Cooking Aboard Your RV [Paperback]

Janet Groene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 2004

Written for long-term live-aboard RVers and casual weekenders, Cooking Aboard Your RV addresses the unique problems faced by RV cooks--limited water, insufficient counter space, and little room for the extra appliances of today's kitchens. This new edition is fully updated with: • Instructions for using a combination convection-microwave oven

• Hundreds of recipes for every palate and dietary preference, adapted to the confines of the small RV galley
• Ingenious tips on making the most of limited counter and storage space
• Helpful illustrations

Editorial Reviews

Review

"... secrets to fast, enjoyable, inexpensive cooking on the road." -- RVing Women --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Fast, Convenient, and Delicious RV Cooking

Cooking Aboard Your RV is your perfect traveling companion. Janet Groene, author of Living Aboard Your RV and Great Eastern RV Trips, tells you what you need to know to create meals on the go that are healthy, easy to prepare, and delicious. Her tips include how to:

*outfit the RV galley
*deal with restricted space, water, and fuel
*substitute ingredients and store food safely
*and much more

More important, this second edition offers 270 tasty, time-tested recipes along with dozens of hints and time-saving ideas that will add convenience, variety, and spice to your RV meals.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 2 edition (March 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071432396
• ISBN-13: 978-0071432399
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,240,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For ten years, Gordon and I were happily homeless, cruising the tropics in our sailboat in winter and roaming cooler climes in summer in our small motorhome. Thanks to our portable profession (I'm the writer; Gordon does our photography) we can live nowhere or anywhere. The only thing better than our worldwide travels is to relive them time and again through writing about them. My columns appear in Houseboat, Family Motor Coaching, Camping Life and South Florida Parenting magazines. You've seen my travel features in dozens of magazines and newspapers. For a complete list of our books do a Groene search at amazon.com.

Customer Reviews

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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Makes some assumptions on facilities, March 16, 2001

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This review is from: Cooking Aboard Your Rv (Paperback)

This cookbook had some limited use for me. It was a short introduction on tips for RV cooking. Overall some good general tips, but nothing that probably isn't in a good trade magazine. As an experienced camping and backpacking cook I was hoping for information on RV cooking now that I have a refrigerator. It does give some good recipes that utilize the better facilities of an RV. However about half the recipes assume you have an oven as well. My small Class B RV doesn't have an oven. Therefore, half the book is useless for me. Overall a slightly disappointing book that I wish I had looked over before purchasing.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, September 17, 2006

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This review is from: Cooking Aboard Your RV (Paperback)

I thought this book would provide more insight on kitchen appliances and ways to downsize but cook different meals. The recipes were awful in my opinion and I would not want to eat them even at home, much less on the open road. A few good hints but not at the price of buying the book brand new.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but relies too much on canned food, October 29, 2007

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This review is from: Cooking Aboard Your RV (Paperback)

I got this at the library hoping to find some interesting recipes and tips that I could use while car camping, or while staying at a base camp with more amenities than you have while backpacking. While having some interesting recipes, this book was definitely into using canned/frozen and convenience foods.

Yes, I know you can pack a lot of stuff into an RV, but that doesn't mean you should. The biggest benefit is having the refrigerator to keep perishables such as fruits and vegetables in, and few recipes mentioned using fresh anything. Considering that you can even get lots of fruits and veggies pre-cut and bagged in most grocery stores/warehouse stores fairly inexpensively, this book reads as if it were written in the '50s or 60's with all the casserole add-a-can-of-cream-soup recipes.

Borrow from your library first before buying.