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This Saturday we zipped out of town and up into the foothills of the Condoriri mountain range for a picnic. The 5 of us piled in to the car, drove for a few hours and hiked up to a pretty little waterfall, that sometimes has fish below, and then went to work preparing various backpacking culinary delights. All made from scratch. Scroll down to see a video of the trip and cooking experience.
It was an opportunity to try out some easy and cheap recipes that could make it into our family backpacking trip menus. We didn’t have time to test all of them, but here are three. Instructions and How to video to come.
An improvement on regular mashed potatoes, but we need to fiddle with the ingredients. The kids weren’t huge fans.
Ingredients
- Plain instant mashed potatoes
- Milk powder
- Dried Basil
- Garlic powder
- Dried Oregano
Alternatively put dried parsley instead of basil and oregano.
Quinua Pasta with white sauce
This was a big hit and ended up nice and creamy. I waas busy working on recipe 3 and didn’t get more than a bite!
Ingredients
- Milk Powder
- Sauce mix
- Parmesan Cheese
- Dried Oregano
- Dried Basil
- Garlic powder
- Olive oil
- Smoke beef or canned tuna
Backpacker’s Chocolate Bundt Cake
I picked up some mini bundt cakes (about 10cm across) from a local store and combined them with a simple no dairy, no egg cake recipe. The results were a simple, but delicious cake that was plenty for 1 adult, or 2 kids. This is definitely a treat for the trail!
Ingredients
- Cake mix
- 3/4 cup Flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- .5 sp baking soda
- .25 tsp salt
- .5 cups water
- 2.5 tbsp oil
- oil to grease bundt cake pan
Conclusions
Two out of these three recipes are perfect as is and the potatoes could use some improvement before they make it into the permanent menu. Watch the video and get an idea of how we did it.
Stay tuned as we’ll be showing you a recipe for orange spiced cake that works well in a bundt or can be cooked without in a delicious and fun way.
