.jpg) Anyone recommend a good dehydrator cookbook for meals for backpacking .I have looked at a few on the book depository site but unsure which is best .
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best IMHO is your own home recipes as long as you use lean meat and chop evrything up in small pieces. But if you really want a book get this one:
www.amazon.co.uk/Backpack-Gourmet-Dehydrate-Healthy-Eating/dp/0811726347/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321000368&sr=1-1-spell
After doing some recipes from this book you'll realize your own home recipes are a good possibility as well.
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 Zuma's referring to Linda Yaffe's book Backpack Gourmet, which is probably the best of the (small) bunch and certainly much better than Alan Kesselheim's Trail Food. However, it is American and some of the recipes seem a bit odd to the British palate. I cooked one or two things from Backpack Gourmet and they were OK, if bland. Where the book really helps is in giving you ideas to devise or adapt your own recipes. Once you get into it, dehydrating your own food for backpacking is great fun and will provide you with really good food at a fraction of the cost of the commercially-available stuff.
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Thanks jake that's exactly what I meant. furthermore there are blogs of outdoorpeople with their own recipes on the internet. there are some good sources out there. But nowadays I just create my own recipes. sometimes hekped with some inspiration from blogs and the book from Yaffe.
Most difficult of the yaffe book is the US-measurements. I had to buy special sized cups and spoons for measuring the ingredients. But frankly they are also handy for recipes on blogs from US people.
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 Steenberg's do a wide range of powders and some flaky bits which are excellent at adding some flavour to anything you think is a bit bland. The salt free veg stock, mushroom powder and lime (lumi) powders are particularly good. The middle eastern spice blends which you sprinkle over your finished food are very tasty. Steenberg
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 Rose (Bobs wife), of backpackinglight was writing a book about this some time ago, no mention of it since, might be worth dropping them a line to ask if or when its coming out?
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Latest news from Bob and Rose is that they are hoping to finish this project and others shortly.
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 I think there's a couple of rules to stick to but apart from that anything goes really.
No dairy is the main one, rinsing off as much fat as possible is another and smaller chunks of meat work best.
Maybe we should have a dehydrated recipe thread?
Check out Babelfish5 on youtube for some tasty treats, you need to supplement a lot of his ingredients for UK equivalents but he has some good ideas.
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Andy Howells blog has a lot of dehydrated meal info here :- http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/?s=dehydrated+meals
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Maybe we should have a dehydrated recipe thread? The problem with threads like that is apart from the recipe's, people ask questions or wonder off the subject etc. and you end up with loads of pages to search through to find just the recipe's. So If some one does start off a thread, how about doing a sub-tread for questions etc. And each person with a new recipe could link that sub-thread at the bottom of the recipe? With something like this:- Could everyone keep this thread to recipe's only, any comments or questions go to the sub-thread "HERE" This way it would have just recipe's.
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I rather would have a subforum for only recipes with a recipe per thread so recipes can be discussed. I think there is a value in discussing recipes. Futhermore it would be great if a thread can be rated with stars. This way the best recipes get the best average rating.
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Which ever way round works best
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