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Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Mar 11th, 2010
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 top! [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Other, Trail Cooking on Mar 10th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Feb 26th, 2010
Simple truths: not everyone is a gourmet cook and not everyone has bundles of time to plan. For that one can use handy convenience products to make a simple and hearty dinner on the trail. Don’t feel guilty, feel full!
Check out the recipe/shopping list over on Trail Cooking for a quick go-to meal.
We used Suddenly [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Hormel® Pepperoni is a fantastic backpacking food for those who eat meat as it is very shelf stable.
It comes in 3.5 ounce packages that have two sleeves of slices. While normally sold in the refrigerated deli meat section next to the bacon, deli meats and hot dogs it doesn’t need to be refrigerated until after [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Feb 21st, 2010
My brother was down visiting so he offered to help out on a test run of PackitGourmet’s Diner Deluxe Scrambled Eggs.
We had opted to try out the sausage version. The meal came with the egg mix, bag of Toastees, 2 oil packets, 2 salsa packets and prep kit (I always get the prep kit that [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Feb 11th, 2010
When developing recipes I often call for dry milk (powdered milk) in them. Why though? It adds nutrition – extra calories. Body and creaminess. A little powdered milk in your rice dishes will finish it off. It is a lightweight ingredient that is easy to use!
We do get asked if one can use substitutions and [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Jan 18th, 2010
My readers know what a long time fan of steam baking I am. It is simple, the results always taste good and more so, it is soft, moist and tender – especially in baked goods. I have used a couple of PackitGourmet’s steam baked goodie mixes with always good results so I was not disappointed [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jan 14th, 2010
A week or so ago we were in REI and I noticed these bars:
I hadn’t seen them before and after researching them I didn’t find them on either Luna’s or Cliff Bars websites. That wasn’t unusual – I have found Luna products over the years that are not on the website. After researching more I [...]
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