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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #20 - Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:58am
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mastertangler wrote on Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:30am:
frijoles? I had to go to the dictionary..........no entries found :question

What in tarnation is one of them there frijole's type contraptions? Never heared of 'em.......

Frijoles (fre-ho-lis)... Spanish for beans.
  
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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #21 - Mar 15th, 2011 at 6:45pm
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Anyone who has seen me knows that I LOVE food!  Our first night out meal, traditionally (before the kidney diet) was always steak and fresh oranges, and I usually did hash browns to go with that.  That was Spartan1's favorite, I think.

But for me, it is breakfast.  Scrambled fresh eggs, bacon, hash browns (or even better--Hungry Jack potato pancakes fried up nice and crispy on the edges), and two cups of hot chocolate.  Eaten with a view of a misty lake, on a morning cool enough to need the wool shirt.  Alternate starch would be oatmeal pancakes with pecan pieces topped with Minnesota maple syrup.

This is our normal canoe country breakfast, by the way.   Smiley

I don't much care what I have for lunch and dinner if I can eat a really good breakfast and have a loon calling out of the mist while I am doing it.

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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #22 - Mar 16th, 2011 at 12:43am
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Ah! Yes the start!

Misty, loon lyrics, and a sunrise.

Sweet jasmine rice = jasmine rice, milk, cinnamon, Ginger, maple sugar, with dried mango (Costco) or craisens. Good coffee in good measure! Maybe evenmsome bacon or almonds.
  
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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #23 - Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:31pm
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mastertangler wrote on Mar 14th, 2011 at 10:27pm:
This sounds like something I would really like. I have never dehydrated anything. How would a man go about doing the refried beans? I suppose I should get into dehydrating my own food. It sounds really good to me.

I buy refried in the can and put it in my dehydrator.
Refritos, some minute rice, a bag of shredded cheese & a tube of salsa are ez burritos.
Get fancy and throw some meat into the mix.
Wrap 'em up and toast 'em over the fire.  MmmMmmGood!
  
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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #24 - Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:58pm
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Spartan2 wrote on Mar 15th, 2011 at 6:45pm:
Alternate starch would be oatmeal pancakes with pecan pieces topped with Minnesota maple syrup.

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I love the idea of pecans on top of the pancakes!!   It's now on my list.  Thanks!

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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #25 - Mar 17th, 2011 at 10:31am
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Actually. . . .I put the pecans IN the pancake batter.  I use the Krusteaz Wheat and Honey Complete pancake mix (or else a Jiffy Oatmeal muffin mix with extra liquid added, but can't seem to find these anymore) and add  pecans at home along with a bit of cinnamon, put it all in a ziplock bag, and then just mix it with water at the campsite.

We always take real maple syrup, too.  It is our one food luxury.  I get the Cook County maple syrup when we are up there each year, always bring home enough for us at home all year long.
  
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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #26 - Mar 17th, 2011 at 4:52pm
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I'm with Spartan2 and Marlin on the start of the day being the best.

Sometimes my favorite meal is just that first cup of coffee, enjoyed while sitting on a rock, looking at exactly the picture Spartan2 posted  Smiley

Now if you add pancakes with freshly picked blueberries, you've gone over the top  Cheesy  Smiley
  
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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal
Reply #27 - Mar 17th, 2011 at 6:10pm
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Yes, blueberries are also a special treat in those pancakes.  We don't usually trip during blueberry season, so that didn't immediately come to mind.  But once or twice we have had the pleasure.  (and, by the way, I almost NEVER photograph food, so you can imagine how good these looked to me!   Grin  )

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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal
Reply #28 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 4:56am
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A then there are the raspberries in the dingleberry cake watching the sunset sipping a sip-able just pre hum time...havin the cake and eatin too!
  
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Re: What's your all time favorite backcountry meal?
Reply #29 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 4:23pm
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I certainly hope "dingleberry" means something different over there.  Over here it's often used to refer to what you might comb out of a pet's hair in the exhaust hole area.   Cheesy

Last year I had the pleasure of tripping with 2 guys who drill their own maple syrup.  The judging of the 2 was extensive!
  
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