What do you cook in the mountians?

[wayne]

Kind of like how a 2 would improve your avatar?

Cooking shmooking , bring nothing and suffer!

[chirp]

I like to boil powerbars, once they a paste consistency in the little mylar bag they can be spread on a pita or other base. The water can be used for cocoa! Nice efficient and damn tasty!

Kind of reminiscent of Salsbury steak.

[TREETOAD]

What is a mountian

[StreetBoss]

pasta, basil pesto, parmesan. A few fresh veggies (peppers, broccoli) are awesome if you want to carry the extra weight.

 

great idea!

 

I always carry a few roma tomatos, cucumbers & ranch dressing. Very nice after the approach hike with a cup of coffee.

 

[Spencer]

My wife's Oatmeal Chocolate chip cookies,mmmmmm

I also do the bobali pizzas piled high, little extra weight but well worth it.

[Dechristo]

my hide

[jport]

Idahoan "Loaded" Potato flakes (sold in a pouch) and tuna (from a pouch). Serve with a few tortillas. You'll be bursting for only a few dollars.

[Skeezix]

Spaghetti sauce leather made in Harvest Maid food dryer. Make the sauce. Line food dryer tray with wax paper -spray lightly with oil. Spread sauce on wax paper and dry to a sheet like food leather. Fold the sauce leather and place it in a Ziploc bag. Label and store in freezer until ready to go. In camp in the morning, fill the Ziploc bag with water and leave it to soak all day. That night, boil the pasta, drain, and pour the sauce over it. Fresh grated parm cheese. The warm pasta is enough heat to warm up the sauce. Enjoy with freeze dried merlot.

[high_on_rock]

I love the idea of melting powerbars and spreading them on bagels, I will have to try that. I personally subscribe to eating whatever is the easiest and lightest I can come up with. If I am not melting snow then I am not carrying a stove, and eat cold. If carrying a stove I don't like to have to heat the water beyond warm, cook much. Powdered potatos and bagels are great "expander technology" to enhance/enlarge any meal. Back when I drank coffee, I put "coffee bags" in a cup of cold water over night and had "moon coffee" in the morning. Sucked, but beat carrying a stove. Fast, light, and cheap calories is the trick.

 

Edit: "I like my calories like I like my women; fast, light and cheap."

Edited August 1, 2007 by high_on_rock

[billbob]

Amphetamines and lots of GU. Also, Mountain House Turkey Tetrazinni w/ instant potatoes mixed in. ALWAYS add plenty of water to freeze dried food bags. Once, I was low on water but hungry as hell, the result was semi-hydrated, very crunchy MH Beef Stew and I couldn't take a dump for about a week afterwards. It wasn't funny. Don't laugh.

 

Can you really eat marmots? What about those little chipmunks? People wearing shorts over poly?

 

I'm more curious about what others drink in the mtns. I like Crater Lake vodka w/ a sports drink mix. Mmmmmm!

[everyfrog]

When we remember, the nalgene flask with some gentleman jack or johnny walker red.

 

Usually the mountain house or backcountry pantry, then we add angel hair pasta to it - adds the calories the 6'4" boyfriend needs.

 

Screw salt and pepper - chipotle tobasco sauce is the topper for everything. Tang as a nice change from water. I can't do Cliff Bars but old school power bars and gu work. i'll have to try the melted power bar. And dark chocolate Swiss Mix was perfect on our last snow outing.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

Mountain House

 

[dt_3pin]

Used to always take a Casa Que Pasa potato burrito for one-nighters, but alas . . .

[KaskadskyjKozak]

When we remember, the nalgene flask with some gentleman jack or johnny walker red.

 

 

at least bring something decent... a higher end blended or a low-end single malt...

[mzchristy]

This all sounds very gourmet and yummy! (Can I climb with you guys from now on??) I''ll be the first to admit it though, I am a Top Ramen kinda gal.

[mythosgrl]

Used to always take a Casa Que Pasa potato burrito for one-nighters, but alas . . .

 

Casa Que Pasa is back in B-town!

[JohnGo]

A good point made above is that the fortunate folks here who are out most every weekend may well eat diffetntly than those of us who make just a few overnights a summer. Out every weekend: make your own dinners. Out on 3-4 overnights per year - typically better to buy some freeze dried chow. (I still have a long-ago purchased box of dried milk in the freezer that I am sure will never get used!)

 

Snack favorites: good olives in a 4 oz nalgene bottle, and add olive oil to cook with.

Pecorino Romano cheese - salty, handles hot weather well.

Tamari almonds

choco covered coffee beans on cold climbs

Spiz power drink, if it's going to be a real long day

http://www.spiz.net/

 

[Dechristo]

tamari almonds are da shizz

[Dannible]

I'm not really a picky eater and am a fan of Idahoan potatoes because you can cook them in their own package just like the fancy freeze dried foods; throw a little cheese in there and you've got a full meal (I brought a pound of cheese to gunsight). Last week AJScott brought those eggs in a carton for breakfast (heavy, but it was an easy approach), and by the time we got to our camp at 6000 ft they had almost exploded from the pressure. Last year a friend of mine ate a whole mountain house meal uncooked, and with nothing to drink.

[G-spotter]

I do my best cooking in the tent 8D

[MrClam]

 

[mark1980]

Heres a web site with reipes and ideas alternative to freeze dried. http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/

[nerg flergen]

top ramen, nile soup mix, with habanero diced and mixed in.

[spicoli11]

I too have had the urge to eat a marmot. The mongolians stuff the marmot belly with coals and then place it directly on a fire. I imagine theres ton of fat in those suckers though. Must need salt.

[ewhack]

tamari almonds are da shizz

Fur shur

but..

you cook them?