Your First Time Using a Dutch Oven? Start Here!

Here is a Chart showing the general vicinity of temperatures to expect from your briquettes. If you are saving your money to only get 1 Dutch Oven, I recommend a 12 Inch Size so you can bake a good sized round loaf of Sourdough Bread or a pie or a small pizza or such. Any […]

How to Eradicate World Hunger . . . and Make Grandma’s Applesauce.

I promise to send out seeds the day they put me in charge! Until then, why not make Grandma’s wonderful, one-ingredient* applesauce? Nutritious, natural, sweet, delicious. . . what’s not to love? *One ingredient IF you have sweet granny smith apples like you see here. If you have foraged for crab apples or wild apples […]

How to use a Crock Pot for an Easy, Scrumptious Meal

Some call them Crock Pots. Some call the Slow Cookers.  I call them the most wonderful invention ever!  If you want to feel domestic while still running off to your day job, this wonderful contraption lets you collect all kinds of points with your spouse or family!  In anywhere from 3 hours to 10 hours […]

With Winter Coming on…

It is mid August as I write this.  The days are hot and sticky and the thunderstorms are fierce.  Today as one passed through, spitting small ice cubes on my patio, I got started thinking about winter.  The Farmer’s Almanac (for whatever it’s information is worth) is predicting an exceptionally cold winter in our area […]