Cooking outdoors (hiking, camping, etc.)

Dear forum users !!! Summer is approaching and, accordingly, we all want to go to nature. This summer I have a plan to go with my family to the sea for 2-3 weeks, we plan to live in a camping. Our company is large, 4 adults and 2 small ones. Since I am the main culinary specialist in our family, and the rest are on hand (wash, clean, cut), I start to think how to feed everyone, taking into account the specifics of living, that is, you cannot make large stocks of perishable food, at least once a day men will have to drive by car send to the store. And I don't want to feed only boiled potatoes with salad + porridge and pasta with stew + soup from bags on vacation.

Who has similar plans for the summer, let's think about how to feed our beloved troglodytes tasty and varied without a multicooker, double boiler, refrigerator, etc. and having only a primus and a 1-burner gas stove with a cylinder at hand

I offer pilaf, Paella with mussels, vegetable soups, okroshka and fish soup!

Okroshka is good again upon arrival from the store (while the kvass is cold), they made it, for example, for lunch, and what for dinner?

Pilaf

ttvttv Yes ... a decent rest, for such a time you really need to prepare. Will you cook in a cauldron and on an open fire? If there is such a way of cooking. That is very good shurpa, lagman. Shurpa - can be made both fried and purely boiled. Meat, onions (a lot), tomatoes, potatoes (if you admit, then eggplants and bell peppers). If you make a drier version, then it will already be a hot pot (without water and potatoes lie down more). Lagman is again from the same ingredients, only it is fried initially and added celery, but in place of noodles you can just use long pasta. Separately cooked pasta is put on a plate, and on them there is already lagman soup, for men, do not forget to put hot pepper in pods next to it.

In the evening, sitting by the fire, how can you not bake potatoes by spreading the tablecloth on which you will find green onions, fresh cucumbers and, of course, salt. And tell all sorts of stories.

Lyulyaki-bab, stuffed peppers, as already mentioned, pilaf, tobacco chickens, shashliks, fried bread on the fire (just not much), navy-style pasta. And in general, look for Asian cuisine, it perfectly matches outdoor cooking. You can watch the video from Stalik Khankishiev. I hope it helped

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And, actually, ohbreathe You, pretending to be a cook, don't you want to?

According to the experience of numerous such trips, the system of attendants seems to be the most effective. Like - what you want and how you want, but take out and put three meals a day for the whole team.

First, everyone will have free time.
Secondly, everyone will try to show off their cooking. Diversity will be ensured.
Thirdly, for those on duty who cook ... not really, let's say, it is enough for the chef to "stand behind the back" on their first watch.

Do not help the person on duty directly.
Everyone washes their own dishes. Boilers - on duty.
All rules are negotiated in advance and strictly followed.
In general, as a rule, everything turns out OK.

Yes, here's another.
On trips of "full autonomy" we prepared the menu in advance for the entire period. With daily supply trips, there may be options. Let the one who cook tomorrow go.

Good luck!
EC

PS. I remember once we had one newbie and a complete zero in cooking. On his first day on duty, he tried to throw pasta into cold water. I noticed it and managed to anticipate it. Then he himself asked me how much salt to add and ...everything would be fine if he did not become out of the pack pour her in a spoon above boiled pan.
In general, there will be something to remember later.

Domlyama is easy to make, kuleshik is a thick and hearty soup,: yes: Stock up on foil - both fish and meat will go in it. You can also make a smokehouse from a bucket for hot smoked meat and fish, but it is eaten very quickly ..

Sashlyk, again .... fish on coals (on the grill) ... Yes, finally, no problems for the present time ... It used to be that we went on a hike, bought everything in advance, distributing it among the members of the group, and now at any station everything You can buy it, and even more so in the village (if it is not a deaf taiga). You are not going to the passage "for survival" with children

so that he does not bother every time with slicing, cooking, stewing meat - it is worthwhile to cook different stew at home and roll it up in advance. Different tastes, different seasonings will provide the novelty of the same dish. In one jar, tomato + carrot + fried onions, in the other only onions + meat, in the third preparation for green borsch.
You are going to rest - therefore, having prepared in advance, you can give the cooks the opportunity to relax.

