Growing food for ones own dinner table need not mean a large garden plot or a backyard full of raised beds. With a few pepper and tomato plants in pots on your porch, patio, or drive way will provide you tasty nutritious…
BLT’s MADE WITH HOME CURED MAPLE BACON
There is no argument the best Bacon, Tomato, & Lettuce sandwiches are made with home grown vine ripened tomatoes and lettuce fresh from the garden. Now you can make your BLT’s even better with bacon you’ve cured and smoked yourself. In the Powerless…
SALT CURED PICKLED FISH
Here at Powerless Cooking ® whenever possible we select, promote, and use “heirloom recipes”. Using both salt and vinegar for food preservation dates back a couple of thousand years which Cee Dub ties into this recipe for “Salt Cured Pickled Fish”. In this Learning Module, Cee…
IN A PIG’S EYE
Many of our favorite recipes in Cee Dub’s cook books and the Powerless Cooking (R) data base trace their origins to leftovers. IN A PIG’S EYE is no exception and became an instant hit. It all started one Sunday morning while rummaging through the…
SALMON CANDY
I know your first thought on reading my title is ‘salmon’ and ‘candy’ are mutually exclusive , but… read on and I’ll change your mind. Most of us are familiar with the old saying, “Waste Not, Want Not” and it’s this…
“HAVE DUTCH OVEN – WILL TRAVEL”
Only folks old enough to remember the CBS Western series Paladin which aired 1957-1963 will make the connection between the business card of hired gun slinger, Paladin, played by Richard Boone, and the title of this blog! It became necessary to write this blog to best…
7 STEPS TO GREAT SMOKED SALMON
The most difficult part of making great smoked salmon is catching the salmon…but that is a story for another day. If you’re a fisherman here in the Northwest you already know of the banner salmon runs we’re enjoying right now.…
DUTCH OVEN HASH & WIDE EYES
With folks heading out for the first three day weekend of the summer we wanted to share our favorite breakfast recipe that we fix on the last day in camp. Every camp cook knows the hassle of trying utilize leftovers and…
DUTCH OVEN PECAN PIE
Dutch Oven Pecan Pie Most folks in the know consider making and baking pies somewhat of an art form. I know from my own experience the learning curve for making great pie crusts is steep and typically plagued with failure…
DUTCH OVEN SUNDAY MORNING QUICHE
Not only do I like to make and eat quiche in my cast iron Dutch ovens, one of my favorite cookin’ stories involves a bunch of Texas cowboys and this recipe we call, “Sunday Morning Quiche”.** If you’ve ever driven…
LEARN ALL ABOUT SALMON – (EXCEPT HOW TO CATCH ONE)
What started out as one Powerless Cooking(R) learning module titled, “All About Salmon”, quickly turned from one module into two! Whether you’re a fisherman who catches their own salmon or the person who buys their fish at a fish…
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WHEN OPPORTUNITY BECKONS, BE OPPORTUNISTIC Do you know any folks with no desire to eat healthier, spend less money on meals, and have no thoughts of becoming a bit more self-reliant? If you do know such individuals, it would be a waste…
POWERLESS COOKING (R) – UPDATE
February 18, 2015 A month ago Penny and I launched Powerless Cooking (R) and what a month it’s been. Our first surprise occurred when folks started purchasing memberships within the first hour of the website going live. Each new membership signals to…
POWERLESS COOKING ® – GOES LIVE
What is POWERLESS COOKING® you might ask? It goes like this… Hold your hands out in front of you about 18″ apart and think of the distance between as a spectrum of self-reliance. For the purpose of illustration, your right…