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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Aug 31st, 2010
With the newest issue of Washington Trails Magazine coming out today, the September/October 2010 issue, Kirk and I celebrate a year of fun creating new recipes for our favorite non-profit! I do the recipe creating, he takes the photographs. A great relationship indeed – and Ford does the taste testing. Some of the recipes were [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Aug 30th, 2010
Last weekend Kirk and I had gone up to the Island for family things and we had been expecting cold, overcast weather. When in the afternoon it cleared up and we instead got balmy winds and blue skies. We hadn’t been able to get away till late afternoon and on the way home we stopped [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 30th, 2010
Recently Laughing Cow cheese brought out 3 new flavors of their already awesome shelf stable cheese. If you follow our recipes you know I have had a long love affair with them – Chicken Salsa Wraps and Cheesy Bacon Onion Mashers are two examples. The wedges are fantastic – they carry well, spreadable, melt quickly [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 26th, 2010
Another easy to grab snack for your pack from your local Starbucks is Sahale Snacks Pomegranate Cashews. As with the other nuts in their line expect neither an overly sweet nor salty nut. The flavor of the pomegranates is a light flavor. The only downside is we found the cashews to be soft in texture. [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 25th, 2010
On the way to the trailhead this past weekend I was looking for a snack to throw in the packs and came across Country Choice Organic’s soft baked cookies, of which I picked up the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip flavor: The convenience is having individually wrapped cookies that stay fresh, well worth any extra cost and [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 24th, 2010
A Crystal Light drink mix not full of artificial dyes? Yes indeed! Crystal Light Pure Fitness mix has started recently started showing up on the shelves in the drink mix aisles of grocery stores. It can be hard to find but is well worth the effort. The taste is different than was expected – I [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Aug 23rd, 2010
Check the recipe out for Lazy Gingerbread Cookies over at Trailcooking! The idea for this recipe came to me recently after I had a 1 pound bag o’ organic dried eggs show up. And….a pound of eggs is quite a bit! Adding a couple other ingredients: Pan frying till browned: Is it a cookie? A [...]
Posted in Food Finds, hiking, Trail Cooking on Aug 23rd, 2010
New to Packitgourmet’s meal lineup is an Apple Waldorf Salad. It contains an inner bag of the dry veggies and fruit, a bag of currants, mayo packet and blue cheese dressing packet: Incredibly easy to prepare: Add the dry items to the outer mixing bag (reserve the smaller bag for garbage), top with currants, then [...]
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