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Cast Iron Contest: Our Dutch Oven Winner & A New Skillet Up For Grabs
By Colin Kearns
We had a bunch of terrific entries for the Dutch oven contest. As I read them today, I kept getting hungrier and hungrier. If nothing else, you all proved that the best-tasting and most memorable meals are often enjoyed outdoors.
But, there was one meal that I wanted try more than any other. And it came from Beekeeper:
About 10 years ago on a coastal feral hog hunt, I used my old Dutch oven to make one of the best gumbos I've ever made. A half hour at low tide with a castnet provided fresh white shrimp and five or six blue crabs. I also picked up and shucked out oysters from a small shell bar. Back at camp a simple broth was made from the shrimp heads and shells while I was making a nice dark roux.
Chopped onion, bell pepper, and celery that I had brought were added to the roux along with the broth. I then added the dressed and cracked blue crab. After simmering about 20 minutes, the shrimp and oysters were added. Five minutes later all was served over steaming rice and simply seasoned with salt and pepper.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’d gladly take a big serving of that gumbo right now. And I just finished lunch. Beekeeper, congrats. Please email your address to fswildchef@gmail.com, and I’ll send the Lodge Dutch oven and Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook you way. I hope you all have enjoyed the tips and recipes from the Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook this week. It really is a great book. I highly recommend you add it to your cookbook collections.
But, there’s still one more chance to win a copy—as well as a brand new Lodge cast iron skillet…
To win, you’ll need to channel your inner bard. I want you to write a haiku about cast iron cooking. In case you need a refresher, a haiku is a three-line poem in which the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and third has five. Something like this:
Biscuits and gravy,
Starving after a day’s hunt,
Stew first, then cobbler.
The best cast-iron-themed haiku wins. Deadline for entries is 5:00 p.m. (EST), Monday, Feb. 13. I’ll announce the winner the following day. Good luck.
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Comments (39)
No soap, you damn fool.
This skillet is worth far more
than humble looks show.
shore lunch hard to beat
cast iron pan starting to heat
hurry up reserve a seat
Cold frigid morning,
Coffee on, bacon spitting,
Sharing traditions.
Black beauty smoulders.
No horse, but iron and bear grease
fueled by pinyon pine.
Mallards cupping in,
Shells shot and daily bag filled,
Duck stew simmering.
Grandpas pan heats up,
Dad prepares my first back-strap,
a memory made.
John Muir on the slope,
with implement on his back:
man, iron, and nature.
Williams-Sonoma
doesn't carry my cast iron.
Some cooking store, eh?
squirrel and biscuits,
salt,pepper and gravy mix,
bubbling in my pot.
Heavy in my pack
Deersteak and mushrooms fried up
The weight worth the wait
Fresh game in the iron
Camp fire lights up the sky
Freedom enough said
Broke into the house.
He gathered all the nice things.
Knocked out by cast iron.
Brook trout in the hand
Only a friggin stocked fish
I guess I'll fry it
Tatters and peppers
Sizz-A-Lin in the cast iron
Always warms yer soul
I keep my cast iron
The same way I do my gun
Oiled and ready
Fire roasting red hot
Coals create cast iron heat
Dutch oven delights
Blackpowder and lead
Butter, heart and cast iron
Hunters first bounty
Water gave bounty
Fire, oil, bounty in iron
Air breathed with much thanks
the smell of fresh fish
crackling bacon on the pan
best alarm clock ever
cold hunters file in
iron pot gleams red in hearth
smell of chow warms soul
Cast iron on campfire
Wisps of smoke embrace nature
Dinner for the soul.
Cold, crisp morning hunt
Blim blam goes my partners gun
Fresh duck in the pot
The steaks and the chops
sizzling on the cast iron
could it be finer?
Sizzling goodness,
Black as night, when seasoned right
Taste so good tonight
bacon in the morn'
sizzling in the cast iron
warms the mouth, nose, heart.
Aromas linger
Dog begging me for his share
Do dishes later
Keeping me outside,
supplying great food and times,
dutch oven, you're mine.
Black cast iron white hot
Northern Pike from L.O.W.
