Super easy camping fire favourites.

Last weekend we opened our “eating out” season. No, we didn’t go to any fancy restaurant and we didn’t eat cold sandwiches on our hike neither collected berries.

We finally made a fire and grilled sausages! Let me tell you that even if I’m not a huge fan of those, in the woods, after our long march through the rollercoaster ridge of Uetliberg and Albis by Zurich, they tasted the best!

(* Just make sure you make fire on dedicated places please.)

Here are my 3 “above the fire” favourites:

🥖Schlangenbrot (snake bread): for 10 pieces you would need dough from 0.5kg flour (I use mix of regular bread flour and spelt flour), 1 and 1/2 teaspoon salt, 10g yeast, 3dl lukewarm water, herbs if you wish (I like dried oregano). Prepare the dough – mix yeast in water and pour it to flour and salt mixture. Beat until smooth. Leave it for 15 mins, split it to 10 buns and pack to tapware (at least double the size of the dough as it will grow!). By the time you hike up to the fire pit in the woods your dough will be doubled, nice and fluffy, ready to be rolled in your hands to create “snakes” and to be attached to the pole like a serpent on pharmacy symbol.

🌭any type of sausages – just cut the ends (check the last pictures of this post). Some people do small cuts along whole sausage. We like to eat it with bread, onion and mustard. It’s super easy for preparation.

🍢meat and veggies or just veggies skewers – prepare 3x3x1cm pieces of meat and different types of veggies like peppers, onions, zucchini, mushrooms. Sparkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Put into tapware and once you find your fire pit in the mountains and wooden sticks with sharp tip, you can stick piece by piece on it, next to each other, and start grilling above the fire. This is one of the most messy options but a bit more gourmet than just sizzling the sausage. Sometimes more effort really leads to better result 😉

Buon appetito!