Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Thursday, June 30, 2005

If you like backpacking, but also like good food and want to make a dish with fresh chicken, prepare the chicken before you go. Dice the chicken, saute it with the appropriate spices or sauce, let it cool, and put it in a large ziplock bag. Make sure you squeeze out the excess air and roll it into a sort of log shape. Then put it in the freezer for a day or two.

When you take it out to hit the trail, you'll have a frozen log o' chicken. Simply slip it into your pack and use it within the next day or two. By the time you hit camp it will be defrosted enough to use and, depending on the weather, should stay cold enough to last until your second night. You can also slip it into a snowbank or drop it in an ice-cold stream to have it last longer (assuming no bears or other critters will get to it.)

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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