Backwoods Cooking

Our Chief Scout

Bear Grylls stops for another tasty snack on his adventures - now get ready to watch Swanley Scouts in action

Preparation

Getting set for lamb hotpot - secret is to chop ingredients really small

Getting started

Main course ingredients now ready

Sausage in rolls

Take one sausage, impail on a stick, cook in the embers, place in a bread roll. Lovely.

Toasties

Ham & Cheese toastie cooked in foil

Firelighting

Getting started with the fire

Hell's kitchen

Smoke extractor fan leaves a little to be desired

Fire lighting

Nicely underway now

Wrapping the fish

Take one newspaper, soak thoroughly and wrap around a trout

I'm sure it winked at me...

"And if you think for one minute that I am going to eat this..."

Cooked to perfection

My compliments to the chef (me!)

Cooking time - 8 minutes

Sausage sizzle - lovely

Fishy tales

Enjoying the fish on one hand - but preferring the burger in the other hand. Our vesion of surf & turf

Unwrapping his dessert

Banana with chooclate, wrapped in foil and cooked

Preparing for pudding

Putting bananas onto sticks

Leave it to cool

Just a tad too hot to eat

Recipe

Take a banana and add chocolate drops

Recipe - 2

Or cook in foil

Too many cooks?

Can't beat cooking your own food around the fire

Washing up

Well, someone has to do it

Embers

Just perfect for cooking

Fish course

Enjoying the fish wrapped in newspaper

Cooking their toasties

Delicious ham & cheese toasted sandwiches

Lamb hotpot

Stewing nicely

Communal cooking

Good food, good company - what more could you ask for?

Outdoors cooking Swanley style