Ok folks!! here is the challenge..


Recipes with only 3 or 4 ingredients. We all say simple is the best well let's see what everyone comes up with...

Grrr!!! :o

Now CD I already know that a couple of ladies in Queensland have put out a book with all the recipes having just 4 ingredients (see the pumpkin soup recipe in that section) - I am suspecting you might have a copy of it thinking of getting a head start on everyone else  :D.  It is amazing what can be made with 4 simple ingredients though and it will be interesting to see if there are some original ones posted

OK here goes:
RUM, COKE sorry thats only two!

Regards Skip [smiley=batman.gif]

You could have added ice to that Skip  [smiley=sorcerer.gif]

LEMONADE SCONES

You need:

3 cups of self-raising flour
1 cup of lemonade
1 cup of cream

Method:

1. Mix ingredients together with a knife.

2. Turn dough out onto a floured board and cut scones using a scone cutter, place scones onto floured tray.

3. Cook in oven at 210 degrees C for 10 minutes or until tops of scones are slightly browned.

A very popular recipe & you all most probably have it already. It is very clean and simple and the results speak for themselves. I have cooked this mix as a damper in one lump and it is the grouse with Cockies Joy.

All the best
Skip [smiley=chris.gif]

This is a quick and simple feed that I knock up when camping and want to spend more time in a chair with a beer or rumbo.

SPICY CHICKEN 'N POTATO

1 kilo chicken pieces (drumsticks only is fine)
large sprinkle of Spencers Morroccan Rub
1 can of Home Brand tiny taters

Line a CO with alfoil...saves on dishes later
Rub plenty of Morroccan spices on the chicken pieces
Place in CO over moderate heat. Beads/coals on top as well
Allow 40 minutes or so for cooking.
When done there should be oil from the chicken in the CO
Drain the tint taters and add to the CO .
Stir things up a bit so the oil and seasoning coat the taters.
Allow taters to brown up and become a little crispy. (usually about 10 minutes)

Remove from the CO and dry on paper towels.

Ready to eat..( I am salivating as I type)
Recommended drink is BEER

Tater Bake!!

Sliced potato (thin slices)
Cream
bacon pieces
Cheese

you know the method!!!

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee104/billybushcook/Lambtatabake005.jpg

or check this thread for extra additions.
http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1205275970

Youve started a good thread here CD, those recipe's by Skip & Arty will be worth a go, plenty more to come too, Ill bet!

Mick.

No Carolyn you would be incorrect on that...

I am a keen camper and head cook (I also cook legs, torso's and arms etc before the smart ar*se comments come ;D) and I just love making things tasty but with as few ingredients as I can manage due to space restrictions etc. I know about the book (I do not have one nor am I getting one) the 2 ladies have marketed but heh wouldn't it be great if WE could come up with a similar thing for camping.

"Camp Cooking the COCIA way - 4 ingredients or less"

Simple recipes for camping is what I am on about and I have thrown open the challenge for US ALL to come up with some taste bud tempting dishes that we could turn into a recipe book.

We will have to test these of course but there are already several experienced gourmet's on this site who I am sure would try most things... So there it is folks - simple is best according to Skip eh mate?

Maybe we need a spot in the recipe section JUST for simple recipes....
Grrr!!!

Long been a believer in the KISS principle and usually give a miss to those recipes that have fifty ingredients or more. How much stuff can you carry in your tucker box when you're camping outback ?

A list of tasty but easy (was going to say simple but there's enough of us here) recipes would be great.

pd

I agree with that PD, keep it simple & your much less likely to get it wrong!

Regards Skip [smiley=chris.gif]

Ok my entry No. 1

Redclaw Cocktail

Catch the buggers first and cook.

Add a few shredded lettuce leaves
Pour on McCormick's Seafood Cocktail sauce in the bottle...

How simple is that eh but!

Drink copious amounts of your fav wine, spirit or beer of your choice...

Now just how shmick is that???

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I think a further protest is needed here CD you cant put 3 kinds of alcohol and not count that individually.

Joking aside I guess salt, pepper, oil and a few other things should be classed as basic and in the camping pantry.

Can we include our favourite Jaffle Iron recipes that have 3 or 4 ingredients.

If Yes:

Bread, Baked Beans and an Egg.
Break the egg into the middle of a big spoon of beans and top it with the 2nd slice of bread.
Close the iron and cook away.
Salt and pepper of course .

TBF  Aart

This one may offend the air polution requlations.

When hunting as a young fella I would put this together in a big hurry.
It was designed be cooked, eaten and get back out hunting in the shortest time.

800 gms baked beans
350 gms can of braised steak
6 eggs
Big dash of black sauce

all in one smallish CO
Put over a moderate heat. Stir regularly and serve on toast when done. Serves 3

The feral pigs would smell us before we saw them.

Just remember folks - 3-4 INGREDIENTS NOT CONDIMENTS OK!!!! and any kind of necessary liquid sustenance fluid is not counted as an ingredient UNLESS you put it in the meal you are preparing... OK Have ya got that straight... Oh and by the way cheating is encouraged...


