[pct-l] spagetti sauce

[karl jorgensen]

i have not seen this discussion before, so what i say may be what has already been covered.  when i hiked the trail in 06 i never cooked anywhere on the trail.  i made up my meals before and sent them to myself, including a lot of speggetti and leather sauce.  between 3 and 4 each day, whenever i was at a water spot, i put my meal in a large peanutbutter jar with the water, put it back into the pack, and then at around 5 i ate.  if i was to do the trail again, i would do it the same way.  i found it really worked for me.   jorgy  06

----- Original Message -----
From: JOHNNY J FARBER <farber51 at msn.com>
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:36 am
Subject: [pct-l] spagetti sauce
To: larainekate at yahoo.com, pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>

> Speaking from experience you might want to give your spaggetti 
> leather a whirl in the blender.  I found that mine stayed 
> in hard little lumps no matter how long I soaked it.  This 
> year I bought tomato powder from 
> www.wildernessdining.com<http://www.wildernessdining.com/> and added spices--quick and very good texture.  Free
> 
> Original Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:52:56 -0700
> From: Tortoise 
> <Tortoise73 at charter.net<mailto:Tortoise73 at charter.net>>Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food on Trail, dehyd. spaghetti sauce
> To: Laraine Downer 
> <larainekate at yahoo.com<mailto:larainekate at yahoo.com>>Cc: 
> Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes 
> <diane at santabarbarahikes.com<mailto:diane at santabarbarahikes.com>>,pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net<mailto:pct-l at backcountry.net>>
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> My approach to tomato sauces is this:
> 
> buy cans of tomato paste -- it is simply tomato puree or tomato 
> sauce with 
> a lot less water. dry this in your dehydrator. then crumble, put 
> in a 
> plastic bag and add spices.  Italian spices for spaghetti, 
> chili powder for 
> chili mac, etc.
> 
> 
> Tortoise
> 
> <> He who finishes last, wins! <>
> 
> 
> Laraine Downer wrote:
> > Diane: I have a handout from Roy "TrailDad" Robinson and 
> successfully> dried some spaghetti sauce leather. Here's his 
> instructions:> 
> > "Use a meatless sauce. Puree a quart of the sauce in a blender 
> to remove
> > lumps & pour prepared sauce onto a greased cookie sheet. Dry 
> in oven at
> > low temp (150 degrees) til it turns to leather. Cut it into 
> serving size
> > pieces (8 servings per quart works for me.) Return the pieces 
> to the
> > oven & dry them on the racks til they are rock-hard. Cool & wrap
> > individually. Store in freezer."
> > 
> > My oven only goes as low at 170 degrees, I just chose sauce 
> with no
> > lumps & didn't bother with blender. Then I put finished, rock-hard
> > pieces in a "seal-a-meal" bag & sealed them up. Seems to work fine
> > (we'll see later when I pull them out on the trail).
> > 
> > Happy hiking LaDeDa/Laraine
> > 
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