Campfire Bread

While camping I made some beer bread in my dutch oven.


I used a pan in the bottom of the oven and lined the sides with foil for really easy clean up. Then I oiled the foil and pan...

Spread my batter...
There are a lot of beer bread recipes out there. I use this one.
3 cups of self rising flour
1 beer
1/4 cup of sugar and a little bit of salt.

Since I forgot my lid.....I had to make do with what I had on hand....I covered the oven with foil and set it in the hot coals.



I placed another pan on top with some hot coals...

I had some spare ribs slow smoking earlier.... so I placed the cooking grate over the bread pan and put my ribs back on along with a pouch of broccoli...

I used a make shift foil cover to keep some of the heat in. Had to use an oven rack to keep the wind from blowing everything around.

The bread came out perfect...

The ribs and broccoli also tasted good. :)

And the next morning, I made french toast with the leftover bread....

I love campfire food...:)

Smoking on UDS (drum smoker)

I had the chance to use my drum smoker yesterday. Did a hunk of pork (shoulder piece from one of my homegrown berkshires)
Made some twice baked tatoes, bella mushrooms and leeks.






I smoked at a temperature of 250 using hickory.

I left the air outlet open...

I seasoned the pork with evoo and some of my homemade cold smoked seasoned salt.

Seasoned the veggies too.

Let the meat smoke for awhile before I added the veggies.

The veggies took about 35 minutes, long enough for me to feed the pigs and chickens and gather eggs. :)

I pulled the pork off at 180 degrees and covered it with foil and let it sit.

I love my little side table, it's really handy!

Suppper....I couldn't eat it all, but everything sure tasted good. :)

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