Food!

Our recent trip into the Sierra had us trying three new dinners and some soups.

The Peak ReFuel Beef Stroganoff was actually really delicious. Excellent sour cream flavor, nice beef chunks.  Yummy.  Our new favorite of all the commercial freeze dried dinners.

Also good, but not great.  Alpine Aire: Chilaquiles with Pork Carnitas–good, but the pork tasting like chicken– and Backpackers Pantry Fettucini Alfredo with Chicken–which tasted fine, but was too soupy, despite following the directions to the letter.

On the other hand, we were traveling in Hungary this spring and stopped into a grocery store to find that they had an excellent selection of Knorr instant soups.  We bought a bunch, and tried their Mushroom soup with croutons, and A Chanterelle with noodle soup.  Both were delicious, and a great first course for our dinners.

Of course, you can’t find those in the USA–in fact, their website doesn’t even list them. And the instructions were in Hungarian!  But my wife is a retired professional chef.  She worked it out.