Need travel recipes! Please!
Next Saturday I am facing a 16 hour drive. I don't want to make any more stops than necessary. Ideas or recipes for food we can take and eat on the road are needed. Anyone have a good tabouleh recipe? Other ideas?
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16 Comments:
Where are you driving to/from? When I was a road warrior, I didn't want to hit the chains along the way, so I'd find a Whole Foods/something similar, buy pre-made soups/salads/sides and put them in a cooler along the way, making them a meal all together. There were days I had lobster bisque, salad with balasamic vinaigrette, and a single portion lasgana for less than $15. Not too bad for dinner. My calorie splurge would be lunch, and I'd hit the dollar menu at Taco Bell - guilty pleasure...
dharmon at 7:50PM on 05/10/09
Tabouleh I make it as directed but I like to make it with either veggie or chicken stock, then add away of your favorite things you want to put in it. As far as snacks I always have crackers, a jar of peanut butter and cheeses at all times, its a MUST. Sometimes if I have it summer sausage, smoked salmon or beef jerky. Then there are the nuts, chips, cookies......
pjracz10 at 7:51PM on 05/10/09
The first long day will be Toronto to Savannah. Our second long day will be Savannah to NYC. I've read through the other road trip posts and have got some great snack ideas (ie Laughing Cow cheese with crackers) but I'd like to make something more substantial to go with it. We'll have to stop once in the States for fruit since we can't bring it across the border.
lexophile at 7:52PM on 05/10/09
http://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Cookies/Greatest.Ever.Granola.Bars.html
ansate at 8:08PM on 05/10/09
Tabbouleh: soak 1/2-3/4 cbulgur in hot/boiling water, cover, and let sit for 15-20 minutes. Cool the bulgur (i do this on a jellyroll pan in the fridge or freezer, depending on how successful I was at planning ahead). Chop up a bunch of parsley and a BUNCH of fresh mint leaves. Chop some onions to a fine dice (~1/2 c), coarsely chop some good tomatoes. Toss the bulgur with 1/3 c olive oil and 1/4 c lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Add the rest of the stuff you chopped up, toss gently. Bittman's recipe uses two c parsley and one c mint, but I like to have more mint than parsley.
joyyy at 8:44PM on 05/10/09
Are you going through Buffalo, or Detroit - 16 hours to Savannah seems a bit off to me - we travel from London, ON, to Charleston, S.C., right down 1-75 to Knoxville, then turning East on I-40 to Charleston - that is 16-17 hrs., so I figure you have two extra hours at each end (TO-London & Charleston-Savannah) - have you done this before?
My husband and I are in our 60's though and we have to stop for pee breaks, leg stretching, resting our eyes, etc., so maybe age difference is the key!
bareneed at 8:46PM on 05/10/09
Just a question - will you be stopping to eat what you bring or are you looking for foods that you can eat while driving? Also how many of you are there?
In the past I've done similar things. My favorite is just good sandwiches, a cooler of drinks and chips. The simpler the sandwich the better. To me a simple sandwich is bread or roll with about 1/3 lb of turkey, two slices of swiss cheese and spicy mustard. Easy to eat and drive with, very little mess, no dripping from the sandwich. Found I could go 5 - 7 hours max driving, having to stop for gas, walk around for about 15 mins, use the bathroom etc. etc. Would also buy an ice cream novelty to help keep me awake.
Ribster at 8:47PM on 05/10/09
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tips-techniques/weekend-getaways-best-foods-for-car-trips-057590
poke87 at 10:18PM on 05/10/09
Keep it simple. When we went on a 13 hr. road trip we took a cooler of
sodas, lunch meats, cheeses. Bring a case of water, a basket with bread, paper towels, ketchup and mustard and mayo pkts so you don't have containers to full with and toss when empty. Also bring fresh fruits;
apples, banana, grapes. And favorite munchies, chips, pretzels, crackers,
cookies. When stopping for gas, use this time for potty break, stretching
and cleaning out trash from vehicle. We also took books on tape/cd for when we were't listening to the radio. Enjoy your trip!
rwcantrell at 10:24PM on 05/10/09
We haven't done the trip before, so I'm just going by the estimated time on the GPS. With pee breaks etc I think it'll be more than 16 hrs. Also, we have done cross country trips (east and west) but we didn't have to worry about not being allowed to bring fruit since we weren't crossing borders. We are a little paranoid about bringing fruit because we once saw a Montana border guard take apart a station wagon FULL of camping gear because of an undeclared apple! So, we have to rethink what to pack to eat. Ideally, food we can eat without stopping.
lexophile at 10:30PM on 05/10/09
Also, we are going through Buffalo not Detroit. I did a quick google maps check and it says London to Charleston is almost 16 hours and Toronto to Savannah is just over 16.
Plus, the first thing we did when we planned this trip was organized our audio book selections. We've got tons to keep us occupied.
lexophile at 10:34PM on 05/10/09
Okay, this is a contrarian view, but I'll just put it out there--you're crazy to travel that distance without stopping much! First of all it's unhealthy at any age for your legs, bladder, and also for keeping awake on the road. Second, part of the road trip pleasures can be the odd things you see and eat, even if they are just cheap eats on the way. If you're doing a road trip, part of the pleasure is the process, not just the destination, otherwise you'd be going via plane or train.
HeartofGlass at 7:11AM on 05/11/09
Well, good luck - we only bought snacks in the car and stopped along the way to eat - we always stop overnight in the Knoxville area, so we are fresh to drive through the mountains towards Ashville - our second day drive is about five hours. Obviously, you are constrained by a time factor and don't have time to do as @HeartofGlass suggests, but try and see a bit of Savannah, it is a beautiful city, languid and brilliant with flowers with wonderful scents. Have a good trip and if you need a coffee, remember, McDonalds, serves up the best of the highway chain restaurants at least to our Canadian sensibilities.
bareneed at 8:44AM on 05/11/09
Ha ha. I think I've misled some of you. Obviously we are going to stop for gas/bathroom/leg stretches. I have to because I've had a blood clot, can't leave the legs still that long. I just get really sick if I eat too much "crap" in the car and I don't want to start off a week long eating trip (Savannah, Raleigh, NYC) with a sick stomach. So, I wanted some healthy food that travels well.
lexophile at 10:14AM on 05/11/09
We drove from South Florida to Dallas, running from a hurricane, fueled pretty much totally by little bottles of Starbucks Mocha Frappacino.
ocarol at 3:26PM on 05/11/09
I've done a few road trips. My first being 15 years ago, when I bought a brand new car and immediately shipped it from HI to Seattle. Xbf and I did a 3 month road trip going from Seattle, Canada (Vancouver - Calgary) then across the US to New Jersey. I wasn't interested in the southern states. A couple years later, husband and I traveled from KS-TX-LA-OH in 2 weeks.
Our traveling food was beef jerky and interesting foods we picked up along the way, whether they were from hole in the wall joints to supermarkets. We always managed to find really nice restaurants. I guess it helped that we had a lot of online friends that showed us the sites in many of the cities.
Cassaendra at 7:02PM on 05/11/09