Roast chicken, fresh corn on the cob, and beer. Can it get any better. One thing I love about our neighborhood is there is a mom and pop vegetable market just down the street. I walked in and saw the fresh corn with the husks still on, I bought it all. Then the girls and…
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Cowboy Wok Breakfast Burritos
Most of my nights after the kids go to sleep, are spent combing the internet for more primitive cooking ideas. I stumbled across a video of a cowboy wok. I immediately had to have one. I ordered this 24” off of an Amazon seller that had made it from a plow disc with some horseshoe…
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Shepherd’s Pie in Dutch Oven
Growing up in Minnesota, Shepherds’s Pie was a warm winter comfort food. Living here on the sun tropical island of Okinawa, I guess I had just forgot about this. It came up in a conversation with the girls, and we decided to try it out. We don’t own an oven or microwave, and we try…
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Flower Pot Tandoor oven
My wife and I love naan bread. We have been looking for a way to cook some outdoors. We have the dream of building an outdoor oven, but that has not yet materialized. We tripped over this idea online, about building a tandoor out of flower pots. We decided to give it a try. This…
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Cast Iron Cookie
So, I was asked if we could make cookies by the girls. Again, not having an oven makes us have to think of alternatives. The Lodge deep covered skillet again come to the rescue. We mixed up some of my mom’s peanut butter and m&m cookie dough, and pressed it into the skillet. The…
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Quick weekday Beef
After work in a hurry to cook dinner, while the girls are doing homework, and taking their showers, beef is a quick savior. A little salt, pepper, and garlic. And the charbroiler does its work. A bag of mixed frozen vegetables in a cast iron skillet with a little butter and McCormick’s vegetable seasoning, and…
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Firepit Lasagna
Moving into our house 4 years ago, one of the things it was missing was a real kitchen. I live in Okinawa working for the Marine Corps, and the Japanese version of a kitchen consists of a 2 eye gas stove. This has fueled my drive in outdoor cooking. My girls love lasagna. When they…
