Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail

by Linda Frederick Yaffee

Overview

• Over 160 recipes for soups, stews, pasta, casseroles, and breakfast and snack ideas
• Potato Soup Parmesan, Seafood Stew, Sweet and Sour Noodles, Spicy Chicken
• Tips on drying food in a dehydrator or oven
Meals on the trail can be as delicious and varied as meals prepared at home. You can create meals to suit your tastes or diet--vegetarian, low fat, Asian, Italian. Meals prepared and dehydrated at home are compact and lightweight, perfect for the backpacker, and safer than packing perishable foods. The author shows how to prepare the meals so that they will travel well and will be easy to reconstitute in camp. The easy step-by-step instructions detail how to cook and dry lightweight, satisfying meals at home and then prepare them easily in camp--truly complete, instant meals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811740098
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	12/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lifelong camper Linda Frederick Yaffe has written for Backpacker magazine. Her previous books are Solar Cooking for Home & Camp, High Trail Cookery, and The Well-Organized Camper. She lives in Auburn, California.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
1	Home-Dried One-Pot Meals	1
2	Breakfast and Lunch	18
	Hot Beverages, Hot Breakfast Combinations, Hot Cereal
	Cold Cereal, Breakfast Bars
	Drinks, Breads, Crackers, Toasts, Spreads, Jerky
3	Sweet and Savory Snacks	51
	Nuts, Beans, and Vegetables
	Dried Fruit and Fruit Leather
	Trail Mixes
	Bars and Cookies
4	Soups and Stews	67
	Soups
	Chowders
	Stews
	Chilies, Beans, and Pilaf
5	Pasta Dishes and Casseroles	97
	Meatless Pasta Dishes
	Pasta with Meat or Seafood
	Lasagna
	Casseroles
	Other Combination Dishes
	Suggested Reading	135
	Index	137

Editorial Reviews

Yaffe, a librarian, camper, and author of High Trails Cookery, offers more than 150 recipes for hikers seeking an alternative to the expensive, often boring, freeze-dried prepared meals that are sold in stores. Most of them are for dishes that are completely cooked at home and dried in an electric dehydrator (or an oven), then simply rehydrated with boiling water, requiring no further cooking at the campsite. There are also trail snacks and other no-cook recipes, as well as cookies, muffins, and other baked goods. Some of the recipes are vegetarian, while others offer vegetarian (or vegan) options. For larger collections and others where camping and hiking books are popular. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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