Tasty grub for taking on tour...

[simonineaston]

Those jolly folk from Nottingham, the Alpkit team, recently ran a competition inviting suggestions for tasty camp cooking - the recipes might include something you'll take next time you go off into the wild.
http://www.alpkit.com/comps/one-pot-wonders-result/
They're also about to launch a very tiny little stove which might be of interest to the minimalists amongst us.

[ScotchEgg]

I've cooked lobster on an open fire in the Highlands to teh astonisment to two walkers who wre packing cheesy pasta

[Therealsouthstander]

I cooked Scallops(In ginger and garlic) and Stornoway black pudding while cycling the Outer Hebbrides last May. All cooked on my Traigia stove on a beach in Bernary..Bliss

[hamster]

Whole salmon BBQ'd in foil whilst touring in Oregon.
The people in the campervan next door were eating microwaved burgers!!!

[fluffybunnyuk]

Im always amazed at how good fresh food tastes after a hard days exertion, and yeah fresh fish open fire cooked is almost impossible to beat.

[iviehoff]

They're also about to launch a very tiny little stove which might be of interest to the minimalists amongst us.

You still have to carry the gas bottle, so saving a few grammes makes not a great deal of difference.

One of the greatest bits of fortune I had while cycle camping was to be able to source a couple of locally caught fish at a campsite in the Icelandic interior, since otherwise we weren't seeing a shop for about 11 days and the food options from our stash were getting a bit tedious after a while. Being Iceland, and hence not so different from living in a fridge, I could dare to buy enough to eat some the next day too. No wood to barbecue it though. Unfortunately I am not of a competence to catch my own fish.

I often buy prosciutto-style ham while cycle camping, because it keeps quite well in your pannier and a small amount of it adds a lot of taste to a meal.

[Slowroad]

Cheers! I shall definitely try something along those lines. Never heard of Alpkit but they do seem to do some interesting stuff.

[pjclinch]

They're also about to launch a very tiny little stove which might be of interest to the minimalists amongst us.

You still have to carry the gas bottle, so saving a few grammes makes not a great deal of difference.

We have something similar, and a bigger remote-can gas stove, a multi-fuel and a Trangia (gas or meths) and while the grammes don't matter much between them the cubic centimetres often do.

For cooking I much prefer a remote-can stove but we use the mini-stove for some trips and it's a useful bit of kit to have in the armoury.

Pete.

[hamster]

Cheers! I shall definitely try something along those lines. Never heard of Alpkit but they do seem to do some interesting stuff.

Their down clothing is very good indeed - I ended up using one of their jackets for a sub-zero tour in France in April

[simonineaston]

There's a lot of fresh sea-food lovers amongst us! Me too but I rarely cook it when I'm touring - don't know why!
Reminds me of the old joke about the 'sea-food diet'...
Normal Person: "Have you heard about the latest new food diet? It's great and really works!"
Food Faddy Person: "Which one's that, then?"
NP: "The C-Food Diet."
FFP: "Oooh, sounds great - I love fish - where can I buy the book? Who invented it? How does it work?
NP: "Simple really, you see food, and eat it!"

Oh, and (I don't work for them!) if you haven't discovered Alpkit, check out their Gamma headtorch - Billy Bargain, I say
https://www.alpkit.com/products/gamma