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Barking Sasquatch Soles down, head up
Joined: 14 Jul 2011 Posts: 23 | TRs | Pics Location: Kingston, WA |
If greens help make Popeye strong, they must be good for helping us up the trail, right? Here's an easy and delicious way to pack greens on the trail for a satisfying snack. Best of all, you don't need a dehyrdrator, just the oven in your kitchen! Depending on how you pack, these could get smushed to bits, but then you would have healthy kale crumbs to toss into one of those fabulous dinner recipes made with instant taters that dicentra has been sharing...I skip the brown sugar step. Enjoy!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/kale-chips-recipe/index.html
How else do people like to bring veggies on the trail?
Time on the trail allows us to pause and remember that we are human beings, not human doings.
Time on the trail allows us to pause and remember that we are human beings, not human doings.
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Allison Feckless Swooner
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 12287 | TRs | Pics Location: putting on my Nikes before the comet comes |
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Allison
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:17 pm
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Carrots dehydrate pretty well. Cabbage is quite durable. Green beans also dry pretty well.
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Navy salad Member
Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 1865 | TRs | Pics Location: Woodinville |
Coincidentally, this last week a friend brought some kale "chips" to share with us. They tasted pretty good (sort of like really thin potato chips except which dissolve almost instantly in your mouth), but I think you'd need to eat a LOT to be very satisfied with this.
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onemoremile Member
Joined: 26 Dec 2010 Posts: 1305 | TRs | Pics Location: Sequim |
Lots of greens are already there: bracken fern, cattails, berries, dandelions, maple twigs, sugary tree bark, mushrooms, salal, etc.
I like to bring the dehydrated veggies and fruits.
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Conrad Meadow bagger
Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 2298 | TRs | Pics Location: Moscow, ID |
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Conrad
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:28 pm
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@onemoremile: Nice ideas, but unfortunately all those greens are only found at low elevations.
I fry, then dry, broccoli spears. I fry in coconut oil because I imagine it goes rancid slower than most oils. Also carrots, but that's not a "green".
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Altitude Junkie Member
Joined: 25 Jul 2010 Posts: 621 | TRs | Pics
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Phil Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 2025 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline, WA |
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:29 pm
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Barking Sasquatch wrote: | How else do people like to bring veggies on the trail? |
If anything some cabbage. Keeps long. Dress (at serving time) with a little sesame oil and vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, hot pepper.
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jenjen Moderatrix
Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 7617 | TRs | Pics Location: Sierra stylin |
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:03 am
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Cabbage is your friend if you want fresh greens on the trail. It holds up great in the pack.
Bell peppers also hold up really well. The pure pleasure of crunching into a fresh pepper after 4 days on the trail makes it totally worth the weight.
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:50 am
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I take a wide variety of vegetables with me - you can dry nearly anything in the produce dept.
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Stefan-K Member
Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 522 | TRs | Pics Location: seattle |
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Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:51 pm
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Conrad wrote: | @onemoremile: Nice ideas, but unfortunately all those greens are only found at low elevations. |
One more green for onemoremiles list that satisfies higher elevations and avoids prepping and packing altogether: glacier lilies, yum!
First green to pop up as snow melts usually.
And first time I've ever popped into the food forum!
Taste I've found varies with context (soil minerals, etc.). Young shoots most tasty; fresh, sweet and somewhat bitter (for that medicinal flourish!).
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ree Member
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 4399 | TRs | Pics
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ree
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:31 am
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I pureed a heap of broccoli - stems, flowers- then dried it. The whole shebang turned into a paste - like material. It dried nice n' crispy and I pulverized it to a nice green powder.
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Allison Feckless Swooner
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 12287 | TRs | Pics Location: putting on my Nikes before the comet comes |
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:57 am
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So then what is your plan with it? Just add to whatever?
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