The Camping Cookbook
It's quite incredible how cooking while camping has progressed from being simply a way to sustain oneself in the easiest manner possible to an art form of cooking up delicious meals with the most basic of equipment and utensils.
'The Camping Cookbook' by Annie Bell continues this trend by serving up over 60 delicious camping recipes for all sorts of locations, ingredients and equipment levels. Remarkably, most of the recipes don't call for anything other than a barbequeue or stove and saucepan and a sharp knife. And of course the ingredients!
The book starts off with a few very good chapters on equipment and basic camping cooking knowhow and top tips. If you're a seasoned camper then this will most likely be common knowledge to you, but it's worth a read through nonetheless as there is always more to learn!
The recipes range from meals that you'd be happy to prepare at home for dinner with friends (the yummy-looking chicken tagine with pine nuts and raisins) to recipes that are brilliant in their simplicity (the fish baked in newspaper). They are all divided up into self-explanatory chapters, making it easy to pre-plan all your camping cuisine for your trip as well as finding recipes on the fly for those occasions when you've caught a fish or found some mussels that you just can't resist!
The book has a plastic cover, which is a nice little touch showing that the author has really thought about the fact that this is going to be taken 'out in the wild', not just left on a cookbook stand in the kitchen.
Overall, if you're going to buy a camping cookbook this season, then this is a good one to start with! There is enough variety to try a different meal every weekend for almost a year and if you're the adventurous type, many of the recipes form a good base for experimentation according to your own tastes and ingredients to hand. Highly recommended.
'The Camping Cookbook' by Annie Bell continues this trend by serving up over 60 delicious camping recipes for all sorts of locations, ingredients and equipment levels. Remarkably, most of the recipes don't call for anything other than a barbequeue or stove and saucepan and a sharp knife. And of course the ingredients!
The book starts off with a few very good chapters on equipment and basic camping cooking knowhow and top tips. If you're a seasoned camper then this will most likely be common knowledge to you, but it's worth a read through nonetheless as there is always more to learn!
The recipes range from meals that you'd be happy to prepare at home for dinner with friends (the yummy-looking chicken tagine with pine nuts and raisins) to recipes that are brilliant in their simplicity (the fish baked in newspaper). They are all divided up into self-explanatory chapters, making it easy to pre-plan all your camping cuisine for your trip as well as finding recipes on the fly for those occasions when you've caught a fish or found some mussels that you just can't resist!
The book has a plastic cover, which is a nice little touch showing that the author has really thought about the fact that this is going to be taken 'out in the wild', not just left on a cookbook stand in the kitchen.
Overall, if you're going to buy a camping cookbook this season, then this is a good one to start with! There is enough variety to try a different meal every weekend for almost a year and if you're the adventurous type, many of the recipes form a good base for experimentation according to your own tastes and ingredients to hand. Highly recommended.