Thank you very much !!!!!
I am adopting:
- Central Asian cuisine - explore, choose what you like,
- buy a cauldron, there is a collapsible barbecue,
- potato kebab - class! I will try the summer season,
- think about stew (scary in the heat, after all, we will go to the sea for 2 days, won't it be lost?).

And at the expense of those on duty in our family, a little differently, and I and the whole family are completely satisfied with this - 1 "queen" in the kitchen - I, and the rest of the "kitchen men", they wash and cut and clean. With such a system of work organization, there will be enough time for rest for everyone. As the cat Matroskin said: "Joint work for my benefit, it brings people closer."
And I am such a person that everything needs to be planned in advance, to think about how to stock up from home (food, inventory) in order to keep the brand of the home sorceress and please the family.

And what spices are needed for potato kebab, except for salt, of course, and wash the potatoes after cutting?

- think about stew (scary in the heat, after all, we will go to the sea for 2 days, will it not be lost?).

you can drip the stew, especially if the cans are made of iron, we always do this in the forest ...

So it's possible with a purchased one, but lesik_l is scary about homemade stew. I am especially worried about the road in the trunk of the car, the temperature will be on the road oh-ho, we last summer when we went to the sea with a tank of water 5 liters. by the evening it was hot.

Glass can also be dripped in, a large hole is needed for 3 liters of current. Buy a machine refrigerator (powered by a cigarette lighter) or a refrigerator bag

I already thought about this, even planned to buy it is necessary to see! By the way, have we seen such Temko on our forum?

For homemade stew, contact natamylove - this is a meat specialist, her topic https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=24514.0

If you first cook the meat, then roll it up and sterilize it for another two hours, then nothing will happen to it. About instillation - the same good idea. Put several cans in a large garbage bag and dig under a tree, closer to the roots (the ground is usually cooler there).

A cooler bag will not suit you - it is only as a temporary solution, that is, to transport, store for 12-18 hours, then the refrigerating bags are defrosted and we get just a beautiful box. It is quite expensive to buy a refrigerator powered by a cigarette lighter if you use it for only a couple of weeks a year.

And what spices are needed for potato kebab, besides salt, of course, and wash the potatoes after cutting?

Not any. Wash the potatoes well, do not peel them! cut into round pieces. And don't wash anymore

It is quite expensive to buy a refrigerator powered by a cigarette lighter if you use it for only a couple of weeks a year.
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The children have already grown up a little; now we plan to go to the campsite every year, so this investment is a long-term one, and maybe it makes sense. After all, we also use a tent and a primus from time to time.

eaten faster than meat

Great! And on a barbecue, I only bake eggplants and tomatoes in halves and whole peppers on coals. On my first trip I will make a potato!

Purchase a refrigerator powered by a cigarette lighter ...

Don't forget one more "cigarette lighter". To use it to start the car from someone else's battery, if your own is inadvertently depleted by this very refrigerator.

Don't forget one more "cigarette lighter". To use it to start the car from someone else's battery, if your own is inadvertently depleted by this very refrigerator.

Thank you! Considering my bad habit of leaving the car when I come to work with the headlights on, I have a set of wires for lighting a cigarette always with me on a par with lipstick

Don't forget one more "cigarette lighter". To use it to start the car from someone else's battery, if your own is inadvertently depleted by this very refrigerator.

and sho, is it difficult to drive the engine to refuel aakamulyator? From the men ... honestly ...

It has a power of 55W

and sho, is it difficult to drive the engine to refuel aakamulyator? From the men ... honestly ...

It has a power of 55W

How does it cool?

