I’m Not Dead Yet (I.N.D.Y.)

This weekend, I am on a scouting trip to the Chickamauga Military Park near Chattanooga.   The scouts will be playing “Capture the Flag” and I will be enjoying what I hope will be a cool, but sunny weekend.  It’ll be nice to get away to spend some together time with my younger son.  I’m looking forward to the trip, as well, as I am the “grubmaster” for the adults (meaning, I got to set the menu and will organize the meal preparation during the trip). 

As I may have mentioned previously, I realy enjoy Dutch Oven cooking, so my menu planning revolved around what I could prepare in my dutch ovens.  Here’s what I am planning:

• Saturday Breakfast: French Toast Souffle’ with Prailine topping
• Saturday Lunch: Dutch Oven Jumbalaya (not this recipe exactly, but very similar)
• Saturday Dinner: Steak and Chicken shis-ka-bobs with rice (okay, so that’s not in a dutch oven, but I’m going to make a chocolate raspberry cobbler/cake in a dutch oven for dessert)
• Sunday Breakfast: Cornbread casserole

Though I have helped prepare the Jumbalaya before, all the other recipes are new to me.  It’ll be fun to see how they come out. 

Whenever I have to prepare a Dutch Oven meal, I typically go straight to the Net to see what interesting recipes I can find.  Two often visited sites is Byron’s Dutch Oven site (a lot of really good recipes) and the website for the International Dutch Oven Society .  Both sites have a lot of good information about dutch oven cooking, including recipes (though, the IDOS website has not been as consistently helpful as Byron’s).  There are any number of other websites to visit (just Goggle ‘Dutch Oven scout’ and you’ll get bunches). 

This most recent episode of searching, however, uncovered a site about which I was unaware (but, in retrospect, not surprised).  As many of you may know, I love (LOVE) watching the Food Network (Challenge, Iron Chef America, Chopped, Dinner Impossible, Ace of Cakes).  I’m not a “foodie,” but I do enjoy the entertainment value of the various shows.  At any rate, it turns out that the Food Network has a list of 100 of their favorite dutch oven recipes.  None of these recipes are written for a camp dutch oven (one that is made to use with charcoal in the outdoors), but if you know how to regulate the heat around a dutch oven, adapting the recipes for scout outings seems pretty easy.

Anyway, I just thought I would share my most recent Dutch Oven find with you all (and spend an entire post NOT talking about cancer!  Woo Hoo!)  Hope you are having a great weekend.

Cheers,

Merle

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