Wednesday boredom breaker

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We leave tomorrow for three days of showjumping. Although the outside and the horse area of the lorry are finished, the live-in is not. I have one gas ring to cook on. I am getting fed-up of cans of 'Big Breakfast' and rolls, pasta and noodles. We have another 3 long weekends away in the next two months. Do you have any new ideas that my daughter and I could eat over our long weekends with only one gas ring?
Virtual box of chocolates for the best idea???
 
Cook some rice and leave to one side, warm up a tin of curry and hey presto
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I am a past expert at one ring cooking (we have an old lorry we used to take to steam rallies, which tows its living accomodation). However my 'one ring' cooking is in an attempt to minimse washing up, it's really one pan cooking as we actually have 4 rings!
Our favourite is one frying pan all day breakfast (far superior to the tinned) - start cooking the sausages (fat sausages not skinny ones) and bacon first, slice some mushrooms around the sausages. The bacon will cook quicker so when it's done, turn the sausages and pop the bacon on top, then cook the eggs, when they're solid enough on the bottom take the bacon to one side of the sausages, turn the sausages again and put the bacon back on top, then the eggs on top of that, then pop the eggs on top of the pile (it all keeps nicely warm) and put your beans in the pan to warm through.

Couscous is easy - you can stir fry any number of different goodies to toss into the couscous. I'd suggest chicken pieces cut into strips (keep them thin), brown the chicken, add sliced onions, peppers. Take off heat but cover with lid (so carries on cooking on its own) and put to one side, boil a kettle and make up your couscous, use the remainder to make your cup of tea. Put chicken back on heat, add a tin of cook in yummy sauce (Waitrose have some nice ones), and serve with the couscous.

Great idea for a cookery book...!

Or, if you have the room for one, make a haybox cooker
http://www.poundsmeetends.co.uk/articles/haybox.htm
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1980-01-01/Rediscover-the-Hay-Box-Cooker.aspx
You could take a pre-prepared casserole, heat on your ring, place in cooker, go off and do your classes, and serve up later using your one ring to cook potatoes carrots peas brocolli etc. to serve with it.
 
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