Dutch Oven cooking from Louise Davidson
Apparently this is a PT Dutch Oven cooking book by Louise Davidson. Davidson really emphasizes a history of the cooking device (I have 2 variations) and using it for cooking while camping. I love that idea theoretically. I think it would be terrific for outdoor cooking on a weekend at a cabin or out in the woods like I used to experience living in the North East. Where I live now, we likely wouldn’t use it that way so much. When I used to do canoe camping, transporting a Dutch Oven would have been too heavy and cumbersome for our style of camping. Still, I like the idea. Davidson points out how our Dutch Ovens fit into the 1 Pot Meal movement in Easy Cooking which is always popular with our busy modern digitally driven lives.
Just to give you a little overview of the book both in Kindle and in the Print version.
TOC
Introduction
How Dutch Ovens Became a Part of American Tradition
Includes a fun connection to Paul Revere and placing hot coals on top of the oven for conducting heat all around.
Buying a Dutch Oven
Covers a variety of styles. Both of mine are cast iron covered by enamel. Davidson also presents how to use your Dutch Oven for outdoor cooking.
Giving Your Dutch Oven Some TLC
Some great content, but not geared for my enamel style Dutch Ovens.
Breakfast Recipes
including Blueberry Dutch Fiesta which I've never heard of before.
Some of the recipes are particularly geared for outdoor and camping cooking, the kind of food items you’d have packed for camping.
Davidson’s breakfast quiche option is quite low carb and sounds terrific. You could easily increase the nutrients in your version by adding some vegs like chopped zucchini, onions, and cauliflower to the broccoli already in the dish. While it’s not cited, because of the presence of the veggies, this recipe serves up some fiber as well as vitamins and minerals.
Beef Recipes
including 2 stew variations and what I'm most interested in, Easy Italian Beef Sauce which really is a Beef Speggie sauce. That said, the past she suggests you serve it over can be moved to low carb by serving it over zoodles, zucchini noodles, cooked directly all 1 pot style in the sauce for about 5-7 minutes, 1 zucchini per serving.
I like that Davidson suggests using Turnips and not just potatoes as 1 of the 2 classic root veggies typically found in beef stews. A different kind of carb alternative to the classic potatoes chopped and added to the stews she gives, I would suggest playing with parsnips, rutabagas, and a little sweet potato/yams. They’re still carbs, but they pack more nutrients even with the skins off which is suggested for stew recipes.
Pork & Lamb Stew
including Creamy Pork and Pasta Casserole which I'll play with substituting Zoodles zucchini noodles for lower carbs. Not in love with most of the options here which rely on things like jarred fruit preserves and pre-packaged dry onion dip.
Chicken & Poultry Recipes
including classic Chicken and Rice Casserole and Asian-Style Chili Soy Chicken. Mayonnaise and cream soup. Hmm, I’ll probably play with that to make it less high fat using highly processed foods. The Asian Chicken dish looks pretty terrific as does the Chicken Cacciatore. I’d serve it over brown rice instead of the high carb white rice.
Fish & Seafood Recipes
including Salmon Casserole, love Omege 3s! Looks promising. The 2 mussels recipes just aren’t my thing.
Vegetarian and Side Dishes
including Dutch Oven Baked Lentils. We love legumes and eating a meatless entre sometimes. She suggests just eating them. We’d likely complete the protein by serving them with brown rice or quinoa. I’d probably eliminate the chopped potatoes in the traditional Broccoli Chowder and see about I could substitute into the chowder without overpowering the broccoli. The sweet potato bisque looks great. I make add some crispy bacon bits on top when I serve it. I like the variables including… peanut butter! Since we do love our legumes, the white beans soup from dry beans looks great. I think we may even have some dry beans on hand! She adds Swiss Chard. We could likely substitute Kale or Spinach. I pretty much always have a few bags of frozen spinach on hand.
The recipes do include some basic nutritional information covering Carbs, Fat, Protein, and Sodium. You’ll need to know more about the vitamins and minerals in your ingredients like the blueberries.
Davidson includes 2 additional free cookbooks to download at the end. Looks like a quality lead magnet.
Definitely recommend this cookbook.
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