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IMO, going bush doesn't mean you have to sacrifice good food.

I generally take some frozen vaccum sealed sausages that are wrapped in a couple of sheets of newspaper. The newspaper keeps them frozen until I've reached my camp site for the night, and they stay fresh untill the 2nd night.

I generally cook half them the 2nd night, and hot smoke the remainder to keep and eat them on the 3rd night,
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Tortillas make a great pizza base, and when they come packaged in resealable ziplock plastic bags, they'll last the week :thumbup:

Some dried salami and cheese topping makes a delicious wood fired pizza:
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Alternatively, stirfrying some garlic, capsicum and salami makes a great topping for folded pizzas:
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More to follow....
 
Whenever possible, I like to supplement my diet with locally obtained fresh vegetables. The white growing tips of long leafed mat-rush (Lomandra longifolia) make a great snack when wondering:
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And stinging nettles are delicious stirfried with some garlic :D . Just remember to cook them first, as the heat from cooking destroys the chemical that causes irritation on contact with skin.
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BTW, an old cake cooling rack makes a very usefull grill for the camp kitchen, and weighs virtually nothing :thumbup:

Feel free to share some of your preferred campfire recipes :D



Kind regards
Mick
 
Your last name is not Dundee, is it Mick? :D

In all seriousness, great posts. Particularly like the water indicator and GB Mini threads.
 
Great, I'm hungry now. I love outdoor cooking, and this looks like some good vittels.
 
Yummy looking food. I love sausages. I eat most of what you have pictured on a regular basis. It is all easy to pack in, weighs very little, gives you that great "full" feeling, and has sooooo many uses for various dishes to make. (and thanks for the cake rack idea)
 
That is just great. I just ate and this making me hungry again. LOL I too love outdoor cooking.
 
Thats a great selection you have. I usually pack in freeze dried meals or just have summer sausage and cheese. I have been meaning on bringing in some better food in but have yet to do it. Thanks for the examples.
 
That Pizza looks so much better then any Pizza you can buy. NOTHING is better then some good food cooked over fire after a good day spending outdoors.. I have that same type of sausage in the fridg right now that im going to cook on my camping trip that im leaving for next week. Maybe i should get some more of the spicy ones.

Sasha
 
I think we're roughly on the same page here. I don't mind a few little extra weights in the initial stages if that is offset against a decent nosebag. Towards the latter end of a trip I only really want to be carrying light stuff but in the early stages peppered tuna steaks, churizo sausage and mushroom omelet, tortillas, pita bread stuffed with bacon and sun dried tomato are favourites for the list. +1 on the freezing thing too. Couple of chicken breasts wrapped and then rolled up in one of my sit mats stay cold for ages. Nettles are great with garlic, well every bit as good as spinach is anyway. I'll bung a handful of the cashew nuts into that to make it extra cheery. I gather nettles taste even better if they are just played over a flame dry to knock the zing off them. I've not tried that as I'm not convinced. I think that's an out for people that don't like spinach, or can't cook it without making military green slop.

Over the course of a trip worthy of any mention I will end up eating stuff I'm not so keen on. Things do get a bit dreary then as I find texture, crunchy, becoming increasingly absent. Even then I don't find it takes that much to lift some dried noodles and packet soup to a pleasing level. Certainly over the course of just a long weekend unless there is some competitive element I'll eat very well and I'll gladly haul it on my back. I'm not about to go all ration pack and tube cheese like I'm out for two weeks when I'm not.

My most favourite trick is still the use of instant mashed potato for thickening stews, pie fillings .etc. It is a substance I find so repellent and an affront to the human condition in daily living, but the with little amount one needs for a thickening agent it's not obvious. No lumps too. I've even used it to make crude cheese sauce when one would normally use a roux. I think it trumps the cornflour slaked in water thing and is more convenient than a Beurre Manié.
 
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Good stuff.

When I bring foods that would spoil, I put them in a watertight plastic bag, put the bag in my bearproof cannister, and put my cannister in an icy stream, then bury it with rocks. Natural refrigeration. :thumbup:
 
Great post..and the other posts are great to. I like the mini review as well. I believe you used to post elswhere...KF, in the Fallkniven section?? What knives do you carry most often, SC?
 
I think I'mma try a pizza like that next time I go out. Surprise my little brother with it, he always likes it when I cook stuff for him.

Great photos, and thanks for the idea!
 
I had some pictures somewhere, but can't locate them:( Anyways, we usually carry the heavy stuff for the first few days and then use the freeze dried meals for the last night or two. My wife's backpacker's Tex-Mex burritos are the bomb! We pack in the four tortillas, instant rice, Tex-Mex powdered mix, foiled hamburger (works great!) and dried beans (we've taken the canned beans, frozen in a Ziploc as well) and finally some shredded (frozen/very cold) chedder cheese. My wife just cooks everything up and it all is finally combined...add it to the fire-warmed tortillas and some shredded cheese...WOW! That's one of our favorites. Got to love that campfire food!

Thanks for sharing Mick...love your pictures:thumbup:

ROCK6
 
Hmmm, you mean is it worth the weight to pack in food like this:

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or to put a bottle of good wine in a plastic bottle to go with :

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I'm up for decent food. Sorry the second picture isn't that great. A couple of us went on a backpacking trip and made chicken fettucine alfredo. The sauce was from scratch, and we brought some nice sourdough french bread. Since it was a winter trip I took the sled, and all the food and the pot that came along weren't too big a deal to take.

Sled $32
French Bread $4
An awesome meal 7 1/2 miles from anywhere while it's 10F outside... Priceless.
 
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