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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Feb 1st, 2012
The latest recipes from our column, “Trail Eats” In Washington Trails Magazine (the January/February 2012 issue). The theme was warm and nourishing soups, perfect for cold weather hiking/backpacking/snowshoeing trips. Clam and Bacon Chowder In a sandwich bag: 1 cup instant plain mashed potatoes ¼ cup shelf stable bacon 4 tsp low sodium chicken bouillon 1 [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, One Pot Meals, Vegetarian on Dec 30th, 2011
Two days from 2012 starting! That got me in the mood for a new trail breakfast. Something warm, nourishing, slightly sweet yet with a little savory. And this breakfast pudding was just what I craved! Breakfast Pistachio Rice Pudding Rice, milk, cranberries, a little brown sugar and cinnamon and lovely green pistachios – yum! ~Sarah
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 22nd, 2011
Being a Washington State native I grew up on Liberty Orchard’s Aplets and Cotlets – and their extensive candy collection. I love the mix of gummy candy and chopped nuts. Yum! This week we had samples of a newer line, The Orchard Bar, show up for review. Imagine if I had my favorite fruit and [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 19th, 2011
Prunes, er, I mean dried plums, don’t usually rank up there as exciting outdoor food but the new packages of of Sunsweet® Plum Amazins™ Diced Dried Plums caught my eyes: Dried plums tend to be really sticky/messy so I don’t carry them often (especially in summer when they start sweating and get even more sticky) [...]
Posted in Dehydrating, Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Nov 11th, 2011
I don’t view Thanksgiving as a meal, rather a weekend of fun – be it at home or out camping. Short days, long nights and cold weather and lots of good eats! Need some inspiration for meals, from easy to gourmet? Thanksgiving On The Trail is a section on Trailcooking that I have worked on [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Nov 5th, 2011
Back in early 2009 I had written about a new product I came across at the yearly VegFest in Seattle, an almond butter by Barney Butter. Earlier this week I was in Whole Foods and saw packets of almond butter that I didn’t recognize but the name was nagging at me. Well, it was the [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Oct 30th, 2011
Over the years I have come up with a couple 1,000 recipes for outdoor cooking. Some are classics now (you know they have become that when you see them on websites passed around so many times your name/website/book ceases to be connected to them – sigh), some are from weird periods in my life when [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Oct 29th, 2011
We received a care package recently from Wholesome Sweeteners of various individual serving packages, but what really caught my attention were the agave nectar ones! Included was organic blue agave, organic raw blue agave and organic blue agave flavored with maple. (Costco by the way carries the regular agave by them in squeeze bottles). Each [...]
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