Backcountry adventure and cuisine for aspiring hiker trash
Tiberino Spicy Spaghetti
A gourmet one-pot pasta dish, but is it worth the cost? One day while surfing the ‘net I stumbled into Tiberino pasta dishes. Lots of intriguing options, all of which can be made in a pot or skillet by merely adding water and cooking…
Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta
One of my simplest recipes, but tastes like something from your kitchen at home Well, in this case it DID get made in my home kitchen, but it was trail-style. This was the leftover dinner from my last hike, and one night when it…
Water
Every hiker needs a system for managing water procurement and consumption So lately I’ve been thinking a lot about water, probably because I’m planning a hike to the arid Big Bend National Park in February. It will be my first ever desert hike, and…
African Peanut Stew
A simple and calorie-packed meal I periodically make this dish at home, and it’s my youngest son’s all-time favorite dinner. And it wasn’t terribly difficult to adapt the recipe to something more trail-friendly. It requires several small “fresh” ingredients but everything else about it…
Winter Gear Review
What worked and what didn’t on my recent section hike This was a typical southeastern winter hike on the AT. Daytime temps reached the 40’s at times, lows were down as far as 15 degrees. Got a bit of snow, faced some wind and…
SWD Lunch Box
A waterproof option for food storage On my last hike I tried out the new Superior Wilderness Designs Lunch Box as my food storage system (I am currently awaiting a custom Long Haul 50 pack). I liked it. A lot. I, like many hikers,…
Butter Chicken
A delicious Indian dish so easy to make it almost feels like cheating I made this dish as a lunch on the last day of my recent section hike. We had planned to eat it the night before, but we were still too full…
Chicken & Red Lentil Stew
An Ethiopian delicacy packed with protein So yeah, I didn’t take that picture. I’ll post my usual crappy photo below in a minute. I made this dish for the first time on the 3rd night of my recent section hike. We had just finished…
East African Pelau Rice
A tasty rice dish with a lot of calories I made this dish on my recent section hike, and also enjoyed it back in April in the Shenandoahs. With cashews and coconut milk, it’ll turn simple rice into valuable calories, and the mixture of…
Racing Diego to Pearisburg Pt. 2
“Dude, I think I’ve got an ear infection!” It’s COLD in the morning, and Mule is hurting. It’s after 8:00, but none of us are in a hurry to go out into the frigid world, Gritty included. Mule thinks he has an inner ear…
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