The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers and Anglers [Kindle Edition]

Teresa Marrone (Author)

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Review

Excellent. Marrone is experienced in back-country travel and understands the constraints of wilderness cooking, yet the recipes are practical and creative. Wish this had been out years ago! -- Pat Bell, author of Roughing It Elegantly

The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking For Canoeists, Hikers, And Anglers includes over 150 unique, tested, delicious recipes for any outdoors person. From Whole-Wheat Biscuit Mix and Pasta Carbonara to Herbed Fish and Carrots in Foil and Wilderness Paradell, each recipe is a mouthwatering dish that will tempt any outdoor appetite. The Back-Country Kitchen features complete, easy-to-follow cooking instructions, and home drying instructions as well! The Back-Country Kitchen is ideal for hunters too! -- Midwest Book Review

Product Description

This best-selling 200-page paperback book has been formatted especially for easy use and navigation on the Kindle. It features clickable cross-reference links to recipes and techniques throughout the book, along with helpful photographs.

The Back-Country Kitchen will appeal to all outdoors enthusiasts who prepare meals in the wild, but especially to those who want to pack their own lightweight meals. It contains over 150 tested, unique recipes including camp breads, hearty chowders, one-pot main dishes, desserts, beverages... even adaptations of international favorites, as well as special recipes using fresh-caught fish.

Beat the cost of freeze-dried meals! You'll learn how to pack your own flavorful, lightweight mixes from readily bought ingredients; you'll also learn how to add variety to your menu by drying foods at home (the book includes complete, easy instructions for drying vegetables, fruits and meat in your oven or in a small dehydrator).

Learn special camp cooking techniques, including open-fire cookery, using a camp oven, and meal management with a single-burner stove.

Here are just a few of the recipes you'll find in The Back-Country Kitchen:

• BREAKFASTS including Blueberry Scones, Southwestern Omelette, Maple-Stewed Apples and Breakfast Tortilla Roll-Ups
• CAMP BREADS including Beer-Rye Campfire Bannock, Italian Stick Bread, Chinese Scallion Bread and Rosemary-Parmesan Focaccia
• SOUPS including Borscht, Potato-Dill Chowder, Beef-Barley Soup with Caraway Dumplings and Clam Chowder
• SIDE DISHES including Hopping John, Tabouli Salad, Ramen-Cabbage Salad, Beets and Carrots with Lemon-Thyme Sauce and Herbed Vegetables Roasted in Foil
• MAIN DISHES including Upside-Down Sloppy Joes, Chicken with Stuffing and Gravy, Mushroom Spaghetti and Lentil-Bulgur Chili
• INTERNATIONAL-STYLE RECIPES including Frijoles Borrachos, Trail Kung Pao Chicken, Hunan-Style Lamb Stir-Fry and Indian Chicken with Potatoes
• FISH AND GAME RECIPES including Northwoods Guide's Fish Fry, Easy Rack-Grilled Fish, Cajun Venison Tenderloin and Grouse à la King
• BEVERAGES and DESSERTS including "Dreamsicle" Shake, Spicy Tomato Juice/Bloody Mary Mix, Cheesecake-in-a-Bowl and English Muffin Pies
• MISCELLANEOUS DISHES and make-at-home dishes such as Garlic Heads Roasted in Foil, Hummus, Red Wine Biscotti and Breakfast Cookies

Whether you explore the wilderness from a canoe, mountain bike or on foot--even if you just enjoy getting away from it all for a weekend at your favorite campground--this book will show you new ways to add excitement and taste to every back-country meal.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 3343 KB
• Publisher: Northern Trails Press (April 21, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004XNKY7Y
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,780 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #51 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Outdoor Cooking > Camping & Hiking
  • #67 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Cooking, Food & Wine > Outdoor Cooking
  • #86 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Outdoors & Nature > Hiking & Camping > Camping

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for anyone who likes to camp., April 24, 2000

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This review is from: The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers, and Anglers (Paperback)

After a lot of research, I bought this book. From first glance, I knew I had the right book. Recipes run the gamut from simple and tasty Maccaroni and Cheese to more complex Sweet and Sour Chicken. The book contains recipes for breakfast, breads, soups, main & side dishes, fish & game, international, beverages, and desserts & snacks. One chapter covers equipment and camp cooking techniques. At just over 200 pages, it's chocked full of great camp cooking ideas.

Many of the recipes call for dried foods, some of which may be hard to find in smaller towns. However, there is a chapter that explains the basics of home food drying.

This is a great resource for anyone who enjoys camping. Whether you camp in a backwoods primitive camp or a more modern setting, you're certain to find plenty to enjoy from this cookbook!

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If I could only have one book on camp cooking, this is it, July 28, 2004

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John H. Henderson (Las Cruces, NM, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers, and Anglers (Paperback)

I read many reviews and purchased a couple of books on camp cooking, and if I were only allowed to have one, this is it.

When looking for books on camp cooking, one must align their type of camping with that addressed by the book. This book is subtitled CAMP COOKING FOR CANOEISTS, HIKERS AND ANGLERS. The rather varying needs of these types of people are well addressed. The canoeist, or someone camping by car, will carry more pots and pans than the hiker, but with over 150 recipes, all can find something. My wife and I currently only camp by car, but hope to start camping by kayak, and this book was right down our alley.

The recipes are good and are rather "normal" foods like you'd have at home. (Some camping books promote some pretty strange things.) The emphasis is on preparation at home, using ingredients that are light, easily packed and travel well. Most of the recipes require a little more preparation time and are more sophisticated than what you'll find in other books. (If you want quickly prepared, but plainer (stranger?), meals for hiking, see BACKCOUNTRY COOKING by Miller.) The opening chapters discuss the selection of camping food ingredients, and includes a substantial description of home drying which rivals the information in books devoted exclusively to the subject such as HOW TO DRY FOODS. You will probably find having a home dehydrator will be beneficial to get the most from this book. The author describes selection of camp cooking equipment such as stoves, cookware and eating utensils, and briefly discusses camping over an open fire, or with some of the camp ovens available, although most of the recipes are for a camping stove. Then there are ten chapters of recipes, such as "Soups," "Breakfast," "Main Dishes," and "Beverages." Each recipe is marked by icons indicating how many pots are needed, if the ingredients are readily available at grocery stores, whether it requires home drying, or if it requires canned foods. Clear black and white photos are interspersed throughout the book, and there are two sections of color photographs.

I found the first part of the book to be very valuable on its own. By knowing how to prepare ingredients for camping, such as clarifying butter, you can adopt your own recipes or dry mix foods for camping. I tried the upside-down sloppy Joes and beef stroganoff, and later, my wife informed me that mixes were available in the grocery store, so rather than collect all of the ingredients called for in the recipe, I adopted the prepared mixes. Unlike some other camp cook books that rely heavily on freeze dried foods sitting in some general store in the wilds of Colorado somewhere (or require mail ordering), most ingredients are available at the average supermarket (although despite seemingly having EVERYTHING by Knorr, my local Publix does not seem to have the mushroom SAUCE [not GRAVY] called for by the beef stroganoff recipe!).

If you only want one book on camp cooking, want to be rewarded with a satisfying meal, and don't mind a little preparation in camp, this is the book to have. It will take many years of camping to try all of the recipes in this book that interest us.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A excellant book to start a back-country cooking libriary, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers, and Anglers (Paperback)

I was looking for a book to start out a libriary for back-country cooking. I stumbled upon this one. I even use these recipes at home and they are very good, so you can amagine how good they taste on the trial. Simple and easy to prepare from start to finish.