Essential 100% Wholemeal Bread
Every [non-coeliac] hiker should have a good bread recipe in their repertoire. Homemade bread doesn’t contain all the crappy chemicals that store-bought bread contains. And wholemeal bread, being higher fibre …
Recipes
Homemade Dehydrated Backpacking Meals: A No Nonsense Guide
A food dehydrator is one of the best investments I’ve ever made, significantly enhancing my wild camping and backpacking adventures with tent-side deliciousness. Homemade dehydrated backpacking meals offer numerous benefits: …
Backpacking Soba Noodles with Miso & Ginger Panko Breadcrumbs
This is a delicious and easy backpacking soba noodle dish that is lightweight and super portable, perfect for wild camping and backpacking adventures (or perhaps a quick desk lunch at …
Trailblazer Hot Sauce Recipe
This is my go-to hot sauce recipe that can be made with either red or green chillies. It was a top seller when I had my Shopify store during Covid, …
Oaty Blueberry Muffins
Makes 6 Ingredients 100g oats 40g ground almonds 10g chia seeds 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda pinch of salt 4 medjool dates (or 8 dried apricots) …
Whisky & Raisin Banana Bread
I was originally going to call this “healthy hiker’s banana bread” for its lack of both refined sugar and loads of butter. But I decided the presence of something awesome …
Chickpea Nettle Burgers
I now have nettle burgers to add to my lexicon of favourite nettle recipes (which also includes nettle pesto, nettle pizza, and nettle spanakopita!). These burgers are mega tasty, super …
Gooseberry and Elderflower Cordial
When I saw this recipe for gooseberry and elderflower cordial in Fiona Beckett’s book How to Drink Without Drinking, I knew I had to try it. Elderflowers are a highlight …
Elderflower Cordial Cocktail
This elderflower cordial cocktail is affectionately called “the bump start” by me and its friends. Feel free to read the origin story below, a tale of adventure of a different …
Wild Elderflower Cordial
Wild elderflower cordial is a spring foraging classic, one of my first go-to recipes when the elderflowers start to appear in the hedgerows in May. But this cordial isn’t just …
Dandelion Jam
Dandelions are proliferous in spring and this dandelion jam recipe is a great way to encapsulate their cheerful yellow petals into a delightful jam. The resulting dandelion jam has an …
Butternut Squash Soup with Red Lentils and Ras el Hanout
This tasty dehydrated butternut squash soup is amped up with red lentils and ras el hanout, a North African spice mix. This soup is hearty, easy to make, rehydrates quickly, …
Spiced Pickled Blackberries
These pickled blackberries have become an autumn ritual with the autumn blackberry glut. The original recipe comes from All Good Things Around Us by Pamela Michael (copyright 1981), recommended to …
Dehydrated refried black beans
Mexican food is my ultimate comfort food, especially when camping, and these dehydrated refried black beans totally make my day. Forget that homogenous store-bought gloop that you can buy in …
Portobello Mushroom Campstove Fajitas
These campstove fajitas are based on Erin Baker’s wonderful portobello mushroom fajitas recipe in her book The Veg Table. I’ve adapted it for the camp stove so that you too …
Red Lentil Dal [Dehydrated Backpacking Meal]
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Red Lentil, Carrot & Cumin Soup
This dehydrated red lentil soup with carrot and cumin is easy to make at home and quick to rehydrate on the trail. I’ve gotten into pureed soups like this for …
Campstove Shrimp and Grits
Shrimp and grits is a dish that hails from America’s “low country”. It’s filling, delicious, wholesome, and easy to make with a camp stove. This is perfect comfort food after …
Dehydrated Spring Greens
This recipe for dehydrated spring greens works for any robust leafy green vegetable: curly kale, cavolo nero, collard greens, spinach, and chard. This is a great way to get green …
The Best Homemade Energy Bars for Hiking and Backpacking
I’ve experimented with lots of energy bar recipes for hiking and backpacking trips and I’m pretty sure these are the very best! They’re essentially a slightly-sweet granola bar made with good-for-you …
Tarka Dhal
Indian dhals (or dals) are a great dehydrator option for wild camping meals. They dehydrate well, pack down nicely, and rehydrate very quickly at camp. Whenever I make dhal, I …
Nettle Spanakopita
One of my favourite all time uses for foraged nettles is this recipe for nettle spanakopita. This Greek filo pie is traditionally made with spinach, but we’ve used nettles which …
Campfire Flatbread Cooked on the Coals
If you want to try your hands at baking bread outdoors, this campfire flatbread recipe is a great place to start. No fancy wilderness oven required; the flatbread gets cooked …
Sprouted Buckwheat Dehydrated Granola
This sprouted buckwheat dehydrated granola (literally and figuratively a mouthful) might sound like hippy food – which it kind of is – but also happens to be super tasty and …