Posted by: jakinnan | January 9, 2013

Chicken Tuscany Soup

Chicken Tuscany

Ingredients

2 T cooked and dehydrated northern beans
1 T freeze dried chicken
1 T nido full fat dry milk
1 t diced dried carrots
1 t tsp diced dried spinach
1 t diced dried celery
1 t diced dried tomatoes
1 t diced dried onion
1⁄4 t soy sauce powder
1 pn garlic powder
1 c water
1 t lower sodium chicken boullion

Notes

Notes from KB:
I used www.harmonyhousefoods.com dried vegetables and beans, and www.packitgourmet.com soy powder and freeze-dried chicken.

I pre-soaked the soup ingredients for a few hours with 1/4 C unheated water, because the beans and veggies take longer to hydrate and soften than the time the water stays hot. So plan ahead – add the water at breakfast for lunch soup, or in the afternoon for dinner soup.

Note on the bouillon: If you use lower sodium you will want a teaspoon. If you use regular, use 1/2 a tsp (half a cube). When using lower sodium version salt to taste if desired.

Instructions

In a pint or quart freezer bag pack everything.

Add 1/4 cup cool water and let hydrate a few hours tightly sealed. Add 3/4 cup near boiling water, stir well and seal tightly. Put in a cozy and wait about 10 to 15 minutes before eating.

Posted by: jakinnan | January 9, 2013

Natural Brokenness

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“In Nature, things are broken with a purpose—clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants … so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose…”

-Debashis Dey

Posted by: jakinnan | January 9, 2013

There is a Larger Story

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Walk into any large mall, museum, amusement park, university, or hospital, and you will typically meet at once a very large map with the famous red star and the encouraging words You are here. These maps are offered to visitors as ways to orient themselves to their situation, get some perspective on things. This is the Big Picture. This is where you are in that picture. Hopefully you now know where to go. You have your bearings.

Oh, that we had something like this for our lives.

“This is the Story in which you have found yourself. Here is how it got started. Here is where it went wrong. Here is what will happen next. Now this-this is the role you’ve been given. If you want to fulfill your destiny, this is what you must do. These are your cues. And here is how things are going to turn out in the end.”

We can.

We can discover the Story. Maybe not with perfect clarity, maybe not in the detail that you would like, but in greater clarity than most of us now have, and that would be worth the price of admission. I mean, to have some clarity would be gold right now. Wouldn’t it?

-John Eldredge, Epic, 10-11

Posted by: jakinnan | January 9, 2013

01/09/2013 Scripture

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Timothy, my dear son, be strong through the grace that God gives you in Christ Jesus.You have heard me teach things that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Now teach these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others.

-2 Timothy 2:1-2 NLT

Posted by: jakinnan | January 8, 2013

Lentil Soft Tacos

lentil soft taco

Ingredients

1⁄2 c instant rice
1⁄4 c cooked and dehydrated lentils
1 T diced dried bell peppers
1 T diced sun-dried tomatoes
1 T diced dried onions
1 t tomato powder
1⁄8 t sugar
1⁄8 t salt
1⁄8 t garlic powder
1 pkt true lemon powder
2   soft taco size tortillas
1 oz queso fresco cheese
1 c water

Notes

Notes:
True Lemon is found in most grocery stores, often with the sweeteners.

Find all the dried items online at www.harmonyhousefoods.com.

On the cheese: Queso Fresco can be found in most grocery stores, usually near the packaged sliced and shredded cheese. It comes in a wheel and crumbles easily. Use it for the first night out, if going on an extended trip you can carry cheddar or jack cheese, which carries better. For a vegan version of this recipe leave the cheese out and substitute a lemon juice packet for the True Lemon (which contains lactose).

Instructions

At home pack the instant rice in a pint freezer bag. Pack the remaining ingredients through garlic powder in a second pint freezer bag. Tuck in with the tortillas (wrapped in a sandwich bag or in plastic wrap). See notes below on the cheese.

FBC method:
Bring 1 cup water to a boil. Add 1/2 cup water to the rice bag, stir and seal tightly. Add 1/2 cup water to the lentil bag, stir well and seal tightly. Put both bags into a cozy for 15 minutes.

Crumble or dice the cheese and top the tortillas with the fillings, sprinkle the cheese on and fold over.

Serves 1

Posted by: jakinnan | January 8, 2013

Natural Worship

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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

-John Muir

Posted by: jakinnan | January 8, 2013

We Have Lost Our Story

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And here’s where we run into a problem.

For most of us, life feels like a movie we’ve arrived at forty-five minutes late.

Something important seems to be going on . . . maybe. I mean, good things do happen, sometimes beautiful things. You meet someone, fall in love. You find that work that is yours alone to fulfill. But tragic things happen too. You fall out of love, or perhaps the other person falls out of love with you. Work begins to feel like a punishment. Everything starts to feel like an endless routine.

If there is meaning to this life, then why do our days seem so random? What is this drama we’ve been dropped into the middle of ? If there is a God, what sort of story is he telling here? At some point we begin to wonder if Macbeth wasn’t right after all: Is life a tale “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”?

No wonder we keep losing heart.

We find ourselves in the middle of a story that is sometimes wonderful, sometimes awful, often a confusing mixture of both, and we haven’t a clue how to make sense of it all. It’s like we’re holding in our hands some pages torn out of a book. These pages are the days of our lives. Fragments of a story. They seem important, or at least we long to know they are, but what does it all mean? If only we could find the book that contains the rest of the story.

Chesterton had it right when he said, “With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.”

-John Eldredge, Epic, 7-9

Posted by: jakinnan | January 8, 2013

01/08/2013 Scripture

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I solemnly urge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will someday judge the living and the dead when he appears to set up his Kingdom: Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.

-2 Timothy 4:1-4 NLT

Picture Credit: National Park Service

Posted by: jakinnan | January 7, 2013

Nettle Pesto Pasta

nettle pasta

Ingredients

8 oz pasta of choice, cook time under 7 minutes
1⁄4 c toasted finely diced pine nuts or walnuts
1⁄2 c shelf stable parmesan cheese
1 c extra virgin olive oil
1 c packed stinging nettle leaves (urtica dioica)
1 1⁄4 t granulated garlic

Notes:
When picking nettle leaves DO wear gloves and a long sleeved shirt. A clean freezer bag is a good picking vessel.

WITH ALL WILD FOODS CONSULT A KNOWLEDGEABLE GUIDE FOR PICKING, FOLLOW ALL RULES ON PICKING AND DO NOT EVER GIVE WILD FOODS TO PREGNANT WOMEN OR SMALL CHILDREN.

Instructions

At home:
Pack the pasta in a sandwich bag, the nuts and garlic in a small bag, the Parmesan cheese in a snack bag and the olive oi in a leak proof container.

In camp:
In your pot bring a 1/4 cup water to a boil, add your nettle leaves, cover tightly and let steam a couple minutes (lower your stove’s flame). Drain off any water left, then chop the leaves as finely as you can. Add the olive oil to the nut bag, then add the nettles. Stir well and put aside.

Bring 4 cups water to a boil in your pot, add the pasta and cook for time on package. Drain carefully. Add pesto to pasta as desired, top liberally with the cheese.

The sauce can also be made at home, process in a blender or food processor till smooth. Feel free to use fresh Parmesan cheese if done this way.

Courtesy of trailcooking.com

Posted by: jakinnan | January 7, 2013

Life is a Story

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Life, you’ll notice, is a story.

Life doesn’t come to us like a math problem. It comes to us the way that a story does, scene by scene. You wake up. What will happen next? You don’t get to know-you have to enter in, take the journey as it comes. The sun might be shining. There might be a tornado outside. Your friends might call and invite you to go sailing. You might lose your job.

Life unfolds like a drama. Doesn’t it? Each day has a beginning and an end. There are all sorts of characters, all sorts of settings. A year goes by like a chapter from a novel. Sometimes it seems like a tragedy. Sometimes like a comedy. Most of it feels like a soap opera. Whatever happens, it’s a story through and through.

“All of life is a story,” Madeleine L’Engle reminds us.

This is helpful to know. When it comes to figuring out this life you’re living, you’d do well to know the rest of the story.

You come home one night to find that your car has been totaled. Now, all you know is that you loaned it for a couple of hours to your teenage daughter, and now here it is, all smashed up. Isn’t the first thing out of your mouth, “What happened? ” In other words, “Tell me the story.”

Somebody has some explaining to do, and that can be done only in hearing the talethey have to tell. Careful now-you might jump to the wrong conclusion. Doesn’t it make a difference to know that she wasn’t speeding, that in fact the other car ran a red light? It changes the way you feel about the whole thing. Thank God, she’s all right.

Truth be told, you need to know the rest of the story if you want to understand just about anything in life. Love affairs, layoffs, the collapse of empires, your child’s day at school-none of it makes sense without a story.

John Eldredge, Epic, 2-4

Picture Credit: USFWS/Shive

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