Dutch Oven Cooking
Posted By: nana on 2008-01-15
In Reply to: A woodstove is all we have for heat too. - Hayseed
Hi - Glad to see you here again. I still missed your piggy "baby" - likes to hide, I guess. Cold here too. It is really easy to cook in the fireplace or on an iron stand in your back yard or a hole in the ground. I will email you some recipes and look at all the fun you will have! Nothing tastes as good as dutch oven food! Get ready for a new dress size! Your husband will be your slave if you feed him this food, I swear. Have to know, how much is wood a cord out there where you are? It is 492.00 here, and that is horrendous. We used to cut our own and it was basically free with sweat labor.
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Good hubby.
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Depends on how you are cooking it SM
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Cute response but he does all the cooking!- sm
See above, I know I am not alone in the man having no clue/too lazy department. I love some of the responses up top though. I'll keep them in mind.
I'm cooking a roast in the crock sm
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what ever the Japanese restaurant is cooking up
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...trying to learn like cooking or guitar, etc.?? nm
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Uh, what? Cooking makes up for meanness?
I don't think so! My husband cooks practically every day and I wouldn't take that crap from him merely based on gratitude for his cooking. I wouldn't go mess up a tool in his workshop any more than I would expect him to mess up a tool in the kitchen.
OTOH, you make some good points about communication. Often it "takes two" to make or break a relationship.
Applebee's LOL. No cooking just baking.
:)
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Tonight DH said he would like to snack - hooray! so its chili dip for us. Sooo easy -
I can of chile (any kind you like - we always use no beans) and one 8 ounce package of cream cheese. Heat together til cream cheese is melted.
mmmmmmmmmmm - I can eat the whole thing alone.
And you haven't even mentioned cooking!! sm
I notice many of my younger coworkers and children of coworkers cannot make anything that does not come out of a can or a box. I know that's a generalization too, but it sure seems to be true.
What's cooking for dinner tonight?
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He was really happy when I made him steak. I still feed him anything he wants, and he likes my spaghetti sauce and chili better than his mom's. Of course, that could be because I don't give it to him every night of the week. Just when he gets a craving for it.
Jenny Craig worked for me - no cooking.
Can be expensive, around 70 a week a few years ago, but I lost around 15 lbs in a few months.
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