Category: Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

Dutch Oven Strawberry Rhubarb Pie – Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

The dish that was selected for this challenge was Brown Sugar Rhubarb Pie.  But after finding out that the day (June 9)  I was going to cook this dish was National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day, I had to make an adjustment, and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie it was! I decided to take my family up one …

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Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge #3

Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

This challenge will be a fun one to do.  I’ve never cooked a pie in a Dutch oven.  And I’ve never cooked rhubarb pie.  And I’ve never cooked a meringue topping.  To do all of that in my Dutch oven may really turn out to be a challenge.  But that is the recipe that was …

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Northern Mixed Vegetables – Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

Northern Mixed Vegetables

  I also decided to try this dish two ways: dutch oven and on the grill.  I expected the Dutch oven recipe to be the better one, since cooking in a Dutch oven is pretty easy.  Doing stir fry on a grill?  That should be hard, but actually it wasn’t too bad.

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Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge #2

Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

This week, I had my wife go get a cookbook and she picked Chinese Cookery  for the random dish selection for the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge.  After using my phone to get a random number for the page and then the recipe on the page, the selected dish is Northern Mixed Vegetables.  This is a stir …

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Dutch Oven Swiss Steak – Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

Dutch Oven Swiss Steak

This is the first dish that I cooked as part of the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge.  I chose a random recipe from a cookbook and ended up cooking Swiss steak.  I started with a Swiss Steak recipe, but then modified it a bit.  The Dutch oven is a perfect method of cooking a dish like …

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Announcing the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge!

Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge

I’m starting something new on my website, something to stretch me, something to have fun with, and something to show that you can cook anything outdoors.  It’s called the Outdoor Cooking Magic Challenge. Here’s how it works.  Each week I’ll randomly select a recipe to be cooked outdoors and then sometime during the week, I’ll …

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