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Great Meals Dutch Oven Style

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This book is the most comprehensive and well written book on Dutch Oven Cooking I've ever seen or owned. Mr. Smith prepared/cooked each recipe contained in the book. As you can see on the cover and the pictures inside, Mr. Smith makes them look like the gourmet meals they really are. This book not only lists every ingredient for each recipe, and the exact times of baking, but also tells exactly how to place the coals to bake each recipe to perfection. If you like Dutch Oven cooking, you will love this book! It is well worth the time and money to own one. I highly recommend Great Meals Dutch Oven Style.

I received a copy of the book Great Meals Dutch Oven Style for my birthday. It is an excellent book for the beginner and the experienced Dutch oven cook. The chapter on terminology provides excellent help in understanding Dutch ovens and accessories. The book explains how to care for a Dutch oven in a simple and practical way. And it works. No more rancid smelling Dutch ovens. This book is great on camping trips (it has greatly improved Boy Scout camp food) and for home use in your back yard. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Dutch oven cooking.

Professional baker and Dutch oven cooking expert Dale Smith presents Great Meals Dutch Oven Style, a spiral-bound cook book offering more than 100 tested recipes for beef, poultry, fish, pork, vegetables, soups, chowders, breads, pies, marinades and more, all meant to take advantage of the Dutch oven cooking process. Also packed with tips, tricks, and techniques on cookware, seasoning, and storage of meals, Great Meals Dutch Oven Style is a superb, step-by-step referemce amd resource for Dutch oven chefs of all skill and experience levels. This is an excellent and savvy exploration into the culinary joys of a longstanding and traditional cooking tradition.

This is the only Dutch Oven cookbook you will ever need. It's one of the most complete and easy to follow cookbooks I've ever used. There are many great family recipes that are very easy to follow. The instructions are mistake proof, I didn't realize how versatile the menus could be using the Dutch Oven, from desserts to main dishes. I hope you give Dale Smith's Dutch Oven Cooking Book, an open door to your new adventure of Dutch Oven Cooking. Your friends and family will definitely enjoy the homemade goodness from these great meals.

Just when I thought I had owned enough of these Dutch oven cookbooks for campfire cooking, this fine entertaining book comes along. I have reviews for perhaps a dozen camp cook books of various varieties here on Amazon. By far most of them are a lot of fun to read and offer up some great recipes. This one is not only no exception, but just has to win the prize as the one with the most diverse bunch of recipes I have come across. It is far from just a bunch of soups and stews.

As I have stated many times before, camp fire meals are remembered to be some of the best I have ever had. Even though this book like many others is not specifically just for camp cooking, there is a definite lean towards open fire meals, as well as a definite outdoor flavor to most of the recipes. Titles like "mountain man breakfast", "wagon master camp stew", and "trail sauce and beans" carry one into the wilderness with their description and fixens even if you never leave your own kitchen. I most like the sheer variety and number of recipes in this book most of all. Just about every meat, veggie, herb and spice are featured prominently in recipes from appetizers,to sauces, to desserts, and even a section on spice combinations such as southwest spice combo, to a genuine rustic "rub". Dale Smith also does a great job of covering Dutch oven maintenance 101 in a clear and entertaining way. Starting from the very basics for those that have never even owned a Dutch oven, all the way to regular maintenance and cooking tips for the well seasoned among us. I really am enjoying this book a lot, and especially am enjoying trying out all the various home spun recipes in my Dutch oven here at home, as well as out on the trail now, and well into the future. The book is reasonably priced and as of this writing ships for free when bundled. Highly recommended, and bring a big napkin...

I purchased a "Great meals dutch oven style"cookbook by Dale Smithand found it to be an excellent book with wonderful recipes and general knowledge for both the expert and novice of dutch oven cooking. I would highly recommend this cookbook to anyone who loves good food and/orhas an interest in the "Black Kettle".A good investment with some history thrown in.

This is a great book! I actually purchased this for a family member because I already have one for myself and loved it!

This is a great book for cooking with a fire/Briquettes. it is very good for its intended use. The description could be better or it would helpful to be able to see pages in side the book.

We are a camping family, and we have been Dutch Oven cooking for years merely by winging it. This works most of the time, but this cook book has helped us tweak our Dutch Oven skills. This book has given us a better understanding of how to manage our heat, and even be more creative in what we cook in it! This book is also great for beginners. Everything you need to know from beginning to end about outdoor Dutch Oven cooking with a user friendly spiral binding. Compared to others we have seen out there. This is a true reflection of the culinary experience that is outdoor Dutch Oven cooking, and we highly recommend it!

Solid instructions on all the things you need to know to purchase, season, clean, and cook with the famous portable black kettle known as the "Dutch Oven". I have several of these cookbooks, and this is the only one that so completely covers the differences between "Old Dutch" and "Modern Dutch" cooking. The seasoning, and starting of the cooking process has very detailed instructions that I have never seen in a Dutch cookbook and which I found very helpful.

The author also provides instructions on pit cooking and building backyard fire pits for your "Dutch". I really liked this part! I use my black kettle camping, but the backyard pit allows more home cooking.

Lots of great recipes, including "rubs" and marinades. I now know how to make biscuits old Dutch style!
The author has a wonderful "Do this, never do this" to your "Dutch" chapter which I found very helpful. I also didn't even know about "modern" Dutch...I was taught by my Mother and still use her kettle.

The book has a spiral binding, which all cookbooks should have, and it is very "packable".

If you find an old Wagner Dutch at a garage sale, buy it no matter how rusted, and this book will tell you how to bring it back to life to cook again!