDIENTS

1 tin of meat or fish
1 tin of a vegetable or bean
1 tin of something else
250ml of water

METHOD

Open the tins and drain off any brine, oil or water. Put any beans into a sieve or colander and rinse them thoroughly under running cold water. If you use baked beans or fish in tomato sauce, wash the tomato sauce off, as it will dominate all the other flavours.

Put all of the tinned ingredients and the water into a saucepan on a medium heat. Stir thoroughly. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering). Cook until all of the ingredients are thoroughly cooked.

If you have a food processor, put the soup in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the soup and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the soup through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy. If you used a food processor, rinse out the saucepan and put the soup back into the saucepan.

Put the saucepan on a low heat and reheat the soup gently.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

The idea of the third tin is to add a completely different flavour and/or texture to the other two ingredients.

The vegetarian option is to use a tin of a vegetable, a tin of a bean and a tin of something else vegetarian.

Add a suitable stock cube. Add a teaspoon of a suitable herb or spice.

Remove some of the lumpy ingredients before blending and put them back in afterwards.



Tried and tested ...

Chilli con Carne + red kidney beans + tomatoes + chilli powder. Very tasty and very filling.
Minced beef & onion + carrots + mushrooms. OK, but a bit heavy on the onions.

Possibilities ...

Beef curry + tomatoes + coconut milk?
Beef curry + tomatoes + mushrooms?
Pilchards + tomatoes + mushrooms?
Stewed steak + carrots or peas + mushrooms?
Tuna + sweet corn + mushrooms?