[philmont] Cooking Meals

As a general policy, I insist that all our Crew meals be cooked for at
least 20 minutes. They are usually far superior to "merely" rehydrated,
even though that is all the directions request.

Jonas, Jon W CTR AMC/A3RI wrote:
> Our ranger let us in on the secret to make good (at least not bad)
> Hawaiian Chicken--simmer it for 10 minutes or so vice letting it merely
> rehydrate in boiled water. While it wasn't our crew's favorite meal,
> everyone went for seconds with no encouragement needed, and there was
> none left for the yummy bag.
>
> I've found that many meals with freeze-dried meat or fruit chunks cook
> and taste better when simmered a bit--cooking longer than the package
> prescribes.
>
> Jon Jonas
> DRC
> 618.744.9412x152
>

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Received on Tue Oct 3 16:17:59 2006