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Caterers and food stylists Arno and Mireille always take the scenic route and believe you can eat well on it. With this book, the drive to get organised and the odd supermarket stop-off, you can forgo takeaways for days and everything on toast on your next roadie in favour of a much more delicious and nutritious menu that we predict will be a highlight of your trip. In four key chapters, you’ll find super-simple recipes for morning, afternoon, evening, nibbles and drinks. Give eggs and bacon sizzled in paper bags over your campfire the green light, and bread baked in a tin on the barbecue. Prep some spiced apples, secure them under the hood, then serve them sweet and hot at your next destination, or make a warm tomato and mozzarella caprese dish in the same way. Step on it using couscous as a speedily cooked base for a salad made tastier but no more taxing with a bit of goat’s cheese, cook fresh fish lickety-split in newspaper to impart a smoky flavour, and upgrade your standard s’mores with berries, peanut butter and fudge. Hacks to make all this as easy as possible while streamlining your luggage include using your wash bag as a sieve and keeping ingredients cool by stashing them on the ground under your sleeping mat. You’re welcome — so where to? 18 homest yle
ABOVE Authors Arno and Mireille. LEFT This campfire French toast cooks unsupervised. OPPOSITE, LEFT For this caprese dish, simply combine the ingredients, get your motor running and head out on the highway. OPPOSITE, RIGHT Fish grilled in newspaper with fennel, dill and lemon thyme.
Words: Philippa Prentice. Road Trip Cooking photography: Liesbeth Disbergen, Simone van Rees and Mireille van Elst
Road Trip Cooking by Arno & Mireille van Elst (Hardie Grant, $33)
