Camping, Walking And Eating In The Lake District
The loveliest places to camp, eat and visit in the Lake District at any time of year. Share your tips and your favourite Cumbrian campsites, cafés and more.
The loveliest places to camp, eat and visit in the Lake District at any time of year. Share your tips and your favourite Cumbrian campsites, cafés and more.
What a find. Free nuts in the hedgerow! It looks like a bumper year for British cobnuts. We’ve created a few of recipes to bring out their deliciousness. Try our (vegan) carrot bacon with them too!
If you thought the camping season was over, you’re missing a treat. Add some warm layers, stoke up the campfire and take some inspiration for outdoor cooking from Andy Stevenson, developer of online local foodie and outdoor cookery community Local Food Lunches.
Giles loves woodland camping and the tastiest wild & local food. Let him win you over to the simple pleasures!
Where’s worth exploring in the UK this year? Well, how about Hebden Bridge – reputed to be the fourth funkiest place on earth. We’ve certainly found some great campsites and fabulous food.
Camping food needs to be quick and simple, but it can still have a gourmet touch. Try our recipe for a Moroccan-inspired chargrilled or barbecue meal that works with fish, chicken or aubergine steaks. Use a camping stove, a barbecue or the Cadac.
Foraging is a great way to put free, super-fresh and tasty delicacies on the camping menu. Monica Wilde gives us an introduction to where, how and what to forage.
Camping and eating in Shropshire and Somerset. A guide to great campsites and some delicious food finds.
Here’s the first dish we ever tried on the Cobb oven – and it was a hit with our taste-testers. We served it as a starter, but add new potatoes and a larger salad for a main course.
Here at Campfire Magazine, we always say you should be able to make great food with only two rings and a wobbly table (well, and a few tasty ingredients, of course!). Caravan-fan Amanda Regan tells us how she manages to bake cakes when camping.
Oh goodness. This is delicious…coconut pain perdu. It’s simple, easy to make dairy-free and perfect for cooking on our Cadac Safari Chef or campstove with frying pan.
Because it’s raining constantly, I’m thinking about the sunniest meal. It has to be panzanella – a salad made mainly with stale bread and juicy tomatoes.
Feeling a bit Mad Hatter-ish, we’ve decided to make our latest campfire all wrong…but all right. Here’s a weird and novel way to get the campfire going, plus some random camping and campervan tips to try out. Let us know if they work for you.
A quick, easy and infinitely adaptable way to make roasted stuffed peppers on a barbecue or campfire – plus a roast ratatouille.
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There’s a new place to share camping, campervan and outdoor cooking ideas, ask questions and get advice. Camping and Campervan Chat UK is a new Facebook group designed to make camping even more fun.
Great campsites in lovely locations and fabulous food – we’ve been exploring the Cotswolds and Devon. Find out where we went and add your own recommendations.
Just because it’s a work day not a holiday doesn’t mean outside is out of bounds. While we still have light evenings and warm(ish) weather, give yourself the treat of fresh air….and a blackberry campfire crumble.
Noodles are a great addition to the camping pantry because they’re so fast to cook. We’ve taken a classic pad Thai recipe and made it campsite-cookable.
Pasta is a great camping standby. Three simply delicious sauces to make your diners forget it’s pasta…again! Quick camping meals sorted.
So what can you cook on a rocket stove? Our competition winner, Darren Browett, has been testing his rocket stove with Moroccan burgers and barmbrack eggy bread. Yes, please!
You don’t need an oven to make delicious roast potatoes when camping. Follow our recipe to make teeny ‘roasties’ you can spice in a thousand different ways for great camping meals.
A day with wild food expert Chris Bax and world-class chef Stephen Bulmer…and James T. Kirk was there in spirit. Read about our foraging and cooking adventure. Don’t eat anything in this interesting and inedible handful, by the way!
If you’ve ever dreamed of woodland living, but can’t quite shake off the attractions of comfort, we may have found the weekend for you! A combination of wild camping and city culture.
What an amazing city Bristol is! Here’s our guide to where to camp nearby, along with some totally uncomprehensive recommendations for food and drink.
So how do you make real coffee round a Brazilian campfire and smoked duck in a rundown shack? Read this story from our wild camper in Brazil.
The Cadac Safari Chef is our favourite camping stove barbecue, so it was great to offer one in our competition. And now we have a winner!