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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Jun 30th, 2010
I saw a recipe for a pasta salad that gave me an idea for a ‘re-do’. It was a simple one – but the hardest part was figuring out a honey mustard dressing base. Why buy it if you can make it easy, eh? Thanks to Teresa “Dicentra” Black for helping me yesterday with finding [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, photos, Trail Cooking on Jun 29th, 2010
One of our readers, Erich, sent us these great shots of a 3 day solo trip he did recently. Food layed out: Cooking gear taken: Closeup of meals: And from the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (and featured on our Cozies On The Trail section as well): Thanks Erich, love them! ~Sarah
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jun 29th, 2010
If you love Starbucks VIA packets (and apparently a LOT of us do!) you need to check out the just released Starbucks VIA Iced Coffee.It just showed up in Starbucks yesterday: The SB cup is one of the reusable double walled cold cups with a permanent straw – don’t laugh it works great on trail [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking on Jun 25th, 2010
Those of you who have a copy of Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple may recognize the recipe for Chinese Take Out. This photo was taken by Nola of their version of it: Thank you! ~Sarah
Posted in hiking on Jun 22nd, 2010
It has been a “fun” year so far for the PNW. We had an El Nino winter (a lot of rain, little snow – remember the lousy snow at the Winter Olympics?) then as winter waned so did El Nino and we got late season snow up high. Then add in a cold, dreary spring. [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Jun 21st, 2010
The newest recipes up on Trail Cooking are from our newest flyer that we hand out during cooking presentations. Up first is the Garden Veggie Couscous which we created as an alternative to a commercial freeze-dried meal. It can be made either with organic or traditional ingredients and is vegetarian friendly. The meal we based [...]
Posted in hiking, Trail Cooking on Jun 18th, 2010
My friend Jared posted a couple FBC Cozy shots from a recent trip this week. Check them out on the Cozy Shots page (and if you have photos of your cozy send them to us!) We added four more books to our Trail Library this afternoon including this one: Last night at our presentation at [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jun 15th, 2010
Lots of tasty items to talk about! An oldy but goodie, the Luna Peanut Butter Cookie bar. Chewy, not too sweet and it is frosted. Snikiddy snacks. Crunchy, light and great tasting. Check out their Facebook page as well for both a sweepstakes and a sample offer! Kids will love the mac n’ cheese poofs [...]
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