Grrr!!! >:( >:( >:(

Does Pig down a Mine Shaft, Toad in a Hole or Rabbit on a Shovel qualify as a recipe ? Quck, easy and high in nutritional value especially when washed down with a schooner of De Bortolis Old Tawny. That just about exhausts my cooking skills !!!


pd

How about a stuffed pumpkin, I guess it could be a meal in itself. Maybe stuffed with a mince brew or similar.

1 pumpkin
mince
onion
cheese

Cut top out of a pumpkin and remove all seeds. Dice onion and brown with the mince, pack into pumpkin, top with cheese, put lid back on and bake reasonably hot for an hour and a half or so. Don't forget a drain hole in the bottom about the size of a 10 cent coin.


Cheers

Jono

This one is stuffed with couscous

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1670/1002582wb4.jpg

Now we're on the money troops... Keep em coming and once we have a stack we can sort em into meal groups etc...

Grrr!!!

Please put the recipe in - Toad in the hole etc as some folks have no idea what ya mean.. I do but!! (Up here it means a frog in the dunny bowl...) To others an egg in a hole in a piece of bread and fried etc.. Yum..

Double Grrr!!!  ;)

TASSIE DELIGHT

Very simple hot desert that children can make themselves.

4 cored granny smith apples
big squeeze of honey
1/2 cup sultanas
1 tlbsp cinnamon (Dutch only)

Combine the honey, cinnamon and sultanas and spoon them into the cored apples.
Wrap with alfoil, dull side out.
Place in hot ashes and put some fresh coals around them.
Takes about 10 to 15 minutes.
You can usually smell when they are ready.
Serve hot.

This can be extended to include ice cream or custard.

Apple Turnovers


2 sheets of puff pastry
1 tin pie apple with cinnamon
2 tbs milk

Cut the pastry in quarters. Fill one side of the quarter with pie apple, and then fold into turnovers. Glaze with milk for a golden finish and bake in a hot oven for 10 minutes.

Skip

Fruit Cake

Baked-Fruitcake

1 kg mixed fruit
2 cups fruit juice
2 cups self raising flour

Preheat oven to 125C. Soak fruit in juice for 2 hours. Stir flour into soaked fruit and mix well. Put into large lined baking tin. Bake for 2 hours in the bottom of your oven on 130C. Remove and leave to cool. Put into container or wrap in foil. Will be best in one or two days.


Skip

Your on fire SKIP

Give us another Kiss    ;)      ;D  ;D   ;D  ;D

DOGS IN BLANKETS

These are great fun for the kids to make.

12 Continental frankfurters
Pampas Puff pastry
12 Cheese slices
1 beaten egg

Cut the puff pastry into squares a little larger than a cheese slice.
Place the cheese slice in the center of the pastry.
Lay the frank diagonally across the pasty/cheese.
Fold the pastry so it wraps around the frank.
Use some beaten egg to secure the join in the pastry.
Place on greased alfoil upon a trivet in a preheated camp oven.
Give it about 10 – 15 min and serve in a paper towel.

Carolyn™ wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2008 at 11:10pm:

Now CD I already know that a couple of ladies in Queensland have put out a book with all the recipes having just 4 ingredients (see the pumpkin soup recipe in that section) - I am suspecting you might have a copy of it thinking of getting a head start on everyone else  :D.  It is amazing what can be made with 4 simple ingredients though and it will be interesting to see if there are some original ones posted

I stood reading that book for a while this week in Borders Bookstore.  Might go back for a second look now.  :P

TBF wrote on Jul 4^th, 2008 at 5:59pm:

TASSIE DELIGHT Very simple hot desert that children can make themselves. 4 cored granny smith apples big squeeze of honey 1/2 cup sultanas 1 tlbsp cinnamon (Dutch only) Combine the honey, cinnamon and sultanas and spoon them into the cored apples. Wrap with alfoil, dull side out. Place in hot ashes and put some fresh coals around them. Takes about 10 to 15 minutes. You can usually smell when they are ready. Serve hot. This can be extended to include ice cream or custard.

Have cooked them.  This is a old photo.

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Chocolate Cake

290g dark chocolate (roughly chopped)
200g butter (chopped)
5 large eggs (room temperature)
200g sugar (as it comes =P hehe)

Preheat to 175. Line or grease 23cm round tin.

Melt chocolate and butter over low heat. Whisk eggs and sugar. Add chocolate mixture, whisk until smooth. Pour into tin. Cover tin with foil snugly. Place tin in a baking tray filled with water (should reach to 1/2 up the tin's sides).

Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cake will feel "set" like quivery chocolate pudding but to touch, finger should come away clean. Remove tin from water bath and remove foil. Sit on rack to cool and "set" further.


My mum has made this and is the grouse


regards Skip [smiley=chris.gif]

Take Cup- China is best
Add one tea bag
Sugar optional
Add boiling water
Let stand for one minute
Add milk if required.

