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Title: Backcountry food pics
Post by: danderson on March 25, 2012, 08:14:02 AM: On a recent backpacking trip into the wilderness we ate trout twice a day, steamed in foil over the campfire, didnt have any dishes to clean and didnt require a stove or any fancy equipment, lets see some other ideas of wilderness backcountry no frills food, or ideas.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: swanny on March 25, 2012, 08:32:40 AM: This does require a stove, but it's super simple to prepare. But one of our staple meals when my wife and I backpack is chicken tacos and in the case last weekend we turned them in to quesadillas. Just by the Knorr brand spanish rice and the chicken that comes precooked in a bag, boil the rice and add the chicken. Mighty tasty after a hard days hiking and much better than an MRE type meal.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: steen on March 31, 2012, 08:37:00 AM: For a picture you might have to wait til after July. We are going to the Pasayten via horseback and will try out a new cooking method but it won't be on foil. I can't find a picture of a meal from the last trip it must have been from the trip before when I didn't have digital.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: danderson on March 31, 2012, 03:53:14 PM: This is one of my favorite photos of my boys learning how to cook there food, its not as easy as they thought.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: toothfangclaw on April 11, 2012, 01:07:20 PM: "hobo stew"
veggies,meat, maybe some oil/butter wrap it in foil, put in fire,cook for a while. sooooo gooooddd!

Lol forgot the part about pics.lol
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: kentrek on May 03, 2012, 06:56:58 PM: get this thread moving again
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on May 03, 2012, 07:27:30 PM: Quote from: danderson on March 31, 2012, 03:53:14 PM
This is one of my favorite photos of my boys learning how to cook there food, its not as easy as they thought.

No wind break for the stove? No lid on the pot to hold in more heat? The cold rock cools the stove fuel so you get less BTU. Did all the boys carry a mess kit each? All you need in a group is one cook pot. One eating plate each. -Just things to think of.

I'll try to remember to snap some photos of backcountry food next month.

-Steve
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: ICEMAN on May 04, 2012, 05:46:27 AM: I see the windbreak behind the boys.

Be nice! Boys gotta learn some way! :chuckle:

I love the waiting, waiting, waiting look on the faces!
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on May 04, 2012, 02:28:18 PM: You know... It's funny. (yes I was only givin Danderson crap because I know he knows better)... Most kids that age don't even cook on the stove at home, so waiting for the stew or soup to bubble a bit in the field is almost priceless, as they certainly don't want to burn it, but they're probably quite hungry for a warm meal after hiking.

First hunting hike I took a nephew on, I asked his dad/he if he had a little stove in his fanny pack. Nope... OK, We'll just use mine. Before noon we'd put on 7 miles or so and every time I caught him reaching in his fanny for something to nibble on, I said we'd stop for lunch soon. He said he doesn't eat lunch. As we'd settled under the limbs of a big Pine overlooking a nice bowl, I cleared a nice spot of needles to the dirt in a clean non-flamable perimeter and whipped out my little GAZ stove and heated up some water for Cup O Noodles. He didn't have any soup with him. .... I'd brought extra. As I handed him some soup he grinned.. 'How'd you know I was hungry'? The kid was starving! (He did get a deer that day.) That was some ten years ago, he's married with a son now, and to this day he doesn't go in the woods without his JetBoil kit.

-Steve
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: danderson on May 04, 2012, 07:04:49 PM: That photo was taken after a long day of hiking into a high lake into the wilderness, two of these are my boys with the rest of there boy scout troop, 11 miles in one day into the wilderness, not many adults could make that trip, but what I like most about this photo is the realization on there faces that, what ever they just made was there dinner, and next time they would remember to be a little more prepaired.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: ICEMAN on May 05, 2012, 05:55:45 AM: Danderson, good job getting those kids out into the wild! Sounds like a fun trip!

Kentrek, those planked brookies are looking pretty good! What spice you using on them? I always keep some lemon/herb on me for trips like that one...
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: kentrek on May 05, 2012, 01:12:57 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on May 05, 2012, 05:55:45 AM
Danderson, good job getting those kids out into the wild! Sounds like a fun trip!

Kentrek, those planked brookies are looking pretty good! What spice you using on them? I always keep some lemon/herb on me for trips like that one...

realy cant remember but im guesn mostly jonneys mixed with a home made rub my parents make. i like it better cooked in tinfoil and budddder but its still pretty good pickins for mtn food.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: erk444 on May 06, 2012, 09:19:04 PM: I like how half the food is laying on the rock! :chuckle: Did any of the boys eat it still?
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Post by: washelkhunter on May 06, 2012, 09:22:11 PM: Looks like an ordinary guvmint job to me. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: danderson on May 06, 2012, 09:33:48 PM: They didn't eat the food off the rock but they did managed to eat just about everything else, Its amazing how much better food tastes when your out hiking, we lucked out because the Blue Huckleberry's were ripe so nowone starved.
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: oldcamper on July 01, 2012, 06:09:58 PM: We take the baked potatoe and stabed it then wrapped in foil, line the fire pit. About an hour or so, they would go real good with that trout. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: kentrek on July 10, 2012, 09:51:09 PM: Quote from: oldcamper on July 01, 2012, 06:09:58 PM
We take the baked potatoe and stabed it then wrapped in foil, line the fire pit. About an hour or so, they would go real good with that trout. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

that sounds much better than the freez dried spuds i usualy eat with trout... :chuckle:

heres a pic of some castlelake fish bein cooked like hot dogs...no seasoning..no butter..no problem..sorta.. :EAT:
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: bloodhound on July 10, 2012, 10:00:58 PM: we do surprise stew, everybody brings a mystery item and it all goes in the pot! then a can of beer dumped in! then eat!
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: steen on August 02, 2012, 09:25:15 PM: A Few of our Pasayten trip 2012.

I was in charge of cooking everyone's steaks to perfection ( medium rare, well done, medium well, Oh the stress)

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Coffee or hot water for tea, which ever was your choice.

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Good 'ol dutch oven cookin.

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Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: washelkhunter on August 02, 2012, 09:39:48 PM: I'm digging that grill/griddle combo and nice work on the pot holder. :tup:
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: NW-GSP on August 02, 2012, 09:49:46 PM: I have been doing the freeze dried food when I'm hiking in. I also love fresh trout from high alpine lakes a little pepper and salt and they are ready
Title: Re: Backcountry food pics
Post by: danderson on September 03, 2012, 09:45:33 PM: Heres a few more food pictures from this last month, trout, and elk stew and dumplings :tup: