The Campfire Trail: February 1 - The Campfire Trail

February 1, 2025

Day 1,219 of the Adventure

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Our life in the woods is a paradox of opposites. Food prep is one of those things that seems to fit better at opposite ends of the spectrum. On the one hand, we often spend a good portion of the day fussing over a meal. Then other days we either go without or grab something quick and easy as we rush out the door to attend to some task waiting for us outside. On occasion, we've succumbed to the temptation of buying pre-packaged breakfast biscuits from the store. Besides being aggravatingly high priced. They are also remarkably poor in flavor. But in a hurry, we've made do with them.

Recently, we've added a vacuum sealer to our arsenal of food preservation tools and techniques. Last week, while the weather was too rainy and cold to do much outside, we put the vacuum sealer to the test. Among the food we processed was ham and bean soup, cooked sweet potato slices, French bread pizza, dry cereal, ham, egg and cheese breakfast croissants...... and...... sausage, egg and cheese breakfast biscuits. I got the idea for the croissants and biscuits from the vacuum sealed back that the sore bought ones are packaged in. Why not. We cooked up the ingredients, portioned and seasoned to our tastes and sealed them up. The one in the picture was vacuumed down to the point where the entire thing was crushed down to the smallest and tightest size possible. After that, we pulled the vacuum just far enough to evacuate the air but not compress the biscuit to the size of a hockey puck. I ate the flattened one this morning. Besides the fact that the biscuit was dense, it was not only delicious but filling as well. It was probably double the size of a store biscuit and full of the flavor I would have expected from a home-made biscuit. Why all this fawning over a simple breakfast biscuit? I've been reacclimating myself to simple, frugal living in the self-sufficient style. Even though I've known the results of this process for a long time, it's been a renewed discovery of how much better life can be when just a little effort is applied to making it that way. So, here's to the lowly sausage, egg and cheese breakfast biscuit. Made from scratch at the backwoods cabin!

Carry On

Adventure Quote: “Biscuits, biscuits: wherefore art thou biscuits? Hath mine beloved hidden thou once more from mine eyes? Alas, mine coffee cries out. Lo!” ― T.J. Bowes

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