The New Camp Cookbook

Great recipes to make while camping. All the recipes are easy to make and with minimal ingredients...

Recommend this cookbook. Gives you clear instructions and information. Encourages you to try some different and tasty camping recipes.

Having just returned from a camping trip I cannot stress how essential having a resource like this is. If you want to expand from hotdogs and canned beans, then this book is for you!

Ly begins by explaining what methods of heat and fire you need, the cooking equipment required, and finally the incredibly delicious recipes.

From Savory Oatmeal with Shiitake and Spinach to Grilled Pears with Honey-Cinnamon Creme Fraiche, Ly provides an array of recipes to ensue you have an outdoor feast.

If you are one of the new types of campers who take their vehicle to a drive up tent site, or who uses a trailer/RV, then this is exactly the kind of book you need. The New Camp Cookbook – Gourmet Grub for Campers, Roadtrippers, and Adventurers by Linda Ly, is not for the wilderness, hike to the middle-of-nowhere camper. Covering all the necessary cooking techniques, like using a camp stove, a grill, a Dutch oven, or even an open fire, this book has a little bit of everything for the gourmet camper.

Starting with “Setting Up A Camp Kitchen”, the book explains everything about gathering your gear. It includes what essential equipment you need to take, what’s great to have but you don’t really need, and stocking your pantry. The detail for setting up your camp kitchen is excellent, it covers everything you’ll need to know and need to take with you. Trying to find knick-knacks and an extra bowl or that essential piece of kitchen equipment while you’re at your campsite might be difficult, so this is an essential read.

“Setting Up A Camp Kitchen” even includes a section on how to properly build a fire, which anybody who’s gone to Scouts or Guides has learned, but everybody else needs to master. Essential grilling techniques and toolbox are covered thoroughly. Cooking in foil is also covered, an excellent way to create several dishes which would otherwise be difficult over a campfire or cook stove. “Cooking In A Dutch Oven” will give you the information you need for baking, roasting, and stewing, as well as steaming, browning, boiling, and cooking anything that requires high heat.

Lastly, you will find “Cooking On A Camp Stove”, short sweet and to the point. For those cooking in high-altitude, there are a couple of quick tips. Of course, any good camping cookbook would not be complete without an excellent “Food And Forest Safety” guide. This book even comes complete with “Safe Storage Times For Chilled Foods” chart, and “Safe Internal Temperatures For Cooked Meats”. You even get tips on washing up and camping in bear country.

The next chapter, “Rise And Shine”, covers all of your breakfast related recipes with lots of lovely full-color pictures. These are not your typical camp related recipes. The first recipe being Blueberry Skillet Scones with Lemon Glaze is absolutely delicious looking and certainly not what I would have considered camping food before now.

Many of the recipes include tips which are especially helpful. Some of the tips fall under the “Use It Up” category which advises how to make the best use of your ingredients. For instance, rather than buying an entire tub of cream cheese just to use in one recipe, the tips advise what other recipes make use of it too. Other tips cover the “Mix It Up” category, which explains where to use your own ingredients to personalize your recipes.

“MidDay Meals” is exactly as it sounds, lunches. There’s an excellent selection of sandwiches, soups, salads, and vegetables. That’s not all though, there are lovely wraps, pizzas, tacos, and so much more, even a lovely chart “The Go-To Guide For Grilling Vegetables”. This guide gives you the vegetable preparation method and approximate grilling time so you’ll know exactly what it will take to cook them to perfection.

The “Small Bites” chapter covers trail mix, snacks, happy-hour late night nibbles, and other deliciousness. “Grilled Guacamole” is the first recipe. It just gets better from there. There’s even a recipe for “Grilled Watermelon With Gorgonzola And Pistachio Crumbles” which is extremely surprising. Who knew you could grill watermelon? And I had no idea pairing Watermelon with Pistachio and Gorgonzola could work.

The “Camp Feasts” chapter is next, covering everything from skewers to stews, stove top skillets, and so much more. Six different flavored butter recipes get their own page. If you want a gourmet meal at your campsite this is your go-to chapter.

Six Types Of Smores!

“Sips And Sweets” offers cocktails and desserts. The recipe for Honey Bourbon Lemonade looks absolutely decadent and comes with excellent variations. “Sips And Sweets” even offers six different ways to make Smores with lots of little tips! I only ever thought there was the one method. I guess you learn something new every day.

The very back of the book includes a small “Resources” section for everything from Espresso Makers to Charcoal Grills.

For the recipe, I was going to choose one of the pizzas. The pizza dough itself was kind of confusing though. In the recipe, it calls for letting it rise at room temperature for an hour or an hour and 1/2. I was kind of wondering how one achieves room temperature when one is not in a room. It would be somewhat difficult in the great outdoors. Apparently is it something you make at home and freeze to take with you. Because I wouldn’t be able to make all of the recipes at the campsite, I was disappointed.

In all, take this book with you if you’re planning on a trip with a vehicle to lug your stuff.

See the full review with autumn inspired Sweet Potato, Apple, And Pancetta Hash recipe at the RecipesNow! Review and Recipes Magazine.

This review is based on a copy of the book sent to me by the publishers in return for an honest review.

I love a good car camping trip as much as the next guy, and appreciate the detailed gear, pantry and recipe lists in “The New Camp Cookbook”. This cookbook really counts on your bringing a good cooler, and being able to cook over an open fire or on a camp stove. That being said, there are plenty of tasty recipes provided here.