Your temka has touched my innermost strings. For many years already in the summer on Friday evening we leave for Ladoga, set up camp, not just somehow, but for real, and enjoy ourselves until Sunday evening. nature and relaxation. Our team is my husband and I, two grandchildren are now 8 and 5 years old and a married couple of friends. We go to the sea by car every year, but last year we went for the first time with a tent, and now we cannot imagine any other rest! I want to say that only I cook in our family, but I do not grumble at all: in the kitchen I am the mistress and the queen, and it is a pleasure to cook in nature. We bought a car refrigerator last year in preparation for a trip to the sea, and did not regret it at all! I don't need any stew, either homemade or store-bought. Once every two days, the husband goes to the store somewhere nearby, fortunately, this is not a problem now. The only rule is that meat products should be bought frozen, and then they will lie quietly in the refrigerator for two or even three days (if, for example, the packaging was vacuum. Semi-smoked sausage, mayonnaise is perfectly stored. We buy chicken, liver, sausages, eggs, butter , meat, good smoked ribs for soup. While the chicken broth is cooked from finely chopped chicken (it's only about 20 minutes), you can swim in the sea, then I threw in potatoes with vegetables and noodles, that's super soup! And no stew. For breakfast I cook for children be sure to milk porridge, they are so accustomed. We buy sterilized milk, nothing is done for him even without a refrigerator. You must yourself - natural coffee in French press and sandwiches, because cheese, both simple and melted and sausage is always there. For lunch, soup, sometimes from bags, but with the addition of potatoes and vegetables, for the second - a salad of fresh vegetables, a sausage, or the same chicken from broth, tea or compote with all sorts of drying cookies. For dinner, again salad and something grilled meat, chicken or vegetables, you can scrambled eggs or omelet, you can fry croutons from bread. And besides, local fruits and berries. It turned out that purchases were made every two days, both in the store and in the market. My opinion that a refrigerator is needed is not at all a useless waste of money, so what if it is used only in the summer (however, like other gadgets for recreation), but it increases the quality of rest so much that no money can measure it, especially that this thing is bought for a long time, and it will serve us and our children. We also use the refrigerator on the road, we never eat in public catering, we take everything from home, and how nice it is to drink cold kvask or water, especially when it's hot.

Irusya! Thank you!
A question about the refrigerator, after deciding to travel with a tent, I thought about purchasing, but looking on the Internet that different models give a decrease in temperature from 18 to 22 degrees, I thought it was not enough. Please share in more detail how he cools his darling, how much food gets into him (i.e.how much it is more optimal to take) and how long you can keep the same sausages, for example.
And on the road, where is it better to install it in the cabin or in the trunk?

And returning to the topic of cooking in nature, a series of salads codenamed "Camping" is very successful for short-term outings in nature (2-3 days for you Ladoga, and for us Volga-Mother):
1. Corn, canned beans, what greens do you like a lot, onions, crackers, mayonnaise.
2. Cabbage, onions, croutons, mayonnaise.
3. Something one or corn, or peas, or beans,
tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers - eat a hundred or all together,
onions, canned fish (boiled meat or leftover kebabs can be used), crackers, mayonnaise.
The salads are quite pleasant to the taste, and most importantly they are prepared instantly, especially the first one.

It is also worth buying a portable gas burner, powered by small replaceable gas cartridges.
Here's one:



These things are quite inexpensive, but they save a lot of time and effort during outdoor cooking. And, accordingly, a traveling saucepan / s (depending on the number of companions), a frying pan, a kettle and a jelly for making coffee, a cutting board and a knife. The dishes from which to eat - it is better to collect a larger one-time use. It is more convenient and hygienic. It is not known with what water and where ordinary dishes will have to be washed. And more garbage bags.

I have a gas stove, and camping utensils too, my husband and I are old tourists, and my parents never had summer cottages, we recognized only outdoor recreation. But I'm used to 2-3 day trips. And as for disposable dishes, it's great, I have plastic glasses and plates, but disposable dishes are really calmer. Thank you!

