BBQ Chicken Pasta with Bacon

1 pound penne or other short pasta, cooked according to package directions
1 pound bacon, chopped
3 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size chunks
1 red onion, diced
Salt and pepper to taste
2/3 cup barbecue sauce
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
Crushed red pepper flakes to taste (I used about 1/4 tsp.)
Green onions, bacon, and shredded cheese for garnish, if desired

Cook the bacon to a 12" dutch oven over a full spread of coals, stirring occasionally, until the bacon is crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove bacon to paper towel.  Add the chicken and red onion to the bacon grease in the skillet, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the chicken is browned and cooked through and the onion is softened. Drain off any excess grease and stir in the reserved bacon, barbecue sauce and sour cream. Once mixed, add in the shredded cheese. Add pasta and stir to combine; heat through.  Serve immediately.  Serves 6-8

Cream Soda Biscuits

4-6 cups self rising flour
1 Cup oil
1 12 oz. can cream soda or red cream soda (I use A&W Vanilla cream soda)

Put 4 cups of flour in a bowl. Add the oil and cream soda. Mix all
ingredients to form a soft dough. sprinkle flour on flat surface. Add just
enough flour so you can roll the dough as too much flour makes for a dry
biscuit. Roll out to about 1 inch thick. Cut with a biscuit cutter, or an open,
clean soup can. Place in a greased Dutch oven and bake 3-40 minutes with 8
coals on the bottom and 14-18 on top.

Cherry Chocolate Dump Cake

Line your Dutch ovens with HEAVY foil, that way clean up is easy and the foil doesn't scrape off into the food
as easily as the cheaper foil)

Dump a chocolate cake mix into the bottom of the oven, spread it evenly
around, then dump a can of cherry pie filling over the top of that,
spreading as evenly as possible, and then pour a can of sprite or black
cherry soda over the top of everything, as evenly as possible. This
will need to cook for about 20-30 minutes. For a 12 inch Dutch oven put 8 pieces of
charcoal evenly under the bottom 16 on top.

Chicken Dinner in a Dutchoven

After I make this for someone, everyone has to have the 'recipe', so it will be nice to have this in a spot I can refer them too! Not hard or not much for a recipe but SOOO good.

Chicken Dinner in a Dutchoven

6-8 Chicken Breasts
1 bag mini carrots
6 potatoes, sliced (or one per person eating)
1 big and 1 small can of cream of chicken soup

Sprinkle your chicken with Montreal Chicken Spice done by McCormicks (this is the key ingrediant ;)). Put a little bit of oil in your Dutch oven and 'brown' the chicken. Add the potatoes, carrots and cream of chicken on top. Cook until the carrots are tender. I usually cook it for about 45-60 minutes depending on how hot your coals are. After the first 40 minutes or so, stir everything up to let it get all the way to the bottom! You can always add cheese if you desire as well!

Enjoy!

Mountain Man Breakfast

• 1/2 lb bacon
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 (32 oz) pkg. frozen hash browns
• 12 eggs
• 1 1/2 lls, cheese grated

Brown bacon and onion; take out and set aside. Fry hasbrowns until golden brown. Put bacon and onions back in. Break 12 eggs; beat. Pour eggs over first three ingredients. Cover with lid and cook until solid, 14 briquets on top and 10 on bottom. Sprinkle cheese on eggs, cook until melted.

Moose Balls

This is a girls camp favorite of mine. Never mind the name, though!

Ingredients:
rhodes rolls dough
hersheys kisses
vegetable oil
powdered sugar

Heat oil in dutch oven. Unwrap kisses. Cover each kiss in dough and roll in to a ball. Put in oil to fry. When ball is done frying, roll the ball in powdered sugar. We've also tried it with other chocolate candies, such as reese's peanut butter cups. SO YUMMY!!

Cheesy Potatoes

We are all about doing simple things in the dutch oven. When we go camping, we always make these potatoes! They are super easy, and super good!

potatoes- as many as you need, sliced
chopped onion
bacon (Grizz likes to cook his seperate, I like to cook mine in with everything else.)
shredded cheese

Cook all the ingredients (except cheese) in the dutch oven until potatoes are soft. Add Cheese and melt.

These are also delicious the next day for breakfast!

Sprite Dutch Oven Potatoes

Sprite Potatoes
(for a 12" dutch oven)

- 10-12 potatoes sliced
- 2 sweet onions sliced
- 1 can of sprite
- 1/2 cube of butter
- 1 C shredded cheese

Heat your dutch oven on coals or camp chef.
Add butter to melt.
Add layer of onions on melted butter.
Add sliced potatoes then add remaining onion slices on top.
Add can of sprite.
Add about 10-12 coals on dutch oven lid
Cook 25-30 min then take the lid off for another 15-25 min and let the sprite evaporate. Add cheese and enjoy!!