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Monday, June 4, 2012

COOKING ON THE OPEN FIRE

We had a sleep over outside in our yard the other night.  We decided to cook outside and make it like a real camping trip.  It was an interesting experience.  My husband had put an old wood stove out on the lawn and taken the doors off.  The first night we had hot dogs cooked on a stick.  This of course worked out fine. 
The next morning I decided to make waffles, coffee, bacon, and scrambled eggs on it.  This didn't work very well.  The waffle iron was one of those old cast iron ones from the early 1900's.  I couldn't get it hot enough on this set up and it stuck.  The coffee turned out great.  The waffles ended up being cooked in the cast iron frying pan like you would cook pancakes.  The only think is that the stove wasn't level so it made them a very interesting shape.  Then the scrambled eggs turned out great.  We ended up calling the waffle, pancake things, flip flaps.  They looked terrible.
The thing is though that everything tasted way better then when you cook inside.  There is just something about cooking on a fire.  I think we will do it more often.