I’m here to give you an easy meal that any buffoon can make whilst out in the great outdoors. When I say ‘any buffoon’, I obviously mean me.

Today I am going to share with you a recipe that I scribbled down on a crumpled piece of paper years ago, but never actually got round to making, so I thought it was time to make the effort.

I’m really glad I did, because it makes a tasty and hearty meal, and the best thing is that it is really easy to make, and only uses two pans and requires limited cooking skills. Perfect whilst enjoying a night under the stars.

Equipment needed

• Stove

• Skillet

• Pan

• Utensils

• Chopping board

Branded equipment used: Petromax fp30 Fire Skillet, Coleman Unleaded Dual Fuel Stove, Jetboil Jetset Utensil Set, Helinox Café Table, Almazan Kitchen Knife, COBB Chopping Board

Ingredients (for 4)

• 1 onion

• 500g quality sausages - venison, beef or pork - it’s up to you

• 1 garlic clove minced or finely chopped

• 400g tin of chopped tomatoes

• 300g pot of hot Salsa, or mild depending on taste

• 300g sun-dried tomato pesto

• ½ tsp dried Rosemary

• 80g Spaghetti (per person) (Italians may be horrified by this, but this dish also goes well with creamy mashed potatoes)

• Salt & Pepper

• Optional - parmesan or other strong cheese to sprinkle on top

Instructions

• Roughly chop the onion and cut the sausages into 1½" pieces

• Heat the oil in a large pan then add the onion and sausages

• Cook on a medium heat for around 10 minutes. It doesn’t matter if the sausages are not brown and crispy as there’s still plenty of time for them to cook through

• Add garlic, and stir in

• Add chopped tomatoes, salsa, tomato pesto, Rosemary and salt and pepper to taste

• Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes

• Whilst simmering, cook the pasta in a separate pan of salted boiling water

• Once both pasta and the main dish is cooked through, add the pasta to the main dish, stir and serve

• Now is the time to sprinkle the parmesan if using

• Crack open a beer or better still, a bottle of wine!

Enjoy!

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P.S. The keen eyed amongst you will notice that the pan I'm using on the final 2 photos is the Madog Skillet which is different than the cooking pics, this is because the recipe makes enough food to fill 3 or 4 hungry adults, and there was only me eating, so I swapped to a smaller pan when I added the pasta, and kept the rest for later meals.