Baking off grid in a dutch oven is a handy thing to know how to do in case you ever find yourself without an electric or gas powered oven or chose to live off-grid. Baking in a dutch oven is pretty easy once you know a few basic tips. We love to bake in our dutch ovens on camping trips, multi-day river float trips, at hunting camp, when it is too hot to bake inside in the … [Read more...]
Enjoying an Off Grid Thanksgiving Holiday Meal
I absolutely love to cook, bake and be creative in the kitchen. What I love even more is the fun and challenging adventure of cooking a huge meal off grid. Prior to having our little nugget two years ago, we had a family tradition of cooking our Thanksgiving meal off grid in our wall tent at hunting camp way up in the mountains.Doing that with a toddler in the single digit … [Read more...]
Foodie Friday: Simple Dutch Oven Lemon Roasted Chicken
I’ve been writing in our Women in Hunting Series about my love of hunting and wild harvesting the majority of the meat we eat throughout the year. The meat we wild harvest is primarily red meat. We hunt for grouse during archery season but we never harvest enough to last throughout the year. This means that when I get a craving for white meat like chicken, I have to head to the … [Read more...]
Dutch Oven Scalloped Potatoes
When it is too hot to turn on the oven and bake, we opt for baking outdoors in the dutch ovens! Dutch Oven scalloped potatoes are an easy, tasty side dish you can bake in the dutch oven outside while relaxing in the cool shade. Recently I was hosting our monthly book club meeting and wanted to bake some zucchini bread but it was too hot to bake indoors. I figured I might … [Read more...]
Dutch Oven Honey Brined Herb Roasted Turkey Breasts
Cooking our Thanksgiving turkey off grid in a dutch oven is a fun family tradition we started a few years ago at hunting camp. We love making Honey Brined Herb Roasted Turkey in the dutch ovens so much that we've made it other times during the year too! We have a variety of sizes of dutch ovens that we use to cook in when camping and especially enjoy using them … [Read more...]