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Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Feb 21st, 2010
My brother was down visiting so he offered to help out on a test run of PackitGourmet’s Diner Deluxe Scrambled Eggs. We had opted to try out the sausage version. The meal came with the egg mix, bag of Toastees, 2 oil packets, 2 salsa packets and prep kit (I always get the prep kit [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking on Jan 18th, 2010
My readers know what a long time fan of steam baking I am. It is simple, the results always taste good and more so, it is soft, moist and tender – especially in baked goods. I have used a couple of PackitGourmet’s steam baked goodie mixes with always good results so I was not disappointed [...]
Posted in Food Finds, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Dec 28th, 2009
New to the market in recent weeks is PackitGourmet’s TexMex Breakfast Taco (or as I would call it…breakfast burritos!). We sampled the sausage version: It contains in the bag the egg/meat/veggie mix, 2 packets of oil and 2 packets of salsa. There is 4 choices for the salsa from mild to hot and red or [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Sep 1st, 2009
PackItGourmet, our go-to online shop for all the cool and hard to find food items we use in our recipes, is having an end of summer sale on everything in the store. Take that and buy enough to qualify for free shipping and life is good! The deal is 15% off from 9/1 to 9/10/2009 [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking on Aug 18th, 2009
This quick sauce is pulled together using a couple great shelf stable single serving packets! It works great as a dipping sauce for veggies or added to rice – even tossed with hot pasta. See the recipe for Quick Asian Peanut Sauce at Trailcooking. Items used: Justin’s Peanut Butter in 1 1/2 ounce packets. Feel [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Aug 7th, 2009
I was talking with Cat yesterday when I realized I had not been to Eunice Lake, which is in Mt. Rainier NP, since August of 2005. It was with Cat I had been there last. With the weather being cool this week doing a hike that doesn’t focus on mountain views sounded good. And the [...]
Posted in One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on Jul 24th, 2009
During today’s hike to Summerland at Mt. Rainier NP I tried out a new idea I came up with last night. A bit of this and that for a quick one pot meal. Recipe for Creamy Rosa Chicken Pasta archived on Trailcooking. Gear used – Canister stove, GSI Backpackers Set: Items used – Bag with [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking on Jul 21st, 2009
On yesterdays hike at Rainier, Ford and I stopped for a small lunch below Burroughs Mountain. I looked into my food bag and found a couple packages I hadn’t tried yet. Sampled were Packit Gourmet’s Refried Beans with Cheese and a packet of Japanese instant rice I had found awhile back at a large Asian [...]
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