RV Cooking Cookbook [Kindle Edition]

Gooseberry Patch (Author)

Book Description

Get a taste of Gooseberry Patch in this collection of over 20 favorite road-trip recipes! In Gooseberry Patch RV Cooking you'll find delicious dishes for coast-to-coast dining that are easy to fix in your RV's kitchen. Enjoy Cape Cod Clam Chowder for a simple lunch and One-Pot Spaghetti for supper, with Mozzarella & Ripe Tomato Salad to savor the bounty of a local farmers' market. Gather new friends for Omelets in a Bag or Midwestern Shredded Chicken sandwiches...sit down together for a chat over coffee and a slice of No-Bother, No-Bake Cheesecake!

Product Details

• File Size: 622 KB
• Print Length: 34 pages
• Publisher: Gooseberry Patch (May 17, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00512QG1O
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,002 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient
  • #70 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > U.S. Regional

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars 37 recipes decent Kindle formatting August 22, 2011

By Anniepoo

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Cleverest recipe on a quick page thru available in sample (eggs in a bag). There are a few labor-saving/space-saving recipes, as well as a couple mix-several-cans. Ingredients are searchable unlike some cookbooks. Would benefit by page breaks between recipes and a table of contents... user could highlight each recipe title to create a ToC. I also think less spacing in the ingredients lists would improve the layout. Nice for free, but I don't think I would pay more than $1.99, and maybe not that much...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Love the illustrations! August 23, 2011

By Mamabear Cherei

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This is a rather unique cookbook! Superb for those who like to hit the open road.. and NOT eat out every meal. The recipes are rather simple.. easy to follow.. and made of common ingredients found in any grocery store!! No special shopping at all! For me.. that's the PERFECT cookbook!

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Looking forward to testing this weekend August 22, 2011

By Mandy Gagnon

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Not sure why someone would rate 1 star. 1. you are getting it for free. 2. It's Gooseberry Patch.

We are going camping at the beach this weekend. I am looking forward to trying some of the recipes out! I love Gooseberry Patch. The recipes use things that you have in your kitchen, pantry or can get with a quick stop at the grocery store.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Only useful if you live at an RV park November 15, 2012

By rikkimike

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The cookbook seems to miss the point of creating a small pantry and having a smaller cooking space as well as smaller cookware to deal with. This should have been labled "Not For Travellers," because I felt like I was going to have to be constantly driving to a big-box store, or to do all of my RV'ing in the Los Angeles - Riverside Metro.

Why would I boil my omlettes in bag if I only have on-board water?!?!? Then make spaghetti?

I cringe at the notion of having to make some of these recipes either in West Texas or along the way. I really wanted a cookbook that gives me a simple pantry for a two-week trip to the country, with a shopping list and some recipes for when I don't have my RV connected to a water main. I am better off buying TV dinners and using a microwave, honestly, than relying on this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Mostly neither RV-suitable nor healthy October 7, 2012

By MamaSylvia

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Collection of recipes, supposedly suitable for the restricted cooking possible in a recreational vehicle, sent to the publisher by readers of their earlier cookbooks.

