Trail Dinner Recipes

[cshir003]

Premix the following ingredients at home (in whatever proportion suits your fancy). On the trail, I like to cook this over a wood fire for about 10-12 minutes, but if you're using a stove, you can simmer for about 5 minutes, let sit another five, and enjoy!


Basmati rice
refried bean powder
tomato powder
sun dried tomatoes
dried chipotle chile(s)
dried red & green peppers
chili powder
one clove garlic, minced or mashed
dried cilantro
dried parsley
bay leaf
cumin
oregano
basil
black pepper
cheddar cheese powder

You can also add dehydrated onions, but the aftereffects will reduce your popularity in camp.

does this make a sort of "YUM" paste or what? I'd like to try it but I want to know what to add for a nicer texture

[SalParadise]

What's good to a hiker? Bring one cup of water to a boil. Add 1C Anything, stir in 2C Anything Else. Serving Size: Not Enough
Peanut butter with unflavoured Ramen noodles.
Layer Nutella and peanut butter on a tortilla and add a Snickers.
GORP variation: peanuts, raisins and candy corn
peanut butter on Pop Tarts was filling

[TDale]

I haven't got all the proportions worked out yet but with those new foil packs of clams and oysters, dried milk, dried butter and dried potatoes you can imagine the possibility of chowder, can't you?

As soon as I order some powdered roux, I'm working on gumbo.

[Megabite]

near east couscous - 1 pkg
handful of dry tortellini - barilla or ronzoni, any flavor
1 pkg sweet sue chicken breast, ready to eat

boil water and couscous flavor pouch, add tortellini and cook until the pasta is halfway done, then add couscous, and cover pot. if you have a cozy, make sure it's in the cozy. while the couscous absorbs the water, and torellini will finish cooking. make sure you add a little more water than the couscous calls for, as the pasta will absorb some of it

excellent meal, pretty filling, and not too pricey

--megabite

[Ramble~On]

Here's one I like.

One small jar of Chunky Salsa - dehydrated into a fruit roll up texture.
One can dehydrated black olives
A couple red and green peppers sliced and dehydrated
A cup of instant rice
One foil pack of chicken breast

I put everything into a ziplock
I usually guess how much water to boil
Once its boiling I throw the contents of the ziplock in and boil for a bit
When its done I spread it on tortillas and add cheese.
Taco Bell on the Trail!!!!!!!

[FatMan]

Tried this new one this weekend. Lipton Asian Noodles with Chicken of the Sea Shrimp in foil pouch. Throw in some peanuts and cashews from your trail mix for added zing. Doesn't get easier than this and really tastes great. Heck, if you can't find the shrimp, the Asian Noodles alone are one of the best noodle dishes I've come across.

[lostinthewoods]

Try a nice pasta dish.

Lemon pepper angel hair pasta
dehydrated mushrooms
dehydrated bell peppers (red and green)
...any other veggies you like
powdered butter to give the pasta a lil flavor
Rehydrate veggies, add to pasta and coat in powdered butter and mix. Add seasoning to meet your needs.


for Dessert
mix up some ready mix brownies with nuts etc in a ziplock bag.
On the trail add a cup of water to the brownie mixture and place bag into a pot of boiling water.. Mmmmmmmmmmmm Brownies.. hehe A little messy but damn good

[Hydromagnt]

Can someone tell me where they buy Sweet Sue chicken, in foil packs. Local Wal-Mart doesn't carry it. Thanks

Besides jerky, you can now find prepackaged chicken and precooked ground beef at the grocery stores. I found both at a Wal-Mart supercenter. The ground beef was in a large foil pack on the aisle with Spam and Vienna Sausages, and they had different varieties (italian and mexican are the two I saw). Sweet Sue had chucks of white chicken in foil packs as well - no refridgeration required. With those sort of options, why buy dehydrated?

Cook up some shell pasta, add some tomato paste, throw in the ground beef, and add some cheese and make cheeseburger casserole.

[The Hog]

does this make a sort of "YUM" paste or what? I'd like to try it but I want to know what to add for a nicer texture

As long as it's not overcooked, the basmati rice holds its texture well. I would describe it as having the texture of a Spanish rice dish. I've made variations of the recipe, sometimes adding freeze dried peas and freeze dried beef, and enough hot peppers to turn your digestive system into a magma chamber. We're talking Scoville units here.

[Big Dawg]

Can someone tell me where they buy Sweet Sue chicken, in foil packs. Local Wal-Mart doesn't carry it. Thanks

I buy my sweet sue chicken foil pkts from Lowes grocery store, here in Jamestown, NC,,,,, I've not found them anywhere else.

