Showing posts with label restoring cast iron cooking items. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restoring cast iron cooking items. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Easy Wild Game Stir-Fried Rice

This is a great small game recipe!
A wilderness survival recipe should be tasty and easy to prepare under primitive outdoor conditions. This recipe has both those characteristics, and can be made over a fire using one cooking implement! 
My family loves stir-fried rice and this is a great survival meal that takes a minimum of  preparation and ingredients. You can use virtually any game meat, as long as it can be cut into thin strips.
This recipe is a particularly good choice if you don’t have much meat, a store of staples and several people to feed. And it’s easy to stretch – just add more cooked rice, vegetables and/or meat or whatever you have.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Venison Meatloaf: A Favorite Comfort Food!

For me, meatloaf  is a comfort food. I love sitting down to a meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits and some fresh vegetable. This combination is really appreciated after along, cold day outside.
Meatloaf  is particularly gratifying if the meat in it has been harvested by someone in your family! It is a great dish to use up some of the the tougher pieces from a game animal, such as the meat from the neck and lower legs.
Meatloaf can also be is a great wilderness survival food. It can be cooked outside, in a cast iron Dutch oven over coals. Because the length of time the meatloaf needs to be baked is not critical, that means the  meal doesn't require constant supervision.

Restoring a Cast Iron Treasure

Potential treasures!
If you’re a recycler (like many preppers  and survivalists are) and you frequent garage sales and thrift stores, then keep an eye out for good, useful cast-iron cooking implements. Somebody’s rusty, dust-covered survivor of a failed camping trip may end up becoming a valuable addition to your cooking tools.
In a survival situation, a Dutch oven is a useful tool for baking, boiling, sauteing or frying. You can use virtually any heat source, including a campfire, charcoal, a propane burner or  barbecue grill. And talk about something with barter or trade value – a few days without electricity, and everyone will be clamoring for a Dutch oven!