Smoke cloud hides our feast
Cast Iron and Fire,
Vegetables, Gravy and Meat,
Simply can't be beat!
honestly, the opening post should win this contest; wonderful. I'll enter anyway:
each morning cool air
cut by blue flame; meet the day,
old cast iron and I
yrs-
Evan!
Three bass and two perch
Another day of fishing
Ends in the kitchen
I love the one about the aroma and about doign the dishes later... so true after a great meal......
Breakfast Burrito
Flaming Bowels of Discomfort
No More Chorizo
Misty morning hunt
Flame and iron enticing
Hunter's great reward
"What Else Is The Airfield Security Team Gonna' Do"
One Armadillo
butter salt pepper hot sauce
Iron fried sweetness
I know it will last,
for my life and my daughters too.
Like the one from Mom.
Cast iron skillet handed down
It will last you too, just remember
lightly oil it every time
A big ol shore lunch
and then fishing untill dark
end with steaks good day
Thanks Colin! I appreciate the kind comments and the "iron"! It will be well used I assure you.
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No soap, you damn fool.
This skillet is worth far more
than humble looks show.
squirrel and biscuits,
salt,pepper and gravy mix,
bubbling in my pot.
Aromas linger
Dog begging me for his share
Do dishes later
Black beauty smoulders.
No horse, but iron and bear grease
fueled by pinyon pine.
Grandpas pan heats up,
Dad prepares my first back-strap,
a memory made.
John Muir on the slope,
with implement on his back:
man, iron, and nature.
Williams-Sonoma
doesn't carry my cast iron.
Some cooking store, eh?
Fresh game in the iron
Camp fire lights up the sky
Freedom enough said
Broke into the house.
He gathered all the nice things.
Knocked out by cast iron.
Tatters and peppers
Sizz-A-Lin in the cast iron
Always warms yer soul
I keep my cast iron
The same way I do my gun
Oiled and ready
Blackpowder and lead
Butter, heart and cast iron
Hunters first bounty
Cast iron on campfire
Wisps of smoke embrace nature
Dinner for the soul.
shore lunch hard to beat
cast iron pan starting to heat
hurry up reserve a seat
Cold frigid morning,
Coffee on, bacon spitting,
Sharing traditions.
Mallards cupping in,
Shells shot and daily bag filled,
Duck stew simmering.
Heavy in my pack
Deersteak and mushrooms fried up
The weight worth the wait
Brook trout in the hand
Only a friggin stocked fish
I guess I'll fry it
Fire roasting red hot
Coals create cast iron heat
Dutch oven delights
Water gave bounty
Fire, oil, bounty in iron
Air breathed with much thanks
the smell of fresh fish
crackling bacon on the pan
best alarm clock ever
cold hunters file in
iron pot gleams red in hearth
smell of chow warms soul
Cold, crisp morning hunt
Blim blam goes my partners gun
Fresh duck in the pot
The steaks and the chops
sizzling on the cast iron
could it be finer?
Sizzling goodness,
Black as night, when seasoned right
Taste so good tonight
bacon in the morn'
sizzling in the cast iron
warms the mouth, nose, heart.
Keeping me outside,
supplying great food and times,
dutch oven, you're mine.
Black cast iron white hot
Northern Pike from L.O.W.
Smoke cloud hides our feast
Cast Iron and Fire,
Vegetables, Gravy and Meat,
Simply can't be beat!
honestly, the opening post should win this contest; wonderful. I'll enter anyway:
each morning cool air
cut by blue flame; meet the day,
old cast iron and I
yrs-
Evan!
Three bass and two perch
Another day of fishing
Ends in the kitchen
I love the one about the aroma and about doign the dishes later... so true after a great meal......
Breakfast Burrito
Flaming Bowels of Discomfort
No More Chorizo
Misty morning hunt
Flame and iron enticing
Hunter's great reward
"What Else Is The Airfield Security Team Gonna' Do"
One Armadillo
butter salt pepper hot sauce
Iron fried sweetness
I know it will last,
for my life and my daughters too.
Like the one from Mom.
Cast iron skillet handed down
It will last you too, just remember
lightly oil it every time
A big ol shore lunch
and then fishing untill dark
end with steaks good day
Thanks Colin! I appreciate the kind comments and the "iron"! It will be well used I assure you.
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