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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegetarian on Oct 26th, 2010
I love peanut butter – it is affordable even if you buy the good stuff – it is fatty and a good source of calories and protein. Having said that you can swap in most other nut butters in the below recipes. Unsalted cashew or unsweetened sunflower butter work well if you have allergies. Spicy [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Oct 11th, 2010
Kirk, Walker and I spent a week at Great Smokies National Park and during the time I cooked up a couple recipes I am testing for upcoming books. It was a great way to have filling lunches on cool fall days! So due to flying we packed our favorite White Box alcohol stove and picked [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Sep 1st, 2010
Today’s lunch was Outdoor Herbivore’s Basil Walnut Penne: The vegan friendly meal is a powerhouse: Cal: 870 Fat: 28g Sodium: 465g Carbs: 95g Protein: 35g – it boasts whole wheat pasta and plenty of chunky walnuts. Easy to make and ready to eat in under 15 minutes. I have found for best results with the [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Aug 31st, 2010
With the newest issue of Washington Trails Magazine coming out today, the September/October 2010 issue, Kirk and I celebrate a year of fun creating new recipes for our favorite non-profit! I do the recipe creating, he takes the photographs. A great relationship indeed – and Ford does the taste testing. Some of the recipes were [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 30th, 2010
Recently Laughing Cow cheese brought out 3 new flavors of their already awesome shelf stable cheese. If you follow our recipes you know I have had a long love affair with them – Chicken Salsa Wraps and Cheesy Bacon Onion Mashers are two examples. The wedges are fantastic – they carry well, spreadable, melt quickly [...]
Posted in One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Aug 16th, 2010
A question came to me this morning on making pan biscuits and if I had any tips to share. And who doesn’t love biscuits? Yes, they do take a little extra work but they are worth it if you carry a non-stick pot you can have easy baking. While a frypan lid is nice they [...]
Posted in Dehydrating, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Aug 5th, 2010
This recipe re-do caught my eye in the current issue of a certain outdoorsy magazine. It claims to serve 4 but with only 8 ounces of pasta, 8 ounces of salmon and a small smattering of vegetation honestly it would only serve 2 average appetites without a large loaf o’ bread to fill everyone up! [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Jul 26th, 2010
I came across a new food company, Outdoor Herbivore, recently. They are a vegetarian/vegan friendly company. We picked up a couple meals to try out: I tried out the Chickpea Sesame Penne: The packaging is very minimal – just a thin outer bag. If you like no excessive packaging this is a good choice. It [...]
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