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I have plastic glasses and plates, but disposable is really calmer. Thank you!

Reusable plastic cups, plates and cutlery are not good. We are also lovers of outings with tents. Therefore, we know that in campsites it is not always possible to wash dishes. CLEAN water, and, moreover, then eat from dishes washed with dubious water. It's one thing when you wash dishes that are subsequently subjected to heat treatment, like pots, teapots, etc. And rinsing plates, glasses and cutlery with boiling water - you can't drag in some water and you can't get enough gas for boiling. Disposable tableware is sold everywhere these days, at any gas station or roadside shop, costs a penny and does not take up much space in the trunk of a car.

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Reusable plastic cups, plates and cutlery are not good. We are also lovers of outings with tents. Therefore, we know that in campsites it is not always possible to wash dishes. CLEAN water, and, moreover, then eat from dishes washed with dubious water. It's one thing when you wash dishes that are subsequently subjected to heat treatment, like pots, teapots, etc. And rinsing plates, glasses and cutlery with boiling water - you can't drag in some water and you can't get enough gas for boiling. Disposable tableware is sold everywhere these days, at any gas station or roadside shop, costs a penny and does not take up much space in the trunk of a car.

It's better to buy it on the spot, otherwise I'm already scared in advance of how I'll pack all the vital things. The list will need to start writing a month before departure, gradually adding what you forgot

It's better to buy it on the spot, otherwise I'm already scared in advance

If in your country there are no problems with such purchases on the periphery, then it is possible on the spot. Although, a certain minimum of disposable tableware, just in case, is worth grabbing from home. Well, at least to be able to eat somewhere on a break on the road, if you are traveling far, and if there is no point of sale. We sell it almost everywhere, except, perhaps, somewhere in the forest.
Now, before the holidays, our people buy disposable tableware almost in bulk
I almost forgot: grab a roll of disposable tablecloths.I hope you are selling such compact polyethylene rolls. Picnic tables are also not always clean. And if you're bringing your own table, it's easier to keep it clean at every meal.
After eating, we usually roll up such a disposable tablecloth along with dirty dishes, stuff it into a garbage bag and leave it in specially designated places.

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irusya I read you ... and right now I wanted to get into the car and rush into nature ... I remembered all family trips
across Russia, Ukraine, and Europe ...
it's good that summer is coming ... and everything that is needed for such trips is also there, as well as the experience gained over the years from long travels.
I agree with your post 100%

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ttvttv , excuse me, please. I'm not talking about you. It is so, in hearts, from despair, from pain for our nature

celfh! The most painful thing is that when we leave for the Volga, I always have a pack of garbage bags and a small rake in the trunk of my car, before setting up the camp we clean up and collect all this "beauty" in the form of disposable dishes, bottles, etc. ...

ttvttv, We also carry the rake with us, and we carry a broom, we always have cleanliness in the camp, you can walk barefoot without fear of cutting yourself, but we never carry disposable dishes with us! I have a set of dishes for a picnic: plates for the first and second are made of heat-resistant plastic, and here are mugs made of tempered glass, stainless steel spoons. We wash dishes after every meal both on Ladoga and at sea, even with salt water. Some of my colleagues laugh and say that we are not resting like a camp, because we have a lot of comfort, and I like it so much! I like it when in the evening before going to bed my grandchildren enjoy watching their favorite cartoons on the car DVD, and even on a long journey it helps out a lot when the children get tired. We have a 35-liter refrigerator, when my husband was buying me screaming that I was crazy, and now he fully approves of my choice, because that's why you don't have to go shopping for groceries every day, and there is always a place for a bottle of beer. The refrigerator cools 30 degrees below the environment. Remember last summer? So he never let us down in such a heat on the seashore, the only thing was that my husband had to start the car for 20 minutes three times a day so as not to drain the battery, but it is clear to everyone that there is nothing without it.

Aprelevna, some kind of sadness is felt in your words ... Soon it will be possible to jerk, so, maybe even for May! In St. Petersburg, summer begins later, unfortunately. And in August we are going to Crimea.

