What’s better than instant grits and pepper for breakfast while camping?

Tell me.

Posted: December 14th, 2009 under Food.
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It’s a good sign if you make a dinner at home that you’ve made while camping. This one’s basically noodles and peanut butter, but much better and just as easy.

1 bunch of Soba Noodles (I usually shop for food at the nearest grocery store to the trail, and I know most of those grocery stores don’t stock soba noodles, so try to think of going to your local Asian market to buy them before you leave. They’re what makes this meal good.)
2 Tablespoons of Sesame Oil (put it in emptied out hotel shampoo bottle)
1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce (If you ever order Chinese or Japanese, save the soy sauce packets)
Spoonful or two (or three) of Chili Sauce (can also use hotel shampoo bottles)
2 Spoonfuls of Peanut Butter (I would assume you’ll have peanut butter if you’re camping.)
Handful of Sesame Seeds (Also rather imperative. They weight nothing, no excuse.)

Directions: Boil water. Drop the noodles in. While the noodles are cooking, mix the oil, soy sauce, chili paste and peanut butter. When the noodles are done, drain a small amount of the hot water into the sauce mix. Stir up until the peanut butter is smooth and dump it back into the pot with the drained noodles. Throw on the sesame seeds.

Or you can just stick to the peanut butter and spaghetti. That ain’t half bad either.

Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Food.
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Sassafras, found mostly in the eastern United States, is characterized by its’ three distinct leaves on the same tree – unlobed or oval (top left); bilobed or mitten-shaped (top right); and trilobed (bottom). If you’ve living in New York City like I do, you can find it in Prospect Park. Root beer was originally made from sassafras until the FDA banned it in the late 1960s as a potential carcinogen, but no human studies have ever been made and many believe the ban to be unwarranted. (Read more about that here.)

The roots of a sassafras sapling can be uprooted and used to make a damn good tea – it tastes just like root beer – so next time you’re out east and want something other than pine needle tea, look around for some sassafras. It won’t hurt you.

Posted: September 28th, 2009 under Camping, Food.
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Backpacker just posted their June issue online and they’ve gone ahead and reviewed a few canister stoves for our reading pleasure. Above is a picture of yours truly fixing some pasta in Rocky Mountain on the ol’ MSR PocketRocket for a seemingly dead fellow hiker.

Posted: July 13th, 2009 under Camping, Food.
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Being able to identify edible mushrooms in the forest is like hunting without a gun. It’s fishing with your hands. I think. I’ve never actually done it. But who wouldn’t want a twenty pound hen of the woods to take home and pop in a pan of butter?

If you’re like me and are a beginner in this field, a good place to start is over at Field and Stream, who have outlined a beginner’s guide to finding and cooking morels.

Posted: May 7th, 2009 under Food.
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Lodge Dutch Ovens

Recipes for Buttermilk Biscuits (thx Kelly) and Sourdough Biscuits

Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Camping, Food.
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Can’t go camping without a Coghlan’s Egg Carrier.

Coghlan’s

Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under Food.
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If you’re in a place with a real small garden or no garden at all, these pretty little ladies are easy to grow and taste like the Earth is giving you attitude. That’s two for two if you ask us.

Grow them

MP3: Dennis Linde – Fat Of The Land

Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Food.
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So I guess it’s no secret that it’s almost summer. If you want to become your mother and make a fresh batch of one of the world’s most underrated jarred foods go here and here.

Youtube: Little Richard – Tutti Frutti

Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Food.
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If you’re from the New England area, you’ve definitely eaten fiddleheads one or two times before. Fiddleheads are the young leaves of the Ostrich Fern and they are harvested for a short time each year, usually around April and May. It’s June now if you haven’t noticed, so you can still find them around if you look real hard. It won’t be long until they’re gone from your local grocery store, so you better hurry. A good list of what to do with them when you get home can be found here.

MP3: Old And In The Way – The Great Pretender

Posted: June 6th, 2008 under Food.
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