Chuckwagon cooking

CHUCK WAGON TRUCK - Pitch Fork Ranch, Texas In every major city today, food vendors are often found parked along the street corners servi...

California Artist - Al Martin Napoletano "Chuck Wagon" oil painting A favorite dessert among modern chuckwagons is Peach Cobbler. Just as in the days of the trail drives, the cobbler with it's delightful fillings triumphs any appetite leaving the cravings for more. The cooks along the trail drives of the 1800's often improvised, much as the early American settlers did when they first arrived to the new colony bringing with them their favorite recipes. Not finding desired ingredients, they…

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CHUCK WAGON TRUCK - Pitch Fork Ranch, Texas In every major city today, food vendors are often found parked along the street corners servi...

Recently, I received an amazing cook book titled "Cow Camp Cookery", written by Dave McDowell. It is far more than just a collection of recipes. The content covers the customs, conventions and chow of the campfire crusader that will grip the interest of any reader. The pages are lined with stories, quick quotes, and pictures that kept me intrigued as I turned each page. This is the best put together cookbook that has come along in a long time that earns my highest recommendation and is a…

The most important man on a trail drive was the chuckwagon cook. That’s why next to the boss he was the highest paid hand. He was usually older and most

Joseph Cruze Sr had just delivered a herd of cattle to Kansas. After settling the business of the sale, the first thing Joseph wanted to do was wash to trail dust off, take a shave and walk down to the mercantile. Most of the other boys where interested in heading over to the saloon but Joseph had recently married the Miss Mary May Cox of Hays County. A negro lady had taken Joseph's clothes to launder as he sat in the tub scrubbing the cakes of trail dust off. He sat there until the water…

Today's Mexican dinner goes north, just across the border for some fine Cowboy Dining Now if we were in the old west, going back in t...

Mix horse-drawn wagons and food cooked over an open flame with a little cowboy music and some old-fashioned humor and you've got Jim and Erica Husted's recipe for an authentic