Irusya, I have everything, too, made of plastic, as was the case with a set of spoons, forks and table knives, but at the expense of comfort, this is correct.
Sometimes, with great nostalgic sadness, I recall our old pamirku tent, when mom and dad took my sister and me to our place every weekend by train every weekend in the summer, we have Mastryukovsky lakes, m. heard where now the "show" called the Grushinsky festival, then they took with them only what you can load into your father's backpack, but it was so great! And now there is a tent with a mosquito net, inflatable mattresses to sleep, and my little ones are even combined with a sleeping bag, a table and folding chairs and also a DVD in the car. By the way, another question, I have a folding table and on the sides to it 4 seats are all fastened together, enough for short excursions, I wonder if I need to buy another one for tiles, dishes, etc.
We also go in August only to the Sea of ​​Azov

My dear interlocutors! It doesn't seem to you that we are a little distracted from the topic.
I want our trip to be remembered by all our company not only by the sea, the sun, communication, but also by the taste,
so I want to please everyone with dishes that they have not tried with me yet.
And of course, the kebab with cognac is very tasty (not without it)
BTW, what about a kebab !? In our family, I always pickle him myself, m. who has something original? Please share

Aprelevna, let's also at the same time with us in August!

Thank you for the invitation, but already this year we have planned ..
We will go to the seas, most likely, European ...

Aprelevna, some kind of sadness is felt in your words ... Soon it will be possible to jerk, so, maybe even for May! In St. Petersburg, summer begins later, unfortunately. And in August we are going to Crimea.

No, I didn't want to put sadness in my post .. I just remembered how we traveled ..
now the living conditions of me and my family are somewhat different, which do not often allow us to go into the lead,
now work is not entirely successful in planning a vacation, in general, there are moments
which you cannot discount, so for now we are limited to one-day outings to barbecue,
but want to, of course, to the fullest ..

Aprelevna, what's the difference Western European, Eastern European, etc. main sea
It is the warmest in August.

Yes, I remembered: it is not at all difficult to feed your family with pancakes for dinner, who loves what. And for two years in a row I brought jam from the south, the first year apricot, and the second - peach. I bought local fruit for a penny, especially by St. Petersburg standards, and cooked it right in the tent. When cooking the jam, I used "zhelfix", which reduces the cooking time to 10-15 minutes, and you can also put half as much sugar. I put the finished jam into 2-liter polyethylene food buckets with lids. There is still a little peach jam left. This season I will again take with me a saucepan, buckets, jellik. We will buy sugar and fruits on the spot. Taking him back is not a problem: the food we took with us (we take it, you won't buy it on the spot, what you are used to) have been eaten, a place has been made available for jam, and then the whole winter is not only tasty, but also memorable and expecting new trips. Well, about the chicks in the cooking process, everything is clear, here the pancakes are in place.

Irusya. Thank you! Great, everything is at hand, I saw in Sportmaster, a folding utility table, with shelves, drawers and with wind protection for the tiles, apparently you need to take it and it's great with jam. We rested on the Sea of ​​Azov last year in Ilyich near the Kerch Strait, but drove through the entire coast of Peresyp, Kuchugury, Golubitskaya, Temryuk, went to Taman (without passing the company store at the Fanagoria wines factory) and even reached the Black Sea. I really liked the place and the coast is good sand, a little shell rock between Golubitskaya and Temryuk there are many campgrounds. The people are naturally not like on the Black Sea, even if in the very village you go to the beach on top of each other did not lie We went to estuaries well there with the kids it’s fine, the water is warm, transparent sand and underneath it, medicinal mud and swans swim side by side, so I recommend, we tepar only there. And what is the fish market in Temryuk

ttvttv, the table you are talking about is just super, but how much does it cost interesting? This season, we bought a barbecue instead of the grill that had ordered to live long. We have never used the barbecue, but I think it will be good to cook the chicken on duty and bake vegetables there. I usually cut the eggplants and zucchini lengthways, with long tongues like this, and grill them on the grill, but I think it will be better in the barbecue, because there is a lid. And maybe someone will tell you the recipes for a barbecue, I really want not to hit my face in the mud when I first go out into the countryside this season, but this will happen, I think, on my birthday. On Azov, we rested in Dolzhanka, and in Yeisk we were, so far nowhere else.

