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Everyday Dutch Oven: Chicken Enchilada Skillet. Everyday Dutch Oven: Kate's Sour Cream Enchiladas. Dutch Oven Chicken and Rice. A Baked Creation: Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispy Bars. How are the holidays treating you?

A Baked Creation: Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispy Bars

We've been spending time with family and friends non-stop since we got back from Las Vegas. Mark's Black Pot: Dutch Oven Recipes & Cooking: The History of the Dutch Oven. It's been exciting to see the progress that the publishing company has been making toward the release of the book.

Mark's Black Pot: Dutch Oven Recipes & Cooking: The History of the Dutch Oven

I've learned a lot about how that works, and I can see why it takes so long! My first book, to be titled, "The Best of the Black Pot" will be coming out in March! I've been working hard on the second book, tentatively titled, "Learning to Cook in the Black Pot". Here's an article (interesting, I hope) that I've excerpted from that manuscript. Just a taste of things to come! Mountain UltraLight: Moroccan Delight - Dehydrated Super Food. My love of couscous has inspired me to experiment with various different sauces in an effort to include it in more of my backpacking menus.

Mountain UltraLight: Moroccan Delight - Dehydrated Super Food

After much trial and error, this one got the nod from the entire family, and it has quickly become one of our favorite backcountry comfort foods. With just 6 main ingredients, it is super simple to make and packed full of spicy bold flavor. Ingredients 1 package Hot Italian Sausage 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) 3 cans chopped tomatoes 1 can tomato sauce 1 medium onion 2 green bell peppers 2 cups water 1 1/2 cups couscous Heat EVOO in large pot on high, squeeze sausage out of casings and drop into pot, discarding casings. Brown sausage for a few minutes until firm. Chop browned sausages in your food processor or blender, then return to pot to continue browning. Christmas Up-Side-down Cake. Pear cranberry and gingersnap crumble. In my defense, I resisted this crumble for possibly even a single hour before going to the kitchen to assemble the ingredients.

pear cranberry and gingersnap crumble

A whole hour, an hour in which we could have had a buttery, spiced gingersnap and brown sugar crumbled lid atop a glurp-ing puddle of soft, sweet pears and slumped, tart cranberries, bubbling through cracks in the rubbled surface. An hour in which I instead thought there were better things to do, like pretending to clean the kitchen while staring into space and imagining how good the crumble could be. They give out medals for this kind of valor, right? Your Shopping Pack. Creative Kismet » Blog Archive » iron skillet apple cake. October is Vegan Month of Food(VeganMoFo) and so I wanted to share this apple cake I made a while back, after our trip to the apple orchards.

Creative Kismet » Blog Archive » iron skillet apple cake

After doing some major indulging over the weekend, and the last month actually, I’ve been cutting back big time on portions and snacking, in hopes of saving myself of heavy-weight heartache come January. So I’ve eliminated coffee (my gateway drug to over eating) and am keeping away from excess snacking (hello fruit!). So, posting this delicious, gorgeous, amazing, decadent cake is well, um, kinda like torture.

Espresso Chocolate Bars. German Apple Cake. This past weekend, Rebecca and her boys went apple picking at a local orchard.

German Apple Cake

The boys had a great time picking 24 pounds of apples! Which of course means lots of apple recipes! The first recipe we always make is for German Apple Cake. Our family has been making this recipe for years! Preheat oven to 350°. The Recipe: 1 cup flour1 cup brown sugar1/4 cup butter or margarine1 egg1 tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. nutmeg1 tsp cinnamon2 cups of peeled, sliced apples Cream sugar and butter. Stir in apples. Bake for 40 - 50 min. until the top is puffed and crunchy looking. Home. Solar cooker plans. Mark's Black Pot - Dutch Oven Recipes & Cooking: Dutch oven Paella. It all began one day with me being a couch potato, a dud spud surfing the channels.

Mark's Black Pot - Dutch Oven Recipes & Cooking: Dutch oven Paella

Bored of home shopping TV and infomercials, I turned to my Tivo, and noticed that I had managed to acquire a few more episodes of Alton Brown’s “Good Eats”. Chicken Cakes. This is one of the recipes I made when I didn't have an oven.

Chicken Cakes

I was thinking about it and realized that I had never actually done any frying in my dutch ovens and it was time to give it a try. Of course, its as easy to do in the dutch oven as it is on the stove top. Maybe easier since I didn't have any oil splatters to clean off my stove. :) I love dutch ovens!! Chicken Cakes 12" dutch oven 2 Tbs. butter 1/4 cup vegetable oil (Add more as needed when frying) 1 Tbs. 1 Tbs. 2 Tbs. 1 large egg, lightly beaten 3 cups chopped cooked chicken 1 clove minced garlic. Foccocia Recipe. Foccocia is an Italian flat bread.

Foccocia Recipe

You can top it with herbs, or vegetables of your chose, like sun dried tomatoes, green or black olives, bell pepper rings, or my fav, roasted garlic. 2 Tablespoons yeast 18 oz, worm water ( 90° to 100°f not over 110°) 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/3 cup olive oil flour (approximately 5 cups or 2 lbs.) Start by pouring the worm water in a large mixing bowl. Add yeast and sugar and let stand until foaming. About 5 minutes. Ugly drum smoker. On Easter Sunday, my sister took her family to a friend's house in Fresno for a barbecue.

Ugly drum smoker

Her brother build this ugly drum smoker out of a drum that held honey. I last commented on a UDS in October 2009. Dorie, my sister's friend, posted this description of her brother's UDS: Dorie said... BELIEVERS--My brother, who is in Ag Sales, gave us this ugly farmer's drum with holes at the side that a steel bar goes through. Enjoy the pictures ... Mark's Black Pot - Dutch Oven Recipes & Cooking: Mark’s Dutch Oven Acorn Squash Boats.

I saw some acorn squash in a store about a month ago, and I thought back to my childhood.