Chefonabike

Very often in life, a spark of inspiration is enough to create fantastic things.  The idea for BikepackingChef came to me on a cold and snowy afternoon in early December, year 2019, while I was returning home on foot after a day spent doing splitboarding with friends. I was thinking of the next bikepacking events scheduled for summer 2020. A little later I found myself thinking about how and what I could eat, both in the saddle and especially at lunch and dinner. (Maybe it's because I'm a chef in the kitchen but I always think about eating .. the first thing I think of when I get up in the morning is "what can I eat for breakfast today? Porridge or Muesli..or a couple of French Toasts?".) Eating and eating healthy while doing bikepacking, cycling, endurance (both for pleasure and especially in the race) is, in my opinion, the most important aspect and at the same time the aspect that is most underestimated. There are "metropolitan nutritional legends" t...

You walk into a store or supermarket, head straight for the snack sections or the fruit and veg section to find packets of trail mix, dehydrated fruits pouches, all sots of dehydrated treats imaginable. Then you look at the price tag! "WTF? i am not paying 5.50 euros for a 300gr pouch of trail mix. I can easily make that myself"...Erm...maybe!  How do you even start dehydrating food at home? Here is a pretty simple explanation. A food dehydrator delivers the vast majority of foods with the same vitamins and minerals as their fresh counterparts, in a remarkable array of concentrated flavours, nutrients and enzymes. According to the Energise for Life website, "The dehydration process retains almost 100% of the nutritional content of the food, retains the alkalinity of fresh produce and actually inhibits the growth of microforms such as bacteria." Preservation: The modern dehydrator produces basically the same food with about 75 per cent of its moisture removed. T...

" And you may find yourself Living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself In another part of the world And you may find yourself Behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, well How did I get here?" So goes the epic tune by Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime. It is a classic pop-rock song from the '80s  I found myself in a very different position on the last two days. A position I wanted to be and put myself for a few years but never had the courage or the finances to actually do it. So, this season, Santa Claus came early at Chefonabike HQ. One morning I found a blinking brand new Jones Snowboard. I am talking about a brand new split board, the Jones Frontier 159, equipped with K2 Far Out binding and G3 skins. Jeremy Jones is a living legend of the sport. He grew up and raced the "hard boots snowboarding" before becoming a freeride icon.  ...

THE "NON" RISOTTO..... Yes, Sir! Yes, Madame! You are correct. You have indeed read the "non" risotto. There is no shadow of a doubt that Italians knows how to make an excellent risotto. The Piedmont (Piemonte) region of Itay is well known for its magnificent rice fields that extend as the far as the yey can see..the provinces of Vercelli and Novara as well as Biella, Turin, Cuneo and Casale Monferrato. What's the best rice you ask? Carnaroli, off course. Followed by Arborio Vialone Nano. Carnaroli is the "Ferrari" of risotto rice. Discovered by Emiliano Carnaroli, the rice is elegant, succulent, decadent..it keeps its shape much better (compared to its poorer brothers) because of the higher content in "amido" (starch) and it works superbly well in risotto making. But... What if you Sir and you Madame, would like to cook a risotto dish without using any rice?!? Would that be even possible??? The answer is yes. Yes, off course...

TMB / VTT 19th - 21st September 2018 3 days-stages / 182km / Elevation gain 6943mt / Calories burned 9650 / No mechanicals / No crashes / Total awe When I decided to move to Chamonix permanently in December ‘17, I set myself a few “things to do” goals. The TMB was one of them. After reading and researching about the TMB I felt compelled to do it simply because of the adventurous nature of the trip. The TMB is a very famous hiking trail that follow a specific and almost fixed route. It officially starts from Les Houches, going counter clockwise over to Les Contamines, then over to Italy into Val Veny - Courmayeur - Val Ferret and into Switzerland to continue towards Trient, back into France at Col de Balme and then Chamonix. In the last few years it has gained popularity amongst the Mtb community too and this kind of mtbiking is what interests me. I am not really into BikePark - lift assisted kind of mtbiking. To me real mtbiking is about exploring new places, ridin...