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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking, photos 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 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 Freezer Bag Cooking, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on May 27th, 2010
By now many of you have figured out that I love to do “re-do’s” of a certain magazines backcountry recipes. It isn’t that they don’t have good recipes – they do – but they often are aimed at the casual hiker who doesn’t mind carrying two pots, a lot of fuel and so on. I [...]
Posted in Dehydrating, Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Mar 12th, 2010
Been a busy week! Check out these recipes (along with all the others we added this week!) over on Trail Cooking. The Health Bowl was an inspired ‘re-do’. Another hiker sent me his recipe that he cooks in the traditional way (simmering raw rice and red lentils). This version takes a lot less time and [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking on Feb 4th, 2010
If there is one thing great about running a ‘cottage gear’ industry is being able to go off on a whim and create a new item in a matter of hours, days or weeks. A month or so ago I was out having lattes with Catzia and talking shop. We were lamenting over how we [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking on Dec 31st, 2009
Over our monthly coffee meetings, Cat and I were talking shop (Cat runs our booth when we do trade and trail shows!). My idea of a new version of the FBC Cozy came up and I threw my ideas out to her. She was “you need to get that idea down and see if it [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking, hiking on Sep 28th, 2009
We knew from the get go that the FBC UL Cozy would be a limited run – the silnylon material used is no longer manufactured. I cut the final set of cozies this morning and am finishing the run up currently. (Three of us with our UL’ers in the near dark….) We have about 40 [...]
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