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, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Book Review: The One Burner Gourmet
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Book review, Book Reviews, books, cookbooks on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Food Find: Cheddar Cheese Soup Mix and Recipe
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian, tagged backcountry cooking, backcountry food, backpacking recipes, FBC, FBC meals, Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Frontier Foods, hiker food, insulated mug meals, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, soup, Trail Cooking, trail food, trail meals, trail recipes, Vegetarian, vegetarian trail meals, www.freezerbagcooking.com, www.trailcooking.com on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
New Gear: To Go Ware Utensils
Posted in Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear, tagged backcountry cooking, Bamboo utensils, Gear, To Go Ware, Trail Cooking Gear, utensils on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
New Recipes Using Recent Food Finds
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian, tagged backcountry cooking, backcountry food, backpacking recipes, FBC, FBC Cozies, FBC meals, Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, hiker food, insulated mug meals, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, trail food, trail lunches, trail meals, Vegetarian, vegetarian trail meals, wilderness cooking, www.freezerbagcooking.com, www.trailcooking.com on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Spring Stockup and Cleanup
Posted in Food Finds, Other, Trail Cooking, tagged backcountry cooking, backcountry food, Food Finds, hiker food, Trail Cooking, trail food, wilderness cooking, www.trailcooking.com on March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]





