I’ve been wanting to share this website with everyone ever since our camping trip this year. I love talking to people about what we eat when we go camping, because no one ever believes it. When the average person thinks of camping food they think of things like hot dogs, burgers, brats- things that are easy to cook, and easy to cook over a campfire. Well, we may do those things for lunch, or on the one evening we have less time for a meal, but when we camp with the family, we go all out.
In the past, we’ve cooked things like leg of lamb, baby back ribs, pork and veggie kebabs, pizza, BBQ chicken, and pork or chicken fajitas as an example. Since we camp with a few other families, we each take turns with dinner, so we can afford the time and the money to make dinner a little extra special. Let me tell you, not a night goes by where we don’t say to each other that dinner was excellent.
This year, Andy and I put together some pulled pork tacos- complete with guacamole and toasted tortillas. This was kind of average food for us, so we decided to up the ante on this particular camping trip, and make a dessert over the campfire. Not just the s’mores and marshmallows that usually grace our campfire, but a bonafide dessert- complete with whipped cream. I’ve had dutch oven for years that every year we say we’re going to make dessert in it, and we never do. This was the year, but I needed to know exactly how to cook something in it. Google to the rescue, because I found this wonderful website chock full of dutch oven recipes.
My only problem with it? I wish we had more opportunities to cook with the dutch oven, because I would love to try out so many of the recipes on this website.
Byron’s Dutch Oven Recipes website has all kinds of creations to tuck away in your dutch oven. He even includes the directions that tell you how much charcoal to surround your pot with over the open fire. After many people contacted him asking how to convert the recipe to the oven, he’s also added that information right at the top of his page. As for us, we made the Cherry Crisp Cobbler in our oven, only I added one large can of peach slices to it, simply because that sounded really good to me. We need to work on our timing a bit, because the top of the cobbler was blacker than black. But once we scraped off the scorched stuff, the dessert underneath was delicious, and truly a treat out there in the woods.
Trust me when I say that you should bookmark that site. You never know when you’re going to need an old-fashioned recipe to cook in a dutch oven.