Lookout Cookout #1 for 2015 [View all]

[DemoTex]

The day after the Blizzard of '15! Cooking out! Took these photos with my iPad. Not bad. My patent-pending charcoaling method. Each photo has a caption.
@ Lemmon Rock Fire Lookout
4.27.2015 (Our 41st wedding anniversary! Wish Dr. DemoTex. were here!)


Start with a 30,000 BTU propane cooker, a cast iron skillet, and a lump of charcoal. Heat on high until the charcoal is smoking, and the skillet is very hot. Leather gloves a must.


I cut a small filet in two to make them thinner for a fast cook (1.5 minute/side for these for medium rare). A press is helpful. Notice the wok on the chair to the left. I had already cooked my home-made chips in that on the cooker.


Ummmm! Fast and smoky. Best done outside. I use this cooker and this technique at the DogStar Lodge on Caesar's Head Mountain, SC, all the time.


Home fries, spinach salad, and a filet mignon. Ellegantly set table, too. This is where one eats in the fire lookout.
BTW: One part of the split steak is for breakfast tomorrow, as are some of the potatoes - if they don't get too soggy. Or even if they do. The Presbyterian motto rings true in the fire lookout: "Waste Not; Want Not." I try to waste nothing up here.