Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling Author: Alan Kesselheim | Language: English | ISBN:
B000U8X1K8 | Format: EPUB
Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling Description
" . . . a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever choked down the pre-packaged, bargain-basement camp food (or gone bankrupt buying the good stuff)."
--Canoe & Kayak
. . . if you're on the lookout for a way to bring real meals to the field, [this book] might have the answer."
--Field & Stream
Life in the outdoors revolves around food--cooking it, eating it, packing it, carrying it. We even fantasize about it, especially after a week of eating store-bought provisions. This book is all about fulfulling those food fantasies and avoiding those expensive disappointments. Trail Food tells you how to remove water from food, to make it lighter and longer-lasting, without removing its taste. Learn to plan menus and prepare meals just like the ones you left behind, using fresh foods from your garden or market, prepared and seasoned the way you like them.
Why fantasize when you can have the real thing?
- File Size: 2808 KB
- Print Length: 112 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1 edition (February 1, 1998)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000U8X1K8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,031 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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- #16
in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Outdoor Cooking > Camping & RVs - #46
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Outdoors & Nature > Hiking & Camping > Excursion Guides - #49
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Canning & Preserving
I have several books on dehydrating your own trail meals and this is easily the best. It is concise and full of good ideas and recipes. The guidance is flexible enough for the lightweight backpacker or for the canoe or pack mule traveler. For example, some of the recipes call for a dutch oven (too bulky and heavy for the lightweight backpacker) and others are suitable for a one pot meal (ideal for the lightweight backpacker).
A nice feature is the chart of drying temperatures and times for different foods. Also, the chart of calorie and protein content of different foods is important to making sure you get enough calories to keep going in the field and enough protein to keep your body from consuming your muscle tissue for fuel. There are also plans for building your own dehydrator for the do-it-yourselfer. The suggested one week meal plan is a good guide to get you started on packing for a trip.
The emphasis of this book is on drying individual ingredients and then rehydrating and combining them at meal time. This allows you to be more flexible in your meals, but takes a little longer at meal time. However, it also tells you how to use your own recipes to prepare a conmplete meal and then dehydrate it. Precooked spaghetti, rice or beans rehydrate and cook faster in the field. The book recommends having both types of meals with you for variety and flexibility. You can also dehydrate canned foods like vegetables or canned chicken, tuna or salmon and use them in your recipes.
This book is concise and a fast read, but packs a lot of information. This means that you need to pay attention to pick up all the important points.
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