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Posted in One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on May 6th, 2011
Recently added to Trail Cooking is an easy method for preparing quinoa on the trail without cooking it for 15 to 20 minutes nor having to cook it at home and dehydrate it. Now don’t get me wrong, precooking and dehydrating is fab to do! You can have truly instant quinoa that is easily used [...]
Posted in hiking, One Pot Meals, photos, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports on Apr 22nd, 2011
I love going through old hiking photos – especially the ones from before the concept of blogging was there. Back a long time ago I had a small website (or was it really a web page?) where I kept tiny photos and thin logs of trips that we took. That site is long gone now [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Apr 21st, 2011
Fast cooking pasta is a necessity if you do one pot meals and want to save fuel – but that pasta has to also taste good. Most times when I use pasta shapes in a recipe I use Barilla Piccolini – tasty pasta with great texture that cooks in 7 minutes. A good middle of [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Mar 29th, 2011
Maybe it is sunny where you all live, but here in Washington State it is still cold. Maybe the blossoms are coming on but the nice weather usually doesn’t arrive till April so I am still in winter mode this week! Two recipes that will warm you up, both of which are hearty soups/chowders. Find [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Mar 22nd, 2011
When dinner makes your mind wander to the casseroles of the 70 and 80′s you know the eating is good – and you has a Trash-erole! It’s Tater Tuesday so lets get cracking! Chicken Ranch Tater Trash-erole: Easy to make and hearty as well: All you need is a bag of sour cream and onion [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Mar 15th, 2011
Tater Tuesday and St. Patrick’s Day week? As far as I know I have no Irish in me but that doesn’t stop me from having fun with inspired dishes. And you won’t find any dyed green taters here….hah! First up is an oldie recipe that I created a couple years ago – and it has [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Mar 8th, 2011
Last week when Teresa “Dicentra” Black of One Pan Wonders asked if she could bring Tater Tuesday back to life, well she and I got talking. How about a Two-Fer…where her and I decided on the main ingredients and then went and created our own recipes. How far apart would they be? It is pretty [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Mar 1st, 2011
Teresa “Dicentra” Black, of One Pan Wonders, and I are long time hiking partners – and when we hike together all we do is talk about food, cooking gear, hiking gear, food, recipes, food and yeah more food. (I even took the cover photo Teresa used on her first book, One Pan Wonders ~ Backcountry [...]
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