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For most chocolate always finds its way into a pack or pocket and comes out when the body and spirit needs lifting. I admit to being in this category as well as tending towards a few other tasties, like cooking fish over the fire.....Umm. :biggthump
How about the rest of you, what do you think is the best winter grub while in the wilds?
MartiniDave
17-11-2003, 14:32
Tony
I'm with you on the chocolate - but please make it Bournville or the kids pinch it!
Other than that I like to stumble on something unexpected like late fruit in a sheltered spot, or some nuts the squirrels haven't found yet.
Dave
Yep!! chocolate is a must..... but I always carry a bag or cornflakes as well....
Boil some water in the billy and use the upturned lid to melt the chocolate... add cornfalkes and mix..... the smell of chocolate while cooking is just ummmm..... when mixed put in a waterproof container and stick in a river to cool over night. don't forget to lick all the chocolate out of the lid... don't want to waste vital calories..... and lo and behold..... chocolate cornflake cakes for breakfast :-)
My fave wild food in winter has to be... 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire' ... its just that time of year ;-)
Ed
I love dumplings!
Take dry dumpling mix that you've made up at home - make them up with a bit of water - throw them in the pot with whatever you're cooking, wait twenty minutes and then sit back and feel good :-D
George
bigjackbrass
17-11-2003, 20:34
Rich, moist, denser-than-old-oak fruit cake. Can't beat it. Also perfect if you hike with Americans because they cannot stand the stuff and so never pinch it.
puffballs mushrooms chopped up and put in my stews
Heinz Pork sausages and beans with naan bread that hot you can only just hold it. Oh and a piping hot cup of coffee. Its just the Bee's knees when the air starts getting cold and crisp.
Flapjacks. Bunged full of nuts, seeds, dried fruit - my recent batch uses hazelnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds and sultanas.
They never last, though.
Just don't cook them until they are brittle!
From my vegetarian perspective: Veggie sausages (Cauldron Lincolnshire) and beans cooked over the fire... very satisfying.
Last year I found a great recipe for an African curry that involved sweet potatoes, butternut squash and apple, that was a big hit!
Food just tastes better outdoors...
Hellz
ChrisKavanaugh
27-11-2003, 17:08
Chocolate, fruitcake, jerky and Earl Grey, shaken, not stirred with some digestives.
Celtic Dragon
27-11-2003, 19:37
Fresh rabbit stew has to be on my list as does a nice apple crumble!!! Gits, you've got my mouth watering now.
Double gits. :mrgreen:
Simon
I've been busy absorbing info and just getting round to this post....I'm in desperate need to learn about wildfoods,game etc..the hows, what's and dangers etc but I quite fancy the thought of a mixed grill of smoked pheasant, rabbit and fish with some mushrooms and chestnuts washed down with (a handy bottle of red wine).
Roving Rich
23-12-2003, 14:12
A can of SOUP, warmed in the edge of the fire.
:lol: :roll: :wink:
Rich
I know your expecting this :nana: Would that be diced soup of the tomato variety ?
Roving Rich
23-12-2003, 14:26
no that would be of the CHOPPED variety as it happened
:oops:
Rich
Ahh..CHOPPED...... :nana: :rolmao:
Gotta be Canadian pancakes in Maple syrup fresh from the pan.
Another favourite (for the trail) is chocolate covered Kendal mint cake!
Rich, moist, denser-than-old-oak fruit cake. Can't beat it. Also perfect if you hike with Americans because they cannot stand the stuff and so never pinch it.
Jack, when I was a lad, my mum used to make me a couple of fruit cakes when I left for each new term at college. She made them specially in a rectangular bread tin so they were a perfect fit in the side pockets of my backpack! Soak the fruit well with your favourite tipple, I mean preservative :biggthump
Alick I like the cut of your JIB!!
I will try that one myself - I used to love the fruit cake we got in compo - soaked in rum it'd warm more than the cockles me thinks!
bigjackbrass
23-12-2003, 20:54
Excellent advice, Alick. Naturally I trust your judgement absolutely, but nonetheless feel that before I take such well preserved nutrition into the wilds I had better subject it to some exhaustive testing...
with you there jack and as it happens I have a bottle of my favourite tipple right here - best test it without the fruit cake first!!
Men after my own heart :-D
Eat drink and be merry gentlemen. I wish you all a very relaxing Christmas.
Alick
Roving Rich
27-12-2003, 22:25
Best Winter food is probably the same as summer - A full English! Sausage, Eggs, Bacon & beans mmmmmm Served with a jug of fresh coffee. Surely that can't be beaten?
:wink:
Rich
And to you Alick - cheers! Hic!
i think i nice hot chilli is a good veggi option
though i like the idea of cooking bacon over a fire
I must admit I like a nice spicy curry cooked on the fire with flabread baked on a warm rock beside it..Mmmmm Nowt like the staunch of a hot curry in your belly to warm the cockles on a cold winters day