Drink and enjoy


Regards Skip :D

I bought some Cambell's Chicken Stock today and on the pack is a recipe for Chicken & Sweet Corn Soup.

Here it is,

1 Litre of Chicken Stock-Campbell's of course ;D
1x 420Gr tin of creamed corn
4x Shallots thinly sliced
350g chicken meat (left over of the carcass would be good)


Place stock in CO and add corn and shallots.Bring to the boil

Reduce heat to a simmer and add the chicken,stirring thoroughly to break up the chicken.
Cook for five minutes if using cooked chicken or until cooked if using raw.

Doesn't get much easier than that folks!
As I'm only allowed 4 ingredients. I will add these at the end.
When I make traditional soup like this I throw in a handfull of shredded ham it goes nicely.

Just before serving slowly add a beaten egg whilst stirring and cook for a further minute.
This is not necessary  but looks good.


All the best
Skip [smiley=batman.gif]

tell you what, they all sound mouth watering.. meals have to get better halve to try some,,  ,be able to start ur own recipe book say *easy 4 ingrediants co meals* and start selling copys :) ::)  them apples look good cheers wazza.......... [smiley=chef.gif]

Our wonderful Red Hatter came up with a really good title for the recipe book...Camp Oven Cooking Kept Simple...

Not sure about the Acronym though!!!!! ;D :o ::) :D ;) :) [smiley=chef.gif]

Grrr!!!

Crazy Dog wrote on Jul 6^th, 2008 at 1:03pm:

Our wonderful Red Hatter came up with a really good title for the recipe book...Camp Oven Cooking Kept Simple... Not sure about the Acronym though!!!!! ;D :o ::) :D ;) :) [smiley=chef.gif] Grrr!!!

You're a bad boy Crazy Dog

;D ;D ;D

I am not that much into marketing  but my thoughts are that something unique is necessary as lots of cooking books are around.  All you blokes seem quite enthused with this simple cooking idea and some great recipes seem to be being posted.  

Maybe a cover with a paper bag texture and naturally plastic coated pages might add to it.  As I waited for the washing machine I roughed up this as a suggestion.

Its not my fault if some of you have bad minds.

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9530/bookgr6.jpg

lol  well carolyn. i like it, its  straight to the point and easy for beginner  cookers out there ... [smiley=chef.gif] ::) wazza

Camp
Oven
Cooking
Kept
Simple

By Blokes Who Do It.

I'm pissing myself laughing.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Thank you wazza  [smiley=kiss.gif] as for the others  [smiley=tongue.gif].

It was only an initial suggestion maybe its not eye catching enough.

Maybe it should be

By Blokes who have one  :)

Carolyn your killing me.   :)

TBF

Carolyn™ wrote on Jul 6^th, 2008 at 3:40pm:

Thank you wazza  [smiley=kiss.gif] as for the others  [smiley=tongue.gif]. It was only an initial suggestion maybe its not eye catching enough. Maybe it should be By Blokes who have one  :)

[smiley=1eye.gif] [smiley=1eye.gif] [smiley=1eye.gif] [smiley=cheers2.gif]

Or-- "If you can't lick 'em join 'em"  [smiley=tt2.gif]


Skip

What about the blokes who have 3?  :-/ :-/ :-/

Grrr!!!

You can have more than one recipe :)  or pot cooking at once.

I really need to get a life so will hit the shops today :)

Here is another marketing idea  ::)

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/9522/bookassis1taa8.jpg

looks good with the banners down the side keep them coming  :D :)

One very very clevva lady methinks. 3 Cheers for Carolyn....

Castironitis Hmmm!!! Must be painful that!!

Grrr!!! [smiley=rofl.gif]

Ok now that we have all had some fun let's get back 2 the recipes eh but!!!

Chicken Pasta Bake

1 x 495 gm bottle of Chicken Tonight Pasta Bake Creamy Parmigiana.
250 grams small shell pasta.
400-500 grams of sliced cubed chicken

Cook pasta, drain, add cooked chicken and the pasta bake and mix through.  Cover generously with grated cheese.  Cook in camp oven for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted on top.  Serve with salad or vegetables.

Grrr!!! [smiley=chef.gif]

Bacon & Egg Pie

When cooking breakfast cook an extra egg, bacon and bake beans.

Butter both sides of two slices of bread and put in heated cast iron Jaffle iron place in middle above precooked filling and slice of cheese if desired.

Add BBQ or Tomato Sauce, chilli, salt and pepper for extra flavour.

Cook on fire till brown - cool - refrigerate or put in esky.

Lunch or morning tea is now ready.

This is one of Sparkys favourites.

Johnny Cake
Ingredients:
1 cup self-raising flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
enough warm water to make a workable dough

Method:
Mix well, roll out to 1/2-inch thickness and cut into quarters. Put a few tablespoons of fat into the warm camp-oven and when it is boiling drop in the cakes and cook 8 to10 minutes.
Split open while hot and eaten with unlimited butter ;)

Keep em comin' people..Johny cakes - gunna make em next weekend after next up at Tinaroo...

Grrr!!!