RE: [Paddlewise] Dehydrating Complete Meals

I've had great luck with complex rice & veggie casseroles.  You can even
include oodles of cheese.  Bake off a slew of yummy casserole, then
measure and dry portions.  Seal (eg foodsaver), and it's good in the
freezer for over a year.  I used this a lot on self supported 3 & 4 week
expeditions up the N. BC coast.  Rehydrate in camp with boiling water,
let sit for half an hour.  Finish off in a fry pan or cook pot, adding a
can of your favorite animal flesh - tuna, chicken, roast beef all worked
great.  Top off with a little parmesan cheese.  Note: I was never able
to get meat of any kind to rehydrate, whether raw or cooked.  Thus the
carrying of tins.  The new foil-like packs with tuna are a great
invention - I wish they had them 10 years ago when I was doing all that
expeditioning.

FYI, my casserole consisted of cooked brown rice, sautied mushrooms and
onions, lots of garlic, chopped broccoli, chopped asparagus, zucchini,
spinach, chard, and any other veg I could think of, plus a can or two of
Campbell's cream o' mushroom soup and a ton of grated cheddar and swiss
cheeses.  Assemble, bake, then dry portions.

I second the vote for dried canned hash.  Works great!
I tried drying chili, but it never seemed to reconstitute very well.

Mitch McKinnon
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 Subject: [Paddlewise] Dehydrating Complete Meals

I'm the proud new owner of a food dehydrator.  
Anybody have sources of recipes, tips, tricks, warnings, etc
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