First you need a camp oven. These can be bought from camping and outdoor shops and are usually made of cast iron. Ours is home made by Fisherman out of a cut down stainless steele beer keg. It's quite a bit larger than the standard ones you buy, and we are thinking of getting one of those. This one is great for feeding a crowd but a bit big for just the family.
We light a fire (didn't show you a photo of that, I'm pretty sure you have all seen a fire before!) and let it burn down to hot coals. Then dig a hole and put some hot coals in the bottom.
Then we put the bottom half of the camp oven in, add some water in the bottom of that to keep the meat moist and sit the meat on top of a rack. Here we have chicken, beef and lamb ready to be slow roasted.
Here you can see Fisherman putting the lid on and making sure it is sealed.
Then he puts some more hot coals on top. It takes about 4 hours for the meat to roast and Fisherman checks it every now and again. If its cooking too fast he takes some coals away, too slow means he adds some more.
And there you go. It's pretty simple really. I meant to take a photo of the finished product but I got side tracked with eating it! You can cook almost anything in a camp oven. I have steamed puddings, made lovely slow cooked casseroles and some lovely damper.
We all enjoyed our dinner and the lovely time of sitting outside around a camp fire on a cold winters night. The weather was calm and clear which was just perfect. We got the kids to make banana dream boats for dessert which they all enjoyed. For those of you who don't know you make a banana dream boat by slitting the banana down the middle (with the skin still on) poking alternate marshmallows and chocolate squares in the slit, then wrapping it in alfoil. Then you put in in the hot coals to let the banana go all squishy and the chocolate and marshmallows melt all through it. Served with icecream it's really really really yummy. Not to mention extremely bad for you! But sometimes its best not to think about that!