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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

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Food Review: Augason Farms Dehydrated Apple Slices

I was out shopping this week for something pretty boring for a recipe I wanted to make. Dried apple slices. Yet....I couldn't even find them! I was in an average supermarket, with a decent sized dried fruit section. There were no apples at all. Not even an empty section for them. Lots of cherries, prunes,… Continue reading Food Review: Augason Farms Dehydrated Apple Slices

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One Pot Meal: Sesame Noodles

This one pot dinner recipe for Sesame Noodles comes from Trail Cooking: Trail Food Made Gourmet on page 246. It's a filling meal and truly serves 2 large appetites. The recipe is a bit more "hands on" than some, but is well worth the extra effort. It would make a great meal for cabin and… Continue reading One Pot Meal: Sesame Noodles

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Trail Recipes: Instant Double Corn Polenta

This easy FBC (Freezer Bag Cooking) recipe comes from page 160 of Trail Cooking: Trail Good Made Gourmet. The recipe includes FBC and One Pot directions. Is ti a savory breakfast? Or is it dinner? It can be either! It's gluten-free and vegetarian as well. Instant Double Corn Polenta In a quart freezer or sandwich… Continue reading Trail Recipes: Instant Double Corn Polenta

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Trail Recipes: Hot Eggnog

When I first started hiking a lot I'd order meals from Campmor's catalog (and for all of us oldies...the hand drawn catalogs were the best). They carried packets of eggnog drink mix which I'd buy every order. I really liked not having just hot cocoa on trips back then. It was one of my first… Continue reading Trail Recipes: Hot Eggnog