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Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Feb 2nd, 2012
While this isn’t a shelf stable food, for first day out or dayhiking, Sabra Single Serving Hummus Packs are perfect for tucking in. I picked up the Roasted Red Pepper for trying out: It is two sealed packs inside – one is the hummus, the other is crunch pretzel chips: The kit weighs 4.56 ounces [...]
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, 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, Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Oct 26th, 2011
Hiking and it is cold (or at least heading that way)? Out here in the PNW we are already waking up to mid 30′s for temps and in the mountains it is colder we have had snow a number of days already. Just the way fall should be So here are a smattering of recipes [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Oct 5th, 2011
Let us start this review by me admitting I have a deep fondness for nut and seed butters. I love nearly all the types out there, so much I even make my own at home. Once you start trying the “odder” ones, peanut butter starts tasting well…pedestrian. Coming across pistachio butter was one of those [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Aug 31st, 2011
As I have mentioned we attended the Vida Vegan Conference this past weekend and I had a number of conversations come up about my recipes for backpacking/hiking meals.I also realized that many of our recipes on the website were not properly tagged either! So I am slowly going through the website and updating – I [...]
Posted in One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking on May 6th, 2011
Recently added to Trail Cooking is an easy method for preparing quinoa on the trail without cooking it for 15 to 20 minutes nor having to cook it at home and dehydrate it. Now don’t get me wrong, precooking and dehydrating is fab to do! You can have truly instant quinoa that is easily used [...]
Posted in Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Apr 2nd, 2011
While baking a project this afternoon (on a very rainy day) it occurred to me that the results were perfect hiking food. Portable, healthy and portion controlled. And so healthy the squirrels will be attacking you…. While they look like cookies they are not quite that. A blend of savory and sweet in a cookie [...]
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