My friend Rich Howarth, an avid backcountry archer, has come up with an assortment of freezer bag recipes that he was kind enough to share with us on the Sage Creek Forums. He alerted us to a special on Hamburger Helper which is a good hearty, high calorie, backcountry food. At $1.25 a box it serves a family of four or two ravenous hunters. He did recommend cooking and dehydrating the hamburger and pasta (see part one). Many of these recipes had their genesis from www.freezerbagcooking.com
I’ll let Rich tell about his latest experiments.
I’ve been wearing out my dehydrator lately and working on my recipes. Seems dehydrated lean ground beef or pork is my main ingredient for use in just about all of them. I tried drying canned chicken, doesn’t work all that well. So far I’ve come up with:
Chili Mac – I like my own concoction better than MH (see below)
Spaghetti w/meat sauce – add potato flakes to thicken the sauce
Lasagna – Not really lasagna, but the Hamburger Helper kind. Good though.
Stroganoff – again, my own version. Not as good as MH, but I’ll continue to tinker.
Curry rice w/beef – Rice is easy to dehydrate, use Madras curry, ginger powder, onion, brown sugar cube and other spices. Spicy and yummy.
Dirty rice – Awesome. The powdered gravy mix and fresh ground pepper are magic.
Jerky – I’m buying cheap cuts of roast from Asian grocer who cuts it thin for me. One pre-jerked pound fits nicely in a quart ziplock after drying.Chili Mac.
(in a Qt freezer bag)
1 cup dehydrated macaroni
1/2 cup dehydrated ground beef
1/3 cup dehydrated kidney beans
1 tbsp dehydrated chopped onion
2 tsp spaghetti sauce powder
4 tsp chili mix powder
pinch of red pepper flakesAdd 2 cups boiled water, stir, set aside 12-15 min.
Came out pretty good I think, but I may tweak it a bit (add tomato paste powder).
OK my mouth is watering now…I know who I want to be camping with during hunting season…
