Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Expedition Life: Food

Lots of ingredients in the backcountry and its choose your own adventure.

The equipment: a stove, a frying pan, and a metal bowl.

The food: varies, but mostly grains, cheese, sugar and a few different spices.

It can be delicious or horrifying.

Delicious
Bowtie pasta with sauteed salami, sundried tomatos, mushrooms and a garlic butter sauce

1 bag of pasta
3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
100g salami, chopped
Red pepper
Salt
Black pepper
200g block cheese of your choice
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons milk powder
Handful of sundried tomatos 
Handful of dried mushrooms

Heat up frying pan.  Melt butter.  Add garlic and salami.  Saute until garlic golden brown.  Add water and milk powder until sauce a thick consistency.  Take off of heat and set aside.

In seperate  bowl, add water, pinch of salt and pepper, mushrooms and sundried tomatos.  Leave on high heat until it boils.  Add pasta and cook for 12 minutes.  Strain, saving the pasta water as a hot broth to drink (if youd like).  Add cheese, butter sauce, and red pepper to taste and mix until cheese is melty and delicious.  Enjoy.

Less Delicious
Vegetable rice noodle soup with textured vegetable protein. (Also known as the ¨TVP special.¨)

1 bag veggie soup mix
1 bag nice noodles
200g TVP
Vegetable oil
Salt
Pepper
Garlic

Mix TVP and water until TVP soaks up water. It should be firm but not mushy.

Heat oil, add garlic.  Saute TVP for 15 minutes.  Remove from heat.


Boil water in seperate bowl, add veggie soup mix.  Mix until thick in consistency - about 10 minutes.  Add rice noodles and mix for 2 minutes, until noodles soften.  Remove from heat.


Serve soup with TVP as topping.  Attempt to eat the resulting sodium stew.


With enough salt to melt a glacier, the first bite is delicious.  Its not until the 7th bite that you realize that your body is being overwhelmed with processed food and industrial chemistry, and the resulting shutdown and rejection of the TVP is... challenging.

As a side note, as this wonderful dish cools it will form a hard gelatinous substance that resembles salty veggie TVP gelato.  Yum.

Making pizza.

Camp food fail. Garbanzos, peanut butter... and couscous?  Unclear.

If all else fails there´s always Nutella.

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