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 Yaffe

Overview

“Recipes for hikers seeking an alternative to the expensive, often boring, freeze-dried prepared meals that are sold in stores.” —Library Journal
 
Improve your backpacking experience by creating the delicious and healthy home-dried meals and snacks featured in this book. Easy to rehydrate in camp and lighter than lugging ingredients and extra fuel, these foods are perfect for backpackers. Updated with twenty brand-new recipes, including Sesame Lasagna, Stuffed Cabbage Soup, San Antonio Special, and Backpacker’s Cincinnati Chili, this new edition also has the most up-to-date information on dehydrators and stoves, water purification, and food storage, making it the perfect handbook for nutritious—and delectable—dining on the trail.
 
·       Over 180 recipes for casseroles, pastas, soups, stews, chowders, beans, pilafs, dried fruits, trail mixes, bars, and cookies
·       Tips on drying food in a dehydrator or oven
·       Includes vegetarian and low-fat recipes
·      Recipes so tasty that you'll make them at home too!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811759236
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/14/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	179
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.

Library Journal