Food Find!

““I found whole chicken breasts in foil packs with the canned meat, the garlic was pretty good.”
LtHiker
11:37:45 AM
1/24/07

I have not run across those yet.”

“Hey Stovie, if you do, pick a pack up! They are good! I found them at Safeway out here.”

“ive got a handful of nuts right now!”

“sarbar gets you that excited, crash? ;-)”

“dude that chicken is awesome...about 140 cals, 1-2 grams of fat. The BBQ is real good. Goes well with the single serve brown rice bowls i found. should work out good on the trail.”

“I found whole chicken breasts in foil packs with the canned meat, the garlic was pretty good.”
LtHiker

Where did you find them LT?”

“Stovie, yer bad :-P”

“jackstraw...tuna/canned meat/foil chicken isle of walmart, kroger, publix--seen them at all in ATL, and parts of Alabama...but we like our meat processed!”

“The closest I've found to that is Spurkey Spingles. (One of my favorites) or in laymans terms Spam Turkey Singles.They have regular Spingles too.”

“i found RUM!”

“Hey someone said they had some sort of package for Miso soup!! What brand is it, how's it packaged, and where can I find it?????

WAs that Marko?.....or someone else....hmm my memory fails me.”

“well i googled it and you can find different miso pastes, but not the soup.”

“I've gotten this powdered version before:
http://www.edwardandsons.com/miso_cup.html

It tastes good, but the consistency is lacking...it seems like the powder never really dissolves, but just stays suspended in the water, settling on the bottom and getting caught in your throat when you drink it! It's the only powdered kind I've ever seen before though...I've found it at several different natural-foods grocery stores.”

“SPAM is from the 'deble'.”

“...I am not one to "discover" new foods. My experience with cooking in the backcountry is very limited and what I can do well I have copied from others. Anyway, I have been playing with "steam baking" for a while now and at the grocery store I found these "Betty Crocker Warm Delights" cakes/desserts. They are made to cook in a microwave in a minute or two. They come in a plastic bowl and mix up with only water. I have found that 10 minutes of steaming produces a constantly outstanding product, better than what comes out of the microwave. I haven't yet figured out if the bowl is special and required (I think that it isn't) but the cake mix/topping are packaged on their own so if you packed more than one you could take one bowl and multiple mixes. The flavor is great, esp the brownies and lava cake.

Anyway, I am sure people have tried this but I figured what the heck.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/Products/Warm-Delights/warm-delights.htm

”

“Dang, that sounds good.”

“Do you use the bowl to steam cook in the pot?”

“I used the bowl that came with the package. I set it on three little rocks in a pot. One of my pots the bowl fits right into perfectly. The other pot I have to trim the lip off of the bowl to make it fit but it doesn't effect the baking.”

“and no cover on the bowl, only on the pot?”

“What type of heat source did you use?”

“...cover only on the pot.

I used both an alcohol stove and a canister stove in my tests (three so far). Both stoves worked well however the canister stove was a little easier to control once a boil was reached. That's just part of steam baking... once the water starts to boil a slow simmer is all you need. I only have a few alcohol stoves that "simmer". I used a foil lid for one pot and a plastic lid with another.”

“Will one of those bowls fit into a Evernew 0.9L ti pot?”

“DuDE! get a couple of those small chicken roaster bags and seal the mix in there and see if it works. The roaster bags should be able sit directly on the water so no rocks are needed.”

“You have already paid for the bowl, so why add extra cost?
..and you can use the bowl for other food after cleaning.

I guess if you mixed your own mix, those bags would be an option, but it sounds like the steam is helping cook the mix.”

“One word of caution....
If you use Ti pots, do not let the water steam all away. Heating a Ti pot with no water in it will scorch the bottom of it.”

“I don't have an Evernew 0.9L but I have a mix here. I'll measure the bowl...

6" diameter OOTB, approx 1.5" deep

The lip of the bowl can be cut off as the cake doesn't rise that high. If you cut off the lip then the bowl is 5" in diameter.

...roughly.

The bowl is black plastic and is very light. If I took multiple mixes I would take one bowl and re-use it. The bowl is nice because it produces a nice flat cake/brownie ready for the frosting.

I also made the lemon cake but forgot about it. It was pretty good. The brownies were outstanding, more a "fudge" brownie than a "cake" brownie which is how I like them...”

“You know I'm going to HAVE to try this. ;-)”

“DUDE...this is killer...my kids love those things for the microwave...I am going to test it out THANKS!”

“Thanks Jimmysan! I may have to try these on the mothers day trip for the kiddies.”

“JIMMY SAN!!!!!
YOU DA MAN!!!!!

I just did a lemon cake in my Evernew 0.9 ti pot.

I just floated the bowl in about 1/2 inch of water in the pot. Slow boiled about ten minutes with the lid on.
Turned out GREAT!!!!!
I did have to trim the bowl edge off.”

“Only problem I see is how do you keep all the other begging TTers from mooching your cake away from you at camp? It smells so wonderful all the others will be whimpering for a taste.”

“LMAO!

Glad it worked out.”

“Jimmy san, the only thing I did different from you is I did away with the rocks to support the cake bowl. I just let it float in the boiling water.
Worked great.
Thanks for the tip!”

“Thats easy they are one serving. You just turn away real fast and say NO! Mine, mine, mine.”

“I caught that, SS, and I'll give it a try. It would be nice to not have to fool with the rocks. I don't know why but for some reason it didn't register with me that the bowl would float. I have been steam baking biscuits and bread as well... the results are tasty but of course the steam only gets to 212 degrees and so won't brown things. That's perfect for a cake (extra perfect actually). I was fooling around with a way to suspend the biscuit in the pot but I think I'll try just putting the dough in the bowl from a cake mix and float it. Simple is better...”

“jeanyus! no more half done biscuits-on-a-stick! Now I just gotta get a bigger pot, and s bowl or two. Gear store here I come! WooHoo!”

“The pot doesn't have to be very big.
I trimmed the plastic cake bowl edges off as Jimmy san said and that dropped the size down to less than 5".”

“The only pot I have is the boyscout style mess kit, so it is too shallow I think for the bowl then a lid to cover it. I need a bigger pot anyhow, as I want to try some other stuff I saw Windigirl doing a couple weeks ago with vacuum bags.”

“Will this work with an esbit stove?”

“Try it and see.
Let us know.

You do need around a ten minute steam.”

“gonna get tough with just one esprit chunk but since you need less water to heat it could be possible”

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“That's expensive when I can nab them from the cafeteria for a quarter.”

“the olive oil?”

“$.35?!?!?!?!? Bet Walmart has it cheaper.”

“Ive never seen olive oil in little packest before.”

“Oh, what I saw was the peanut butter and jelly.”

“I've never seen olive oil in little packets either! Thanks SC.

So, Birch has figured out the best little containers for carrying stuff like oil....urinalysis cups! They will not leak. Next time you use the bathroom at the Dr's just slip a few into your pocket. Or ask a friend who works at the hospital for a few. He's been carrying his salad dressing in one for a few weeks so far. Little nalgene cups leaked, squirt bottles leaked, the urinalysis cup has not.”

“just make sure it is olive oil you are putting on your meal and not someone's ree test.”

“Maybe I should have specified to take a NEW cup.”