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Posted in No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking on Jan 31st, 2009
This recipe has been very popular at trail cooking presentations. It is a no cook recipe, all you need is water and time for it to rehydrate.
Tuna Bruschetta
In a sandwich bag put:
1/4 diced sun dried tomatoes
1 Tbsp diced dried bell peppers
1 Tbsp diced dried shallots or onions
1/4 tsp each:
Garlic, fresh ground black pepper, dried basil, [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Other, Trail Cooking on Jan 30th, 2009
One of the many commercial freeze dried meals on the market is Alpine Aire’s Pasta Roma, a vegetarian pasta based dish. The package weight is 6-ounces for $6.03 retail. As many of the meals claim, it is a two person meal. Each serving has 390 calories, 11 grams fat, 19 grams of protein, 730 mg [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Other, Trail Cooking, hiking on Jan 29th, 2009
I had a case of ProBars show up this morning and enclosed was a note inside talking about the huge peanut butter recalls. The note let me know that their company is not part of any recalls. So that was good news!
The notice is posted up on their website as well, I have copied it [...]
Posted in Dehydrating, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian, hiking on Jan 29th, 2009
Recently I received an email asking about this recipe and would I post it? Of course! The recipe will be archived in the Pasta Page on FreezerBagCooking. As usual, I have included the directions for the three main ways of trail cooking.
Back in the summer of 2007 our friend GoBlueHiker tried this recipe out while [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, hiking on Jan 28th, 2009
I came across an article recently on “How To Be Found” from late fall 2007, written by Dan Nelson (a local well known guide book author).
There is little as scary as realizing you don’t have any idea where you are. I prefer to call it “temporarily misplaced” but in the end….being lost is numbing.It is [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Jan 27th, 2009
Let us bring back Tater Tuesday – which for a long time I did weekly. It was always a fun one – come up with a new mashed potato recipe every week.
I had been asked over on the Whiteblaze forums if I could take a recipe seen on Food Network and make it trail doable. [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Jan 27th, 2009
Consider the Kashi® TLC cereal and fruit bars to be a much better version of Nutrigrain® bars. Back when I could have artificial food colors I often carried Nutrigrain® ones in my pack. I knew there had to be a better version out there and I was rewarded with my searching.
Kashi®’s bars are not only [...]
Posted in Food Finds, No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking on Jan 26th, 2009
I picked up a bag of Alpine Aire’s Tuna Salad kit online at Amazon: AlpineAire Foods Alpine Tuna Salad with Crackers.
It doesn’t show on Alpine Aire’s website though.
The Tuna Salad kit is a no cook meal, very simple to prepare as well. Simply add 1/2 cup cool water and let sit for at least 15 [...]
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