jblakley Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 I figured with all of the collective experience on this board I could troll for easy and tasty dinners that can be whipped up at basecamp. Since I rarely even cook at home I am a bit challenged in this area. I usually cave to apathy and bring Top Ramen and sandwiches. Maybe if we get enough recipes Martha Stewart will publish a cookbook to go with her new upcoming title: Penal Panache: Good Eats for those Doin' Hard Time. Quote
jules Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Hey, Jim, Kind of depends on how much weight you want to carry. Canned stuff? Freeze-ahead and pack it up inside your cookpot? Clam spaghetti freezes well and reheats quickly. Phad Thai requires a couple of canned items (bamboo shoots, baby corn, water chestnuts). Email me if you'd like recipes. Julie Quote
mattp Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 It depends on where your basecamp will be. For fly-in trips to Alaska, I've taken hams to bury in the snow at basecamp but this might not work for a mule-supplied basecamp in Peru or a carry-in to the sourthern Pickets. Quote
Stefan Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Here’s one. Easy. Gut filler for 2 with leftovers. Tried and true even for vegetablebelay! 3 Packets of Lipton Instant Rice and Sauce 7-10 Flour Tortillas 8 oz of your favorite cheese 1 head of broccoli Add enough water so the Lipton Rice and Sauce packets will be “soupy”. Once the rice is done, add the cheese until it melts. Take off the stove. Cut up the tortillas into mouth sized pieces and mix them in with the rice and cheese. Add the brocolli. Eat Quote
vegetablebelay Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Stefan: Here’s one. Easy. Gut filler for 2 with leftovers. Tried and true even for vegetablebelay! 3 Packets of Lipton Instant Rice and Sauce 7-10 Flour Tortillas 8 oz of your favorite cheese 1 head of broccoli Add enough water so the Lipton Rice and Sauce packets will be “soupy”. Once the rice is done, add the cheese until it melts. Take off the stove. Cut up the tortillas into mouth sized pieces and mix them in with the rice and cheese. Add the brocolli. Eat Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, starchy! Quote
salbrecher Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Here are the recipes and some comments. They are all one pot meals, although the leek and potato requires a little care unless you have a good sized pot. For that one, keep the potato flakes in a separate bag inside the meal packet, rehydrate the rest of the ingredients in plenty of water, and add the potato flakes at the last. In general, you simply add the ingredients to a pot, add water, heat it up, and eat when things are cooked through. Usually (depending on altitude and temperature, and to some extent on the meal) ready in 10-15 minutes. Use *small* pasta shells or small macaroni, something like that. All are 2 person quantities designed for one big appetite (me) plus one small (Dania, my girlfriend). Adjust to suit. I dry my own peas and sweetcorn from frozen – the rest I managed to get already dried. Here’s how – from frozen you dip the peas or sweetcorn in boiling water for 1 minute, dry off as much as you can gently by hand (paper towels work reasonably well) and lay out on a tray in an oven on lowest heat with the door slightly open for ventilation. Peas reduce to about 25% of frozen weight, sweetcorn to about 20%. So long as you get them down to that dry they will keep for many, many months. Otherwise you risk mould in the packets. Sweetcorn rehydrates much better than peas, and the latter can be a bit chewy when the rest of the meal has cooked through. Some of the ingredients (all weights listed are dried weights t=teaspoon, T=tablespoon) are hard to get hold of – I got my stuff from “Famous Foods” in Vancouver. Try bulk food places. Barley takes a little longer to cook than rice (Chilli and Tomato-Barley-Mo – don’t ask about the name), so you might consider replacing it with all rice. The dehydrated cheese I use is not the Kraft “glow in the dark” stuff – use that only if you really can’t get any decent stuff. Keep cheese separate from the main meal in a small packet inside the meal packet, and add it to the pot at the last minute. Use sealable freezer bags. The red lentil meals take longer than the others, depending on how digestible you want them. Remember that most of these meals, as a dehydrated vegetarian protein source, use textured soya protein (TSP) (sometimes called TVP) granules. Soya, like lentils, is a pulse, and inevitably causes a fair amount of gas through digestion – it’s harmless, but be warned! Enjoy! Chilli Spanish Paella Total Calories: 1479 kCal Total Calories: 1589 Total Protein: 74 g Total Protein: 77 g Total Fat: 7 g Total Fat: 25 g Total Carbohydrates: 295 g Total Carbohydrate: 236 g 200 g pasta or rice 230 g easy cook rice 35 g TVP 25 g TVP 2 T (16g) tomato powder 38g dried peas 1 T dried mixed peppers 80 g barley 20 g dried onion ½ t hot chilli powder 12 g tomato powder 2 T Mexican chilli powder 8 g dried peppers 1 t cumin 72 g cheddar, dried (separate bag) 1 T dried onion 1 t garlic granules 2 t garlic granules 4 t Mexican chilli powder 1 t salt 2 t paprika Pepper 1 t salt 30g dried sweet corn 1 t turmeric 8 (6g) sundried tomato halves, minced, or tomato flakes Large pinch pepper 1 tsp sugar 1 t sage, ground 2 t vegetable stock powder Italian Risotto Macaroni & Cheese Potato & Leek Total Calories: 1508 kCal Total calories: 1676 Total calories: 1256 Total Protein: 90 g Total