Eating out Back of beyond
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SALADS : Rice, fish, macaroni, cabbage,
potato, wild greens, garden greens . . . with dressings
like oil and vinegar or homemade mayonnaise (if you have an
egg).
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BREAKFASTS: Hot cereals of mixed grains (a
grinder is good for this), oatmeal and cornmeal mush,
hotcakes, granola, eggs, fish, meat.
DESSERTS: Chocolate, rice or vanilla
puddings made with milk and cornstarch, raisin tarts,
cookies, doughnuts, berry pies, carrot cake, fudge.
MAIN DISHES: Fried rice and onions,
vegetables or meat; spaghetti and garlic bread; fish and
chips; egg foo yong; potato pancakes; curried rice, split
peas or lentils; chili (with or without the carne,
depending on how the hunting goes); tamale pie; cabbage
rolls; pizza; vegetable, bear, deer, grouse or duck stew;
lima beans and tomatoes; baked beans; sweet and sour meat,
fish or rice; batter-fried clams, fish or grouse; creamed
rice or pasta; macaroni and cheese; baked fish; scalloped
potatoes; curried crab; roasts, chops, meat pies ....
Well, I won't go on. I only wanted to illustrate the
number, variety and quality of the meals you can eat and
stay healthy on . . . far from the land of supermarkets.
A final note: If your bread has so far come from a bakery
and your spaghetti sauce from a can, you might want to take
a cookbook along to the woods. I like Adelle Davis's
Let's Cook It Right (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,
1970, $1.75 in paperback) because it teaches healthful
cooking techniques, gives recipes for game animals
(including bear) and contains charts that help us cut up
our meat (deer are most like lamb). But any cookbook with
plain down-home recipes—none of that "take one
package biscuit mix and one can mushroom gravy"
stuff—should do. Once you have no choice, you'll soon
learn to cook. I did.
A grace:
Good bread, good meat,
Good God, let's eat!
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