This is a great meal that we made over Memorial Day weekend while family camping. Recipe by Anthony’s sister Monica Naude
Biscuits with cocoa & hazelnut hearts
Biscuits with cocoa & hazelnut hearts
Egg Mcmuffins
Egg Mcmuffins
Carrot Greens Pesto
Carrot Greens Pesto
Frying pan crumble
Frying pan crumble
Quinoa salad bowl
Quinoa salad bowl
Red Lentil Dahl
Red Lentil Dahl
2 ingredient Flatbreads
Yes you read that correctly, 2 ingredient Flatbread, yep, just 2! All you need to cook it is some heat and a pan!
In a van kitchen storage, ingredients and cooking facilities can be limited so recipes with minimal ingredients are ideal. You can vary the flavours in this and there are optional extras to make it even more tasty. Plus it can be cooked on an open fire so even those with no cooking facilities can enjoy this meal.
This is recipe is a Turkish flatbread known as Bazlama and it’s about to rock your world!
Serves 4-6
Dandelion salad
This simple salad is easy to make and the eggs could be cooked in a pan on an open fire if outdoors. Also, everyone loves to forage.
Curry Risotto
The curry flavour in this recipe gives a different take on a risotto, but it’s still just as delicious.
Date Bites
Easy to make snacks for a little sweet treat.
Pizza Bread
Pizza with a difference, this is cooked over an open fire giving it a nice crisp texture & smoky flavour
Crumpet Avo Sunshine
Crumpet avo sunshine:
Looks fancy but it’s dead simple, it’s just more appetising some times when you put some effort for the plating.
Feta Orzo Salad
Just an amazing summer cold dish, full of fresh/raw ingredients prepared in absolutely no time. The main ingredient is orzo, which is basically pasta in the shape of rice, which pairs perfectly with the vinaigrette & fresh veggies.
Aquafaba Chocolate Mousse
This one is a delicious and easy to make 2 ingredient chocolate mousse that also happens to be vegan (if you use vegan chocolate & milk)
The catch: you need an electric mixer. So if you are a normal person and don’t have an electric mixer in your van, this might not be for you.
Chicken & Mushroom Risotto
This special extra starchy rice makes a delicious creamy meal that pairs perfectly with mushrooms. If you don’t like chicken then beets, shrimp or pumpkin squash can also be good options.
Typical Slovak dish
The recipe is for typical Slovak dish Spinach with potatoes and eggs. This is a vegeterian version, but by adding sausage fried on the pan you can make it more meat-eaters friendly. Equipment needed – saucepan, pot, frying pan and hand mixer to mix the spinach.
Caramelized Fennel, Apple & Blue Cheese Frittata
Ok so here is one of my favourite recipes for living in a camper as it’s so quick easy and versatile! The great thing we love about frittata is we can make them anywhere with our gas stove and grill… You can add anything you want and it’s a great way of using stuff up.
Van-Made Pesto
The best simple and authentic pesto sauce. Use as a spread in a sandwich, a dressing for a salad or as a rich sauce for your pasta.
Llajua Hot Sauce
This is pretty much the hot sauce that you’ll see on every table. It’s dead simple, fresh and delicious.
It is made with huacatay leaves, a Bolivian herb with quite a unique flavour.
Traditionally this sauce is made with a special hand blender, that gives the sauce a chunky blended texture. However, I was shown it can also be made with a grater.
Mushroom Stroganoff
I use to make this one all the time back home, when I fancied something creamy and comforting. Here however, fresh mushrooms aren’t so easy to find, plus they aren’t cheap either.
If you’re in the south at the right time of year, you may be able to get your hands on some cheap wild mushrooms in the markets. The ones you want are the impressive Loyo mushrooms, from the porcini family.
For the most part, we ended up using tinned mushrooms. I won’t try and claim that these are the real thing, however they do have the advantage of being cheap, easy to find, and of course, lasting forever.
By all means, use fresh if you can, but if not don’t be afraid to give these a go, you may be surprised.
All the other ingredients for this recipe are also long life, so you can think about this one in the supermarket, and then forget about it till a rainy day.
Cook Free Couscous Salad
Couscous is readily available throughout Chile, and is also the only carbohydrate I know of that doesn’t need to be heated. This comes in handy if you’re looking to save on gas, or if you don’t have a cooker.
One-pot Jollof Rice
Though this is by no means a Chilean recipe, it was the rice dish we made the most in Chile by far, as it uses ingredients which are easy to find all over the country, and only requires one pan.
It’s also delicious cold, so we always make double portions, to avoid having to worry about lunch the next day.
Easy Pizza Dough
I have been using this pizza dough recipe for years! I’ve tried new dough recipes since, but I always come back to this one. It is so simple and always turns out great!
Imagine my delight when I realized I could make homemade pizza on our propane stove top in the van!
When I photographed this recipe, it was during the COVID-19 quarantine, so the grocery store was out of organic all-purpose flour. I tried making it with organic quinoa flour, instead. I didn’t realize quinoa flour is like a whole wheat flour. That’s why the crust has a darker color. I do NOT recommend using a non-white flour with this recipe! The quinoa flour made the dough difficult to work with, and the crust too crumbly. Plus, the flavor was blah at best. This recipe works best with white flour, and turns out ah-mazing every time with it!