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Winter Road Trip Food
It's January. Every night for a week, the
temperature has dropped below zero. Daytime highs have
been in the single digits. It's not cold like Alaska
cold, but it's cold for the lower 48.
It's nice to hole up in a warm house but
eventually, one becomes stir crazy. Then, a road trip
is in order. Maybe a trip to the city for a movie and
dinner or a good restaurant. Maybe a trip into the mountains,
into a world of white with heavily draped trees and
the occasional track of a moose or an elk blazing through
the deep powder. It's amazing how much easier it is
to see wildlife in the winter than the summer. (To read
more about wildlife viewing in the winter and/or early
spring click
here.)
Cold weather calls for hearty food. A thermos
of chili or thick soup is perfect-maybe paired with
some hearty homemade bread.
This month, we thought we would share a
couple favorite wintertime recipes, a hearty Chicken
and Black Bean Chili and a wonderful recipe
for 100%
Whole Wheat Bread. You can make the chili at
home and store it in a thermos. If you are traveling
in an RV, it's not too much trouble to make on the road.
Make the bread ahead of time. You can even store it
in the freezer since it freezes well.
We hope you enjoy these recipes as much
as we do.
Dennis Weaver
1/21/07
Editor's Note: Dennis
and Merri Ann Weaver have written a wonderful 250-page
e-book, How to Bake. A new chapter is delivered
to subscribers each week, and each article is chock
full of tips and suggestions that can transform the
expertise of an ordinary cook into something approaching
that of a master baker. What makes this book especially
fascinating is that the Weavers provide not only excellent
"how-to" instructions, but they also explain
the science behind baking. This e-book is being offered
free to RTA readers along with a chance to win enough
cookie mixes to produce 1,000 cookies. For
more information, click here.
 Dennis
Weaver -- having burnt food from Miami, Florida
to Point Barrow, Alaska -- is RTA's road food expert.
He has logged thousands of hours on the roads, trails,
and waterways of America including many of Alaska's
wilderness rivers and has consistently been elected
the trips' "chief cook and bottle washer."
Dennis is currently general manager at The
Prepared Pantry, a company in Rigby, Idaho,
that produces ready-to-eat meals and baking mixes
packaged in Mylar. Weatherproof, bug-proof, and
critter resistant, they're ideal for both roadtrips
and back woods camping. Dennis may be reached at
dweaver@preparedpantry.com. |
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