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The tricky part of cooking outdoor is, how you are going to recreate delicious food in an environment that isn’t your home kitchen. Well..it’s all about preparation and organisation. You see, cooking requires 4 elements:  Salt Fat Acid Heat  You apply these elements in every dish you cook and you will have amazingly delicious food... Every time. Guaranteed.   You can start by prepping your vegetables at home the night before and then ziplock them and put them in the fridge. You can also make your own tomato sauce..this is where all the flavours come from. In the meantime, I want to share with you all, this simple, quick and delicious recipe. I came up with this recipe a few weeks ago when the virus was still thousands of km away. One evening, during my day off work, I wanted to eat something that warmed me up from the inside out. Why? Because I live in Chamonix and winter here in the Alps are cold. A quick look in the fridge to see w...

In these extreme and extraordinary circumstances that we are all experiencing, it is important to remain positive and pray for those who are personally affected and those who work on the front lines to keep us all safe. It is also important that we all do our best to help our families and communities. Together, we can achieve anything. Alone, we are doomed. When the guys from Bikepacking.it contacted me at the end of February, we did not know that after a couple of weeks Italy and now most of the EU countries would have faced a health emergency of this magnitude. Writing an article / blog for an outdoor activity website seems frugal and useless in times like these, but that's exactly what we need to do. We have to keep our minds busy, we have to keep creating, we have to keep our spirits up and we have to keep dreaming and planning our future summer adventures by bicycle ... and that's exactly what I'm going to do today. Since this is my second episode for Bikepacking...

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.  ...