When I first started hiking and backpacking, dinners were different. You either had a space-age mylar bag with styrofoam-looking freeze-dried food (and no idea if it would even taste OK), or you had some weird meal you cobbled from stuff you found at the store. This is what inspired me to develop and write recipes… Continue reading Boondocking Meals: Stovetop Stuffing and Chicken
Category: Boondocking
Boondocking Recipe: Instant Egg Sausage Scramble
The instant egg sausage scramble recipe pulls together quickly and packs into a pint-sized mason jar or mylar bag. This recipe will require cooking, but you won’t need refrigeration. With boondocking (staying off-grid/no power/running water unless in tanks), recipes that don't need to be chilled make your trips that much easier. Be it van life,… Continue reading Boondocking Recipe: Instant Egg Sausage Scramble
Trail Cooking: Hearty Fall Gravy Over Rice
This hybrid one pot recipe comes from Trail Cooking: Trail Food Made Gourmet on page 141. It's a more intensive recipe for labor, but works well as a boondocking or cabin camping recipe. Having extra pots makes it come together. However, it can be done FBC Hybrid, where you make the rice Freezer Bag Cooking… Continue reading Trail Cooking: Hearty Fall Gravy Over Rice
Boondocking Meals: Steak Strips and Garlic Fried Rice
A few years back Kirk and I got an RV, and while the timing was poor (hello 2020 shutting down all the parks in Washington state) we have gotten out in it a number of times since then. No doubt it is comfy, and our tween and teen love going out in it. A nice… Continue reading Boondocking Meals: Steak Strips and Garlic Fried Rice
Boondocking Meals: Chicken and Rice Casserole
A one pot meal made for boondocking, be it in an RV, car camping or even staying in a cabin. This isn't a backpacking recipe unless you are into larger size trips and carry a big pot. If you do, then yum! This recipe was done on the propane fueled burner in our RV. We… Continue reading Boondocking Meals: Chicken and Rice Casserole