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Bánh Xèo at Camp, Savory Crispy Vietnamese Turmeric Crepes

Whenever I introduce people to Vietnamese food, I always tell them that a majority of Vietnamese food is basically a cooked something that turns into a salad wrap. Anything that’s typically fried are traditionally enjoyed by wrapping said fried thing into a piece of lettuce, herbs, and dipped in nước chấm, or a sweet fish sauce based dipping sauce. The Vietnamese love the yin and yang play of textures, and flavors. If there’s something fried, it has to be accompanied by something fresh. This style of cuisine keeps the person eating from getting overly fatigued from eating the same dish.

vegetarian, seafood, porkgondirtinSeptember 28, 2023vietnamese food, viet cooking, vietnamese camping food, vietnamese cookingComment

Vietnamese Inspired Breakfast Frittata

Frittatas can be a very same-same affair. Everyone loves the frittata camp breakfast staple of bacon, potatoes, and cheese. It’s easy to quickly put together with minimal dishes to wash, and because, well, it's simply delicious. But every so often, an injection of something different goes a long way.

The Vietnamese have a steamed egg dish called chả trứng hấp that is enjoyed with rice.

This is my take combining that humble Viet dish and the frittata.

pork, vegetariangondirtinDecember 16, 2022vietnamese food, viet cooking, vietnamese camping food, vietnamese cookingComment

EASY CAMP RECIPE: Vietnamese Chicken Salad, Gỏi Gà

Good salads should never be hard find. But its increasingly becoming more and more difficult to find a salad at any fast casual restaurant that isn’t at some ridiculous price for a few leaves, a few nuts, a protein, and dressing. I should never have to chose between being able to get two hamburgers for the price of one salad. The current meteoric rise of inflation hasn’t helped. Because of the Great Salad Dilemma™, we tend to make our own salads at home and at camp.

Backpacking Friendly KOREAN ARMY STEW, Budae Jigae

Long days on the trail should always be rewarded with a good, hot meal. Especially those days where it’s been the perfect hiking temperature —you know what I mean, those not to hot, not too sweaty, blue sky days. But as soon as the sun starts dipping, it gets a bit chilly. Nothing hits that chilly spot harder than a noodle soup. Not many noodle soups touch the inner soul as like budae jjigae, Korean army stew.

pork, vegetariangondirtinJanuary 31, 2022korean food, korean camping food, camp cooking, camping foodComment

How to make TikTok BAKED FETA PASTA at CAMP

This dish has become a staple of ours when we’re on the traveling on the road. It’s incredibly simple to prep, ingredients are easy, and readily available at pretty much any grocery story, and well, its delicious. Contrary to the viral TikTok videos, you don’t need to bake this. Baking only double caramelizes the feta cheese and makes it “social media friendly”. I mean, who doesn’t like looking at some perfectly browned cheese?

Here’s my version of this (now) iconic dish and how, very easily, camp-ify it.

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One Pot Vegan White Bean Chili -- Camp Edition

Plant-based or vegetarian are phrases that could make some scrunch their nose. I am very guilty of this. Vegetarian, or healthy meals, are, from my experience, bland affairs with very little depth. The dishes that try to have some kind of identity are usually barely passable versions of extremely gentrified curries hailing from southeast asian countries….

Camp Vegetable Polenta

I’m down for eating healthy. I’d be lying if I said I don’t need to. My roundness would be my Pinocchio nose if I was. I would eat a wonderful salad, or a hipster-tastic ancient grain bowl filled with all the millennial healthy buzz words and the latest of alternative ingredients, only to dig for snacks no more than half an hour later…

Camp Indian-inspired Chickpea Curry

One of the many misconceptions about Indian curries is the idea that they’re stews which take a very long time to simmer away. But in reality, they’re quite the opposite! From start to finish, you can be done and eating in 20 minutes. A little bit of extra-ness goes a long way when you’re on the road…w

Food has this crazy way of transporting you back instantly to a specific moment in time. Memories of the place you were at. Memories of the people with you. Memories of the flavors. Memories of the smells. Memories of your reaction to a first taste….

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