Don't ask why but I decided to cook my dinner outside last night and these pics are the result.
Here is my hybrid Dutch oven it is an Aldi or Lidl aluminium Dutch oven that I replace its glass lid with a 10" cast iron rimed one that I also us with a matching 10" cast iron frying pan.
I started my browning some shallots, just over 1/2 lb of floured stewing beef, just under 1/2 lb of floured pigs kidney's.
Next added water a couple of beef stock cubes, a good tea spoon of smoked paprika, salt and pepper, a couple of sprigs of rosemary and three lightly bashed cloves of garlic.
After an hour or so simmering I added a handful of dried chestnut mushrooms and added a suet pastry hat.
Back on with the lid and pile on the hot coals
O' this is my homemade lid lifter.
And here it is after a further 30 to 40 mins.
I would have liked to have browned it off more but it started to rain and I did not what to risk my lid cracking and it did look and taste a lot better that it looks as in the rush to take the picture before the heavens really open I flopped the crust over and thus getting gravy all over it. Also the mizzle was really getting bad by now.
![Dutch1.jpg](http://www.christopher.cuckow.dsl.pipex.com/pics/dutch/Dutch1.jpg)
Here is my hybrid Dutch oven it is an Aldi or Lidl aluminium Dutch oven that I replace its glass lid with a 10" cast iron rimed one that I also us with a matching 10" cast iron frying pan.
I started my browning some shallots, just over 1/2 lb of floured stewing beef, just under 1/2 lb of floured pigs kidney's.
Next added water a couple of beef stock cubes, a good tea spoon of smoked paprika, salt and pepper, a couple of sprigs of rosemary and three lightly bashed cloves of garlic.
After an hour or so simmering I added a handful of dried chestnut mushrooms and added a suet pastry hat.
![Dutch2.jpg](http://www.christopher.cuckow.dsl.pipex.com/pics/dutch/Dutch2.jpg)
Back on with the lid and pile on the hot coals
![Dutch3.jpg](http://www.christopher.cuckow.dsl.pipex.com/pics/dutch/Dutch3.jpg)
O' this is my homemade lid lifter.
![Dutch4.jpg](http://www.christopher.cuckow.dsl.pipex.com/pics/dutch/Dutch4.jpg)
And here it is after a further 30 to 40 mins.
![Dutch5.jpg](http://www.christopher.cuckow.dsl.pipex.com/pics/dutch/Dutch5.jpg)
I would have liked to have browned it off more but it started to rain and I did not what to risk my lid cracking and it did look and taste a lot better that it looks as in the rush to take the picture before the heavens really open I flopped the crust over and thus getting gravy all over it. Also the mizzle was really getting bad by now.