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Stirrin' the Pot / Re: Cookin' for Scouts
« Last post by DeShawn on July 23, 2012, 03:24:12 am »Obviously, I'm a little late to answer the overkill question, but I think I would defer to the two rules of dutch oven cooking on that one. 
The food I did at our high adventure camp this week turned out perfectly. I did 3 recipes of the lasagna in 2 ovens--a 14 and a 12-inch deep. I will be posting a recipe for the ribs in the next few days. They weren't falling apart--they still had some bite to them, but they easily cut with a plastic fork, so I think the timing was just about right. I think that they were too tough when dinner time rolled around, but since nobody showed up for dinner until about an hour later (they were having too much fun at the lake), the ribs ended up getting just that much more cooking time. Desserts are always pretty easy and the chocolate fudge cake and blueberry cobbler were excellent as well.
Forest service fire restrictions required that all cooking happened either with propane or IN the firepit. I thought about feigning ignorance and just cooking with my tables NEAR the firepit, but when I heard that the forest service loved to drive through the campground at dinner time, I decided to find a happy middle ground. I placed my two dutch oven tables across the top of the firepit's metal ring and cooked on them there. A forest service employee did, indeed, stop by while I was cooking, looked at my ovens and moved on. I heard her talking with people at a couple of other camp sites giving warnings and explaining that next time, citations would be issued.
Anyway... it was a good time and the food was DEVOURED by hungry scouts, leaders, and parents. Hooray!
The food I did at our high adventure camp this week turned out perfectly. I did 3 recipes of the lasagna in 2 ovens--a 14 and a 12-inch deep. I will be posting a recipe for the ribs in the next few days. They weren't falling apart--they still had some bite to them, but they easily cut with a plastic fork, so I think the timing was just about right. I think that they were too tough when dinner time rolled around, but since nobody showed up for dinner until about an hour later (they were having too much fun at the lake), the ribs ended up getting just that much more cooking time. Desserts are always pretty easy and the chocolate fudge cake and blueberry cobbler were excellent as well.
Forest service fire restrictions required that all cooking happened either with propane or IN the firepit. I thought about feigning ignorance and just cooking with my tables NEAR the firepit, but when I heard that the forest service loved to drive through the campground at dinner time, I decided to find a happy middle ground. I placed my two dutch oven tables across the top of the firepit's metal ring and cooked on them there. A forest service employee did, indeed, stop by while I was cooking, looked at my ovens and moved on. I heard her talking with people at a couple of other camp sites giving warnings and explaining that next time, citations would be issued.
Anyway... it was a good time and the food was DEVOURED by hungry scouts, leaders, and parents. Hooray!
) for a couple of hours, skimmed off the fat, added some bottled BBQ sauce and some honey, and cooked them until they were fall-apart and bubbly. Maybe this time I'll write down the recipe and add it to the approved recipes.