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frankpaige
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2021 08:55pm - Edited by: frankpaige
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I hate doing dishes at the cabin. It interferes with my sitting and spitting! Mostly I am there alone, wife works, I am retired, go during the week. Come home to do the chores.
I take a larger steak, bbq, one night. Makes two meals.Sometimes it is prepared stew. Divided up into smaller sizes and frozen. Sometimes it is the black beans that the daughter makes for me. I am a rice guy, so there is that. No Spam!! The USMC must have bought that ten yr allotment and tried feeding it to me. No Thanks.
Any recipes that might fit an ole guy with a microwave, coffee pot and paper plates/bowls. Love one pot meals.
Aspen have greened, Hummingbirds have arrived and long sunny days in Colorado are here.
Thanks for any ideas. Stay safe, enjoy the cabin time and vets... Welcome Home
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2021 09:09pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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We are happy with left-overs, we make family sized meals but for the two of us it lasts. So going to the cabin is pretty much like eating at home unless we want it to be different.
I dont mind using the camp stove, think my wife is scared of it.....
It isnt much trouble to fire up the quiet lil' Champ 2kw inverter/gen and the small microwave runs fine for her.
Once done cooking the old 30cup elec percolator full of water gets switched on and very soon we have hot water for coffee, tea or cleanup (its the mini water heater, very effective).
We could easily have a drip coffee maker but I do it on the stove as part of the 'cabin routine'.
Whenever the gen is running so is the smart charger on the battery bank; might as well. The gen doesnt run much, only for the above and tools, the rest of the time we are on the solar/bat-bank for mostly led lights and fans as needed.
We also do a fair bit of cheese and sausage, munchies, etc.
Doing dishes isnt much with just us two, and I often will eat out of 'the pan', but throw-a-ways do have their place....in the bag to bring home for the weekly g-run anyway.
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paulz
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2021 09:50pm - Edited by: paulz
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No pre-prep here. I do most cooking at the cabin, as lately we spend more time there than at the house. Finally got a nicely seasoned pan, and fry whatever I cut up in olive oil. And still loving the ceramic propane cooktop. Easy to clean, no open flame.
We eat off of heavy Dixie paper plates and bowls, that I then use to start the wood stove. Not elegant but the only dishes I have to do are the silverware and wipe out the pan. Coffee water boiled in a kettle and poured in a French press.
I'm no chef but wife likes it, it's easy enough after a day full of cabin work, and it's sorta healthy, I think..
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fitzpatt
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# Posted: 7 Jun 2021 08:29am
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We often make a large batch of spaghetti sauce, freeze it in repurposed ice cream containers or sandwich bags for smaller portions and bring one up with us. Easy to thaw. Boil water, cook some capellini and it is ready in a couple minutes. Add cheese. With a paper plate the only thing you need to rinse is the pot used to boil water.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 7 Jun 2021 08:29am
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Quoting: frankpaige Aspen have greened, Hummingbirds have arrived and long sunny days in Colorado are here.
About time.... seemed like a cold, snowy, haily, wet spring! We arrived the first week of April and have decided that is at least 4 weeks too early! This is day 3 that it has been above 40° (just is 40° this morning) and haven't had to build a fire in the wood stove. We are up the Alamosa river, not far from the headwaters and the Continental Divide. The Divide still has a couple feet of snow so you can't get up over Elwood Pass. High country trails still inaccessible, but won't be long! Sure is nice to have the aspens leafing out and the hummingbirds returning! We are up to 5 hanging around which is far shy of the 25-30 that will take up residence at our feeders later in the summer. Wife went through 70 pounds of sugar last year keeping those little buggers fed! Presently we go through 20 pounds of bird seed and about 4 suet cakes a week keeping the rest of the birds fed!
Sorry, no cabin meals to share.... we live up here 8-10 months out of the year so for the most part it is just home, so regular cooked meals. I like soup so my wife makes a big pot of soup once a week and that is my lunch pretty much all week.
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skootamattaschmidty
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# Posted: 7 Jun 2021 08:38am
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We do most our cooking at the cabin as well. I live the bbq so most stuff is cooked on that. Quite often I will make a big batch of chili at home or soup like a seafood chowder and freeze that and then bring up to the cabin. My wife started doing up chicken enchiladas at home and freezing them at home then we just heat them up when at the cabin. Whatever we make, everything seems to taste better at the cabin!
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 7 Jun 2021 11:24am
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Were remote fly in for the summer. So if I'm going out for a week or more, up to a few months. We freeze up our meat and have a week or so . I use a 12v cooler to help keep it cold. Then it down to canned meats. But the canned salmon n moose we put up is pretty good. I've got a case of black bear still in the pantry.
Storing canned meats n such over the winter is tricky. Scratch that name of the product on the can, place them in a net bag. And put them in the pond . If they are below the ice they don't freeze n turn to mush. Gotta get the ice auger fired up n go fishing for canned food or wait till summer. It's all good, it's cabin time.
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