This Saturday we zipped out of town and up into the foothills of the Condoriri mountain range for a picnic. The 5 of us piled in to the car, drove for a few hours and hiked up to a pretty little waterfall, that sometimes has fish below, and then went to work preparing various backpacking culinary delights. All made from scratch. Scroll down to see a video of the trip and cooking experience.
It was an opportunity to try out some easy and cheap recipes that could make it into our family backpacking trip menus. We didn’t have time to test all of them, but here are three. Instructions and How to video to come.
An improvement on regular mashed potatoes, but we need to fiddle with the ingredients. The kids weren’t huge fans.
Ingredients
- Plain instant mashed potatoes
- Milk powder
- Dried Basil
- Garlic powder
- Dried Oregano
- Milk Powder
- Sauce mix
- Parmesan Cheese
- Dried Oregano
- Dried Basil
- Garlic powder
- Olive oil
- Smoke beef or canned tuna
- Cake mix
- 3/4 cup Flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- .5 sp baking soda
- .25 tsp salt
- .5 cups water
- 2.5 tbsp oil
- oil to grease bundt cake pan