Cook, or just heat water?

[92kk k100lt 193214]

When in France I always treat myself to a can like this...

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A big one will fit on the Trangia so you don't have to wash it up (thumbs)

Confit and Cassoulet are my favourites too. Most of the time the French Plat du Jour in almost every eating place has that as part of a 3 course lunch for €12-13 and we often simply have the lunch and then wine and salad in the evening.

My last stop before the ferry back is for a few tins of confit. Heavy yokes but they keep for years.

[sprintster]

Very interesting topic.

I've recently broken a good pot and need another saucepan and frying pan. Any suggestions? Big enough to cook for two.

And secondly, I have a foreign wife who thinks we must be the only weirdos who carry brew kits with tea bags and coffee everywhere. My question is: Is there any Brit out there who DOESN'T carry a brew kit when off travelling on the bike?

I've just bought this off Ebay for £25.(Item no.201406868008) I'm trying it out for the first time this weekend but it looks decent enough.

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[gspod]

Very interesting topic.

I've recently broken a good pot and need another saucepan and frying pan. Any suggestions? Big enough to cook for two.

And secondly, I have a foreign wife who thinks we must be the only weirdos who carry brew kits with tea bags and coffee everywhere. My question is: Is there any Brit out there who DOESN'T carry a brew kit when off travelling on the bike?

I'm a bit of a coffee snob and always take my mini Italian stove top coffee maker and my coffee of choice. We also like porridge so take a good supply and some honey.
While on the subject, if travelling through France we stop on the first day a buy a squeezy bottle of Dijon mustard which we will use for Ham baguettes when we stop for a picnic lunch - once in Spain we stopped for lunch in a restaurant and ordered steak and chips, the look on the waiters face when I brought in the mustard was a treat :cheer:

[gspod]

Very interesting topic.

I've recently broken a good pot and need another saucepan and frying pan. Any suggestions? Big enough to cook for two.

And secondly, I have a foreign wife who thinks we must be the only weirdos who carry brew kits with tea bags and coffee everywhere. My question is: Is there any Brit out there who DOESN'T carry a brew kit when off travelling on the bike?

I've just bought this off Ebay for £25.(Item no.201406868008) I'm trying it out for the first time this weekend but it looks decent enough.

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Looks good - reviews please (thumbs)

[SteveR]

Great idea and works in Spain too for very similar regional specialties. It's a bad mistake to go 'cheap', alerts get the more expensive brands!

@ SteveR 'Lidl' indeed, that's for the bootless and unhorsed :whistle:

Regs

Simon

You??? A Lidl snob????? Shame on you Simon... A fine emporium, great for vino and beer, cheese and German cooked meats. These days they have a bakery too, so who needs more in life, Beer, bread and Cheese (thumbs)

[Simon_100]

Very interesting topic.

I've recently broken a good pot and need another saucepan and frying pan. Any suggestions? Big enough to cook for two.

And secondly, I have a foreign wife who thinks we must be the only weirdos who carry brew kits with tea bags and coffee everywhere. My question is: Is there any Brit out there who DOESN'T carry a brew kit when off travelling on the bike?

I'm a bit of a coffee snob and always take my mini Italian stove top coffee maker and my coffee of choice. We also like porridge so take a good supply and some honey.
While on the subject, if travelling through France we stop on the first day a buy a squeezy bottle of Dijon mustard which we will use for Ham baguettes when we stop for a picnic lunch - once in Spain we stopped for lunch in a restaurant and ordered steak and chips, the look on the waiters face when I brought in the mustard was a treat :cheer:

That's a very good tip about the mustard as yu never get it in normal restaurants - camp sites, etc. do have mustard, salad cream and even ketchup for the tourists ...

Great idea and works in Spain too for very similar regional specialties. It's a bad mistake to go 'cheap', alerts get the more expensive brands!

@ SteveR 'Lidl' indeed, that's for the bootless and unhorsed :whistle:

Regs

Simon

You??? A Lidl snob????? Shame on you Simon... A fine emporium, great for vino and beer, cheese and German cooked meats. These days they have a bakery too, so who needs more in life, Beer, bread and Cheese (thumbs)

No, I'm not s shop-snob* it's just that all I ever seem to see at Lidl is unknown German beers that tuen out to be fairly horrible and as for German cooked meats, well I like to be a bit choosy about what I put in my mouth ... :whistle:

Regs

Simon

* unless it's changed Somerfield's used to make the best baguettes in Britain, and dead cheap too! (thumbs)

[92kk k100lt 193214]

Going to wind this one up a bit because I love my food and so does my mate.

In my kit which varies a bit depending on whether it's warmer or cooler places we go:

Cooler places we add in these:
Oxo cubes to rub on steaks or make stew.
Small container of cloves for mulled wine.
Small container with cinnamon and nutmeg mixed for mulled wine.
500 ml flask with double skin mug that slips over the flask, use for warm or cool.

For hot places:
A 1 litre stainless steel flask, will keep ice for 3 days. In a cool bag this also helps keep things cool.

Anywhere we go:
Oxo cubes to rub on bbq steaks.
Chicken stock pots for rice.
Small container with tea bags in.
A few coffee sachets
Sugar.
Salt and black pepper mill.
Wine bottle stopper and cork screw.
Wine glass
A few chicken stock pots
A folding bbq
2 pocket stoves that fit under the bike seat
A cook set with 1.5 and 2.0 litre pots, copper bottom stainless steel [Vango cheap too].
Small chopping board and 2 sharp knives.
Micro slat tables.
Forgot the marmalade, I make grapefruit marmalade to die for. On croissants its decadent.

It all packs very neatly. It means we can be at a camp site anywhere and enjoy a good meal and wine with no need to go anywhere to get back to base.

[gbags]

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* unless it's changed Somerfield's used to make the best baguettes in Britain, and dead cheap too! (thumbs)[/quote]

Sorry. Tesco cheese topped baguettes from Crediton in Devon.

[92kk k100lt 193214]

Oooh but in France go to the local bakery/boulangerie every day for the very best in baguettes and croissants.....and the local butcher/charcuterie for the very best in meat which goes on the folding bbq we bring with us.....

This thread is making me hungry.

[gbags]

Where'd you get that catchy name...er...92kk k100lt 193214?