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

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 20 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:	9780811713474
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

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 19

Hot Beverages, Hot Breakfast Combinations, Hot Cereal, Cold Cereal, Breakfast Bars

Drinks, Breads, Crackers, Toasts, Spreads, Jerky

3 Sweet and Savory Snacks 58

Nuts, Beans, and Vegetables

Dried Fruit and Fruit Leather

Trail Mixes

Bars and Cookies

4 Soups and Stews 77

Soups

Chowders

Stews

Chilies, Beans, and Pilaf

5 Pasta Dishes and Casseroles 114

Meatless Pasta Dishes

Pasta with Meat or Seafood

Lasagna

Casseroles

Other Combination Dishes

Suggested Reading 157

Index 158

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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