I picked up this book free during an Amazon giveaway. I have RV'd for many years, in RVs ranging from class A motor homes to little travel trailers, and while I love the lifestyle, it does require some adjustment in the kitchen. Besides having only a tiny area to work in, one has storage room for only a few pots and pans, and the well-equipped spice cabinet at home is missing. This doesn't mean you have to settle for uninteresting food, but it does require thinking about the possibilities. The ideal RV recipe would only use a few ingredients and only the most-used spices, require minimal prep, and only use one small or medium-sized pan. Sadly, many of the recipes do not meet this criterion. I can see using salt and pepper, and even garlic powder, but cilantro? Browning sauce? Parsley? Bay leaf? Chives? No room for them in my RVs. Many recipes call for 1/2 tsp or less of ingredients - I don't know any RVer who takes along tiny measuring spoons. A recipe for muffins not only requires muffin pans but would require a mixer for me - I don't do hand mixing. (The recipe is followed by a "tip" to stock "stackable, reusable silicone baking cups." I love silicone for baking but have yet to see a silicone pan that will hold its shape when liquid is poured into it. At home, the ease of cleanup is worth the hassle of fidgeting with the pan so the batter doesn't spill everywhere, but in the limited space and maneuverability of an RV the outcome would be a messy nightmare.) A chicken sandwich recipe calls for boiling three chicken breasts - I never had room for a pot big enough to hold them! I never took along cornstarch or flour, either.... Hobo Dinner uses too many specialized ingredients, but if you eliminated the Worcestershire and changed the seasoned pepper to seasoned salt, it would probably work. (Seasoned pepper would be healthier, but more people would probably take seasoned salt as their all-purpose seasoning.) And if you are concered about healthy eating, there are few recipes that don't rely on high-sodium products (cream of anything soup, cheese, mixes). On the other hand, there are some great recipes and tips. The tip to freeze home-cooked food in baggies for reheating is a handy idea, as long as the RV has a microwave or the food is suitable for reheating in a small pan. The opening recipe, Omelets in a Bag, sounds clever and an excellent way to prepare a nice breakfast for more than one person at a time. Picnic Pineapple Gelatin sounds very suitable to RV limitations. The Marinated Broccoli Salad sounds suitable if you bring dill weed along, although I would use a disposable storage container rather than a baggie - I've had liquid leak out of too many baggies to trust them. Mom's One-Pot Pork Chop Dinner would make an RV-suitable dinner. The tip to take along Rice-a-Roni-type mixes is also great, although the sodium level of such dinners is high they make a wonderful, quick one-pan dinner. As usual, there is no table of contents at all, much less one that interfaces with the Kindle navigation menu. This is worth grabbing if you can pick it up free, but there isn't enough useful content for me to recommend spending money for it. Read more ›

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Several useful recipes November 19, 2011

By Kathy Bradley

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I have a tendency to collect cookbooks for one or two recipts and collecting them on my Kindle saves lots of space. I grabbed this one as a "let's see" because it was free at the time and found a couple of recipes that I have used at home. I already knew about the omlets in a bag (my husband has been a scout leader for 25 years - this one is a standard for him) but the honey chicken was a surprise. Fast and easy and good. In addition, a coworker liked the idea of the pineapple rings/jello in the can idea for girls camp. Several clever ideas for saving space in an RV (favorite recipes on cards and put in a small photo album comes immediately to mind). I found this cookbooklet useful.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful Recipes, Formatting Could Be Improved.... July 28, 2012

By J. P. TOP 500 REVIEWER

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Plain and simple, this cookbook has good recipes for cooking in the non-conventional RV kitchen. I personally don't own an RV but this cookbook is worth having for quick fix meals. The table of contents leaves a lot to be desired and as a cookbook this is a vital part of the book for quickly accessing the recipe you want to use. Looking at this book on a tablet like an iPad or Kindle Fire or even a phone the text flows great. It was also nice to see tidbits about games and different activities that you can include on your next RV adventure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars A cookbook to leave home while you are traveling June 7, 2012

By Barbara D'Angelo

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This cookbook suffers the common Kindle formating problems, ingredients are double spaced often taking two pages while the instructions are crammed together without any kind of formating. I could ignore this if the recipes sounded even slightly tasty, but they are made up of canned and packaged products producing calorie laden, stodgy food. I always object to recipes for soup that start with cans of soup, one such recipe calls for 4 cans of soup along with packaged rice. The Cape cod Clam chowder is made up of 2 cans of New England Chowder, a can of cream of celery soup and a can of cream of potato soup along with some potatoes and cream. A much taster Chowder can be made of canned clams, real potatoes, and onion and some cream and it will not only taste great it will not be laden with salt and the ingredients will take up much less space in your RV. The only recipe in this book that sounded remotely interesting was the Omelets in a bag, and I would have to try it before recommending it. Over all one star is probably too much for this cookbook and I am glad I didn't pay for it.

More About the Author

Gooseberry Patch was founded in 1984 by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, two moms looking for a way to do what they loved and stay home with kids too. 25 years later, they're best known for their collection of family-friendly, community-style cookbooks. Each book is created with today's time-strapped, budget-conscious families in mind and filled with recipes shared by cooks all across the country. Along with treasured family recipes, each book includes the stories the go along with these tried & true dishes.

With more than 200 titles and nearly 9 million copies in print, plus an ever-growing collection of eBooks, Gooseberry Patch has grown from a kitchen-table operation to a nationally recognized best-selling publisher. Check out their books below and visit their website (www.gooseberrypatch.com) to get thousands of free recipes and lots more free goodies.

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