Chef Recipe Club: Cowboy Cuisine by Kent Rollins
Chef2Chef Recipe Club - Volume 5 Issue 88 - October 29, 2003
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Hello Recipe Club,

Wow! A lot of you wanted to win those two cookbooks I offered in yesterday's Recipe Club. Thanks for all your emails and kind words. The winners are Edie Tharpe and Randy Bush. You will be contacted for your mailing address. Now, don't be discouraged if you didn't win a cookbook. We've got more exciting prizes this week, just read on.

A word to the wise! A wagon cook has been known as a grumpy ole feller with a mean temper. Always having to gather wood, wash dishes and put out gourmet food three times a day. Always having to keep it warm or feed 20 more people than what showed up the meal before. Cooking in the worst conditions from blowing snow to blowing dust, from hail storms to heat waves, he's expected to have it ready and keep it hot. He's been everything from vet to doctor and wagon mender. So don't judge him by your first glance, he might be cooking your next meal.

Now Kent Rollins is nothin' like that and just to prove it, he and the fine folks over at http://www.ChuckWagonsBest.com are going to give one lucky Chef2Chef.net Recipe Club member a Deluxe Gift Assortment which includes Cowboy Coffee (16 oz.), Chuckwagon's Best Self Rising Flour (2 Lb Bag.), Chuckwagon's Best Self Rising Corn Meal (2 Lb. Bag), 2 Campfire Stoneware Mugs, Beef Strips, 4oz. each of Traditional, Teriyaki and Cajun flavors, Cowboys 'Round the Campfire CD and an Authentic Red Cowboy Bandana. And a Runner Up will get a 16-oz. bag of Cowboy Coffee.

Send me your email address to be notified if you are a winner http://chef2chef.net/contacts/mail/mail-dn.html Good Luck!

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Cowboy Coffee

"A cowboy without coffee in the morning is like a horse without a saddle!"

Cookie's first thing on the fire, and the last thing off; was for sure - 'The coffee; and some say - the most important part of a camp meal! Cowboy's savored the aroma of smoky coals and aromatic scent of brewin' Coffee in the air and the best of the cooks not judged by their cookin', but by the tried and true brewin' techniques learn'd along the way.

Now the only way a cowboy cooked his coffee was to Boil it...not by using percolating, bubbling, gurgling and spewing drip coffee makers.

You'll need an old large coffee pot, water and three handfuls of Cowboy Coffee. Most any coffee will do, but we have had lots of good comments from using Chuckwagon's Best Cowboy Coffee. Note: The Best coffee is made when using fresh roasted beans ground just before using. For "Boilin' - grind course.

Put enough water in the ole coffee pot to come up to the spout. Boil the coffee until your desired strength which can be determined by the color. The longer it boils - the Stronger it is. Pull off the fire and pour 1/2 cup of cold water to settle the grounds. Let set about 2 minutes and its ready. Guaranteed to get you goin' in the morning.

For those whose campfire is "the Kitchen," Chuckwagon's Best Cowboy Coffee is available from our website. We Roast each week to ensure delivery of Freshness of our Beans. When using a Drip coffee maker, beans should be ground to medium texture. http://www.chuckwagonsbest.com

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Chicken Fried Steak

8 pieces of tenderized round steak
2 cups of Chuckwagon's Best Seasoned Flour
Salt and Pepper to taste
2 eggs
2 cups milk

In a mixing bowl beat the eggs and milk together and set aside. Combine the dry ingredients together and mix well.

Take the meat and dip into milk and egg mixture; then into the flour mixture, back again in the milk and egg and then back into the flour mixture.

Fry slowly in a cast iron skillet with hot grease. Cook until golden brown.

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Dutch Oven Baked Beans

2 cans of ranch style beans, drained
2 chopped onions
Brown sugar
1 Tbsp. mustard
2 cans of Pork and Beans
2 jalapenos
1/2 cup of BBQ sauce
6- pieces of fried bacon

Drain the juice off the beans and mix together, then add the BBQ sauce and mustard and onion and jalapenos, mix well and add enough brown sugar to suit your taste and place the fried bacon on top.

Cook in a 14 or 16 inch Dutch oven slowly or in a casserole dish at 325 for about thirty minutes.

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Corn Pudding

1 egg
3 tbsp. melted butter
1 box Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 can whole kernel corn, undrained
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can cream corn

Beat egg and add to the rest of the ingredients. Mix well and pour into a greased, preheated 12-inch Dutch oven and cook slowly. Or cook in oven at 350 for about 50 to 55 minutes.

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