Campfire cooking: An alfresco festival for the senses

There’ll be more than just sausages and marshmallows sizzling on the fire this year, says camping convert Rose Prince  in the Telegraph. 

I took up camping last year. I never had a gap year and delayed doing much travelling until recently, by which time I had decided that beaches should have furniture and loos.Until my first night out under canvas, the longest I had survived in an al fresco bedroom was half a night. I was 10 and on holiday with a school friend in Holland. When she and Iannounced we wanted to camp out, her highly strung mother – enduring a nasty divorce and suffering abandonment phobia – warned we’d never last the night without her. We’dbe too frightened.

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Article from Green Shopping - From Serbia With Love

Q is always coming up with high-tech gadgets for 007, and I rather like some of the clever devices that cross my desk, but sometimes it’s the really simple things that turn out to be the most impressive. One such item is the Serbian Kotlich & Tripod that we used for our summer solstice supper here at the Sustainability Centre. It consists of an 8 litre double dipped enamelled cooking pot called a Kotlich and a twisted metal tripod with hanging chain.

It came with enticing recipes for moule mariniere, venison paprikas and nettle soup but you can use it for a wide range of meals from traditional Serbian stews (paprikas), to stir frys, corn on the cob, sausage and beans – pretty much anything you can cook in a pot over an open fire.

Read more: Product Review-the Kotlich-from Green Shopping