Remote holiday cottage - no proper cooking facilities! Tips?

[TipsyAndTommy]

So this is possibly something I should have checked sooner, but here we are!! Leave on Sunday.

So we have a toaster, kettle, microwave and fire pit. 4 nights, 2 adults 2 kids.

Will possibly venture out to a restaurant one night, but about 30 mins drive each way and we wanted to avoid driving etc hence the remoteness, but also assumed full kitchen.

It'll be an adventure I suppose, but any tips beyond beans and toast welcome!

You could take a slow cooker which gives you more options.

Takeaway

Or utilise the microwave to cook up soups, potatoes, veg and cook meats on the fire pit

Cereal and toast for breakfast, salads and sandwiches for lunches and then bbq for evening meals

Will there be a fridge?

Cheese, biscuits, wine. Toast for the kids. Lol how about picnic foods?

Take an ice bix and pre- made food, so make spaghetti Bol, take frozen, reheat in micro wave, serve with plain noodles? Crusty bread? micro wave baked potato wrapped in foil, finished in fire?
hot dogs? Heat in boiling water or microwave.

IKEA do a portable induction hob for about £30

You can cook most things with that! I only had a microwave, toaster and kettle the entire time I was at university, not even the fire pit
Microwave rice is obvious but you can also cook pasta/potatoes/veg easily in the microwave. Couscous and bulgur wheat only really need to be stood in hot water. Does the fire pit have a grill, then you can bbq meat or corn on the cob? You can also cook jacket potatoes, peppers etc wrapped in foil over a fire.

She's already there!

Have you got a slow cooker you could take?
Cook a chicken in it the first day you're there and do a chicken salad.
Shred the leftovers and cook with a tin of tomatoes and fajita seasoning for fajita wraps the next day.
There are loads of pasta based recipes (including macaroni cheese) that you can do in the slow cooker, too.

Otherwise, do you have time to do some batch cooking before you go of things you can reheat in the microwave?

Is there a woodburner? You can cook on the top of some of them.

Putting the postcode in just eat etc brings up no results (was my first port of call! )

There is a tiny fridge - looks more like a drinks fridge than anything, no freezer!

I like the wine, bread and cheese and cereal and toast ideas!

DH is now saying he will be able to cook everything we need on the fire pit, god help us!!! I'm going to do a massive crisp, wine and bread shop tomorrow!! Aaarrrggh!

Thanks for suggestions, I will consider slow cooker and portable hob too.

Sorry we aren't going until Sunday. So would have time to batch cook but feel like could only use that on the first night due to lack of fridge/freezer.

Fire pit looks like it's not really something you could cook on, unless it was roasting marshmallows.

But now DH is acting like some kind of inner city Bear Grylls, he thinks he can do it all!! Luckily the kids actually really like sandwiches

Disposable bbqs- we always takes them on caravan holidays. Just make sure you take more than one or you'll be waiting ages for all the food to cook!

On holidays we either eat out or its cheese and biscuits and picky bits, or my favourite - eat out, get home and eat cheese and biscuits

Inner city Bear Grylls. This is a title I fear many men believe they can claim!

A bit like camping I like to take emergency pot noodles/pot pasta for a quick lunch. Cous cous is easy as you just add boiling water. Is there a nice farm shop or something local that you could go to for fresh veg/meat/milk? I agree with the take frozen meals (curry, bolognaise etc) - even without a fridge they'll take a day to defrost then should be fine for a day. That gives you two days of nice meals to just heat up.

Presumably you weren't feeding a family of 4 who've spent days walking around outdoors though?

Cooking on a fire pit can be really fun for one night, just ask them about whether they have tools for it (likely) and and wood (unlikely, usually have to bring your own).

Then you only have 2 nights (after a restaurant another night), you could do couscous and salad one night and microwave meals another?

read before posting say they leave on sunday

there is a brilliant danish recipe for your fire pit. buy chipolata sausages and frozen ready made pizza dough. Make sure you have long sticks (bamboo etc) and foil to wrap around the sticks if you care about hygiene.

Take each stick, wrap end in foil, place a sausage alongside. Roll & stretch and squish the pizza dough into long strips. Wrap a strip of pizza dough around sausage + stick in a spiral to hold it all together. Hold the stick over a hot fire & turn occasionally. The fire will cook both the sausage and the dough, and you end up with a delicious messy hot-dog like meal. But better and fun for kids.

Google Danish Bonfire Bread for pictures.

Baked potatoes would work very well. Is there a fridge?
You could take nice hot dogs and rolls. Probably could cook hamburgers on the fire pit. Tortellini requires little cooking (a pan on the fire pit) with a jar of sauce.
Id also take some of those noodle pots which you can make up with boiling water.
remember cake, wine and crisps require no heat.

can you take a frying pan could have eggs on toast long-life milk does not need a fridge could have scrambled maybe omelette if theres a grill over fire pit to sit pan

The Ikea portable induction hob is v good. I use it regularly as an extra ring.

You can also buy (cheaply) a one ring gas camping stove from Go Outdoors or similar which doesnt take up much room. Ours is in a little plastic suitcase and the gas lasts for ages.

Sod that you dont go on holiday to eat super noodles. I would just eat out everyday at least once to fill up and chalk it up to experience.

If you do take a stove though, remember to pack a pot/frying pan. I'm guessing they're going to be light on that sort of thing as well.

Had similar situation recently and planned the following meals:

Pasta and sauce from a jar.
Noodle pots that just require hot water.
Tinned Soup and bread.
Beans and jacket potatoes.
Milk for drinks/cereal
Croissants/pain au chocolat for breakfast/snacks