Recipes
Where to camp, when to go and what you'll find — camping destination guides from across Australia.
Minty Ground Lamb Skewers — The Springy-Texture Trick
Middle Eastern minty lamb mince skewers — the smacking technique releases natural meat proteins for a springy texture that holds the meat on the skewer. 10 min prep + 10 min cook.
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Camp Oven Pork Loin with Tomato Pesto + Apple Stuffing
Camp oven pork roast with tomato pesto + apple stuffing + glossy honey-spice glaze. Slow cooked over coals for 2 hours, golden crackling, the centrepiece campsite Sunday lunch.
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Gourmet Rissoles — The Better Aussie Burger
Gourmet rissoles — beef mince + mushrooms + onion + plum sauce + tabasco. The Aussie burger patty that beats supermarket frozen 10x for half the price. Makes 6-8 patties in 15 minutes.
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Geneva Pudding — Classic Camp Dessert
Geneva Pudding — layered creamy rice + cinnamon-stewed apple, baked in a camp oven until golden. Classic camp comfort food, brilliant served with hot custard. Serves 6-8.
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Crusty Fish Cutlets with Spicy Herbs
Crusty fish cutlets in a punchy lemon-garlic-chilli marinade — works on any white fish (cod, whiting, kingfish, mahi-mahi, barra). 90 minutes mostly marinating, 10 minutes cooking. Perfect with garden salad.
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Steamed Coral Trout with Ginger, Spring Onion + Coriander
Cantonese-style steamed coral trout with ginger, spring onion and coriander, finished with sizzling hot oil. Restaurant-grade fish from a camp setup.
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Whole Grilled Bream over Coals — Three-Ingredient Camp Recipe
Whole grilled bream over a campfire coal bed — three ingredients (fish, butter, salt), one fish grill, ten minutes. The simplest, most honest camp fish recipe there is.
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Eye Fillet Steak with Creamy Chilli Prawns — Surf and Turf
Eye fillet steak topped with garlic-chilli prawns in a creamy white wine sauce — restaurant-style surf-and-turf in 20 minutes from a camp BBQ.
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Camp Oven Chicken Cacciatore — Italian Hunters Stew
A camp oven chicken cacciatore — bone-in chicken thighs + drumsticks slow-cooked with pancetta, mushrooms, white wine, tomatoes, herbs and Kalamata olives. Restaurant-quality from a black iron pot.
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Smoked Scalloped Potatoes — Hickory-Smoked Side Dish
Smoked scalloped potatoes — layered potato, sweet potato, onion, drowned in seasoned cream and cheese, then smoked over hickory at 110°C for 1.5-2 hours. The side that steals the show.
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Easy Pizza Base Recipe + Classic Aussie Supreme Topping
A simple pizza dough recipe (5 minutes mix + 30 minute rise) plus the classic Aussie Supreme topping. Cooks on a Weber pizza stone, in a camp oven, or on any campsite gas oven.
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Two-Course Dream Pot Meal — Lamb Hot Pot + Creamed Rice
A classic two-course Dream Pot meal — slow-braised lamb chop hot pot with creamed rice for dessert, both cooking together in one thermal cooker. 2 hours, set-and-forget.
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Camp Oven Beef Curry — The Slow-Cook Camp Dinner
A camp oven beef curry — chuck steak browned in coals then slow-simmered in coconut milk, tomato and curry spices for 2.5 hours. Serve over rice with damper.
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