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Cassoulet (and french bread)

Lentils and smoked sausage (and french bread)

Cook some pasta - drain and put in a bowl. Fry some onions and garlic, courgettes,red pepper and mushrooms then add smoked salmon (I use the offcuts from T**co), add white wine if wanted and cream. Pour over the pasta. Mmmm.

How about tuna nicoise - you only need to cook hard boiled eggs and new potatoes and maybe green beans for that.

This is a real quickie which we use all the time - for family of 5 I'd suggest the following quantities - my kids call this Mummy's Pot Noodle its very tasty & so simple!

3 sachets of straight to wok amoy fine noodles
1 tin of garden peas or fresh ones if you like
1 tin of sweetcorn
4-5 tablespoons of soy sauce
800 ml of hot chicken stock
2 or 3 cooked chicken breasts chopped

Chuck it all in the pan together stir it up until noodles separate and almost boiling - ready in about 5 mins

Meatballs, tomato pasta sauce and a tin of spuds - yum

there has been loads of posts on this topic already, but i still love reading these as there is always new recipes popping up.

There is a recipe section on her, give it a try

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/cat.asp?catid=5

Just bought the Argos Value Slow Cooker for £4.89 (you couldn't make it for that, as my nan would say) and can't wait to get back out there and experiment with some camp grub.

Thinking maybe a stew of chicken thighs with chorizo and olives in a tomato type sauce...hunk of bread and a drop of vino...done

If thte weather's a bit parky and you just want quick comfort food that won't use all your gas, how's about my Dad's Pot Mess? He used to do this when we were camping on a single gas burner, (primus stove for those about my age), and it was deeelish. He would often knock it up indoors too on bonfire night.

Ron's Pot Mess

Literally just throw in to one large pot:

Small tin of braised steak in gravy

Small tins of cream of tomato soup and oxtail soup

Chopped onions

Tin of carrots

Small tin of new potatoes

Couple of beef Oxo cubes, ( I know other makes are available but tbh, you can't beat the Oxo flavour for this grub), in half a pint of boiling water.

Really good glug of Worcestershire sauce and enough salt and pepper to taste.

Pretty much all you do is boil it up and pop the lid on the pan then simmer until the spuds are just starting to go soft and if you want it a bit thinner, just add more water and bring back to the boil.

Serve with fresh crusty bread for a really hearty nosh or if you're feeling over adventurous bung in some dumplings and let simmer with the lid on for another 15-20 mins but that uses more of your gaz.

Have to say that my Dad used to make this with no end of variations and pretty much anything he had lurking in the camp kitchen. Mum used to say it cost her a fortune whenever he wanted to make Pot MessBut it was yummy. Come to think of it, I might knock up a Pot Mess while we're in Cornwall coz us, Cornwall and good weather rarely go together

I've got l-o-a-d-s of soup recipes that are obviously also done in one pot too. In fact, even though we have a tin tent we only used to have a two ring burner and grill in our old tin tent so were just about as well equipped as most camp kitchen stoves anyhoo but I do always take my electric hand blender with me too to blitz the soups but a good masher could be almost as useful without leccy I reckon.