Camp Cooking

I've been playing a game with myself for a while now -- think of what you can get in a drug store or a mini mart and try to figure out what can practically be made out in the field.This was my experiment last week. I picked it up from Bartell's, a local drug store chain. It's a random biscuit mix. "Gourmet" biscuit mix.The key is that it's just add water.While on the road we have water. We also carry a small supply of vegetable oil.The directions say to bake it. We don't carry an oven on the bike, but we do have a little stove.I mixed up the dough and spread it out in a single lump onto a pan. None of this fancy individual biscuits for us, nope. Just a bit of oil went on the bottom.Six minutes later I flipped the whole thing and cooked the other side for around four.That is another limitation: fuel. You don't want to make something that says "simmer for half an hour." That's a lot of gas to burn.Came out just fine.And tasty.There's few things that tastes better on an empty stomach and a drained body than something warm and comfortable like that.Next up: instant hash browns!