okay, electra said:
I need advice as to whether bringing frozen meat patties is a good idea after all. Just wondering if they thaw too soon and/or too few want to eat them, they wouldn't make good leftovers for taking home. If I back out on that, I will still make that wine stash available anyway. Thoughts on those burgers?
here's my thoughts: i am trying to keep down the number of coolers i bring for space reasons. although it's lovely that electra is offering to bring meat patties, *please* don't feel the need to do so for me. i will be bringing many simple-to-prepare comfort foods that can sit at the bottom of a soggy cooler if it gets to that. mostly, i just wanna pack light and nutritious and cover the salt cravings i am likely to have.
my thoughts about burgers in particular: if you *do* bring them, freeze 'em up, and cook 'em as quickly as you are able... you do *not* want rotting meat in your cooler or your trash (which you carry out of BRC!). me, i'm opting for vacuum sealed gourmet sausages and hot dogs... that way, i can boil 'em, pan fry 'em, bbq 'em, or even cook 'em on a stick... and they won't get spoiled by melted ice.
oh, and meat patties can easily convert to meat sauce if you bring a jar of sauce! then, any leftovers can go back in the jar and back in your cooler.
I need advice as to whether bringing frozen meat patties is a good idea after all. Just wondering if they thaw too soon and/or too few want to eat them, they wouldn't make good leftovers for taking home. If I back out on that, I will still make that wine stash available anyway. Thoughts on those burgers?
here's my thoughts: i am trying to keep down the number of coolers i bring for space reasons. although it's lovely that electra is offering to bring meat patties, *please* don't feel the need to do so for me. i will be bringing many simple-to-prepare comfort foods that can sit at the bottom of a soggy cooler if it gets to that. mostly, i just wanna pack light and nutritious and cover the salt cravings i am likely to have.
my thoughts about burgers in particular: if you *do* bring them, freeze 'em up, and cook 'em as quickly as you are able... you do *not* want rotting meat in your cooler or your trash (which you carry out of BRC!). me, i'm opting for vacuum sealed gourmet sausages and hot dogs... that way, i can boil 'em, pan fry 'em, bbq 'em, or even cook 'em on a stick... and they won't get spoiled by melted ice.
oh, and meat patties can easily convert to meat sauce if you bring a jar of sauce! then, any leftovers can go back in the jar and back in your cooler.
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Re: all about food
Mon, August 20, 2007 - 9:34 AMI have also considered bringing a smaller ice chest with dry ice, and a cheescake to share later in the week.... Might be nice on Wed. or Th. ....
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Re: all about food
Mon, August 20, 2007 - 10:30 AMMeat patties should be fine if eaten within the first few days. Personally, I never bring any meat, mostly because of the extra cleaning and extra care needed to deal with it. Its nice to just not have to worry about what might be floating around in the cooler, and you don't have to wash up very well. I don't eat it much anyway, so don't miss it.
I like to bring lots of snacks, veggies that last...carrots, celery, cucumbers, jicama, a little fruit, cheese & crackers, tuna, lots of eggs. For a main meal I'll cook some kind of stewy dish with rice, lentils and Indian spices, something like curry or dal. For some reason, I totally crave those spices there.
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Re: all about food
Mon, August 20, 2007 - 3:05 PMGood topic. I'm leaving the meat home. I eat awfully light meals, anyway. Hard boiling lots of eggs at home, bringing sharable precooked bacon that's sealed, and I am sharing an awsome set of frozen cheese tortas for chilling out time.
Cheesecake! Yes!
I read elsewhere that people put their coolers under blankets and don't open them at all until the day needed. I found this great insulation fabric at the sewing store. I may have enough for a few critical coolers. -
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Re: all about food
Mon, August 20, 2007 - 7:07 PMhard boiled eggs! pre-cooked bacon! great ideas, electra!!! cheesecake will be a luxury i couldn't even have dreamed of!
about coolers: raise them off the ground... i've heard some use bricks, but why carry all that weight? if i had room, i'd use milk cartons for packing and then convert them to cubbies that hold up my cooler. i just don't have room. plan B for me: purchase some 4x4 wood and bat my eyelashes to get the nice young man to cut it into blocks for me. much lighter than bricks.
insulation: i purchased insulation bubble-wrap that is coated both sides with a reflective, silver mylar. i cut this out and created custom inserts for each of my car windows. they pack relatively flat, and keep my car a *lot* cooler, so it's safer for me to store things in my car. i plan on making a cooler cover with the leftovers (it comes in a big roll for about $45, if i remember correctly). you get the insulation benefit of the little air pockets, and it's really light-weight. -
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That insulation wrap
Mon, August 20, 2007 - 10:18 PMI have never seen or heard of such stuff. Where did you buy it? -
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insulation wrap and custom inserts
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 12:09 AMhome depot. in large (long) rolls, maybe 4 ft wide. in the department that deals with heating and cooling, where they have ducts and insulating type materials. i guess they must wrap this stuff around some sort of ducts or pipes or something. my ex-husband did it on our camping van, and it worked great to keep it cool and dark during daytime and hold the heat in and keep it private at nighttime.
to size it: do a 'worst case' height and width for each window (be careful and clever about how to measure the 'height' for diagonal ends!)... then cut rectangles out of the material... note that it has direction (bias)... i think the wimpy, bendy direction is the same as the way it is rolled up, so don't use that direction for your verticals or they'll slump more.... press the rectangle into the window edge, using finger tips to jam it into position all around... your goal is to have a visible crease around the perimeter, sized to fit exactly so that it is a 'slip fit' requiring no additional fasteners... trim an edge with scissors, then double check the fit before moving to the next edge... err on the side of not cutting enough... you can always fine-tune later, or not, if you just wanna jam it in when you install them... it's tricky around your rear view mirror: cut a slit from centerpoint along top edge to the bottom of the rear view mirror, perhaps with a little diamond to allow for the mirror stem, then proceed with shaping the top edge, etc... you can use leftover material for cooler insulation, whatever. -
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Re: insulation wrap and custom inserts
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 9:35 AMThis clue is a godsend. Thanks for taking the time. Sleeping and storing stuff in my car will go oh-so-much better now. Thanks for taking the time this, and all your other posts, have taken.
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