Hiding out in suburbia – posing as a domesticated housewife.
I am the avid outdoorsy type who loves anything from a casual stroll on a rail to trail to long day hikes (20 milers). I have been a backpacker as well for nearing in on two decades. Come winter, we just strap on walking crampons and keep going – or we head for Mt. Rainier National Park and go snowshoeing! We live in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and Mt. Rainier NP here in Washington State which helps feed our love of the outdoors. The family is my husband, tweener age son and two over indulged rug mats, er, I mean our cats. Our yard is full of squirrels and birds aplenty that the cats spend their days staring at through the windows. So basically a typical mid 30’s housewife who gets cranky when she doesn’t get enough fresh air 
My husband and I authored and published the best selling outdoor cookbook ‘Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple‘ a book aimed at the outdoorsy and are currently writing our second and third outdoor cooking book.
If you want to see what else we work on visit Trail Divas and Trail Cooking. I am quite often sewing for my business (I design and create ultra light hiking gear for the trail cook – I invented the fabric cozy for freezer bags a couple years ago.) If not on the trail I am often in the kitchen making stuff for my men.
The focus on this blog is being able to talk about cooking and cooking related stuff that isn’t ‘outdoorsy’ – which is what we talk about on our Freezer Bag & Trail Cooking blog.
At home we follow a lower sodium diet along with no artificial colors and try to avoid preservatives due to being triggers for migrianes. The recipes and things I showcase show how we eat at home. I talk about bread making, pastries, cookies, dinners, breakfast, candy making – well, basically anything that smells and tastes good! We follow an omnivore diet but don’t have a heavy focus on meat – I personally don’t like handling raw meat. I was a vegan for a number of years but found that of all the things I missed it was dairy cheese the most.
Consider this blog to be my personal recipe collection – these are the things I don’t want to forget over the years!
Many of the photos on the site are taken by my husband, Kirk. You can tell which ones are mine….the pathetic ones
I hope you enjoy reading my blog.
~Sarah
And if you hike, well I hope to meet you on the trail someday – and till then…..may all your trails be flat and never have dirty dishes.
In The Snow On The PCT Trail
Our Book: Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple
In my kitchen - before my new stove days.
