Recipes

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is our absolute favorite cookie recipe! I made it all the time in the early years of our marriage, before we left for Vanlife. And I was delighted to learn that I could make cookies on a propane stove top with a covered pan!

If you are like us, and don’t have an oven in your van, you will need a lidded pan to make these cookies. It creates an oven effect on your stove top. If you don’t have a pan lid, perhaps you could try a dinner plate!

If you have an electric mixer, you would be fine just using softened butter. I melt my butter to make mixing easier. I didn’t bring my hand mixer, since we boondock most of the time, and rely completely on our solar panels and battery bank. Fellow boondockers, I know you understand!

Make pizza in the van yourself (Non-Omnia-edition)

Make pizza in the van yourself (Non-Omnia-edition)

Since we are two huge pizza fanatics, this was the ultimate criteria for our vanlife. If we can’t make a pizza without an oven or Omnia, then we would be forced to let our dream of vanlife die. But we wanted to travel so badly!

So we sat down, tinkered and finally developed a really cool recipe, which we would like to share with you. And we can now rightly say, especially since we now have an Omnia, that we stick to the pan-pizza method. It is the best pizza you can make in a van!

If you want, you can watch our pan pizza tutorial on YouTube in advance (german, English subs are following):

Lemon Tahini Sauce

Lemon Tahini Sauce

The sauce is the boss! My favorite way to make sauces and dressings is to shake it in a mason jar to combine the ingredients thoroughly and easily store the leftovers.

Spiced Red Lentil Mini Burgers

Spiced Red Lentil Mini Burgers

A burger-less burger. That’s my idea of heaven. I’m a vegetarian and I don’t eat bread so I am just used to avoiding burgers altogether. These little micro burgers are so useful for bite sized sustenance you can grab and eat when you are busy. They can be made ahead of time and store well in the fridge. Likewise you can freeze the ‘dough’ to make them quickly at will, handy for spontaneous camping trips or BBQs. The addition of quinoa makes them hearty and filling, and their size makes them versatile for snack boards or picnics or sliders.

They make a great lunch spread with Handmade Hummus, Summer Tomato Salad and Golden Flatbreads.

2025 Tour Dates (2026 Dates Coming Soon!)

📍 18th-21st Feb – Caravan & Motorhome Show | NEC, Birmingham
📍 14th-15th Mar – The Yorkshire Motorhome & Campervan Show | Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
📍 24th / 26th / 28th / 31st Mar – The Ideal Home Show | Olympia, London
📍 3rd-5th May – Campervan Campout | South of England Showground, Haywards Heath
📍 10th-11th May – The Great British Food Festival | Arley Hall, Cheshire
📍 16th-18th May – The Southern Motorhome & Campervan Show | Newbury Showground, Newbury
📍 30th May-1st Jun – Vanlife Festival | West Midlands Showground, Shrewsbury
📍 14th-15th Jun – The Great British Food Festival | Holdenby House, Northampton
📍 21st-22nd Jun – The Great British Food Festival | Dinton Pastures, Berkshire
📍 18th-20th Jul – The Norfolk Motorhome & Campervan Show | Norfolk Showground, Norfolk
📍 2nd Aug – The East Dorset 40th Celebration Rally | Warren Park Farm, Alderholt
📍 15th-17th Aug – The Western Motorhome & Campervan Show | The Three Counties Showground, Malvern
📍 22nd-24th Aug – Vanlife Eats Festival | Dummer Down Farm, Basingstoke
📍 5th-7th Sept – The South West Motorhome & Campervan Show | Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet
📍 19th-21st Sept – The Motorhome & Campervan Show | Lincolnshire Showground, Lincoln
📍 16th-17th Oct – Caravan & Motorhome Show | NEC, Birmingham
📍 3rd-5th Oct – The Getaway Show | P&J Live, Aberdeen
📍 24th – 30th Nov – The Ideal Home Show | Olympia, London