Cooking-Outdoors

It’s just a DOG! Or is it just a Dutch oven Gathering?

I had the great pleasure of meeting up with the Central California Dutch oven Adventures group a couple of weeks ago at Lodi lake in Lodi, California. The weather was awesome and the food, well, beyond awesome. Great friends make this even more fun and there were quite a few of my friends there! Thanks everyone for cooking with me and letting me cook with you!

Thought I would share some pictures with you:

Want to know more about Central California Dutch oven Adventures group? Then visit them at http://www.CCDOA.webs.com

“Get out of the kitchen! Light the fire! Start cooking outdoors”

Chipotle Cheddar Chile Beer Bread

Sometimes inspiration strikes and it all comes together. Dutch oven, Beer, Bread, Cheese, my favorite sauce and Cooking Outdoors. For me it was exciting because I love to create new recipes and this time I actually wrote it down to share. How many times have you managed to put a fantastic meal together from scratch and then say “I need to write that down”. Whoops, all gone …

Not this time, I tell ya!

Beer bread, the ultimate outdoor cooking bread. Fast, easy and requires beer, I love it.

Chipotle Cheddar Chile Beer Bread

Ingredients

3 cups self rising flour

3 tbls sugar

1 tps salt

8oz Chipotle Cheddar Cheese (I used Bravo Farms Original Chipotle Cheddar)

1 small can diced Chiles (Hot or Mild) undrained

2 tbls All Spice Cafe Chipotle Garlic Sauce

1 can of beer (Cheap can like Pabst Blue Ribbon)

Preparation

Cube the Chipotle Cheddar Cheese up and add to all of the other dry ingredients, mix thoroughly. Now add your All Spice Cafe Chipotle Garlic Sauce and beer, mix till it is blended (do not over mix, lumpy is good). Poor this into a grease 10″ Dutch oven or a Bread loaf pan for the grill. It will look like a wet glob of flour and that is perfect. No rising or kneading necessary.

Bake at 350° F for 40 minutes. Outdoor Cooking with a 10″ Camp Dutch oven will require 7 coals on the bottom and 13 coals on the top. Grilling your Beer Bread will require indirect heat.

It’s done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and thumping the bottom sounds a dull thump when you rap it.

Warm Beer bread with a slight kick to it! The cheese was gooey and tasty, crust had a wonderful crunchiness to it. Great for sopping up some soup or sauces! But, I ate mine just as it was, warm, crunchy, gooey and delicious!

This was a big hit at the last Dutch oven Gathering I was at. I you try this recipe, please let me know what you think!

“Get out of the kitchen! Light the fire! Start cooking outdoors”

Hot new releases from All Spice Cafe!

All Spice Cafe Announces Six New Products!

Venice, CA. March 1, 2010 – All Spice Café is very proud to announce that six new products will be introduced at the 22nd Annual National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 5th thru 7th, 2010. The fiery new products have been under development for over a year and the Fiery Foods & BBQ Show is the perfect place to introduce them to the world.

Following in the footsteps of the existing gourmet hot sauce product line, using the latest fiery trend in extreme-capsaicin peppers, the World’s Hottest Pepper (as named by the Guinness Book of World Records), the Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper is in the newest All Spice Cafe Sauce, the Jolokia Ghost Pepper Sauce. Keeping with the mantra of having heat without loosing the flavor, we created this sauce to meet the desires of the chilehead community for extreme heat, but kept true to our product line and have a sauce that is full of flavor. This sauce makes Buffalo style Hot Wings, can be added to a bloody mary, or just about anything you want to add some fire to.

Next in the new lineup are two dry seasoning rubs, which also use the Jolokia Ghost Pepper: Ghost Adobo Rub and Ghost Jerk Rub. Over many years of backyard cooking and catering, we have used a generic dry spices mix that was basically the Latin-American spice mix Adobo Seasoning. We started making our own recipe and got our hands on some of the Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper, adding it into our recipe. After years of making our Caribbean Spice Sauce, we felt that these spices would make a great jerk seasoning and adding the Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper to give it a really nice fiery kick.

With the dry seasoning rubs, we are introducing a Crushed Jolokia Ghost Pepper Grinder, using only crushed up dried Bhut Jolokia Peppers and presenting them in a traditional pepper grinder. It’s a great way to add a kick of heat on whatever you are eating. This way you won’t get any on your hands (don’t touch your face or other body parts if you do!) and you control how much you use. Just keep it on the table and give a little twist to give anything some heat.

And then for something completely different, we are offering two fiery-sweet snacks: Sweet Habanero Candied Popcorn and Sweet Ghost Pepper Candied Popcorn. Think of caramel coated popcorn that you might get at the carnival or amusement park and then hit it with some fiery pepper heat. After a lot of hard work, refining the recipe, learning a lot about candy making, and finding someone to help us produce this fiery sweet snack, we finally have a product that we really feel is something everyone will love. Initially we are coming to market with 2 heat levels, Habanero (XXX-Hot) and Jolokia Ghost Pepper (X-Treme Heat) for the serious chileheads out there. In the future we hope to have some milder versions for the rest of the world. With a good balance of sweet and heat, this crunchy snack is totally addicting and just one handful isn’t enough.

About All Spice Cafe – All Spice Cafe is a virtual cafe that has a line of award winning Gourmet Hot Sauces, where it’s more about flavor than heat. All Spice Cafe Hot Sauces are produced in California, with all natural and preservative-free ingredients. Available online at www.allspicecafe.com and at select retail outlets in the United States and Canada – see the website for a current list of retailers.