Backpackers and cyclists often depend on frozen and dried food because they are light weight. The quality isn’t too bad, but not something you want to eat every day (and they are expensive). Trail Recipes will introduce some quick and easy meal ideas with ingredients you can get at any supermarket in Japan...
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Making French soup out of ‘French toast’
Ingredients:
Consommé soup
French bread
Black pepper
This is month’s column is about using old bread to make a tasty soup. We usually preserve left-over bread in a plastic bag to keep it soft. But it can get moldy easily due to moisture, so, why not dry the bread?...
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Pasta Soup in 90 seconds
Ingredients:
Short-cut pasta
Instant soup mix
Basil, oregano
Because they really stick to your stomach, pastas such as macaroni and spaghetti are easy to cook and great for camp menus. Japanese often say they can’t get going without filling up on a rice-based meal and, oddly enough, pasta takes on the same role overseas. For example, tri-athletes who consume huge amounts of energy change their diets to center around carbohydrate-filled pastas before events...
Easy-to-eat, high-calorie foods such as caramel, chocolate, dried fruits and mixed nuts are great rations for mountain climbing and trekking, and a great way to fuel up when you are expending a lot of energy. I snack on this stuff out on the trail, but “responsible” people usually try to avoid high-calorie foods in normal life.
The question is, when you’re done hiking and camping, what are you supposed to do with all the snacks left over? You can’t just give half-eaten things to folks you meet on the trail...
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Say Kimuchi!
Ingredients:
Kimuchi
Packaged Rice Miso
Soy Sauce
Among the favorite foods of people in Japan are certain kinds of Japanese pickles. The fermentation process creates a unique flavor and smell which turns some people off, while others become hooked instantly.
One of my favorite pickled dishes is Korean kimuchi, consisting of cabbage, radishes and various vegetables mixed together with a tougarashi (spicy red pepper) paste, giving it that extra kick...
Ingredients:
Flour
Egg
Water
Soy sauce (shoyu)
Wild vegetables (such as urui and taranome)
City life forces us to recognize cooking ingredients only from what you’d buy at the store. People seem to forget that even the young sprouts of dandelions in the park make a delicious salad...
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Burger and Beans in a Bag
Ingredients:
Retort hamburger or Retort meatballs (ketchup seasoning added)
Canned pre-cooked chili beans
Chili powder
Jalapeno or Tabasco sauce
Chili is a campsite favorite, of which I have a personal penchant as the spicy flavors make a good meal and go well with a drink. The long shelf-life in the field is an added bonus. You can eat it sandwich-style with bread, or mixed with meat, lettuce and cheese to create “taco rice,” an Okinawan favorite...
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Use Your Noodle
Ingredients:
Nissin Chicken Ramen
Provence Herb Mix
Black pepper
Japanese ramen is quite popular on American trails, and the king of these noodles is plain instant ramen. Because it’s difficult to haul water in the mountains, you often see folks ripping open packages and eating it as is. However, even though that would seem similar to the “Baby Star” treats we ate as children, the fact there’s no extra flavors added makes me feel just a bit uneasy...
Nothing takes away an appetite like the heat of summer. Fortunately, Japan boasts a great variety of cold noodles, with the most popular being somen. The finely cut noodles go down smoothly, and there’s a seemingly endless appetite for summer somen in cold water...
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Portable Peppery Pasta
Ingredients:
Stick ramen
Water
Pepper (with mill)
Instant ramen is the perfect trail food, but sometimes it can be a space-eater in the backpack. However, straight noodles, referred to as “stick ramen” solve the problem...
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http://www.outdoorjapan.com/contents/current_issue/1160212787/1160887090/index_html?language=english
Ingredients:
Raw sardines or mackerel
Miso paste
Onions
Ginger
Myoga
Green leaves
Japan has a lot of great camping areas near the ocean where you can rent a pole and fishing gear at a local shop, drop a hook in the sea and try to catch the evening’s meal. However, the size of fish you typically catch with rental gear usually limits the variety of dishes you can put together. So this issue we feature a dish called namero that you can make with small fish such as sardines or mackerel...
There’s nothing like campfire cooking – a far cry from the taste you get at home. You can’t beat barbecuing over the open flame and enjoying the final product. Hot dogs will never go out of style, but wouldn’t it be nice to top it all off with dessert?
(1) Place the unpeeled banana in the fire and ...
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http://www.outdoorjapan.com/contents/current_issue/1164963850/1165471820/index_html?language=english