Monday--cooking without electricity

It was a little more challenging this time--mainly because James had to go back to work and didn't get home until after 7 PM.

James really wanted to cook on the Kelly Kettle. James used mesquite-the chips burned fast shooting flames up thought the center of the kettle; heating the water inside the kettle to boiling.

I made a mixture of cubed sweet potatoes layered on bottom of pan and sprayed with olive oil--then layer of green onion, layer of mushrooms and then asparagus. Then layered all again and sprayed with olive oil. We placed the lid on top and as it cooked, we made hot chocolate with the water that had boiled in the Kelly Kettle.

We had to put the veges back on the fire once, but we're able to cook our Rib Eye steak to perfection (the mesquite added a wonderful flavor.) before placing veges back. Yeah, I dinner was kind of in 'courses'. The veges were cooked to perfection too.

For desert we shared a Granny Smith apple we had cored, buttered down the middle adding brown sugar, cinnamon, and walnuts and placed in the embers that were still hot. All in all we thought it a success.