Dear paddlewisers, how about food and cooking tips (not to mention great stories about greatest fish on earth & how you made it..)? I made few entertaining & exiting innovations during last weekend - unfortunately at home, because it is still ice all over two to three kilometers (at least 1 1/2 miles) to the open sea... Chili oil. It comes within small packages of chinese noodles and is it tasty & hot as lava... Not possible to use it all if you have to put on rations of drinking water ;-) so I did finally find out that I had quite many small oil packages in my refrigerator. Fried some bananas with the oil and guess how tasty it was! (well, it does need some ice-cream to make a great dessert, so my next innovation should supposedly be how to get fresh ice-cream to the sea). Instant espresso. Trying to be perfectionist in coffee making with a coffee-pot is taking time, nerves and liquid fuel. Normal instant coffee leaves me just plain angry, unsatisfied and a total nuisance to my fellow paddlers so I do cook after REAL café au lait in the morning some instant espresso during the day to satisfy my needs. Anyone else addicted (besides kayaking) to strong coffee? My best memories from the last summer was during the midsummer fest, 21st of June, when we enjoyed our morning coffee with swans. All peaceful and quiet in the warm morning sunshine. Rye bread. Lasts very long and not so easy to get mildew if you are 5 days at sea. Some of the bread is baked to bread sticks so they are very easy to pack inside the kayak, as also 1,5 litre plastic lemonade bottles, thick & shaped as torpedoes. Easy to pack & change their place if you have to balance the stability. Ready-mix pancake powder. I suppose it is familiar to most of you in the States, but I am adding it still here. No more eggs broken. I am not sure if I am using correct terms, but try low-fat lactose-free milk if you do need some milk to your trips. It is a little bit sweeter than ordinary milk, but lasts for months without a fridge. No sugar needed to your coffee :-) More about sweet things: honey. Try to get it in safe plastic bottles and you can use it with pancakes - and believe or not it actually strenghtens the taste of the herbs in a tomatoe spaghetti sauce. But, of course, only a small drop is needed... Soya powder-mix. A ready-mix to make meatballs, almost impossible to spoil them only water necessary. Power food. And, finally, don´t forget the wine. I think that the kayakers belong mostly to quite romantic species so a little wine makes the dinner, evening & enjoying the company perfect. (It is the only occasion when I am taking glass with me to the trips) There is enough of glass in the archipelago, but the wines packaged in the cardboard stuff are really disappointing ;-) Anyone knows any answers to the ice-cream problem? Cheers, Ari Saarto "In the not-so-cold-as-you-might-think Fin-land" Kannaksenkatu 22 / P.O. 92 15141 Lahti - Finland - Europe GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892 fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815 e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Ari Saarto wrote: > Dear paddlewisers, > > how about food and cooking tips (not to mention great stories > about greatest fish on earth & how you made it..)? > My favorite camping dessert is something my pal Peter introduced me to many years ago. It's a dry mix of Post Grape Nuts, instant milk and powdered instant cocoa. Add hot water and it's sort of like instant flummery. You Europeans will have to find a friendly North American to ship you a box of Grape Nuts. Best fish? I was doing a canoe trip around Isle Royale (hope to do it via kayak this year) and we were woefully short of food...but we did have a few spinning rigs. Using the classic Michigan pike rig- that's a red/white Dardevle spoon on a 6" steel leader- we hauled in enough pike out of Chickenbone Lake to stuff ourselves and give some to the nice honeymooners in the next tent. Just dipped fillets in Shake 'n' Bake and fried them in oil. Few freshwater fish match pike for sweet, delicate flesh. I'm taking a #6 or #7 fly rod and some red and white Dahlberg Divers when I go back. I've never carried wine on a camping trip, but Peter and I *always* carried a bottle of Yukon Jack ("the Black Sheep of Canadian whiskies") on our backpack and canoe trips. -- ---------------------------------------- Michael J Edelman mje_at_mich.com http://www.mich.com/~mje http://www.mich.com/~mje/kayak.html http://www.mich.com/~mje/scope.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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