[pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes? - Try Enchiladas!!!!

[Gottula Family]

In your dehydrator....besides lasagna (which is great), try any spaghetti or casserole dish. Enchiladas (with tortillas, cheese, sour cream, sauce, green chilies) are the best. Add a little more H2O when heating for a tortilla soup.  
 
Also I vacuum pack each meal separately.  I use a paper towel as a liner inside to protect the plastic from punctures and provide clean-up towel.  

 
> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:25:05 +1100
> From: kyliepete at gmail.com
> To: rainorshinecamper at yahoo.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?
> 
> Hey Lisa,
> 
> I've been eating home-dehy food all my life while hiking - and you can do
> pretty much anything (well... there are limits, but...). you can dehy almost
> any meal that's not assembled (like lasagne etc). things like stir fries and
> curries that call for strips or chunks of meat dehy (and rehy) way better if
> you use mince. with school groups etc i avoid chicken - but our family eats
> it and it works great (we also have a lot of roo - but i'm guessing that's
> not so easy to come by over there). we use snap lock bags, and with meals i
> always double or triple bag because as someone mentioned - the dehy meat can
> get quite sharp.
> 
> we do curries, dahl, stirfries, pasta sauces, anything and everything,
> provided the meat works as a mince (and it often works in dishes you
> wouldn't expect). it's worth leaving the oil out, or dramatically reducing
> it - stuff dehy's better with no oil. if it's a coconut based curry, it's
> worth making it as you would but leaving out the coconut milk and adding it
> in powder form, same with satays and peanut butter powder. if you can be
> bothered you can do sauce for gnocchi and carry dehy'd potato and flour and
> make your gnocchi fresh in the bush. my students like anything like chilli
> con carne, bolognese sauce, actually anything really, with potato on top and
> then cheese (even though it's usually the disgusting non-perishable kraft
> cheddar we have) - like shepherd's or cottage pie.
> 
> you can mix yoghurt with fruit (blend it) to make snacks - and we often add
> dehy yoghurt and dehy'd fruit to our muesli and let it soak for a little
> while. you can do vegies separately to add to meals (or cook them in with
> it). if you just blanch them, they come up beautiful and bright when you
> rehy them out in the bush. dried mango tastes way way better if you do it at
> home - actually pretty much every fruit tastes better home dehy'd.
> 
> we tend to carry nalgene bottles (i know - i really don't have any kind of
> UL background), and sort of 2ish in the arvo, (depending on when we want
> tea), we put the dehy'd meal into the nalgene and cover it with water, whack
> it back in our packs and keep walking - so that it's fully rehydrated and
> all it needs is heating at tea time. you can eat it completely dehy'd (my
> brother in law loves meals dehy'd to eat as a snack - like crumbly jerky
> with vegies in it), but it dehydrates you, and i really notice my students
> smell way worse if they eat not fully rehydrated meals.
> 
> avocado by itself - totally does not work (i know - intuitive really - but
> someone assured me it did)... it's great just doing mushrooms and tomatoes
> in season, and then having them to add to things - handy and tasty, and so
> easy.
> 
> and we (this might be dodgey but we've never had a problem), keep meals for
> 6 months no worries. we snaplock them up and they're fine... i've worked
> with people who seal them with those bags that seal - which is great, cept
> the bags always seem to get perforations, and are far harder to pour from -
> so we always have to snaplock them anyway.
> 
> when i'm walking alone i have cous cous with eveything cos it's so easy and
> i like it, but my folks actually cook their pasta and dehydrate that too
> (separately), which really cuts down on fuel usage - cooks far faster.
> 
> skids
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