I think this is one of things I like most about most good BBQ joints...just down to earth good people! Anyone up for a trip to texas??
The girls were on vacation for the last few weeks so Krissy decided to do some camping. They camped Thurs-Tues with the night time temps dropping into the low 20s! I camped with them from Fri-Sun and then I went home because I had to work on Monday, but I will let Krissy tell you how/what they did. All I know is that when I was driving away Sunday night at 9pm the temp gauge in the van read 22 degrees. :(
Let me get back on track... I will let Krissy post later on the camping trip this post will be about the food we cooked in the dutch ovens. Along with BBQ I really enjoy dutch oven cooking. I guess if I had been born a few hundred years ago I might have turned out to be a "cooky" on the cattle drives running the chuck wagon. Who knows? :)
Mountain Man breakfast!
STEW!
Me wondering why I did not get a final photo of the stew...
Pineapple upside down cake.
Cobbler...I use foil because I have seen the pie filling eat the seasoning off the pan or at least weaken it.
Making???...
Biscuits.
and gravy...
PIZZA in the Dutch Oven is awesome...almost like wood fired!!
We also heated up some Italian sandwiches but no pics...imagine hoggie roll sandwiches in the bottom of the DU!
OK OK Here are a few phots of the girls!
Woke up to this desert sunrise...
Getting ready...
If you look you can see me holding up the chimney starter, man was it windy.
Dorks are us!
If you're peeking it ain't cooking.
Some of the kids got in a few holes of golf before we ate!
Brisket
Pork
It was a windy, windy day. I had MUCHO trouble keeping the temps where I wanted them. The wind was blowing so hard it was pushing the smoke down and out the intakes, not to mention the tents down!! I was duct taping holes, stacking wood for a wind break but it was all to no avail :( The brisket cooked very quickly but amazingly was pretty darn good, probably due to the Texas crutch (foil). The pork cooked faster than I would have liked and did not want to pull very well but it was still pretty good.
All in all not too bad for trying to cook out in the desert and dealing with more wind then I ever have before. It was a great learning experience. The pork shoulders we got were bone in and I think I like them better that way.
All in all not too bad for trying to cook out in the desert and dealing with more wind then I ever have before. It was a great learning experience. The pork shoulders we got were bone in and I think I like them better that way.
Just having some fun on the Sit 'N' Spin...faster...faster...faster!!
Run Sammie...Run!
Auddie having fun all by herself!MORE FROM OUR TRIP TO SAN DIEGO (JULY 2008)
During our trip to San Diego in July, we spent a few days in Santee at Ralph's parents house. Ralph got to play the car game on the really cool TV!
During our trip to San Diego in July, we spent a few days in Santee at Ralph's parents house. Ralph got to play the car game on the really cool TV!
Here are the girls swimming with Aunt Shannen and "baby Brennen" (yeah..she really does exist you all...I just had to go to San Diego to take a picture of her myself- just playing Shannen!)
Ralph's parents were cleaning out the garage while we were there..so out came Great Grandpa Ralph's old Oldsmobile 442, of course Ralph and Sammie had to move it out of the way!
We had lunch with Mikki, Frank and Lourdes Rose. The girls had a blast with Lourdes and Aunt Mikki too!
We are so lucky to live near THE big hole in the ground. As Audrey called it all day...The Granyon Canyon. The last time Ralph and I went to the Canyon I was pregos with Audrey. The last time the girls went to the Canyon they flew over it in a HELICOPTER with Grandpa and Grandma Ding! So this time was a little less exciting...but here are some pics to show our day.
We arrived first thing in the morning. Here are the girls posing for their first of many pictures. (they never got tired of posing either...go figure) We parked the van and rode the bus around the park for the day. A bus comes around to every stop about every 15 mins, it was great for getting around. We didn't have to fighting for parking and we didn't get lost.
Here is a great picture I took.
Here is an awesome picture that Ralph took of the birds.
Here we are at the "Rand Canyon"
The girls crashed on the ride home!
