your very best "dutch oven" camp recipes please!!!

[Sheryl]

I found on sale one of those dutch ovens with legs, the kind you put coals on to cook. Mine is the 10" - we cooked potatoes and a dump cake in it using our home oven and gas cooktop...lol... but I haven't braved the coals yet.

I have a little recipe book, but looking for some tried and true recipes for my upcoming beach extravaganza!!!

I am feeling like a real backcountry horsewoman now. I have come to realize that about half the fun of that group is the cooking and eating and socializing around the campfire etc including the dutch oven meals.

[idaholinda]

I can do you one better. "Cast Iron Cooking Inside and Out" Distributed by CQ Products. ISBN 13:978-1-56383-423-3

I picked it up at the local drugstore for $10. Every recipe I have tried is excellent. And, the best part, it tells you how to cook this in your oven, on your stove or over a campfire with coals---so you can try things out at home and learn to take recipes you like with you to the woods.

www.amazon.com/Cast-Iron-Cooking-Inside-Out/dp/1563834235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370228731&sr=8-1&keywords=cast+iron+cooking+inside+and+out

Watch where you buy your cast iron. You don't want anything made in China--which means no "Cabella". Lodge is a good product, and made in the US.

[Sheryl]

I have a Lodge dutch oven - bought it onsale from Cabelas.

Thanks for the link!

[idaholinda]

It is Cabela's own brand that is made in China. Shame on them!

Everything I have made out of that book has been absolutely excellent. Try the chicken breasts with the peach jam and other ingredients. I added crushed pineapple. It was wonderful--and wonderful as leftovers too.

[Idaho Linda]

Well, what have you cooked?