… a fresh, hot, homemade biscuit right out of a dutch oven. Even better if shaped like a heart. Happy Valentine’s Day! From,
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How do I get started?
Does Dutch oven cooking interest you but you’re hesitant to jump into it? You’ve seen some YouTube videos about Dutch oven cooking. Maybe you’ve been to a Dutch Oven Gathering, (D.O.G.), a Chuckwagon competition, attended a demo, a cooking class, or a chili cook-off and seen all kinds of various pieces of gear in use. Sometimes it’s easy to be overwhelmed when one looks at a website, a cooking section in the store, or a cooking video and you see all the accessories being used. True there is a lot of cool stuff to use as aides for Dutch oven cooks. There are cooking tables and stands. There are all…
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Melt in your mouth and mess up your hands…
Every time ribs are on sale, I buy a slab or two and frequently, some go straight to the freezer. With an upcoming project, freezer space is at a premium so time to make some room. My basic pattern for rib cooking is to use a dry rub of seasonings, place the ribs on a bed of sliced onions, then put the dutch oven on a ring of coals with another ring on the lid. The best way for tender results of most meats is cooking slowly over time. While they will be fully cooked in an hour or less, longer in this case equals more tender. I’ve found that…
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Creamy Pizza Rice
Recently, when shopping at Sam’s, the marketing efforts of Royal Basmati Rice paid off as the bright ink on the burlap bag caught my eye and somehow a 20 lb bag of rice that was not on my shopping list ended up in my cart. That afternoon I made a Creamy Chicken, Broccoli and Rice Casserole that will find its way into a future post. The next week, I decided to put together a Pizza Rice Casserole that is the subject of this post. Realizing that I had more rice than recipes, I posted a request on my personal Facebook page for suggestions. A number of folks responded so over…
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Challenge accepted! (Apple Dumpling Edition)
In a group we are both in, Lora, a camping friend of ours, posted the following: “I know someone said something about apple something…. Now I can’t find the post. Anyway here is my favorite apple recipe, maybe Uncle Mike can figure out how to do it in a Dutch oven. It is soo good!” What followed was a link to Genius Kitchen’s recipe for Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings. The instructions there are simple and the results delicious. The challenge was adapting this to a Dutch Oven and from the looks of the recipe and accompanying comments, it would be worth the effort. So, challenge accepted! Here’s our take on…
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To line or not to line?
There are cast iron purists that cringe at the thought of lining a dutch oven with anything more than their favorite oil or shortening. Some consider it “cheating” if one is placing anything between the food being prepared and the well seasoned cast iron bottom of a dutch oven. There are folks who say when one lines a dutch oven, the food doesn’t taste nearly as well as when cooked directly on the iron. There are those who believe that eating food cooked in cast iron can help with iron deficiency and that liners reduce that benefit. At the same time, some cooks would never use any tomato-based product in…
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Welcome to the Coals…
There are lots of good ways to fix great food outdoors. One of our favorites is in camp dutch ovens. Whether it’s cooking for a couple or well over a hundred, as well as meals for groups of assorted sizes in between, we’ve done it. Uncle Mike’s Kitchen is not a place, but rather it’s wherever we set up camp, light up the coals, or stir up a dish. Information about upcoming demos, cooking classes, and catering can be found here over time as well as a recipe or two. Your questions, comments, and ideas are welcome. If you like what you see and would like notification of updates,…
