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I broke out the dutch oven today to try out a new recipe. It's a pecan ring that you use frozen bread dough to make. It turned out very well, but I did discover that I'm not particularly adept at making 18" long dough ropes. But it turned out alright, and I figure I will get better with more...

I tried baking my first cherry clafouti today, and it didn't turn out quite the way I would have liked. I guess I thought that a clafouti was more of a cake, but I should have realized that with 6 eggs in it, it would be a bit more custard like. It tasted just fine. I just think it didn't bake...

Decided to cook up a couple of dutch oven pizzas for dinner tonight. I was pleased with the results, although I over estimated the number of coals to be used under the dutch oven. I was thinking that I needed an even layer of coals to get the pizza dough reasonably crispy. What I ended up...

I also did another new recipe today because we're going to a neighbors for dinner and we wanted to bring something a little extra. This recipe is for a Pumpkin Dump Cake. It turned out very well also. My wife thinks I should plan on doing it for Thanksgiving. If I end up doing all of the...

As promised, here is the recipe for the blueberry crisp that I made over the weekend. It's a basic recipe that provides a good result. I do think that the quantity of blueberries could be reduced from 6 cups to 5 or even 4. It seemed that there were just too many blueberries for the topping...

After waiting for almost 4 years, I finally am able to start doing DO cooking again. I decided to do a couple of easy recipes to help get back into the swing of things, so I did a pineapple upside down cake and a blueberry crisp. These were made for a neighbors Labor Day party. Everyone enjoyed...

I see a lot of recipes that I'd love to try in my dutch ovens, but the recipes call for a certain size of baking dish/pan. For example, a cake recipe that requires a 9 X 13 pan. What size dutch oven would be used in place of the baking dish? A 12" ( 6 quart ) or a 10" ( 4 quart )? I'm never sure...

I hope everybody made a special dutch oven treat for their "special" someone on this Valentine's Day. :heart: I selected a new recipe I've been meaning to try called Deep Dish Peach Pizza. It's fast, it's easy, and it's REALLY good. Everything went together very easily, and it only took a few...

I wasn't so sure that this recipe would be anything to write home about, but it really turned out very nice. The key to this recipe is to give the roast plenty of cooking time. I tested the meat after 3 1/2 hours and thought that it was done. But further testing proved that another 1/2 hour or...

I've been traveling a lot since we left Minnesota on October 10th, so all of the DO equipment is packed up and stowed under a bunch of other stuff in the storage bays of our motorhome. We haven't had wi-fi available, so I haven't had the chance to come back to see what's going on. WHAT'S...

Well, it was another questionable success yesterday with this new recipe I tried. It was very windy yesterday, but it was unusually gusty, which made it very difficult to maintain even cooking tempratures. I REALLY need to solve my windbreak problem.:glare: Another problem is that the recipe...

I love to post recipes and information about my successes, so I guess I'd better be willing to post the same about my failures. :ermm: We had friends over this evening who just love rhubarb desserts. So I decided to make a raspberry/rhubarb crumble. Unfortunately I didn't have any fresh...

This has to be one of the most popular recipes in dutch oven cooking, and it never fails to please people, especially those folks that have never tried it. I made 2 batches this morning for some of the other workampers here in the park we're at. Not one of them had ever heard of it, let alone...

One of my favorite summer foods is rhubarb. I can almost always guarantee that by the end of the summer, I'll not have had as much rhubarb as I'd planned on having. So today I decided to try a new recipe that I found (can't recall where I came across it) for Rhubarb Crumble. It's an easy...

We did a fish fry for my father-in-laws 80th birthday. He'd caught all of the walleye and bluegills that we cooked, so we figured it was the least we could do for him. No real recipe was needed for this meal. We had numerous fish filets of varying sizes. We did two different "breadings". One...

Hi folks! I haven't been around for awhile simply because I haven't been able to do much cooking. I'll offer just a quick update. We left Yellowstone in October of '07, after a great summer of making a dutch oven meal every Monday for the entire summer. After visiting the grandkids in...

This blackberry biscuit cake was actually a blueberry recipe. But the store was out of blueberries, so I got blackberries instead. I made this dessert in a 10" dutch, and luckily I'd bought 2 15oz. cans of blackberries. I actually think that it could have even used a 3rd can. But in my opinion...

Since it was Sunday, that meant I was cooking something in the dutch oven. I've always wanted to try a pizza, so I planned on that. In all honesty, this recipe did not turn out the way I'd hoped. It was edible, and we certainly didn't gag or anything when we ate it. But it sure didn't impress...

I did my first BBQ ribs in the DO today, and they were great! :chef: This recipe completely cook the ribs in the DO. You do not take them out at the end and finish them on the grill. They are completely dry roasted, except for the sauce that is added about halfway through. I had just about 6...

I always like to try new recipes, especially desserts. I came across a recipe for a pear custard cobbler. The cobbler was another interesting success. But I also noticed that the vast majority of pear desserts usually have some type of other fruit mixed in with them, such as blackberries or...

I decided that I should finally do the most traditional DO meal going - beef stew. So I looked up a number of beef stew recipes and settled on one that sounded pretty traditional. I did modify it one little bit by adding biscuits on the top. Everything turned out very well, but I did learn a...

Tonight was our last Dutch Oven Monday meal. A week from today, Jenny and I will have finished our adventure in Yellowstone and will be in Bozeman, Montana. So Ken and Sandy and us began talking about what we should have for our final meal. We reviewed all of the meals that we had over the...

Tonight we used the DO's for deep frying Alaskan cod for a fish fry. We actually called back home to our favorite restaurant to find out what kind of cod they used, and then searched out a wholesaler in this area that would sell to us. We bought 30 pounds of cod, but only really needed 20...

We weren't able to cook last night, so we did a Dutch Oven Tuesday tonight. I'd been looking for a good chowder or stew recipe, and I stumbled across this Potato Bacon Chowder. It looked easy and delicious. Keeping it simple, I also decided to make a batch of biscuits. This is a fast, easy...

Dutch Oven Monday yielded some delicious sirloin beef tips. These were especially tasty because the sauce was made with cranberry juice and soy sauce. We served the tips on noodles or rice, and it was very simple and delicious. We also had acorn squash with an apple and cranberry sauce. It was...