Outdoor Cooking Weekend

Are you absolutely crazy about cooking? Is nothing going too far for you when it comes to food? Then sign up for the Unplugged Outdoor Cooking Weekend. Culinary camping in nature. This weekend is all about cooking on a wood fire in the middle of nature. The whole weekend takes place outside and you will learn, in addition to outdoor cooking, some basic survival skills. Think of fire making, woodcrafting and learning about edible plants and fruits. Saturday night the campfire burns at full blast. A place to cook, relax and enjoy food and stories. We sleep at Schoutenveld campsite or at our new site in Strijbeek, under a tarp or in a tent. In short: do you like fun, delicious food and being outside undisturbed? Then this is your weekend!

The theme of this Unplugged Weekend is Outdoor Cooking. Being outside and getting away from the daily hectic. We live in a rush, are often too busy and have too little time for extensive cooking and dining together. Unplugged Outdoor does make room for this. We make time for each other, time to prepare delicious dishes together and all this on an outdoor fire. The local farmer lends us a hand, with fresh fruits and vegetables, and of course we have matching wines and beers. To get an idea of what goodies we will make ourselves? 

Small appetizers to whet the appetite
Homemade soup with wild herbs from nature
A good piece of meat e/o fish (vegan e/or vega is of course also possible)
Puffed potatoes with side dishes
Delicious dessert

Lunch on day 2 and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday will be provided entirely by Unplugged Outdoor. The lunch on day 3 we will make together. On this day we will collect edible plants and fruits which we will incorporate in our own meals. What exactly will be on the table remains a surprise. It just depends on what nature gives us at that moment. A tip of the veil: you will learn to bake bread in a Dutch oven. But a super important ingredient that this weekend also calls for: a switched off phone. Get in touch with yourself and the other participants and use your senses for the here & now. Let the outside world stew in its own juices. All focus on your own roots!

Day 1
You are welcome today from 6:00 pm. We will start the evening in an informal and cozy way by getting to know each other around the crackling campfire. Don't forget to bring your own meal for this evening, because tonight there is no specific program but we will definitely enjoy a cozy fire and delicious popcorn!

Day 2
We start at 09:30 and the program of the day will be explained. It will be no surprise that outdoor cooking is the highlight! Before we can get started with this, you will learn how to make fire, be explained how to use knife and axe and learn what woodcrafting is. No outdoor adventure without proper outdoor cooking skills. We will work together to prepare beautiful dishes that we can make in different ways. We eat together at a big, long table. When it gets chilly, we move to the campfire and end the day here. Afterwards, you dive into your own tent. Sleep well!

Day 3
Good morning, hopefully you also enjoyed all the goodies yesterday and slept well. Yes, it is a bit different from waking up at home in your own bed. But how wonderful to be so unplugged! The fire is already lit, the coffee is ready and we warm the bread, which we made ourselves yesterday, a little bit. After our breakfast we start with a walk of 5 to 8 kilometers through the Ulvenhout e/o Strijbeekse woods. You will learn more about outdoor cooking so we can prepare a lunch or "high tea" together. Hopefully you have left a free spot, because it's going to be a feast! 

Travel fee is €269 per person.

Included

• Outdoor Cooking & Basic Survival Skills
• 3 days of being in the middle of the forest plus two overnight stays
• Tea, coffee, water & lemonade will be provided for you
• Local wine & beers with dinner
• Delectable meals from the outdoor fire
• Enjoying the conversations around the campfire
• Experienced to go offline for a weekend
• Unplugged Outdoor present
  
  

• Other (alcoholic) drinks 
• Material from the equipment list (this will follow by mail)
• Transportation to and from camping Schouteveld or Strijbeek

We have two locations where we have adventures. 

Location Camping Schouteveld
In the area between Gilze-Chaam-Ulvenhout and Alphen are the Chaam and Ulvenhout woods. The Alphen mountains and the Generaalsbossen are also part of this. Together they form a wonderful combination of ancient forests, marshy meadows, streams and moors with fens. Magnificent views are guaranteed and with a little luck we will encounter grazing deer at dusk. 

The address is Schouteveld 1, 5126 NB Gilze

Location Strijbeek
Somewhere in the Strijbeek woods, bordering Belgium, is a private property where we may build our basecamp Unplugged Outdoor. It is a beautiful terrain surrounded by idyllic fens, pine forests and heathland. There is NO electricity or WiFi. So you really go back to basics. By the way, there is a neat toilet building and if you want to wake up refreshed, jump in the lake.