Recipes: 4 One-Pot Stews

This. Was. Awesome. I added some chinese 5-spice to the bisquick and used a whole heck of a lot of dried mushrooms, and threw in some fresh kale at the very end. Blew the socks off my backpacking buddy. I'll def be making this again - thanks!

I make this a bunch. I use a pack of raman noodle, and the seasoning from it, and mix bisquick in another ziploc. Cut the corner of the ziploc with the mix and squeeze out the dumplins. toss in a few mushrooms, a pouch of chicken and you have a very lightweight meal.

I made this at home because it read so well, and it may be better suited for the woods but I thought it was far too much flavor and not enough eats.

Seriously, you don't need to soak the mushrooms I discovered as below.

Europe - Many dehdyrated soups. Asian Markets Many dried food products. Spice it up with garlic, curry, chilli powder. More and more Health food stores and some outdoorgear stores are selling dehydrated boxes of all kinds of vegetables from which you can make allkind of vegan meals. Dried Meats are good and even canned ham or chicken or pork are great, but more weight

My Best soups are ligthweight. Ramen noodles or Asian rice noodles with dried shrimp, vegetables, chicken etc (mushrooms) Dehyradted Potatoe Soup. I've done 5 days 4 nights in Emigrant (CA) with 4 lbs max food. Had a leftover ramen spare meal.

One thing they left out was the instructions to rehydrate the mushrooms - cover with cool water and soak for 15 minutes at least. Use any left over water - it will be mushroom broth.
I did a re-do of this recipe when the magazine came out:
http://blog.trailcooking.com/2008/12/02/mushroom-soup-for-a-cold-day-with-video/

Btw, on farfalle pasta? That is just bow tie shaped pasta. Pasta is pasta - you can always swap out shapes in recipes.

With only 7 ounces of chicken to split between 2-3 people, they better be eating on a low protein reqired trip or they should be small people.

Re Michael's observation of the mushroom soup. Yes, it's pretty lean, calories-wise as it stands. I had it as the first course and then the lentils. We can't get some of these ingredients here in New Zealand. I'll have to google farfalle. I guess it's a pasta - and your biscuit mix...well here it's a sweet cookie mix but I know from "the Grapes of Wrath" that biscuits in the States are savoury.

Mushroom with Gremolata
that's not stew, it's a whimpy soup with
no protein and few carbs
add a 4 ounce chicken packet and some farfalle

Yummo!!

Uh, Jim. Hauling frozen broth can be easily avoided by hauling bullion cubes.

Uh, Jim. Hauling frozen broth can be easily avoided by hauling bullion cubes.

I used dehydrated apple which was all I had. It worked well and the juice from one lemon was too much for the recipe. The quantity would be insufficient for 2 people from my experience. I sliced the almonds by hand into 6 slivers per almond as the price of commercially sliced ones was extortionate. It was surprisingly easy.

Well, I cooked 2 of the meals this w/e and they were a success. I sauteed the dried presliced shittake mushrooms in the oil. As they had the consistency of blotting paper, they soaked up all the oil so I just added the flour to the mushroom/oil mix and browned it a bit then added the water and stock cubes. It was a very nice result and the gremolata was a delicious touch. Now my partner's drinking bottle smells of garlic. We normally don't eat the stuff because of my work where I am in close proximity to captive patients (phlebotomist).

The lentil dish was good too. I dehydrated it at home to save time/gas and added cooked dehydrated basmati rice to bulk it up a bit in the calorie dept. We didn't have split peas so I used urudal which is very similar. I added tuna in the cookup at camp.

You can make the stews at home and then dehydrate them. They rehydrate fairly easily and then taste much as they did when you first cooked them. You also can do this with spaghetti. Just make sure you add plenty of suace before dehydrating. Its a lot easier to cook meals at home than in camp. Just add water and the taste is nearly the same as when you made it originally. It takes about 15 minutes to rehydrate, faster if you heat the water right at the start. Just barely cover the dried spaghetti with water. Easy, light and tasty.

Lemmie get this right. For the mushroom soup recipe you slice dried mushrooms and then saute them...I'll give it a go.

cheers

OK crazy as this sounds snow shoe or winter hiking trips are the perfect opportunity for......broth-cicles!!!!! You can save time and weight by freezing broth in an ice cube tray (figure 1/2 tray makes 1/2 cup) then hauling the cubes sealed in a zip lock bag. Saves water consumption (snow runoff into creeks makes for a risky situation) and you don't have to pack seasonings if you season the broth before freezing. This can also be done with egg drop soup for a high protein and fat (very important during winter hikes) meal from your fav Chinese restaurant.