Dutch Oven Delights

This summer we invested in our first Dutch oven. We are so excited! Attempting to use it as much as possible on our camping trips has yielded the following conclusions:

1.  Cooking with a Dutch oven is a lot of work!
2.  The results are totally worth it. 

The first recipe we tried was a basic chicken and rice recipe.

 It received a thumbs up from the tasters!

We got a little more creative on our next trip and tried some chicken enchiladas. DELICIOUS!

 Dessert on another day had to be apple crisp. Ahhh, apple crisp. ;-)

I will say that not everything has been a success. We had a fail on the first camping trip with our attempted dessert. It was supposed to be a wonderful pineapple upside down cake. Except that it didn't cook all of the way and we ended up with a gooey mess that smelled great, but was pretty inedible.

Then on our second camping trip I attempted to make biscuits and gravy. The biscuits came out ok, except that we managed to get ash all over them...but the gravy was a total disaster! That same trip my hubby tried to make breakfast on another morning. "Mountain Man Breakfast," consisting of potatoes, sausage and eggs. It would've been good, except our potatoes somehow ended up full of water from staying in the cooler for the first two days. So we choked that one down.

But overall it has been so much fun to cook with our Dutch oven! I have literally been laughing from the pure joy of just trying to figure everything out as we've been cooking. It has been a fun experience.