Cool Recipes & Camping Hacks for VW Campers

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Combining his love of vintage Volkswagens and good food, Dave Richards has produced a book which will enable campers to improve their experience. Cool Recipes & Camping Hacks for VW Campers is packed with nearly 120 recipes, tips and tales to make even the most devoted city dweller want to camp. There's advice on VW Campervan ownership, ways to make your camping easier and better, and a few tales which will simply make you laugh out loud. It's a book like no other, one minute a reference book, the next a great coffee table browser. Camping has finally become cool again! Recent events have brought a whole new selection of players to the camping game: people who've been holidaying abroad for years may have been forced to look closer to home. Their experiences might have been mixed, but for anyone who plans to continue camping and who may be looking for help and guidance, this volume provides valuable tips and many inspired ideas. Seasoned campers alike will also find some pearls of wisdom, interesting recipe ideas, and enjoy reading about the author’s experiences. Camping hacks & anecdotes Introduction About the author Flexibility is the key Suspension Levelling blocks Camp rules & cartwheels Fairy lights Looe Bay Farm Fun with colour coordination Camping myths & legends debunked! More camping myths Less is sometimes more, so very much more … Packing Packing list Porta Potti Fun with tent pegs The fridge Kelly Kettle meets COBB How to fasten down a sunshade– properly! The best awning is no awning at all Equipment Smashed roof Miscellaneous tips ‘These old Volkswagens go on for ever, you know’ ‘Fun weekends with wild friends’ A suggestion for a full weekend of easy food. Brighton All the gear, no idea … Sun visor Weekend hippies: a good thing, or bad? Green Hill Farm The definitive picnic Picnicking for absolute beginners Dealing with children France The Barefoot Bishop’s knob! Three-in-one coffee sachets It seemed like a good idea at the time … Notebook Campsite etiquette Glamping Takeaway Disposable barbies are great! Another weekend festival, and lots more fun with a sunshade Breakdown … Windbreaks Bikes Be scene, be safe Fuel gauge Chips Heater The double skillet Tiny awning The good camping pitch paradox Beaten by the weather … More miscellaneous tips Goyt Camping Dogs in vans Glastonbury Volkswagen clubs: to join or not to join? Flags My man with the spanners Mull Recipes Happy hash (GF) Breakfast pancakes with bacon & maple syrup! Kay-sa-dee-yahs! Squaring up to breakfast Crispy avocado melt (V) Venison stew Orange(?) chicken fajitas Cheat’s chilli taco surprise! Super easy camping omelettes Sunny chicken (GF) Monte Cristo Pulled pork (GF) Chicken fusion tagine (GF) Lamb koftas Barbecued Buffalo wings (GF) Barefoot biryani (GF*) Spicy chicken picnic burritos Game, set & match (GF*) Shish kebabs Barefoot chicken & chorizo (GF) Fat sausages, braised in cider & mustard (GF) Oatcakes with bacon & cheese ABC: Avocado & blue cheese burger Cheat’s tandoori chicken kebabs Welsh rarebit or VW rabbit? (V) Sweet & sour chicken Lamb shawarma (GF) Chicken & beer picnic Coronation chicken & Waldorf salad Shooter’s picnic Vegshooter’s picnic (V) Hungry man’s goulash (GF*) Mushroom burgers (V) The breakfast basket (V) Lemony Chicket! (GF*) Beef stroganoff à la rock track (GF) Loaded tortilla chips (GF) Portobello blue! (V) Mexican steak with queso fresco (GF) Orange chicken casserole (GF) Pan haggerty (GF*) Spam & baked beans (GF) Barbecued rib of beef Smoked salmon, barbecued on a wooden plank! Posh Pot Noodle Diffuser frittata (GF) Tournedos Rossini Pork shoulder (GF) Pizza on the COBB Houmous & pea fritters (V & GF) Cheatin’ chicken Kievs Chorizo & tomato pasta Toad in the hole Char siu pork (GF) Egg fried rice (GF) Lamb tzatziki Onkar’s lamb Rolled beef Gammon, with broad beans & new potatoes (GF) Deconstructed scrumper’s crumble (V & GF)