The day we arrived…
That evening we all went to a Dutch Oven demo…and Liz won a Dutch Oven give away…Vickie and Dave put at the demo…I did not get a pic of it…but you will see it among the coals in pics below…Liz decided to cook a long cooking dish in it to take to the DO pot luck on Sat. night…she decided on Indian Pudding from her New England roots….below is a pic of lighting up the charcoal bricks…very nice fire rings at this park..
And next is the pot ready for the coals…I think she told me that it would take 4 or 5 hrs. to cook…
Then she put the right number of coals on the bottom and the set the pot on them and next put the correct number of coals on top…don’t ask how many…I don’t know but when you make a dinner in a DO the receipt will tell you how many according to temp. it is to be cooked at…
It was a nasty rainy day that Sat. and she had to make a tent for the coals in waiting and the coals on the pot…we used foil worked out great…
The rain had just started up at this point as you can see..(it got worse) watching left to right Soos, Carold (she and Bob stopped in for the day but the rain chased them away)next to her is CArol and Carolyn…she had people coming and going all day watching the “pot boil” so to say…
And below TA-DA…the finished product..and it tasted great…and I have decided that I would like to get a DO pot and try my hand at this fun thing…I like to cook and this would be great…we filled the slow cooker today with the pork chop, sweet potatoes , onion & apple recipe that Liz had posted on the forum and I think that would have been good done in the DO…but Liz took her pot and left for another camp ground…
And the rest of the story….
I sill need to post about the DO cook off and the pot luck …and other things we have done…we only left camp a few times…much of the first 5 days were cold and rainy…and it was hard to do anything… yesterday Thurs. we took an all day trip to Paynes Creek Historic State Park….and to a Roadside America Attraction…Solomon’s Castle…I will post on those also…today is just a laid back lazy day doing most to nothing…Carol did show us how to use a Wii and Dell and I worked on fixing our fishing poles…because we lost our lures yesterday…in the weeds not because a big one got away…There are only 5 of us left…I have to leave tomorrow because of a Doc app. on Monday but the last 4 will be here until Wed. and of course Liz will be around as she is at a TT campground just down the road…. so thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M
Those Dutch Ovens are very practical especially when you are Boondocking out in the desert. If you tend to stay in parks using a Crock Pot will achieve the same results. It also means more things to haul and they are not lite.
ReplyDeleteBe Safe and Enjoy!
It's about time.
Sounds like too much work to me, and what would I do with a big pot of anything? Glad you like it though.
ReplyDeleteI sure won't be doing it just for me....
ReplyDeletebut I would do it for a get together...
for a special occasion....