[Paddlewise] Great Paddlewise Cookbook Contest

The Great Paddlewise Cookbook Contest
I propose a winter project for those who are winter bound and are 
needing an outlet for kayaking activities that can include endless 
hours of, hopefully, esoteric debate.

I have one axiom to describe my camping adventures.
Camping is fun, food is everything.
Which is to state that almost any hardship of the day can be overcome 
with a GREAT meal.

The Proposed CONTEST
I propose that members submit meals that can be used on 
kayaking-camping trips.

Rules:  You must create a meal that has not been published before by 
anyone else.  If you take a regular house type meal and modify
ingredients for a kayaking trip, this would be OK.

Paddlewise members will try and cook these meals and rate on the 
following attributes:

Taste
Overall ease of cooking.
Shelf-life of ingredients
Volume of packaging.
Others

We need to define rating guidelines (numbers) such as:
Ie:  Cooking time: 5 for less than 5 minutes; 4 for btween 5 &8 etc.
I have not given any real though to the above.

And JOHN - No; using ballast rocks to make stone soup does not qualify.

At the end of contest we can collect all the meals and make available to 
members.

We could even publish a crude book and sell these with the profits 
going to worthy causes that Paddlewise members support 
(now there is an item for debate).

Unless there is another mechanism I can volunteer to collect receipts

I am proposing for my recipe to modify a house dish of: 
Peanut-butter, 2% carnation milk, salsa sauce( try a dry mixture) to 
make a noodle dish.  I am hoping to be able to premix peanut-butter 
and carnation milk to reduce can and to try a find dry veggies that 
an be soaked to make a salsa type sauce.

For those who recognize the ingredients this is a very tasty dish at 
east in a house environment.

Niels Henriksen
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Nh_at_cyberus,ca

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