This week’s challenge is taken from 501 Delicious Heart Healthy Recipes and is called Hearty Spaghetti. Like Northern Mixed Vegetables a couple of weeks ago, this recipe screams to be done in a Dutch oven. And that would be the easy and most logical choice. But is there a way to cook it on …
The dish that was selected for this challenge was Brown Sugar Rhubarb Pie. But after finding out that the day (June 9) I was going to cook this dish was National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day, I had to make an adjustment, and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie it was! I decided to take my family up one …
This challenge will be a fun one to do. I’ve never cooked a pie in a Dutch oven. And I’ve never cooked rhubarb pie. And I’ve never cooked a meringue topping. To do all of that in my Dutch oven may really turn out to be a challenge. But that is the recipe that was …
I also decided to try this dish two ways: dutch oven and on the grill. I expected the Dutch oven recipe to be the better one, since cooking in a Dutch oven is pretty easy. Doing stir fry on a grill? That should be hard, but actually it wasn’t too bad.
This week, I had my wife go get a cookbook and she picked Chinese Cookery for the random dish selection for the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge. After using my phone to get a random number for the page and then the recipe on the page, the selected dish is Northern Mixed Vegetables. This is a stir …
This is the first dish that I cooked as part of the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge. I chose a random recipe from a cookbook and ended up cooking Swiss steak. I started with a Swiss Steak recipe, but then modified it a bit. The Dutch oven is a perfect method of cooking a dish like …
I was recently at a store shopping and noticed a book in the book section–Best of the Black Pot: Must-Have Dutch Oven Favorites by Mark Hansen. I had heard or read that Mark was writing a book and wondered if this was it. Mark’s blog, Mark’s Black Pot: Dutch Oven Recipes & Cooking is one of …
I’m starting something new on my website, something to stretch me, something to have fun with, and something to show that you can cook anything outdoors. It’s called the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge. Here’s how it works. Each week I’ll randomly select a recipe to be cooked outdoors and then sometime during the week, I’ll …
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