Dutch Oven Cooking Both Inside and Out

We know that many Dutch oven recipes are all about rich meats and sweet foods, and no matter how we love them, we should realize that we can't go on like that all the time. With all the unhealthy ready made foods and modern easy ways of packaged food, we need to cut some of that back.

Dutch Oven Cooking Outdoors

Since we're now in the season of spring, beautiful sunny skies, light breezes and beautiful weather, it's just perfect to match healthy spring with healthy Dutch oven foods. I have in mind making sourdough bread, Jambalaya, fresh fruit cobblers, and wheat grain puddings. I’ve also thought I’d try some biscuits again and a Dutch oven tomato soup to go with it. I've thought of gathering the kids around and show them how I cook the food so they too can appreciate and learn a more nature way of preparing food both in and out of the dutch ovens.

Dutch Oven Recipe Ingredients at Home

Spring is the perfect time to experience the not-so-busy-days with kids at home. Dutch oven one-pot meals can be learned as a solution when you go back to the quick and easy cooking days when time to cook would be so elusive again. While one-pot meals come in various forms, they all have the common concept of putting a variety of ingredients into a single vessel and cooking them all together, which children would enjoy helping in.

There’s no fretting about getting the timing right so that your broccoli is perfectly steamed at the same time as the pot roast comes out of your oven medium-rare and the rice is ready to fluff, things which everyone would be so challenged. Perhaps best of all, rather than a sink full of dirty pots and pans to scrub after dinner, there is only one pot to clean, your Dutch oven.

Frying in a Dutch oven? Yes! You can learn one-pot meals from light stir-fries to hearty skillet meals to heavy casseroles made with cans condensed cream-of soup, and deep-fried drumsticks. I did them all in my Dutch oven, and what's even great is that I can do the cooking both indoors and outdoors.