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[Borr 6,009]

3 minutes ago, mushroom said:

Something I have been trying to nail is making really concentrated stews and soups so that most of the liquid has gone and I just need to add it when cooking. Not cracked it yet, as the flavour seems to go funny and the veg just turns to mush.

How about making a concentrated gravy and adding raw veg and water?

[mushroom 12,925]

2 hours ago, Borr said:

How about making a concentrated gravy and adding raw veg and water?

It's the removing the water content I'm trying to achieve. Raw veg, especially roots and tubas hold a lot of water. Concentrating the liquid isn't the problem, it's cooking it down but keeping the nutrition and bite. So far... failure

[Bush Rummager 4,600]

12 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

£4 - 5 for 300 gram of beans and sausages lol, get to Aldi 40 pence a tin 

Beans and sausage.. that's 3rd world food ffs!! 

Joking aside.. good point you make there. I've just seen the freeze dried meals on Amazon prime and they're £7!! That's £1:50 more than in the shop so obviously your 'free postage' from Prime ain't free!! Like we didn't know that anyway!!

Tried one of the curry freeze dries meals on a day hike last winter with a couple of mini Peshwari naan breads and it was decent enough. Good thing about those packeted meals is you've got no pan to wash out after. Just boil up your water.. fill and reseal the bag and wait ten minutes whilst you enjoy a nice hot cuppa of choice. Obviously eat the food straight from the packet.. bung in the bottom of the ruck sack after. Easy.

Only trouble is with having the curry is that i wanted 8 pint of Cobra after!!

 

[low plains drifter 10,496]

1 hour ago, Bush Rummager said:

Beans and sausage.. that's 3rd world food ffs!! 

Joking aside.. good point you make there. I've just seen the freeze dried meals on Amazon prime and they're £7!! That's £1:50 more than in the shop so obviously your 'free postage' from Prime ain't free!! Like we didn't know that anyway!!

Tried one of the curry freeze dries meals on a day hike last winter with a couple of mini Peshwari naan breads and it was decent enough. Good thing about those packeted meals is you've got no pan to wash out after. Just boil up your water.. fill and reseal the bag and wait ten minutes whilst you enjoy a nice hot cuppa of choice. Obviously eat the food straight from the packet.. bung in the bottom of the ruck sack after. Easy.

Only trouble is with having the curry is that i wanted 8 pint of Cobra after!!

 

The dry pasta and sauce packets are nice, cheese, leek,and ham with a chopped onion added still less than a quid 

Take 8 pints of Cobra with you no bother in the rocket pouches

[Borr 6,009]

A squadie mate of mine sellotaped dried pasta all around his torso before going on exercise, got pulled for it and humiliated I personally think it was innovative....

[low plains drifter 10,496]

57 minutes ago, Borr said:

A squadie mate of mine sellotaped dried pasta all around his torso before going on exercise, got pulled for it and humiliated I personally think it was innovative....

Midnight express 

Macaroni styleeee

[omegathelast 160]

I’ve cooked steaks and fresh stuff when wild-ish motorcycle camping but for the shorter trips I mainly do I do like the convenience of the wayfarer meals on my jetboil. Some of the dehydrated meals like summit to eat are actually better tasting than I expected. Expensive though and some are absolutely rammed with calories! 

[low plains drifter 10,496]

Seen a few of the YouTubers using the army ration packs, they look canny for a change, especially if you're carrying a heavy pack over distance

[Nicepix 5,650]

On 15/11/2021 at 18:47, mushroom said:

It's the removing the water content I'm trying to achieve. Raw veg, especially roots and tubas hold a lot of water. Concentrating the liquid isn't the problem, it's cooking it down but keeping the nutrition and bite. So far... failure

When I make curry I blitz the onions, garlic, grated ginger, pepper, tomato puree and the spices with just enough oil to make a paste. I fry the meat in the paste then add veg and liquid like yoghurt or coconut milk before adding the veg and puting it in the slow cooker. 

Sometimes I freeze the paste for when we go off in the motorhome, but you could vac pack it and it would last several days. If you did that with the stuff you needed to make a stew or casserole you could fry the meat in the paste in one pan then boil the raw veg in a little water before mixing in the paste and meat.

[low plains drifter 10,496]

Kung po pork 

Chinese egg fried rice

[Daniel cain 45,414]

3 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

Kung po pork 

Chinese egg fried rice

Living the dream there Drifter...on the night

[low plains drifter 10,496]

[low plains drifter 10,496]

Airs getting fresh out there now 

 

[Francie 6,368]

35 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

Airs getting fresh out there now 

 

Do you live in the tent low plains or just head out there whenever?

[low plains drifter 10,496]

1 hour ago, W. Katchum said:

What a guy It’s dropped a bit now last few nights here, hope ye cozy

Very warm in these tents can only have one kiln dried log or a couple of semi seasoned logs in the stove or it's too hot, had to lie on the scratcher bollocko the other night til the inferno died down