The Fire Bug in Me
I’ve always loved fire…the controlled kind: Fireplaces, bonfires, wood stoves. There is nothing more comforting or enticing than the smell of good wood smoke, especially on a cold UP night. The kind that freezes your nostrils when you take a sniff.
One of my favorite parts of our house is our fireplace. It’s huge, for one, and made of beautiful sunset-colored sandstone. Spring in the UP means you never know if you are getting a 70 degree day or a 40 degree one. Today is the one of the later. So, with the help of the boxes left over from my hubby’s latest technology venture, I have a blazing, beautiful fire.
Our next door neighbor is a logger and has unlimited supply to wood. He cuts it himself and said that if we ever want any, to feel free and take some, he just needs money for the gas for his chainsaw. It’s AWESOME!!! Wonderful hardwood logs at my fingertips.
So, another Hannah tidbit is that the American frontier in the 1800′s is my favorite period of history. I LOVE frontier living. One of my favorite things to watch on TV is the annual Chuck Wagon Cookoff on Food Network. I love to see how people made really good food out of such simple ingredients and without any of our modern technology.
So, I did a little searching on the old Internet on what kinds of yummy things I could make in my fireplace. What I can up with was mostly discouraging how about labor-some and dangerous this kind of cooking is. I was nearly discouraged until I remembered these cool little devices that my MIL always takes on her camping trips. There are recipes galore for these things. They are easy, mostly safe, and VERSATILE!!! YAY!!! I’m inspired to order a few. It is summer time, right? (Although our weather hasn’t figured it out yet.) We WILL have bonfires!
Anywho, check them out and let me know of any other ideas on how I can best utilize this wonderful wood-burning resource.
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I like fireplace cooking as well. You can wrap potatoes or corn on the cob (leave the husks on) in tin foil and throw them in the coals and let them bake. Actually, you can bake nearly anything in the fireplace with tin foil or enamel firepots. Yum.
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