Being tasked with menu planning for a three day fall backpacking trip, I was hoping for a little more in the non-refrigerated/cooler recipe ideas, and though they were not as plentiful, I did get some helpful ideas (packaged polenta in Margarita Polenta Pizza Bites, hummus in Mediterranean Wraps, dried sausage, Quinoa Bowls, lentils in Red Lentil Soup) for our trip. We won’t be packing as light as freeze-dried, but boy will we be eating better.

This camping cookbook is great! There are wonderful photos, fantastic recipes and helpful tips for creating a camping trip full of perfect memories. Such organization in this book makes it easy to use and very helpful. You'll find breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snack recipes found in this book. Trail mix is an interesting addition too. Another interesting element are the sweet options including using fruit. Along with helpful hints on building a campfire readers will find items you'd benefit from -- but you'll find it here.

I've read and reviewed a lot of camping cookbooks, but this is by far the best so far. Beautiful pictures that go along with every important suggestion/technique in the book. It honestly thinks of every possibility for camp cooking with advice on how to change up their recipes. Not only that, but there are many "Alton Brown" type things in the book where it'll explain the origin of a food and each meal gets it's own introduction.

We try to go camping at least twice a month and frankly get tired of eating the same thing every trip. This book is definitely going to change things up for us. It's so chock full of different than usual camp cookbook fare and a variety of different kinds of meals. I did have a good laugh at the stone fruit salad recipe, since my husband is allergic to stone fruits and we'll never try that one. I loved how dinner was basically "camp feasts". When we go out with friends that's what dinner ends up being. After a long day of hiking or just sitting around the site, there's nothing better than eating hearty delicious food outdoors. And I have to say, I've made a lot of s'mores in my time, but never have I thought of putting the graham crackers + chocolate on a cast=iron on a grate first. Ingenious.

If you're someone who is constantly cooking outdoors, look no further, this is the cookbook for you.

3.5 stars. This cookbook has great basic information for equipment to take on a camping trip. It features quite a few Dutch oven recipes. Each recipe has an icon denoting how it is cooked-- Grill, Dutch oven, campfire, camp stove-- which is very helpful. There are also notes for recipes on how to use up the rest of an ingredient used in that recipe-- for example, how to use the rest of the buttermilk you've opened for pancakes. I wish all cookbooks had that! The recipes in this book are for gourmet campers. There are several fresh fish recipes, which would be helpful if you're fishing but I'm unlikely to put an entire red snapper in my cooler. There is a recipe for making fresh pizza dough pizza in a Dutch oven. There are also some yummy-looking drink recipes. These are absolutely car camping recipes, and I'd say they are targeted to adults. They look delicious but definitely demand a lot of time at the camp kitchen. If that's your happy place, you will love this cookbook. If you are chasing around little kids and trying to just get food on the table as soon as possible, this is not the book for you.

Although I won't get a chance to try these recipes until next year due to all the campfire bans in the region this summer I am already looking forward to meal planning for those camping trips. The New Camp Cookbook has given me a lot of great ideas to break out of my usual camp cooking rut. The recipes and steps are all really well laid out and having pictures for pretty much all of the recipes really helps a lot.
I think adding the tips on how to use up extra ingredients is brilliant as well!
This book is the right blend of basic and more advanced campsite cooking tips and recipes making it a great resource for new and experience campers.

A camping cookbook with a modern palette twist. Simple methods, great ingredients, would make these recipes even when at home! Easy to follow instructions & beautiful photographs! Recommending it to outdoor enthusiasts and those that just love food!

Most camping cookbooks focus on the mundane, the easy (using substandard convenience products), and the uninspired. However, The New Camp Cookbook: Gourmet Grub for Campers, Road Trippers, and Adventurers focuses on the unique, the exciting, and the gourmet. Linda Ly has developed dozens of extraordinary recipes to prepare outdoors that will make everyone to find excuses to go camping and cook outdoors.

The book starts with excellent instructions for setting up a proper camp kitchen. It includes stocking the pantry, Dutch oven, cooking on a camp stove, food and forest safety, and several other essential elements of outdoor food preparation. The book is worth purchasing for this information alone.

Next, the book is divided into chapters according to meals: breakfasts, midday meals, snacks, camp feasts, etc. Each chapter includes recipes that real people will actually want to make and eat.

Grilled French Toast with Bacon Bites is simple and tasty, and so are the Tex-Mex Scrambled Eggs with Tortilla Chips, Tomatoes, and Chiles. Hash is a common camp food, but the Sweet Potato, Apple, and Pancetta Hash is on a higher level. Vietnamese Pork Tacos with Pickled Carrots and Daikon will be on our camping menu again and again, as well as Ly’s Korean Flank Steak with Sriracha-Pickled Cucumbers.

Ly has included a tasty seasoning mix, South-of-the-Border Seasoning that is better than any store-bought blend out there, and it can be used at home as well as in the camp recipes in the cookbook. It’s also easy to mix and uses spices that are most likely already on your home spice shelf.

The variety of recipes that can be prepared from this cookbook while camping is mindboggling; they will take the mundane out of camping and will make eating outdoors exciting. Highly Recommended!

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I was unable to get this book to load on ADE. I would have really liked to read it.