One of our very favorite meals in the Z house is a pot roast. As far as the family goes, you can’t get any better than that (well…maybe a good steak). So, when Mark agreed to cook the meal and I provided the beef, it was a good combination. Something interesting about the roast – it came all the way from Jordan, MT! Yep, we haul hamburger, roasts, steaks and few cube steaks all the way home from Jordan every year. Why? Well because they only have the very best locker in the entire world! We’ve got it down to a science as far as how that frozen meat makes the 2 1/2 day trip without thawing (even when the temps rise sometimes as high as 90+).
I haven’t cooked with the dutch oven and coals outside…ever. Mark, on the other hand, is a pro!
We cooked two of these. The potatoes and carrots were added later (at about the 4th hour). Due to the fact that we were camping, all we had for seasoning was salt and pepper. We added lots of onion for more flavor.
The two ovens were numbered #14 and #12. The #14 required 14 charcoals on the top and 14 on the bottom. The #12 required 12 – top and bottom. After Mark got me set up, he and the rest of the guys (and a couple of the kids) went 4-wheeling for the afternoon. “Mark, now how in the world am I supposed to know how hot to keep these?”, I ask. His reply, “Come over here and feel the heat. Just make sure it feels like this all afternoon and about 5:00 we’ll add the potatoes and carrots”. And he was off. That’s just how he is! So, between Candi and I, we did our best to manage the ovens while the guys took off.
Later in the afternoon, when they got back, Mark needed to use the right side of this contraption for the Rhodes Rolls – cooked in yet another dutch oven. So, he stacked the two roasts on top of each other and finished cooking them like that.
About six hours after the beginning of this process, this is what the meal we were lucky enough to enjoy under the stars looked like (it was only about 7:00). It. was. out. of. this. world!!!
A meal fit for a king…and a queen (or two)!
The king…(combine king, that is) 🙂
Thank you, Mark! I now feel like I could probably venture out a little on my own with the dutch oven cooking…as long as I can remember how warm it’s supposed to be (yeah right). Don’t think, however, that you’re going to get out of cooking for us while we’re camping any time soon!!
Now that just makes me hungry big time! Is it diner yet?
It was absolutely THE BEST roast we’ve ever cooked! I can’t wait to do it again. Makes me hungry too!
MMMMM that was so good, can you bring some over now ?? We’ll have to do it again. Maybe we can get some spring camping in b4 you go…… if Jim gets roast like that maybe he’ll agree !! And we can do the cobbler…
I would love to get some spring camping in. Do you think it can happen? It always seems like our spring is so busy. And…we’ll have a baby to be waiting for AND graduation!
Great looking pot roast. I’d love to get one of those dutch ovens!
It was REALLY yummy! You can get those ovens at any sporting type store or camping store. I think Target may even have them. Thanks for visiting!
I say we go winter camping on a lake so we can fish and cook in the dutch oven!!!!!!
Ok…I’m up for it. However, I don’t think we should camp in the tent if there’s ice on the water! Any reason to have you cook is good enough for me!
Now there’s an idea 🙂
Not sure I like the idea of winter camping in a tent but the thought of Mark cooking is ok by me!
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Great recipe, can’t wait to try it!
You’ll have to let me know what you think! I think it’s probably a fail proof recipe 🙂
Darn…I live too far away for some of that good Dutch oven cooking. However, I am pretty close to the source of the meat! (Just a few blocks to the meat plant…and son raises the beef!) Who knows, I may have to take a trip!
Just go get you one of those awesome roasts and find a dutch oven and cook it! I’m going to try putting the dutch oven in my home oven and see if it turns out just as good. It probably won’t because I’d be lacking the great outdoors!
OMGoodness!…lol, looks fab…
It was THE BEST!
That looked really good….?? We could use some of that Food overhere……Now the cold winter wheather starts seting in….overhere..! Well I have to settle….for the cassual dutch-stew….whats served to me…..at dinnertime…..(but lovely aswell)?
Anything would be lovely as long as it tastes good! What are some of your favorite foods – recipes?
Just a simple wintergrub….= Frozen Curly Kale in smalpieces boiled in one pot with peeled potatoes and little bit of chopped unions ……Boil this till the potatoes are done …..Then mash everyting together……..Seperate you frie small blocks of bacon..till its a bit crispy…use the fat of bacon as the gravy…..You can put the Bacon and Gravy over the Curly Kale on your plate……with(rookworst) some sort of sausauge…….(Other word for Curly Kale=Borecole)……Enjoy..?
Explain to me what Curly Kale is. Is it a plant or meat?
Cabbage sort is a plant vegetable….Checking something out by my surprice I don,t know if it grows in the states…..Info-link…(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale)…?
Yes, cabbage grows in the US. 🙂 I now know that Curly is Cabbage. Thanks, Lion!