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I must be a bit different to everyone else as during the Summer months, I have a tendency to do less cooking than the other seasons. Many years ago I used to love my cooking on the bank and looked forward to it, preparing veg etc and good chunks of meat and chicken, but one day I realized that I would sooner be not cooking and just looking out over the pond instead.
I will have a good fry up for breakfast very early morning, but for the likes of dinner and tea, I prefer to making a good big "Banjo" or two or three. Usually, I take plenty of bread cakes, cheese either processed or normal stuff or maybe cooked meat or tinned meat, tomato's, onions, lettuce etc and knock up big salad "Banjo's" and then smother it in salad cream.
In the space of about 10 minutes or far less, I can have had my meal, everything packed away, wiped my knife clean and back to the fishing.
But during the Winter months when its about the only thing that happens 3 times a day to kill the time, cooked meals, every meal.
Maybe that's why no one visits me, I have nothing for anyone to come cadging to eat or drink. As they said in the "Simpsons", "You Don't Win Friends with Salad".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Kj17oVHAk&ab_channel=M.Craft
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#92 14 Jul 2023 at 11.30am | | | |
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In reply to Post #91
The camping type pans (and therefor most fishing branded copies) are designed to boil water as fast as possible for drinking and dropping in boil in bag/ pot noodle type meals and aren’t designed for ‘cooking’. It’s virtually impossible to simmer anything without 100% attention and stirring especially over a small camping stove, whereas household pans are designed with thicker walls and heavier bases to retain heat and are more controllable.
Tesco’s sell a range of budget pans - the sort students buy or someone on a very tight budget, cheap as **** for household use but ideal for the angler. They come in a set of 3 and are Teflon coated aluminium but much thicker than than camping pans and with a thick base. These are an ideal compromise being fairly lightweight but allowing you to cook. They also come with two glass lids, which if you don’t mind the extra weight ( they weigh more than the 3 pans) and allow you to simmer something without it drying out as it keeps the moisture and flavour in. I got a set of these, drilled the handle rivets off and replaced them with foldaway handles so the all nest inside each other for compactness. If you don’t want to be arsed to rivet on different handles just buy one of the pan grabber thingymebobs 👍
I also have a Ridgemonkey, the one with the detachable handles. Apart from the obvious things I find it better for making toast than all the other gadgets I’ve had over the years. If I don’t fancy a heart stopping full English or bacon sarnies, sausage sarnies or egg banjo’s for breakfast I do enjoy poached eggs on toast with a nice mug of tea, which is really a fine way to start the day 😎
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#91 14 Jul 2023 at 8.48am | | | |
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Aidey,
Sadly Google analytics has been changed. Older threads or even posts do not show up on Google, or drop down the search finds, even with new posts added.
I've had to go through another forum and remove goodness knows how many posts from the database.
I must admit that I am not a Ridgemonkey or Cobb fan, everything I cook is pretty much done with saucepan and frying pan and camping stuff is not good enough, it's too flimsy, doesn't hold heat and cooks unevenly, so my frying pan is a proper carbon steel, stainless handled pan, that I got in the 1990's. Camping cooking stuff is fine for boil in the bag, army ration pack pot noodle meals, but for decent cooking...
The Ridgemonkey may make omelette easier than I could in the frying pan, or cook bacon both sides all together, but to be honest, I'm happy cooking as I would at home, or for the hotel or restaurant at work, and I'm pretty good with that.
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My Cadac Safari Chef died saturday morning. Waiting for them to get back to me so i can send it in for repair. Glad i had a backup to cook my sausages on!
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#89 13 Jul 2023 at 9.55pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #88
Cobbs are banned 
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#88 13 Jul 2023 at 9.47pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #1
I think this thread needs to be made a sticky personally! With the top thread having all the meal ideas mentioned. Anglers could then have a definitive list and add to it as the years progress along with the ability to cook better meals with items such as the Cobb.
C'mon Mods, you know it makes sense....
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#87 13 Jul 2023 at 5.56pm | |  1 | |
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One of the companies I worked for, Redcat, had rump, fillet and sirloin steak on the menu. My chefs view and mine, was for the cost and taste you were better off with the sirloin or rump.
Tuesday night I ended up cooking diced chicken breast with chilli, ginger and black pepper, garlic, mushrooms and string beans with rice cooked with tarragon and turmeric.
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#86 13 Jul 2023 at 5.41pm | | 1 | |
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Having a hot meal on the bank is such a pure and simple joy. Particularly if accompanied by a good drink (hot cuppa or a glass of red wine).
I normally cook something hot for breakfast and dinner, with something cold for lunch.
Something like:
Breakfast: bacon and egg sarnie
Lunch: pasta salad
Dinner: beef and noodle stir fry or a chicken/leek casserole with some good bread. Cook these at home and bring them with me.
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#85 13 Jul 2023 at 5.23pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #83
i know mate, im useless at it... 
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#84 13 Jul 2023 at 2.24pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #83
I do believe that flat iron became more commonly used as it was previously difficult to remove the tissue (or something like that). Probably dreamt it sometime knowing me.
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#83 13 Jul 2023 at 1.32pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #81
A MOD who can't post pics glad it's not just me 
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#82 13 Jul 2023 at 9.38am | | | |
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In reply to Post #81
It’s a lovely piece of steak.
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#81 13 Jul 2023 at 7.56am | | | |
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In reply to Post #80
if i knew how to post pics on here, i'd put up some of the training in butchers i do...best meat ever
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#80 12 Jul 2023 at 11.13pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #72
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#79 12 Jul 2023 at 9.00pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #78
Cheers OG.
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