Cooking fish while camping

[Lindy]

As we often combine camping and fishing I would like to find out some of the ways that people cook fish while camping.

There is nothing like eating freshly caught fish in the great outdoors .

Thanks Lindy 8)

[mackmauler]

Same as at home oil the frypan, coat the fillets in breadcrumbs. I usually add sand to taste ;) The wallabys at sth straddie can make a nuisance of themselves if you leave food out.

[Lindy]

Not just the wallabies- also the little bandicoot critters can help themselves to a meal if the opportunity is there!

They helped themselves to a loaf of bread on our first trip there a couple of years ago. Learnt our lesson since then!

:)
Lindy

[Derek Bullock]

Hi there Lindy.

Mackmauler is right about doing things the same as at home. However, I think that campcooking can be a bit more interesting depending on what you have to cook on and what sort of ingredients you have to use with the fish.

For me you cant beat a fish baked in the camp oven. With out a camp oven though you can use alfoil and place the fish in coals. Grilling on a hotplate is good and yeah, if you have a frypan you can fry in bread crumbs as Mackmauler suggests but pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, no sand.

You can even cook fish in a beer batter using the camp oven as a deep fryer. I even have a portable smoker that produces pretty good smoked fish.

The potential is endless so use your imagination. Any good recipe book can put you on the right track and Phipsey's book has to be up there amongst the top of them.

Maybe we can get a serires of good recipes going on here. What do you think folks, where's your best camp fish recipe.

Cheers.


Derek

[dazza]

Hi Lindy,
don't just restrict the menu to fish. Here is one I made up while camping one weekend

Cape York Oysters and Steak

Chip enough oysters off of the rocks to feed hovever many people.

Make up a kilpatrick sauce.

1 tablespoon of BBQ sauce
1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
dash or 2 of tabasco sauce
bacon finley chopped
(quantities can be varied depending on taste and amounts)

in a moderate campoven
place the oysters in the bottom, tip the sauce over sprinkle with bacon.
Put the lid on and cook for a few minutes. Be careful not to overcook them. Don't want the sauce burning.

after the oysters have been eaten as an entree
cook your favourite steak in the juices in the bottom of the campoven.

It dosen't get any better.
Cheers
dazza

[Volvo]

:)Lindy, keep all your old newspapaers for whenever ya go camping.
Gill n gut your fish, dont scale if you dont wish to as these come away easy enough after cooked by sticking to the newspaper.
okay, grab a wad of newspapers, soak in water and wrap your fish within and fold newspaper. You can stuff fish with whatever ya wish ie: carrots, cellery, little onion and maybe pierce a clove of garlic into side of fish and maybe rub some oregano sauce over fish prior ta wrappin up.
Pull ashes aside from your campfire and chuck wrapped fish in the ashes and cover for 3/4 to an hour and remove, unwrap and feast yourself to a treat.
Otherwise you can do like we often do whilst on the boat and cook a feed while bobbin about and that is chips ta one side of the frypan and fillets to the other side lol, works okay too for easy quick feed ey.
Cheers

[gruntahunter]

Cooking them the same way as u do at home....what a boring lot u are!
Dont gut, dont gill, dont scale just wrap em in whatever u can find after u have salted and peppered(seasoned that is called 4 all u novices ...lol) chopped onion,tomatoe,and a touch of greenginger wine...now throw em in the coals, count to about 1 more stubbie and voila. ;D

[Dominator]

That sounds a bit rough to me Grunta ;D.

When ever i go camping i always bring 5 ingredients.

1. Alfoil
2. Lemons
3. Garlic
4. Butter
5. S&P

Clean the fish.
Rub garlic and butter onto fish.
Squeeze lemon over the fish.
Season with S&P.
Wrap in alfoil and place on coals

Wait till your knife goes through the flesh without resistance and the fish is ready.

[Derek Bullock]

Got to agree with you there Dominator, thats a pretty good combo.

You can spice that up a bit though by using limes instead of lemons and add a bit of fresh lemon grass. Sprinkle over a bit of soy sauce and you have a great asian taste to it.

Cheers.


Derek

[Dominator]

I was going to mention Soy sauce but i did'nt wnt to complicate things to much. I also use Sweet Chilli Sauce sometimes as that just gives the fish a little bit of a bite. I like the idea of the limes to as they are slightly sweeter flavour.(when they are ripe).

[Lindy]

Well - thank you, Dominator - when we go camping we always have those ingredients on hand -

1. Alfoil
2. Lemons
3. Garlic
4. Butter
5. S&P


And we can easily add the other two additions of lime juice and soy sauce to the camping kit.

Thanks for your ideas guys.

Lindy
:)

[Derek Bullock]

I also use Sweet Chilli Sauce sometimes

This is great as a dipping sauce for any fish however it is cooked. I also use a sweet chilli and ginger sauce.

Derek

[Lindy]

Yes sweet chilli is great for a dipping sauce - either on its own or mixed with other sauces.

We have mixed it with either tomato sauce or mayo sometimes for a bit of a change.


:)
Lindy

[gruntahunter]

Plum sauce and garlic in a bottle is also great with fish on the barbie or as a dip.

[Araby_Dog]

Hey Dom thats a bit unfair mate....if your not gonna tell em then I will!

Guys, Dom is a qualified chef by trade..no bull! But this fella isn't your run of the mill chef type. He did his apprenticeship at parliment house and has been known to cook for MLA's, Heads of state and Royalty. Combine that kind of experiance with a freaky ability with anything edible

So for him to just throw out a simple reciepe that we used the other day on the BBQ with his monster lizard that he caught is just treating you all with contemp.

I bet if we put the hard word on him he'll cough up a real pearla of a reciepe...'cause I know, I didn't get this big from my mamas cooking alone...LOL ;D he had something to do with it as well burbon and XXXC i suppose.

Now if he fishes as well as he cooks we'll certainly need to introduce lower bag limits.

[stephen_t]

hey lindy, last time we were out at Morten I brought some fresh chilli,tomato,bread and olive oil & bit of salt & pepper and with this we made stuffing, we gutted & gilled a sweetlip put the stuffing in the cavity left the scales on(next time I will give it a go with wet paper) and cooked in alfoil over the coals when it was ready we could pull the skin & scales of the flesh then we could just pick from the bone fingers and all.we pulled the stuffing out and mixed it with fish the stuffing was sitcky enough to dip in sauce. washed it down with a rum that hit the spot ..
now DOM tell us some of you secrets..pls ???

[fwabear]

:o Nothing life fresh smoked fish.

Did my first trout in the smoker. Tasted fantastic.

[spool]

when me & me mate hit the perron is. darwin he always brings :brown vinegar,2 red onions, 2 lemons,coupla chilli's & bag of fresh buns, then all we have to do is hook onto a skinny(pref) which aint too hard to do, fillet,slice thinly, chuck into plastic bowl(preferably clean),cover with vinegar,sqeeze in lemons, add chilli's wack the lid on & stick it in the esky for an hour or so. this is usually done while heading out to a reef or over to the tiwi is. eat straight or on fresh buns, serve with chilled beer, ya can't beat numas its beeaudifal and it'll last for awhile if ya dont stick ya grubby fingers in there. fair dinkum spool ;)