Backcountry adventure and cuisine for aspiring hiker trash
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…
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…
Massaman Beef Curry
An amazingly simple gourmet Thai meal Trust me, it’s WAY more awesome than it looks in the pic that my crappy Galaxy S5 took on my recent hike. That phone by the way was traded in to the folks at the Verizon store yesterday,…
Pizza Pasta
A one pot wonder I made this meal on the first night of my recent section hike, and it was AMAZING! If you like meals such as MH Chili Mac or Lasagna, you’ll love this one, and it really doesn’t take much extra effort. …
December Section Hike Food
It’s time to eat in the backcountry again. And hike of course. Food isn’t why I/we hike after all. But if you don’t eat well, the hiking part won’t go well either. The 3 big bags on the left are my share of the…
Fishpeople Soups
A special treat for not much extra weight I’m one week out from my next section hike, during which I’ll be testing out a bunch of new recipes that I’ll post here after my return. Hopefully for once I’ll manage to take good pics…
Simple Mexican Beans and Rice
Uh, no, it won’t look quite THAT good! But it’s still pretty tasty, and very simple to do with 2 pots. That picture is from a Mexican restaurant in Pinedale Wyoming, the night after a few days in the Winds last fall. I swear…
Beef Tagine
A simple yet awesome dinner for the backcountry. It was the 3rd day in the Winds for Mule and yours truly, and we got our butts KICKED. We may not be 20+mile/day hikers (especially me) but we’re two pretty tough hombres. I mean, we…
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