cowboy and dutch oven cooking

You will have a lot of fun cooking in the cast iron, make sure you get it well seasoned, I use lard. I like a fire pit that has a brick floor with block sides and back, build a big wood fire and let it burn to coals. The coals are easy to shovel out and put down on another bricked area to place your oven's on to do your cooking. I think its easier to cook with wood coals than charcoal....but I learned on wood. You just need a good blunt nose shovel for moving coals.

You can cook anything outside in cast iron that you can cook in the kitchen. Learning to judge the heat and balancing the top and bottom heat, or knowing when to use all bottom or all top heat is the trick.

I have a great easy recipe for salmon patties and of course a cobbler, and beer batter bread......I have done boiled shrimp, meat loaf, spaghetti, stews, chicken fried steak, pot roast, the list is endless.....Stella Hughs has a good camp cookbook.

I cooked for my cowboy crew for many years while camped all over west Texas. Just start cooking....