Gearing up for the Christmas gift buying season? Stuck for ideas? Here’s one you’ll definitely appreciate if you’ve got an outdoor cooking lover in the family... ‘Outdoor Cooking’ is the ultimate stocking filler for any budding campfire cook. Bursting with 80+ outdoor recipes, you’ll soon have the more adventurous members of your family conjuring up delicious treats in their favourite surroundings.

Packed with more than 80 outdoor cooking recipes specifically designed for a Dutch oven, skillet or loaf pan, Outdoor Cooking really does make the perfect outdoor lover’s festive gift.

Compiled by passionate campfire cook and outdoor pro Carsten Bothe in collaboration with Petromax, the outdoor recipe book shows just what can be prepared in a Dutch oven or in loaf pans or skillets over the campfire.

Pork roast breakfast with crackling anyone?

The recipes have been taken from two award-winning German cookbooks and include a tempting array of soups, stews and casseroles plus bread, pies, pastries and cakes as well as a huge range of meat and fish dishes and tasty snacks. Pork roast breakfast with crackling and vegetables anyone? Well if it’s good enough for the German farmers, it’s good enough for us!

Over 144 illustrated pages, the reader will learn how to cook amazing dishes without the need for electricity. There’s also some insightful advice about handling Petromax products, and best practice recommendations for using cast iron skillets and loaf pans on an open fire.

There’s something truly fascinating about cooking in nature over an open fire. That crackling ambience and those blazing flames, and the excitement as those wonderful aromas start to fill the air.

Outdoor Cooking is packed with instructions and recipes, together with field-tested tips and interesting facts on handling cast iron, all designed to enrich the outdoor cooking experience.

Campfire delights

Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner or a hearty snack, your gift recipient is certain to find all sorts of mouth-watering delights throughout the pages of this recipe book.

To start the day, aside from our German farmer’s breakfast of roast pork and crackling, there are recipes for eggs benedict, gratinated camembert and empanadas.

And then there’s a whole host of lunch and tea time favourites, including onion tart, quiche, tortilla lasagne pasta bake and, wait for it… bread pudding with whiskey sauce. No prizes for guessing which of those will be first on the list to have a bash at!

Other tantalising treats include duck with red cabbage, satay skewers, chicken curry, German meatloaf, Irish stew, pork fillet flambé, spaghetti carbonara and good old schnitzel. Who even knew there was so much you could cook on a campfire?

There are also recipes for all sorts of side dishes, breads, cakes, pastries and desserts including pancakes, cheesecake, banana bread and scones as well as drinks including mulled wine.

Outdoor Cooking Made Easy from the Outhaus store

Outdoor Cooking is published in English and is a snip at £29.95. It’s the perfect Christmas stocking filler or Secret Santa… or maybe you’ll gift yourself? Go on, you know you deserve it.

And if you’re feeling super generous, why not complement the gift with a Dutch oven or something else from our quality range of outdoor cookware accessories? They’ll love you for it, we promise ;)