I am always on the hunt for light weight, good tasting, no refrigeration required, easy to make meals since I like to backpack into wilderness trout fishing areas. Here’s one of mine:
Salt and pepper a fish fillet or whole fish (1/2 to 1 lbs)and place it on a sheet of aluminum foil
Mix half of a 6oz box of Stove Top Stuffing mix (I like cornbread flavor) with 3/4 cup of water and a large tablespoon of butter (if you have it)
Put the stuffing on top of the fish and close the foil
Place in an area of medium heat (similar to 350 degree in an oven)
turn to prevent burning and keep on the fire for at least 30 minutes.
remove, eat in the foil and discard.
This meals requires packing in about 4 oz of weight for a meal for one.
Please post any suggested recipes you might have that includes or doesn’t include fish.
I also love the backpacking stuff and getting lost somewhere (not literally ). When I grill a trout it would be either open at the grill with just some salt, pepper and limon (if I have) or wrapped in foil (if happens to have some). I will also cook some instant mash potatos (I always have this!)and add some nuts in it with olive oil, and salt and pepper.
hmmmm dinner time… :roll:
An old favorite that the trappers and Indians ate was take a fish impale with a stick vertically and place next to a fire turning at times. Bannock Bread wrapped on a stick and roasted.
slough foot, I have to ask since you’re talking about backpacking into wilderness trout fishing areas and #6 in your recipe says ‘eat in the foil and discard’, where exactly in any wilderness do you discard the piece of foil? Just curious.
packing foods I like to carry :
Oranges (or 2) - good energy boost
Pemmican - PB based with raisins and nuts - or - suet based with beef oxo, bacon bits and chopped jerky.
Then if the kids are about - a fun snack or 2.
I’ll also pick one or 2 items from ma nature herself. Most times pine needles for tea (drop a small piece of orange peel in when boiling to remove bitterness).
Montana Moose, you are correct in that I could have been more specific about discard. I meant that I would not clean it for re-use but treat it as trash. Yes I do pack out my trash and I assume that anyone on this board would know better.
If you have a food dehydrator, you can make some interesting AND tasty meals. There are several backpacking cookbooks out there available. One of my favorites has always been 3-bean chili.
Gramps, well I saw ‘backpacking’ and ‘discard’ in slough foot’s post so it made me ask myself the obvious ! I didn’t think slough foot meant throw it on the ground, rather that he musthave meant that the ‘fouly fragrant fishy foil’ would surely be placed in a hermetically sealed trash container of some description or other and that it would be ‘backpacked’ right back outta the wilderness area !
slough foot, I meant no offense by my question and I admit I knew when I posted that there aren’t any dumpsters in the ‘wilderness’. That wouldn’t be very wild. As far as ‘anyone’ knowing better as regards packin’ out the trash on this board, well, I’ve seen things. Thank you for packin’ out yours though and again, I didn’t mean to put you on the defensive.
I wasn’t…I’m still not…~thinks about that~…I pretty much never am…!! ‘fouly fragrant fishy foil’ would be the clue suggesting lightness/unseriousness ! That’s not a word, is it…
Dudly, Are you sure your not one of our Boy Scouts with your Poptart & Raimen Noodle reply. No mater how much we try to get the scouts to cook on the trail one of them sneaks in Poptart & Raimen Noodles!!!
). When I grill a trout it would be either open at the grill with just some salt, pepper and limon (if I have) or wrapped in foil (if happens to have some). I will also cook some instant mash potatos (I always have this!)and add some nuts in it with olive oil, and salt and pepper.