Can anyone recommend a book on backcountry cooking? Some of you hikers might be schooled in this area.
Stephen, I have the hot dog on a stick recipe already. I did like your orange spice tea. Warmed the cockles of my heart.
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Chip, my very biased choice would be the NOLS Cookery, published by Stackpole Books. It has great information on nutrition, suggested pounds per person per day, depending on seasons and activities, it also emphasizes recipes designed around inexpensive easy to find foods. It helps you to determine fuel use and gives you tips on baking etc. It gets revised often and uses the experience of tens of thousands of field hours that NOLS expeditions have provided. You should be able to get more info at www.nols.edu - Doug
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Chip,
You can never go wrong with hot dogs on a stick. ...and it was peach tea... with a touch of Dewars.
I've never had the pleasure of experiencing Doug's back country cooking, but from what I hear... he's da' man.
There is a slight distinction between backpack cooking requirements and camping cooking requirements. Mainly, how much gear/food/refrigeration can you carry. I suspect the NOLS book is geared toward limited resource cooking and therefore will work in just about any situation. If you have the luxury of being able to carry a few more items, you might look at "The One Pan Galley Gourmet" by Jacobson and Roberts (no relation) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071423826/sr=8-1/qid=1149760972/ref=sr_1_1/002-4288508-1546401?%5Fencoding=UTF8). It's tailored toward the boating crowd, but is appropriate for camping situations where you might have a one-burner stove, cooler, pot, pan, camp oven, and/or a camp pressure cooker.
I have a copy if you want to borrow it.
You can never go wrong with hot dogs on a stick. ...and it was peach tea... with a touch of Dewars.
I've never had the pleasure of experiencing Doug's back country cooking, but from what I hear... he's da' man.
There is a slight distinction between backpack cooking requirements and camping cooking requirements. Mainly, how much gear/food/refrigeration can you carry. I suspect the NOLS book is geared toward limited resource cooking and therefore will work in just about any situation. If you have the luxury of being able to carry a few more items, you might look at "The One Pan Galley Gourmet" by Jacobson and Roberts (no relation) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071423826/sr=8-1/qid=1149760972/ref=sr_1_1/002-4288508-1546401?%5Fencoding=UTF8). It's tailored toward the boating crowd, but is appropriate for camping situations where you might have a one-burner stove, cooler, pot, pan, camp oven, and/or a camp pressure cooker.
I have a copy if you want to borrow it.
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Hi Steve.
You may call Doug "da' man" when it comes to cooking, but to us he is know as "Julia Child of the Wild"!
I was on the recieving end of Doug's cooking for a week in the Everglades. He fed 9 people three full meals a day, all on one burner. This included pizza from scratch where you start with the yeast and the flour. Blew me away! Keep in mind we were on a tiny island in the Gulf of Mexico with no water, no nothing.......
Bea
You may call Doug "da' man" when it comes to cooking, but to us he is know as "Julia Child of the Wild"!
I was on the recieving end of Doug's cooking for a week in the Everglades. He fed 9 people three full meals a day, all on one burner. This included pizza from scratch where you start with the yeast and the flour. Blew me away! Keep in mind we were on a tiny island in the Gulf of Mexico with no water, no nothing.......
Bea
Bea
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