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Dutch Oven
Gathering (DOG) #17
May 19, 2007
The Seabreeze Chapter held their
May 2007 DOG at Seabreeze Park in La Porte on the 19th. Our theme for
this month was brunch. The Butlers, Busos, and Gidneys cooked. Doug and
Gail Reynolds came and cooked with us. The Reynolds are also Griswold
collectors that were at the G&CICA convention. Sonny Moak and Don
Braga stopped by for a visit. We had 3 visitors that drove from Clute
for some instruction on Dutch oven cooking. All total we had 15 folks
attending. We enjoyed fruit salad by the Busos. The Butlers treated us
to quesadillas, and sunflower shaped orange juice cake. The Reynolds made
hand churned butter and asparagus brunch pockets, a great success for
their first outdoor Dutch oven cooking effort. The Gidneys fixed cinnamon
rolls. After we ate we had a business meeting to plan the calendar, cooking
locations, and themes for the next cooking year. We also decided to try
over the next cooking season to get more Boy Scout unit leaders to attend.
We plan to do some instructing for them in the hope that they will pass
what they learn to the youth in their unit. We could call this,
"Dutch oven cooking beyond the dump cake".
This was the best DOG we have had at Seabreeze Park. When we started a few years back the plan was to do all our cooking at this park. The park is very well maintained, nice shelters, water and restrooms, right on the bay, and the view is outstanding. That all sounds perfect but usually the breeze is just too much. It makes it hard to keep your pot hot and the plates on the table. Thanks to a late cool front we were treated to a perfect weather day with cool temperature and no wind for this DOG. This concluded our cooking year and we will take the next 3 months off as you just can't enjoy cooking with charcoal in hot humid weather. For the next 3 months look for us in air conditioned antique stores looking for that perfect cast iron cooking piece. We will be back cooking in September. See you then.
