Saturday, May 23, 2015

Memorial Day Weekend at the Holler......

Greetings from the Holler!  Raccoon Holler Campground in Glendale Springs, NC that is.  We're camping here this weekend.  This is a great campground only about 100 miles from home.  We enjoy coming up here several times a camping season.  

Today's blog post is early because we plan on eating an late afternoon meal, then going for a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway afterwards to enjoy the evening on the Parkway and miss the traffic if any.  

We've got a great campsite, 95A here at the Holler.  For $28 a night we've got electric, water, and cable.  Plus it is a very short walk up the hill to the new bathhouse which is very nice.  


Since returning from the Blue Ridge Rally, Rob's been following along with a group of BRR peeps who've been having fun cooking with Dutch Ovens.   He decided to get a 10" oven so after doing some checking he found the best price on a Lodge brand at Academy Sports.  He also picked up some gloves there too.  

He then went to Tractor Supply for a seed bucket, and pan, he found a pair of tongs and parchment paper at Food Lion.  He needs a small scrub brush, and a cheap pair of pliers for the Dutch Oven kit and he'll be all set.  

So, after getting up about seven this morning to walk Jackson, Rob got the charcoal going to fix a batch of whop cinnamon rolls for breakfast in his new Dutch Oven.  


While the coals were getting ready, he then got Dutch Oven ready for cooking.  

This included getting the parchment paper ready......


Putting the cinnamon rolls in on the paper......


Well actually something more like this......


He also took his kitchen shears and trimmed the top of the parchment paper.  Next was to add the coals to both the bottom and top of the Dutch oven and let everything get cooking.....


It wasn't but just a few minutes the smell of hot cinnamon rolls was floating through the air.  Here you can see the finished rolls ready for breakfast.....


The bottoms were a little crispy, but Rob says he generally has the same result at home in a regular oven.  

After breakfast, Rob put everything back together.  First he wiped out and oiled the Dutch Oven......


Then inside the seed bucket, the lid went first......


Next, the Dutch Oven.....


Into the oven went his gloves.  Next the seed pan to hold the smaller items.....


Then the lid on the seed bucket and all is ready for the next Dutch Oven meal.....


Rob has plans to fix an apple pie (with liner), and a beef pot pie (without liner) topped with biscuits also this weekend.

This is a long blog post, but there is a reason for that too.  That's a subject of another blog post.  Before we go though, Rob wants to share some of the things he learned with this Dutch Oven breakfast.

1.  While he has cooked many meals in Dutch Ovens while in the Scouts, cooking in a Dutch Oven many years later is still just as much fun.

2.  When you use the newspaper to light the charcoal before Trisha has read it, be sure to use the sports section first!!!

3.  He used on our 10" Dutch Oven 13 coals on top (which was perfect) and 7 coals on the bottom (which was a little too hot for whop cinnamon rolls.)

4.  The seed bucket, pan, etc. is a wonderful idea for keeping everything all together.  

5.  We can't wait for our next Dutch Oven dish.

Well that's it for today.  This will be a very lazy day for us.  We do have a few plans for tomorrow.  So you'll have to just check back by and read all about it.

Until next time, stay safe out there.....-R,T,&J.

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