I have been doing chicken thighs (carbs) barbecue lately. To cook quickly, I first cut out the bones (then there will be a wonderful soup from them). Now I began to take off the skin for two reasons: firstly, many of us do not eat it, and, secondly, during cooking, fat does not constantly drip and does not smoke. Salt and pepper the prepared meat, sprinkle with curry (I adore it!), Ground pepper. Previously, I smeared it with mayonnaise, but now with yogurt without additives or, in extreme cases, any sour milk. I put it in the refrigerator. Usually I do all this in the evening, and the next day for lunch we do a barbecue. It turns out very tender and tasty meat!

Irusya, the table cost about 4.5 tons. r., but we are going in August, I think there will be discounts. And the next day I always make a salad from eggplants: baked eggplants, onions, herbs, garlic, mayonnaise, or they are wonderful in soup

ttvttv, and today we brought a catalog of one of the supermarkets, so there a work surface with folding shelves costs only 1,490 rubles. True, there is no wind protection for the stove, but it is still very cute, made of waterproof fabric, the door closes with a zipper, how much I love such things! Even my husband liked it. And the eggplant salad is great. We also traveled with a barbecue all the years, men even improved it: they made folding long legs so as not to stand in a certain position in front of him, by the way, very convenient, and this spring, suddenly at a sale in a hypermarket, among all sorts of small things, I found at the bottom basket, a large, heavy box, called my husband, and it turned out to be the last barbecue from last season at a ridiculous price. My happiness knew no bounds, especially when we collected it at home, beauty! Children are running around, the cat is trying to get under the cover, and we are sitting, admiring and dreaming. And I also really liked that it is not round, but square, so it will be more convenient to cook on skewers. Thanks for the link.

Irusya, what a great price !!! In Samara, I will also look for me too painfully for 4.5 tons. toad smothers I also like these things very much, especially convenient doors with a zipper, well, we will look for nothing.

Caprice, you probably have even better things! But are there any places for you to relax with a tent in full? My sister, who always lives in Israel, always looks with longing at our photos from vacation spots.

We do not have such a large selection of things. I constantly look for them in all the shops I come across on the way.
But the places are wonderful for relaxing with a tent - a shaft. Moreover, perfectly equipped for camping and clean. Does your sister have other reasons for longing? Well, for example, the family doesn't like this kind of vacation, or problems with the car, or what other reasons?

GREAT, but the tents are all the same, are they camping equipment?

And this is how our house looks like.

GREAT, but the tents are all the same, are they camping equipment?

No inventory. It's just that the choice of camping equipment here is not rich. Probably because the Israelis, as a rule, are rarely chosen with tents for long periods. More often - for a night or two, no more. Therefore, we do not sell solid bells and whistles and tents-houses. In addition, compings are almost always equipped with water sources, tables, showers, latrines, electricity, and sometimes stationary barbecues. Many campsites have shops where you can buy coal, some necessary stuff and food.
When we get out, we take with us a tent, folding sun loungers, a double air mattress and a bed for it, food in a thermal container, barbecue piers, a sea of ​​disposable dishes and garbage bags. small gas burner for making tea or coffee. Less often we carry a generator with us. Folding table and chairs are less likely to be pulled if we know that the campsite is not equipped.

Irusya, I'll try to explain, probably a pedal, that little thing on which you stomp consists of 2 pedals (plastic), fastened together, and in the middle they have a wide rubber tube, Nothing so explained from me, the whole family knows that I have "technical cretinism"