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Journal tuxette's Journal: going primitive - tonight's dinner 8

We got a new "gadget" today. A Trangia 25-3 camping stove (stormkjøkken), with a gas burner. A nice complement to the tent we got a few weeks ago...

And, of course, we just had to test it out. We took it to a nearby park and did the following:

First, boil some water in the small casserole and add quick-cooking macaroni. While this is going on, chop up a green pepper into small bits and set aside in an appropriate container (yes, this means you need a small cutting board and a knife with you). Open up a can of sliced mushrooms, drain (you can use this water in the pasta water), add to pepper bits. When cooked, take macaroni off the stove, drain and set aside.

Next, chop up some bacon slices into bits and use the frying pan to fry this. When fried, put bacon into large casserole. Then fry 300 g. ground beef, spicing with garlic and chili powder. Add this to casserole with the bacon. Now set this casserole on the stove. Add 2 400 g. cans of chopped tomatoes (with basil/oregano). You're suddenly going to realize you should be doing this in both casseroles as the big one is not big enough (heh), so carefully divide the meat+tomato mixture and the macaroni between the casseroles, add the vegetables to each casserole, and then finish cooking one of them. Cook the other while you're eating the first.

Eat and enjoy ;-) Serve with beer! (Non-alcoholic is fine if/when the situation calls for it, like when certain people are under doctor's orders not to drink alcohol :)

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  • Quite an ingenious design, but how much does it weigh?

    We have a venerable, ultralight, but still functional MSR Whisperlite that burns white gas and an even older Primus stove that I think will burn just about anything including gasoline. I love the Whisperlite, but am one of the people who cuts the tags off the tea bags before heading out into the woods.

    Have fun with it!

    Anne
    • It weighs 450 grams and uses a gas blend of butane and propane (I think it was).

      We're definitely going to have fun with it! We'll probably go out and make dinner in the park tonight as well hehe...

    • I went and looked up our wee little Whisperlite [rei.com]. It turns out they still make them--ours has been happily providing meals for us for about fifteen years. The 22 oz fuel bottle will do us for a long weekend--for longer trips each of us can take a 33 oz bottle. The meals you can get on it are far from gourmet--hard sausage and cheese, dehydrated soups, dried fruits, and flat breads are about the extent of it. But we surely have had fun with it over time.

      Anne
  • I've always thought it would be nice to go hiking/biking/camping somewhere above the arctic circle (Norway, Sweden or Finland) in the summer, but I've been in too bad a shape to actually do it. Perhaps one day... a hike/bike-trip to the shores of the Arctic Sea. ;-)
  • Decided to make this for dinner last night, I replaced the canned mushrooms with fresh ones and cooked it on the standard stove top.

    I replaced the beer with ginger beer - out of beer in fridge (must do something about that). It went well

    The Wife liked it, however I added too much chilli for current state - 36 weeks pregnate. There are enough leftovers for lunches.

    Rating: * * * * 1/2

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