The Cast Iron Chef: The Main Course. With a wide range of dishes, and help on how to cook dutch oven in your home, dutch oven cooking has never been easier. [Paperback]

Matt Pelton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 2008

Like Dutch oven food but don't have time to cook? Or do you just not have the right recipe for what you're craving? Dust off your Dutch oven and prepare your taste buds for mouthwatering Dutch oven food. With the Cast Iron Chef, you'll find cooking with a Dutch oven is easy, efficient, and, best of all, delicious! In this handy book, chef Matt Pelton outlines the ins and outs of Dutch oven cooking, from seasoning your oven to choosing your heat source, and shows you tips and tricks on how to adapt recipes and cook Dutch oven food in the comfort of your own kitchen. With its wide range of dishes, this book covers staple recipes like meats, potatoes, soups, and breads, but also brings to your table a variety of favorite ethnic dishes. You'll find your options are endless when it comes to cooking with a Dutch oven. Whether you're firing up the coals or using your kitchen stove, Dutch oven cooking is more versatile than ever before. The only thing set in stone is the potential for great-tasting food!

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About the Author

Matt Pelton grew up in Levan, Utah. This small community in central Utah is an ideal setting to pursue a passion for hunting. Matt was fascinated with wild game from the time he was a small child. He spent many hours watching his father butcher deer and elk, and Matt was always there to help cook. Determined to break out of the mold and find out all there is to know about cooking wild game, he has worked hard to hone his cooking skills during the past ten years. Matt now resides in Provo, Utah, with his wife, Katie, and their children Megan, five, and Tristan, three. When he isn t working, Matt can be found in the mountains hunting, fishing, or simply enjoying the outdoors. Matt s children have already developed a passion for hunting and the outdoors, watching hunting shows with their daddy and helping to prepare dinner almost every night.

Product Details

• Paperback: 174 pages
• Publisher: Cedar Fort Inc. (March 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599551357
• ISBN-13: 978-1599551357
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your typical Dutch oven cookbook, December 18, 2008

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John G. Foster "I live outdoors" (Duchesne, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cast Iron Chef: The Main Course. With a wide range of dishes, and help on how to cook dutch oven in your home, dutch oven cooking has never been easier. (Paperback)

I have a lot of Dutch oven cookbooks and what surprised me about this one is the variety of untypical recipes -curries, asian foods, italian dishes, lots of things that sound really adventurous. Glad I bought it. I recommend it highly!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Diverse Recipes, September 6, 2009

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Ambergris "John Thomas" (New England.....USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cast Iron Chef: The Main Course. With a wide range of dishes, and help on how to cook dutch oven in your home, dutch oven cooking has never been easier. (Paperback)

As a long time devotee to camp cooking, I really appreciate this book. Dutch oven cooking, or one pot dinners are as staple an item on any camping trip as ghost stories around the fire. As much as camp fire dinners over the years have evolved into some of my best meals ever, I will admit that most cookbooks and recipes shared around the fire tend to be the same old soups and stews. This book does and excellent job in providing some diversity to the tried and true meat and potato dishes. The ones I have tried so far have been delicious indeed. And as far as cookbooks go, this one is very reasonably priced as well. My only reason for taking off a star is I really could have done without so much of the preliminaries at the beginning that are not exactly boring, but definitely in my opinion book filler. A short introduction and a few more recipes added instead of the history and conditioning of the dutch oven would have made it a five star book. Still however as cookbooks of this variety go, this is one of the best as well as diverse I have encountered. Recommended...

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Cast Iron Cooking Book, January 7, 2009

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Chef's Mom (Acworth, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cast Iron Chef: The Main Course. With a wide range of dishes, and help on how to cook dutch oven in your home, dutch oven cooking has never been easier. (Paperback)

I purchased this book for my son to give to him with a cast iron Dutch Oven. There are a wide variety of recipes with simple, easy to follow instructions. Looking forward to enjoying one of these recipes from the Dutch Oven. My son was excited about the gift!