In a message dated 8/26/99 9:54:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jaf30_at_cornell.edu writes: definitely wanted to get rid of the formerly "Disposal etc. subject line! Plus it gives us a new topic to beat to death. That "math" thread was above me... Food is much more fun! << I used to go on an annual backpacking trip with a bunch of friends and each year we'd all try to outdo each other by bringing something to eat that was a bit unusual. >> That's a fun idea. I thought back, and my favorite introduction was to dehydrated watermelon. You slice it very thinly (ab. 1/4") and in relatively small pieces, bearing in mind that it shrinks. IT IS DELICIOUS - like candy. Prompted me to buy a dehydrator. I recently found an electric slicer at a reasonable price - must see if there are still any watermelons around at a reasonable price! Sandy Kramer *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 07:15 AM 8/27/99 -0400, Sandykayak_at_aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 8/26/99 9:54:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >jaf30_at_cornell.edu writes: >definitely wanted to get rid of the formerly "Disposal etc. subject line! >Plus it gives us a new topic to beat to death. That "math" thread was above >me... Food is much more fun! > ><< I used to go on an annual backpacking trip with a bunch of friends and >each year we'd all try to outdo each other by bringing something to eat that >was a bit unusual. >> > >That's a fun idea. I thought back, and my favorite introduction was to >dehydrated watermelon. You slice it very thinly (ab. 1/4") and in relatively >small pieces, bearing in mind that it shrinks. IT IS DELICIOUS - like candy. I've found something like this at of all places a "Discovery Channel" store at an airport mall. They had a variety of flavors of dehydrated fruit that was packaged in foil and labeld "Food the Astronauts eat on the space shuttle" or something like that. We bought a package of strawberries. Once you got over eating eating something that had the texture of styrofoam packing peanuts but then melted in your mouth they weren't bad. What allowed us to bring in some rather exotic items to our backpacking trip was that the camp that we went to (in the very southern end of Sequoia National Park) was only about 2.5 miles from the trailhead. The first couple of trips we'd all freeze a steak and then alternately wrap in it tin foil and newspaper. It could stay in an ice chest until we started ot hike in at the crack of dawn. By dinner time it would just be thawed enough to throw on a backpacking grill over a fire. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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