The blog of www.trailcooking.com
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, hiking on May 11th, 2010
For many Memorial Day weekend is the “official” start of the outdoor season – time to get everything packed and back on the trail, shaking off winter’s dust. I have done a few MDW trips over the years , they are a great excuse for a 3 day shake down of new gear, new ideas [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking on Apr 29th, 2010
We keep up two Facebook pages – one for TrailCooking and other for Freezer Bag Cooking. One of our readers Shelli recently added a couple of her recipes to the discusion boards on the FBC page Part1: so. i am IN LOVE with my dehydrator. and freezer bags. so…with all of the crazy experimenting i came [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Feb 26th, 2010
Teresa “Dicentra” (One Pan Wonders) my long time friend and hiking partner was digging through stuff and came across a couple forgotten CD’s of photos from past trips we had done. A number of these photos I hadn’t seen before! From 2004 and 2005 mostly A very young Ford on the way up Dog Mountain [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Feb 24th, 2010
There was a point in my life when more than half my outdoor gear had LLBean splattered on it. It was well made gear, it lasted and worked well. Then they kind of took a turn where they were not producing much – to my sadness. Then I went UL and that cut out a [...]
Posted in hiking on Jan 30th, 2010
~The meadow at Summerland~ Is it the economy? The hard winter for most of us? Who knows, but I can say I have seen a lot of chattering about hiking plans for this coming summer, more than usual, especially about the Wonderland Trail here in Washington – our gorgeous 93 miles loop around (well more [...]
Posted in Other, Trail Cooking on Jan 8th, 2010
I had been asked for more steamed muffin recipes so I have been working on new ones. First up is this very easy recipe for Pizza inspired muffins. And before I forget, before everyone says “What are those muffin liners?” They are Wilton Silly- Feet Silicone Baking Cups , 4 Count. You can find them [...]
Posted in Trail Cooking, hiking on Jan 5th, 2010
We finally had a chance to finish moving over a long missing section from the old website to the current Trail Cooking site. Check out Trail Cooking 101 which is in a “book format” for easy reading. It covers the basics on what Freezer Bag Cooking (FBC) is, to other methods like using an insulated [...]
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