I missed Tater Tuesday last week because the kidling had a bad ear infection, then I got sick... The fun never stops! But I'm back.

I forgot to take a photo this week! Doh!


Did you know... Potatoes form a complete protein when eaten with meat, dairy or grains.

Black Bean Enchilada Mashed Potatoes
Serves 1

1/2 cup butter flavor instant mashed potatoes
1/4 cup dried refried black beans
2 tablespoons tomato powder
1 tablespoon powdered enchilada seasoning mix
1 teaspoon onion flakes
1 cheddar or pepper Jack cheese stick

At home: combine everything except the cheese in a zip locking freezer bag.

In camp: add about 1 1/4 cups water to the mix. Stir well. Serve topped with the cheese.

I posted two recipes today for TT. Mine are soups but one is full of bacon :-D

Her recipes can be found here:

http://blog.trailcooking.com/

I wondered what happened to last Tuesday. I thought maybe I was in a time warp. I also even considered trying to come up with something myself, but I was in Whoville at the foot of Lichtenberg Mtn(I'm married to the Grinch) and didn't have access to much until I came back to town.

I had everything for today's black bean enchilada taters except the enchilada sauce mix, so I went online and combined a few recipes that seemed to work: 1/2 C cornstarch, 1/4 C chili powder, 2 ts garlic salt, 1/2 ts cumin, 1 ts oregano, 1 TB paprika, 1 ts salt. I also rehydrated the beans and onion flakes separately, because the potatoes always hog all the water. This is really good!

Tater!

Keeping it simple -- just dehydrated 7 pounds of yams into yam chips.
I used the recipe on backpackingchef. I should be set for a while.

I love that you test our recipes each week. Your feedback is priceless!

Kathleen,

I have been blogging my set of recipes but I didn't have time last week to get it posted here :-( I need to go cut n' paste this weeks as well. Ah well.

Sarah - your recipes are next on my test list. I can only eat so many spuds in a day. I may have already tried them in the past, but I need to make them again to be sure. And yes, I don't like to comment on recipes until I've actually made them. I'm a good little eater!

Sounds good, I'll try it on a trip this weekend.
Thanks!

Not sure I've ever seen tomato powder.

Me either. I'll likely just use the seasoning only.

Harmony House Foods and PackitGourmet both carry it :-) Good stuff to have on hand!!

One thing we do is make our own tomato powder. Dry homemade or jarred tomato sauce until it is very dry (almost brittle) then run it through a coffee grinder or blender. I use a coffee grinder just for things like this. A Magic Bullet works well for this too. You can do the same with V8 juice to add a nice veggie flavor.

The stuff I use is from the bulk bins in the herb and spices section from my local health food store (mostly b/c I can buy it locally). I also like Harmony House Foods tomato powder. And like Laurie said, you can also make your own.

Harmmony House is good, I also enjoy AlpineAire's tomato powder...

http://www.alpineaire.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10_27&products_id=131