The challenges for multi-day outdoor trips is mainly food preservation. How will you keep your food supply from spoilage? Bringing canned goods is not advisable because the tin can, adds more weight to your load. And you cannot just dump it in the wilderness unless its biodegrable. Instant noodles can be an alternative, but do take note that it will not provide you sufficient protein and energy supplement that your body needs, in replacement on the one you used during the activity.
The solution is food preservation and pre-cooking technique. Long before home coolers and freezers were invented, our ancestors already find a way preserve food and save it for rainy days. The process slowly died down when refrigerator became affordable for everyone. And since we love the outdoors, we can adapt to this methodology to help us in preparing our foods when we are in the wilderness.
Meat pre-cooking method: (Adobo sa asin recipe)
Adobo is a common Filipino dish, but the cooking process may vary from different parts of the Philippines. Its a simple recipe and also a food preservation method. This recipe brings back memories, I remember my Grandfather used to prepare this dish, he will cook a kilo of pork and put it on a glass container, and place it at the dinner table. Every meal time he'll scoop a bit and cover it, and the meat stays there unspoiled for a week even months without refrigeration.
Ingredient:
1 kilo of pork
1 gloves of garlic (minced)
1 table spoon of peeper
3 pcs bay leaves
3 table spoon of vinegar
3 table spoon of soy sauce
3 table spoon of rack salt
Procedure:
Hit a sauce pan in medium heat, put a little amount of cooking oil and sautee garlic to golden brown
Put the pork, salt and peeper and stir it well
Put vinegar and let it cook for 3 minutes
Put soy sauce and bay leave after, then stir to mix evenly
Cover it for 5minute with low heat until the porks oil comes out and cook with its own fat.
Put it in a container including the oil, let it cool before you cover.
This method can preserve meat for a week, even months. You can eat it right a way or reheat it over and over again. You can also use it as ingredients to cook other recipe. And in case you forgot to bring oil for frying, you can use its oil to cook specially if your preparing sinangag ala young chow fan.
