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NEW! Italian Pasta Salad
Sgt. Rock [This one's a true winner folks! There are so man things you can do with this recipe. I added some banana peppers and a bit of parmesan cheese. You could add some dehydrated olives, peppers, onions, in with the ramens. It's cheap, painless, light and great tasting. Everything I look for in food!]
Cucumber Salad Serves one In a quart sized freezer ziploc bag, mix: 1 oz. of dried cucumber ½ oz. dry onion 1 oz. dry, coarsely chopped tomato ½ oz. sweet red pepper In the morning, or before breaking camp, add 1 cup warm water to salad mix. Set aside. Place ziploc in an outside pocket of your pack. At lunch: Blend ingredients in bag, strain off excess water, dress with salt, pepper and a dash of olive oil. Mix again.Sierramel
Cuban Style Black Beans and Rice Serves about two
Into a quart size freezer bag, measure:
4 oz. of *canned dried, black beans
Into a separate snack bag measure:
2 oz. instant brown rice In camp:
Heat 2 cup of water to boiling.
Add beans, stir, cover and reduce heat to simmer. Allow to sit for about
10 minutes.
Add rice and more water if the bean mix is too thick. Stir and cover for
five minutes.
Re-heat.
When done, the beans and rice should be slightly soupy. You should be
able to eat them with a spoon, not a
fork. *Before dehydrating, cook canned black beans, in their liquid, for 20 minutes with ¼ cup sliced and chopped onion, ¼ cup chopped sweet red pepper, ¼ cup chopped green bell pepper , 1tsp. ground cloves, ½ tsp. ground cumin and 1 tsp. chili powder. You can also add ¼ cup chopped dried ham, or Textured Vegetable protein. Sierramel
Hummus and Sun-dried Tomatoes powdered hummus in a baggie (just add water) sun-dried tomatoes (the softer ones, not the really dried out ones) crackers or flat bread 'Snow Nymph'
Mary's Chicken Soup The worst Mountain House is better than anything else I've tried. I also buy their ingredients and concoct some stuff of my own. #10 cans of things like meats and vegetables are available but try the small sizes of anything before you invest in the big cans. Here is something I made up last weekend and it was good. 1 1/2 t chicken bullion crystals a few dried onion flakes a dash of garlic a dash of ground clove a handful of freeze dried corn a handful of freeze dried chicken I put it in a pint size freezer bag and added about a cup and a half of boiling water. It was pretty tasty soup. Mary Phyl
Onelance Pasta Place the following ingredients in a one quart heavy duty Ziploc FREEZER bag: I heaping cupful Mueller's Micro Quick Twist pasta 1/3 cup Planters trail mix (nuts, seeds & raisins) The ingredients list says sunflower kernels, raisins, cashews, pumpkin seeds, almonds and peanuts. 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. Spice Island Italian seasoning 1 heaping TBS Kraft 100% grated parmesan cheese 1 35 mm film cartridge full of olive oil (keeps it from mixing too soon) 3 cloves of garlic (6 if you are sleeping alone or you are an Emeril fan) Dash of crushed red pepper Dash of black pepper 5 pkgs. of Class A Fancy Supreme catsup (free at Burger King or McDonalds) Seal the bag and store in the refrigerator for your next walk down the trail. Preparation: Start 1 cup of fresh mountain water to boil Unroll your sleeping bag or quilt Remove the film canister, catsup & garlic from the Ziploc bag Empty catsup pkgs. into Ziploc bag Finely chop as much garlic as you want and add to the Ziploc bag (I use a plastic lid from a margarine container for a cutting board) Pour the olive oil into the bag and seal up the bag. Mix the ingredients in the bag by squishing it around with your fingers. Pour in 1 cup boiling water, seal up the bag while squeezing out most of the air as you do the last part of the zip. Mix slightly and hurry up to the next step. Place the bag in some insulation like your sleeping bag, sweater, thermals, etc. For the next ten minutes do not peak at your dinner. Boil more water for coffee, get the wine chilled, rub your feet or whatever, but don't peak. You can actually wait longer if you want but when you are ready to eat get the spoon provided by the catsup supplier, roll down the top of the Ziploc bag to a comfortable level and eat out of the bag. When you are done place the catsup pkgs., film canister, whatever other trash you have in the Ziploc bag for proper disposal later. The shelf life of this meal is quite long (as long as the ingredients are not mixed) if you store it in the vegetable bin of your
refrigerator. Happy trails,
Back Country Cabbage Rolls 1 pkg Liptons rice(any flavor) [I
don't remember who sent this gem to me a while ago.]
Recipe for Ultralight Joe's Moose Goo - 2 parts honey - 2 parts corn flour (NOT corn meal!) - 1 part peanut butter (preservative-laden) - Mix thoroughly, will take some time. - Pack into Coghlan's Squeeze Tube (REI, Campmor, etc), or in cold weather, wrap in wax paper. - BEWARE! Below 40F, "Ultralight Joe's Moose Goo" becomes impossible to squeeze out! For snow camping I plan to pack it in wax paper instead, eat it like a candy bar. Full Squeeze Tube Proportions (2-3 lunches w/
large tortillas): - 8 tbsp honey - 8 tbsp corn flour - 4 tbsp peanut butter
Per tube: 1320 calories 172g carbs (70 simple, 102 complex) 24g protein 38g fat (That's a high proportion of fat, but what the heck...) [There are very few things that I can eat for a whole trip. Moose Goo is one of them. This stuff just tastes better every time I have it. While I'm squirting it into my 10th tortilla of the weekend I start thinking regular peanut butter thoughts like, "Oh crap, this is gonna be so dry and I'll have to drink a gallon of water with it." but when I bite into it my thoughts switch to, "This must be what manna from heaven tastes like." I am convinced that when Moses and the nation of Israel were in the wilderness for 40 years they ate Moose Goo (of course it would have been called Camel Goo then). If they had to eat anything else there would have been a revolt! If you try only one thing from all these recipes this should be it.]
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