[kjumper1]

i like using a bag or two of Minute Rice, throw in a foil pack of chicken, add a dash of tobasco sauce and viola! guaranteed to fill ya up. u can even find the instant rice pouches that have dehydrated brocoli in em. there r dozens of different rice mixtures to choose from.

[fiddlehead]

If you have an asian grocery store nearby, here's my favorite: "Thai Panang Curry" with noodles or rice. Get some powdered coconut milk, some Panang or red curry paste (in a bag or jar (which you would have to repackage into a ziplock)), and some dry shrimps they always sell in asian grocerys. (they are very lightweight and i usually buy a lot and then freeze them till i need them). Cook rice or noodles (i find that noodles give me more power but this is originally a rice dish) and add the shrimps when you start the water as they won't completely rehydrate but will be fine. add the curry paste and coconut powder to taste. generally the two offset each other in the spicy/sweet department and that in itself is the key to thai cooking. Add any other dried veggies you happen to have or like. I dry my own brocolli and oninons and even carrots sometimes and this makes a fairly authentic thai specialty. enjoy!


It's very lightweight too.

[CaptChaos]

If there are a couple of us I have made the following:

1) Take a can of SPAM or use SPAM Lite, cut it up into small cubes and put in your pan and cook until you believe it is done.

2) After cooking the SPAM then add your water that is required for the next item and let it boil with the SPAM in the water.

3) Once your water boils then turn off heat and add the Idahoan mashed potatoes.

4) Stir everything up and after you have mixed it up it is ready.

I like this as it only takes one pot, it seems to be filling. When we packed from New Found Gap to Cades Cove several years ago, this was a very good meal 3 days into our trip.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

Echoing Fiddlehead's advice to shop at an Asian grocer - there are many yummy things to be found there that adapt well to the trail.

Does anyone here dehydrate tuna or minced turkey / chicken breast? I've been doing this for years - very light and tasty.

[Cookerhiker]

At home, grind about 1/2 cup dry roasted peanuts in a blender and place in baggy. Add whatever flavoring you desire - ground black pepper, dried onions, herbs, dried red pepper, etc. On the trail, cook your "starch" - I prefer bulgur wheat which takes about 10 minutes but I also use brown success rice, whole wheat pasta (macaroni, ziti, shells) and occasionally whole-grain couscous. Save some of the cooking water, add the peanut mixture, and simmer for 1-2 minutes. Tasty and protein-packed.

I also bring fresh garlic and use 1-2 cloves per meal.

[Freighttrain]

sometimes i go "no-cook" so i dont need to carry pot, lid, stove, windscreen, potstand, and fuel

this makes a filling great tasting caserole... and when your done, the bag is a trash bag


1 qt freezer ziploc origional type
1 chicken raman
1 pk or can chicken, tuna, ham, or poted meat
2-3 packets mayo
1 packet mustard

breakup the raman real small and dump into the ziploc.. top off with water and let stand 15 minutes
drain off extra water when done and add raman flavor packet the mayo and mustard and mix well turnin bag end over end.. then add your favorite meat and mix

you can change it up w packets from all over.. Arbys BK McDs
most places will give you a handfull of packets if you offer to buy them

[Egads]

What's for dinner?

[Chaco Taco]

Here are a couple of things I picked up on from some other thru's
1-2 pks of roasted chicken ramen
spicy peanuts
chuncky peanut butter
1 soy sauce packet
1 foil pack of chicken
some siracha sauce or known as "cock' sauce ( hey it has the rooster on thh bottle) I used this stuff alot
add some garlic and some ginger, keeps really well on the trail, just used a granite gear compression container to store it

Great meal on trail and gives you what you need

[Chaco Taco]

Oh yea, you can add tuna to it in place of chicken

[budforester]

I haven't got all the proportions worked out yet but with those new foil packs of clams and oysters, dried milk, dried butter and dried potatoes you can imagine the possibility of chowder, can't you?

As soon as I order some powdered roux, I'm working on gumbo.

Backpack chowders are great on a cold day; I must follow your suggestion and try some foil- packs. Unfortunately, I don’t have the patience to wait for potato chunks to rehydrate… I just settle for instant.

If you wish to experiment with DIY roux, it’s just toasted flour: light roux for Creole gumbo and dark roux for Cajun- style. Roux is easy enough to make in camp, too: stir equal measures of grease and flour over low heat until it reaches the right color.