Food the Wong Way

Tag: camping

  • UPWC: Easy Pass to Colonial Creek

    UPWC: Easy Pass to Colonial Creek

    UltraPedestrian Wilderness Challenge (UWPC) Presenting a guest post on trail running by K, of General Tso’s Chicken blog fame. Stats 5:47:00 Elapsed Time 2 Strava segments (GPS watch was a shame first 20 miles, Switched to iPhone Strava track when watch froze) 1 GPS watch that lost signal about 20 miles in 1 Finish photo 2…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday:
    Waterproof Camping Matches, an Anti-Tip

    When I was a kid in Minnesota, I went to this one summer day camp where they taught us, among other things,* to waterproof regular matches by painting clear nail polish on them. Years later living in Seattle, I diligently painted and dried each match this way. That’s the Dahlia Lounge matches you see in…

  • Braised Chickpea Chard Coconut Meal Translated for Backpacking!

    Braised Chickpea Chard Coconut Meal
    Translated for Backpacking!

    Components: 1 c dehydrated braised chickpea chard coconut & couscous 1.5 c hot boiled water About 35 minutes sit time, stir after 20* Bored with your dehydrated backpacking meal rotation? This just in: braised coconut chickpea & spinach recipe from The Kitchn works out as a dehydrated camp meal! Completed my trial of it yesterday…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 1

    Pro-Tip Tuesday:
    Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 1

    Discovery in the desert, Moab, Utah near Arches National Park: While on the road, you can use a large Nalgene bottle (or other water bottle) as a stand-in for a foam roller to roll out your thighs and other muscles, a great plus if you, say, went for a hike while car camping and have sore muscles! For…

  • Southwest Road Trip Correspondence

    Southwest Road Trip Correspondence

    Me (via email): We appear to have entered some anomaly in the space time continuum. Kris’ watch says 10pm, mine says 8, and the car says 9. Who knows what time or what age we will return to after our road trip… My brother: Woah.  

  • Moab Vignette

    Moab Vignette

    Bonus post for you subscribers! When I close my eyes, I can still see the desert. I look down and toe the red-brown dirt at my feet. I look up, and a vast horizon unfolds before me, the carpet of dirt for miles, dotted with the occasional tenacious yellow-green scrub bush. Far beyond, a ribbon…

  • Run Away and Nurse Your Broken Heart in the Woods with a Hot Toddy

    Run Away and Nurse Your Broken Heart in the Woods with a Hot Toddy

    Sometimes, don’t you just want to set the world on fire? No? Well, maybe at least shake it around a little to tell it to behave itself better? Doesn’t the state of it just break your heart some days? Let’s go back to setting things on fire. I extra-think plenty on the things that are hugely…

  • Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!

    Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake
    in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!

    I found this gluten-free chocolate cherry cake recipe and used it to make a raspberry chocolate cake in a dutch oven by campfire. Below are the basic steps re-written the way I did them. This was a good one to prep and fire up before dinner, and let sit and finish cooking while you eat…

  • Car Camping the Wong Way.. Choose Your Own Adventure Edition!

    So, maybe that 2nd hot toddy and the half a family size bag of kettle style salt & pepper chips was not the best idea, since now my health has declined significantly post-camping over the weekend. But anyway, I thought I’d put it to a vote of the readers: which of these would you most…