Dutch Oven Garlic Herb Bread

After a long day at work, we were ready to put this bread together, bake it in the Dutch oven and serve it up with the Venison Chili that had been cooking all day long in the crock-pot.  So, we were sure disappointed when it started raining- a lot.  Too much to make it very easy to cook on the coals.

Luckily, we had recently been given a 10" Lodge Dutch oven without legs.  So, I guess the rain gave us an opportunity to bake Dutch Oven Bread inside.  Anyway, though this site is mostly dedicated to outdoor cooking, we make the rules! :-)

Anadama Bread

We sure hope you all had as lovely of a Thanksgiving as we did.  We are certainly thankful for all that we have been blessed with: great kids, great family & friends, a new home, plenty of food, gainful employment, and the list goes on. 

We hosted Thanksgiving this year- just a small little gathering.  Though small, it still is a lot of work to put together!  Wanting to make at least one dish with a Dutch oven, Matt did a search for a bread recipe wanting something new to us and "fall-like".  He went with Anadama Bread, a sweet yeasted bread made with molasses and cornmeal.

Italian Night: Focaccia Bread

This is our first attempt at a yeast bread at the campground.  We figure that making a yeast bread completely at the campground (mixing it up and raising there) requires that it is decently warm outside so that the yeast can do its thing.

Buttermilk Biscuits- The Big Batch

 

This is a repeat recipe from one we've featured on this blog before- the only difference is doubling the batch and cooking them in the 14" Dutch oven.  Served up with sausage gravy, this was one excellent camping breakfast dish!  We made 13 big biscuits (we used a mug as a biscuit cutter).  Each person only needed 1 biscuit.  You could use a smaller cutter to make more.

Applesauce Drop Donuts

Is it donut or doughnut?  I don't know, but I do know that these are good!

So, I have to admit we didn't make this in our Dutch oven.  That's okay- it could be made in a DO and we did do it at the campground, doesn't that count for something?

Simple Garlic Knots

We served up these little biscuits with the Shepherd's Pie.  They are quick and easy, but look fancy.  To feed everyone, we doubled the recipe.  (Amounts are for the doubled recipe)

Maple Nut Cornbread

Tonight we took our standard cornbread recipe and dressed it up a bit with nuts and some Maple flavoring.

No... not this Maple (our dog).  Even though she is awfully sweet.

Oatmeal Soda Bread for St. Patty’s Day

Top o' the mornin' to ya... or evening... or lunchtime.... or whenever you are reading this.  In honor of St. Patty's day, we decided to attempt a soda bread for the D.O.  We considered Corned Beef and Cabbage, but decided for a weeknight that might not work for us timing wise.

Dutch Oven Buttermilk Biscuits- OH SO GOOD!

Biscuits in the Dutch oven are better! Up until now, our biscuit making was either out of a can, frozen, or from Bisquick. We had never really bothered to attempt to make a homemade, flaky biscuit in the Dutch oven or, for that matter, inside with our regular oven.

Well, there are all sorts of biscuit recipes out there: some with buttermilk, some with cold butter, some with oil, some with eggs, and so on. Seems like everybody has a different way of creating, what is, seemingly, a fairly simple little circle of bread. Matt’s requirement for this venture was to make these biscuits flaky. So, to the internet we went- searching for a flaky biscuit recipe.