Protein: 98 g Total Protein: 68 g Total Fat: 27 g Total Fat: 36 g Total Fat: 6.7 g Total Carbohydrates: 235 g Total Carbohydrates: 240 g Total Carbohydrates: 231 g 250 g arborio rice 200g pasta 25g peas, dried 40 g TVP 75g (3T) Buttermilk powder 65g buttermilk powder 1.5 T dried onion 90g cheese 1T onion 1 t garlic granules 1t paprika (non hot) 4T leek ½ t salt 2T onion flakes 1t garlic pepper 1t salt 1 ½ t veg stock 1.5 t Italian seasoning 34g sweetcorn, dried 1t salt 40g 1.5 T Buttermilk powder 25g peas, dried 180 g potato flakes 20g (10 halves) tomato sundried, or tomato flakes 2t Mixed peppers 30 g sweetcorn dried ½ t turmeric Dried mushrooms 25g TVP 1t parsley Large pinch pepper 1 t basil 1.5 t veg stock powder 60 g 5 T cheddar dried Curried Lentils Tomato Barley-Mo Alfredo Total Calories: 1136 kCal Total Calories: 1246 kCal Total Calories: 1413 kCal Total Protein: 69 g Total Protein: 57.38 g Total Protein: 80.18 g Total Fat: 10 g Total Fat: 5.35 g Total Fat: 24.31g Total Carbohydrates: 209 g Total Carbohydrates: 242 g Total Carbohydrates: 225 g 16g (2t) veg stock powder 60 g sweetcorn dried 200g pasta 200g red lentils 90g parboiled rice 35g (1.5T) buttermilk powder 16g (2T) onion 1t garlic granules 25g (3T) milk powder 1t Salt 1.5 t veg stock powder 2 g (1t) garlic granules Pepper 12g (1.5T) tomato powder 15g (1.5T) onion 2g (1t) garlic granules 10g (1.5T) onion flakes 1t basil 8g (1T) curry powder 1.5t paprika (mild) 1t salt 80g sultanas 12g (8 halves) sundried tomato, sliced, or tomato flakes 8g peppers, dried 10g (2t) egg yolk powder 35g TVP 60g cheese (separate) 1t turmeric 1t salt 15g dried peas 1t coriander Pepper 20g flour 25g peas, dried 130g barley Easy Cheesy Lentils Total Calories: 1430 kCal Total Protein: 89.25 g Total Fat: 21.46 g Total Carbohydrates: 220 g 16g (2t) veg stock powder 180g red lentils 16g (2T) onion 1t Salt Pepper 2g (1t) garlic granules 130g barley 1.5 t turmeric 60g cheese 2 t cumin ½ t coriander Quote
salbrecher Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 I wish I could claim those recipies as my own but I got them courtesy of Martin Berka. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Horsecock and cheese. Raw dry ramen. Burger King Whopper. Quote
Off_White Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 I found that 12 street vendor tacos and a loaf of bread from the panderia in Tecate was enough for a weekend in Canon Tajo. Quote
slothrop Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Those recipes look interesting, but they're impossible to read... how many grams of fat does the first dish have, 7 or 25? It looks like there are two or three recipes' ingredients in one paragraph. Quote
texplorer Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Wow, I think I entered an alternate universe. Is this cascadecookers.com Quote
salbrecher Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 quote: Those recipes look interesting, but they're impossible to read... how many grams of fat does the first dish have, 7 or 25? It looks like there are two or three recipes' ingredients in one paragraph. If sloth or anybody else wants those recipies in a format that is easier to read i can e-mail then to you in a word document. When i tried to copy and paste they got messed up. PM me Quote
mtnnut Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 To help everybody benefit from salbrecher 's post, I put the recipes up on a web page that allows for you to also download it as a Word document. Camping Meals [ 07-19-2002, 02:28 AM: Message edited by: mtnnut ] Quote
Dru Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 Horsecock And Cheese Recipe 1 horsecock 1 cheese Take horsecock. Cut off a big ol' chunk Chew and swallow Repeat with cheese. Continue, alternating until full. Quote
Big_Wave_Dave Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 OK, I've got to add my favorite. Less complicated than salbrecher's ideas, a bit more complex than Dru's recipe, but every bit as starchy as Stephan's. 1 ziplock baggie of Mashed Potato flakes 1 big ole hunk of cheese 1 big ole hunk of sausage ( or horsecock if you prefer) chopped in pieces 1 can fried onions ( can be found at any supermarket and loaded with fat and salt). If you need cooking directions stay at home. It's a heart attack in the making but really yummy. Quote
Figger_Eight Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 Boil in the bag rice. can of Spam and, oh yeah... horsecock and cheese. Quote
MtnHigh Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 Meals gotta be simple on the mountain. Who wants to deal with a gazillion ingredients. I made these on Denali this season. Easy to pack, easy to prepare. All were a big hit. Tuna N Rice -Rice 1 cup/hungry climber -Tuna 3-6 oz/hungry climber (tuna is now available in bags, much better than cans) -Seasoning: either salt, soy sauce, or Nature's Seasoning Cook the rice, throw in the tuna at the end Meat N Potatoes -Potato flakes 1 cup/hungry climber -Summer Sausage 3-6 oz/hungry climber(dice it up) Cook the spuds and throw in the sausage at the end Veggie Soup -Ramon 1-2 bags/hungry climber -Veggies Either F-D or fresh brocolli, carrots, onions Quote
Dru Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 Knorr packaged soupmix Pasta Cook the soup Throw in the pasta Makes 2L. Instant Pudding Mix pudding with milk poweder Add water and stir Let set. No need for stove. Works great as morning breakfast. You can even make it in your bivi sac if its raining outside. Lots of sugar and starch. Quote
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