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Archive for March, 2010

Harriett Barker was in my eyes one of the pioneers of trail cooking and outdoor cookbooks. I have talked before about her second book, The Supermarket Backpacker – a book that I happen to love and has a prized spot in my large collection of outdoor cookbooks. The One-Burner Gourmet was her first outdoor cookbook, [...]

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A recent food find was Frontier Food’s Cheddar Cheese Soup Mix. I picked up a bag in my recent order from Frontier Foods and like most bases figured might as well have fun adding more to the soup – make it heartier. The mix itself is easy to use, simply add 3 Tablespoons of dry [...]

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Back in June of last year I had written a quick blog on To Go Ware’s RePEaT utensil sets. Yesterday I was out running errands and stopped into REI. I finally decided to pick up a set of the utensils, they had been calling me long enough. I got a set wrapped in a hot [...]

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Been a busy week! Check out these recipes (along with all the others we added this week!) over on Trail Cooking. The Health Bowl was an inspired ‘re-do’. Another hiker sent me his recipe that he cooks in the traditional way (simmering raw rice and red lentils). This version takes a lot less time and [...]

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Salsa makes so much better taste wise (the ketchup of modern times?). If you can find packets of it great, but they are not so easy to come up with. The best I have found for convenience is the picante packets at McDonald’s. It is mild and spreads easily. If one asks nicely they may [...]

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Recently I had mentioned how we picked up some new items from Frontier Foods Co-op. New recipes were developed to see how they worked and here are two of the newest over on Trail Cooking! Trashy Souper Rice – this recipe uses dry cream of mushroom soup mix. Don’t forget the tater chips for the [...]

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I was talking with Teresa “Dicentra” recently about our stocks and stores of trail food ingredients – we often share if one has something the other is out of or can’t get I realized my “hiker’s pantry” was looking pretty thin these days and needed a shaking down. Having not hiked a lot this winter [...]

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Out in this months new Wa Trails Magazine (March/April 2010) is two new recipes, on page 35. Hiker’s Primavera Pasta Cran-Mac Caramel Bars ~Sarah

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