Re: [at-l] Hot meal ideas (was Stove fuel)

[kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>]

One way to boast the flav and calories is to dry sweet red (or green)
pepper slices and then rehydrate them in olive or other flavorful oil.
My fav is walnut oil.  Crunch up the dried peppers and dump them in a
jar for a least a week then pack the oil and the veggies for the trail.
A vacuum bagger would be good but I have been double bagging them in
snack size ziplocs (just don't sit on your pack)  The same deal
works with onions in garlic oil.....yummm.  I keep the jar in the
fridge,
so I guess this wouldn't work if you pack up all your maildrops before
you leave unless you get your support person to add a couple packets
to each box before shipping.

If you dry and then gently "toast" in a dry fry pan, a mixture of dehyde
green and red pepper with dried mushees and onion and a couple slices of
sun dried tomatoes, let them soak up oil and serve over angel hair with
some spaghetti cheese on top, you will never eat better.

Also can I recommend, Flavor Gem soup mixes, if you can find them.
Three flavors...chicken, beef and country style (ham).  They come
in a fat jar about three in high and while they are basically bullion,
to my salt sensitive taste, they offer more "taste" than salt if ya know
what I mean.  The chicken is superb! 

Am I the only one who uses instant rice?  I know it's less nutritional
in real life but it's hard to beat it for ease.  A half t. of
chicken Flavor Gem, a good sprinkle of lemon pepper and a teeny can of
tuna.....topped off with squeeze parkay and a packet of Real
Lemmon....available at a KFC near you..(or the juice from a half a real
lemon ..gasp).  Or use the red peppers in oil.....yum..  We eat this
once a week off trail.
Or angel hair pasta with the country flavor Flavor Gem and dried mixed
veggies with a hunk of smoked sausage sliced into the water.  
If this all seems complex, it's really only boil water..add carb
and a dry or wet flavor packet or two.  Easy if you ready the packets 
at home but not everyone is into that stuff.  To me, dehydrating
fruits and veggies is a great idea, even if you just use them to jazz 
up NIBs and such.  Especially dried fruits for oatmeal in GA..yesss.


over angel hair
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