Message: This Saturday the Missouri Department of Conservation out at the Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area hosted an outdoor cooking program that we attended.
The event featured tips, techniques and recipes for cooking meals in dutch ovens. Everyone who came to the event got to partake in preparing the evening's meal.
We cooked scrambled eggs in sandwich bags that were placed into boiling water, French onion soup from scratch, biscuits over the fire, potato slices in foil and brownies for desert.
The outside temperature was 34*F and was spitting mist off and on. Emmett's little fingers got cold pretty quick, so we had to take him back inside to warm him up. He didn't mind though - he got to look at all the stuffed animals on the walls and hanging from the ceiling.
It didn't take long at all, and all of the food finished cooking. The conservation staff got out plates and silverware, and everyone got to dig in. It was a lot of fun!