One Pot Cooking
 

Guys,
Those of use who prefer the outdoor life (rather than a nice warm hotel bed) have pretty limited cooking facilities (apart from SteveD, who would be dissapointed if he couldn't have at least three cooking items on the go at any one time) so you have to be creative with your cooking, unles yuo are OK eating beans for a week!

There is a similar thread running on HUBB, but it's a much more civilised place over here on XT660.

So what have you got ? Kindly share your recipies, in a kinda Motorcyclist Know Best, hairy Bikers kinda way...

Anything you can cook with a single burner on the roadside, what is it, what do you need, how???

Here's a one to start off.

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Scrambled Eggs / Omlette.

Boil up your water,
Put a couple of eggs in a plastic bag and shake,
drop the bag into the water for a couple of minutes,
Take it out and shake it

Viola! Scrammbled eggs.

if you put some cheese, ham and tomatoes in it and don't give it the final shake, you have a great omlette.

And with the hot water - you have a brew!

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Easy Stew.

In your pot, put some meat (anything you like), a little oil (I always carry a small bottle of oil) and fry until sealed.
Into the pot, put a tin of boiled potatoes,
a tin of mixed veg
any other veg you like - cooked or uncooked

Boil it gently for around 30 minutes (or until the meat is cooked),

Add in a packet of cuppa soup to season and thicken it,

Simmer for another 20 minutes or so.

Simples. Hot Stew.

You can set this off cooking when you arrive at your camp and get your tent sorted while it's cooking.

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I just tend to buy tinned stews with veggies and meat etc and heat that up - bulk out with bread if you're really hungry.

I have a Tangia (meths burner stove) which is slow but reliable. I have also a little military mini burner, where you can sit a tin straight on the top and use the tin as the cooking pot...very small and light weight.

I love food, and I love cooking. I am a believer that any fool can rough it, but to camp in comfort simply takes a little thought.

Basic one pot recipes then.

Chicken curry (or chili) and rice.
Take a tin of chicken curry, peel the label off and wash the tin. If you are smart you do this at home, and then simply mark the lid with the contents in permanent marker. Pierce the lid in two places.
Bring some water to boil in your mess tin, normally half a pint or so.
Stick your tin of curry in, piercings upwards.
After 5 minutes, add a pouch of quick cook rice to the water.
When the rice is cooked, the water should be used up and in the rice. Open the tin of curry, pour over and devour.

The same method can be used for tinned stew and tinned spuds. But just empty the spuds straight out into the mess tin and cook in the tin water, with the stew in it's tin. Careful draining is required.

Sausage Bolognaise.

Feeds 2.

Pack of Aldi Bratwurst
Pack of Aldi fresh tagliatelle (or other fresh pasta)
Carton of passata
Few mixed herbs.
Tabasco.
Salt and pepper.
Oil or butter.

Stick the oil or butter in your mess tin. Begin cooking the sausages. After 10 minutes add a splash of water and then the carton of passata, herbs, tabasco and salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer and add the pasta. Simmer for 2-3 minutes more and eat.

One of my favourites is the Batchelors Pasta and sauce. Dried food, so it's light, and easy to do.
When I used to do a lot of walking I went to the trouble of buying the dried mince/soya from healthfood shops, mixing it in bags with herbs, chili flakes and pasta, and then simply boiling the lot with a squeeze of tomato puree from a tube to add a bit more flavour. Super lightweight and very little mess to carry.

Come on then, lets get this into a real food thread!
 

Porridge.

Oatmeal,
Water,
Bit of Milk
Rasins
Banana
Honey/Syrup or sugar

Mix the water and oatmeal (1 part oatmeal to 2 parts water and 1 part milk) and bring to the boil.

Simmer until it starts to thicken, chuck in the rasins and continue simmering until it's as thick as you ant it.

Chuck in the Banana and sweetner - done!

Keep you going all day will this stuff.


Ratatouille

1 Red Onion,
Teaspoon of Olive Oil (or any Oil except engine)
Red Pepper,
Garlic (as much as you like),
Mixed herbs
Veggies from the closest shop - whatever you want to make the meal up
Tin Chopped Tomatoes,
Salt & Pepper to taste


Cook the onion off in the oil,
add the sliced pepper and garlic,
Chuck in the herbs
Add the 'other' veggies

When the contents start to soften, add the tinned tomatoes (a dash of red wine works well if you have any too)

Simmer for 30 miuntes or so. Done.



Frying an egg on the BBQ

You'll need a pie foil (after the Meat & Tattie pie you got from the village shop earlier)

Stick the foil on the BBQ, crack an egg into it. Done.

Come on Keith......

We want your recipes, stuff you can make out of the contents of the local village shop, with a bit of this er 'out of the box' thinking.

this was my set up for a fortnight in france/spain few months back..
lived on potnoodle/cuppa soups for a fortnight ..certainly knocked a bit of weight of me..

I did this at the Dragon, albeit I had a tub of Pringles with my chilli rather than rice, and used the water to make hot chocolate. I'd forgotten just how long it takes to heat a tin through like that, and that was on the MSR. God knows how I used to cook like that on a hexy burner back in my school (CCF) days.

It used to help that I had the half size tins from the old 24hr rat packs. When I've done a full tin, I've turned it halfway then pierced the lid.
Gingerly.
At the worst you can always stir the chili through the rice to heat more.

I'm liking some of the ideas, especially the egg in a pie dish, not least as means eating a pie first!

Ive all the cooking stuff but i cant cook, so the local chippy for a good slap up does me then a use the cooker for coffee/tea and to heat up other stuff like pasta and sauces. But i might try some of these combos.

good thread. I'm feelin hungry (and I've just had dinner!)

http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/

Very tasty and cheap but made with good quality meat etc...... In fact there superb Ive tried the lot and all have been great.

I've just had a cracking pie...

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...d/DSC00326.jpg

Anyway, I used to eat a lot of the 3 minute noodles, always good for a quick lunch snack. Can be made a lot tastier with a cup a soup stirred in, or just a few herbs and a splash of tabasco.

I think it's getting that way.

Eating on the road can be a bit crappy, I use the NATO Ration packs alot (the new ones are much better), but sometimes it's good to make up something from what you have.

I'm looking for some great recipes that you can cook with a pen knife, mess tin and a single burner.

???

Come guys, what do you lot cook ?

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Or even just a stock cube in the water will make a surprising difference.

Quick and easy campfire meal; get a good size sweet potato, wash the outside, wrap with bacon and then with tin foil and stick in embers for 30min. Takes a lot less time than a normal jacket and blooming lovely.

I'm realy lucky, I'll eat just about anything and like it.
Pot noodle, chicken curry, bully beef, bread and cheese, I love compo (nato) food, anything.
During my military service I had to eat most of my meals cold (when in the field) regardless of what it was so to heat it at all was a luxury.
I have a simple gas burner with a 2 cup/pot lid and base and rarely bother to even light it except for coffee.

I remember once a mate decided to cook a tin of food in hot water and the dopey git forgot to peirce the tin. When the tin exploded we thought we been attacked.

On the rare occasions that I do cook, its curry sauce, worcester sauce, Oxo, anything small (as in package size) to give flavour.

When thay say "anybody can rough it", I am anybody.

Just had a heinz big soup spicy meatballs very nice.

those http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/sto...=index&cPath=4

look great will have to try them - just worried I may resort to always eating them even when at home the wife will think Ive swallowed a cook book :guitar player: