RV Cooking Made Easy: 100 Simple Recipes for Your Kitchen on Wheels

When it comes to camping, “food is a huge part of the experience,” asserts Schlueter (Cooking with Your Instant Pot Mini) in this uninspiring collection. For RV kitchens where a small propane cooktop, oven, and fridge are the norm, Schlueter offers tips and uncomplicated recipes, “so that you can spend less time stressing about food and more time enjoying your own RV experience.” The “RV experience,” though, seems to be of more importance than the actual recipes at hand. While ideas for maximizing storage space (use “small plastic bins that fit into smaller kitchen cabinets to store spice jars”), essential pantry checklists, and prep-ahead techniques prove useful, cooks will find no glamping here. In fact, the recipes are untempting assemblages that hearken back to vintage Betty Crocker–esque casseroles, boxed cake hacks, and refrigerator biscuits. For breakfast, classic corned beef hash comes from a can, and tater tot breakfast casserole (calling on a frozen bag of tots) favors nostalgia over flavor. On offer for lunch are chili cheese hotdogs using canned chili, BLTs, and sloppy joes, while dinner is served in the form of a bland shepherd’s pie and meatloaf muffins, with a side of ranch beans made with canned beans. For a freewheeling lifestyle, this is quite unadventurous fare. (Feb.)