Post by voiletmay on Jan 22nd, 2008 at 8:05pm
Hi There
I've been browsing this site since before Xmas. In that time I bought two cast iron skillets (cute little one and big one), seasoned them in the oven, and been having a lot of fun with them both. Yesterday my 10 year old daughter (who is a Brownie) was desparate to make a cooking fire like she had learnt at brownies. She cooked sausages on a skillet. We did the smores thing stickless and just put them on the grate we rested the skillet on and made some awful damper (thrown out) on the side of the fire LOL!!
My daughter was so excited about the whole process that she wanted to do more. So today I bought my first camp oven. It was a cheapie ($16.95) 4.5 quart from Downunder Camping. Also bought one of those lid lifters too $4.95. and a single jaffle iron $5.95 Went to another camping store called Camping Solutions and they had round scone irons (look like those dutch pancake irons that are $50 from those dutch pancake sellers) for $10 which was just too cute to pass up.
Anyway.. she likes using wood, not heatbeats (I'll have to try that another time), so we had to collect wood, she dug the hole, set up the fire, did everything. The recipe we used was from a book I recently got at a booksale. The book is called the Pershill Camp Cookbook, and it is a concotion based on their easy one pot meal when you are in a hurry
Into Camp oven
oil, cut up onion, cut up sliced salami (100grams, I just used a pack)
When cooked a bit, I added two chopped big tomotoes, and a heap of chopped mushrooms, and some chopped thyme and basil which were in the garden just near the camp oven.
When this cooked a bit, added 1 cup basmati rice (an extra long grain one from an asian shop that was amazingly LONG - it was called basmati stella, not sure what that means) and two cups water.
Covered it (lid on and put coals over lid) and cooked for about 25 minutes until rice was cooked.
Served with grated mozzarella cheese and black pepper.
My daughter isn't too agreeable about adding vegetables to things LOL!! So it was based on things she would eat.
This was a really yummy meal though, we all loved it. More veggies, garlic, olives etc would have been great in it too.
I have photos, but I can't get them to work.
cooking22jan.JPG (90 KB | )
I've been browsing this site since before Xmas. In that time I bought two cast iron skillets (cute little one and big one), seasoned them in the oven, and been having a lot of fun with them both. Yesterday my 10 year old daughter (who is a Brownie) was desparate to make a cooking fire like she had learnt at brownies. She cooked sausages on a skillet. We did the smores thing stickless and just put them on the grate we rested the skillet on and made some awful damper (thrown out) on the side of the fire LOL!!
My daughter was so excited about the whole process that she wanted to do more. So today I bought my first camp oven. It was a cheapie ($16.95) 4.5 quart from Downunder Camping. Also bought one of those lid lifters too $4.95. and a single jaffle iron $5.95 Went to another camping store called Camping Solutions and they had round scone irons (look like those dutch pancake irons that are $50 from those dutch pancake sellers) for $10 which was just too cute to pass up.
Anyway.. she likes using wood, not heatbeats (I'll have to try that another time), so we had to collect wood, she dug the hole, set up the fire, did everything. The recipe we used was from a book I recently got at a booksale. The book is called the Pershill Camp Cookbook, and it is a concotion based on their easy one pot meal when you are in a hurry
Into Camp oven
oil, cut up onion, cut up sliced salami (100grams, I just used a pack)
When cooked a bit, I added two chopped big tomotoes, and a heap of chopped mushrooms, and some chopped thyme and basil which were in the garden just near the camp oven.
When this cooked a bit, added 1 cup basmati rice (an extra long grain one from an asian shop that was amazingly LONG - it was called basmati stella, not sure what that means) and two cups water.
Covered it (lid on and put coals over lid) and cooked for about 25 minutes until rice was cooked.
Served with grated mozzarella cheese and black pepper.
My daughter isn't too agreeable about adding vegetables to things LOL!! So it was based on things she would eat.
This was a really yummy meal though, we all loved it. More veggies, garlic, olives etc would have been great in it too.
I have photos, but I can't get them to work.
cooking22jan.JPG (90 KB | )
