When it comes to healthy cookin’,
you can’t beat a good old cast iron black pot
Come join us for an afternoon of good cooking and good eating.
Classes will be offered July 15-18 at 2 p.m. each day at Mountain House Restaurant on Highway 20, 23 miles east of Sweet Home. The $35 tuition includes a meal, a Dutch oven and cookbook. To register call Joanne West at the Sweet Home Ranger District, 541-367-9206.
Colleen Sloan, has been teaching low impact Dutch oven cooking across the United States for the past 20 years. Dutch oven cooking was handed down through the generations and has always been a way of life for Colleen’s family. “My grandma said it is the healthiest kind of cooking we can do for our families. Just don’t get it too hot and don’t lift the lid till you can smell it.”
Colleen has five Dutch oven cookbooks in publication. She loves to travel and teach classes to anyone who is willing to learn. Besides preparing a wonderful meal she teaches how to cure, clean, store and remove rust from your Dutch oven. She has a wonderful sense of humor, loves history, and enjoys a good story.
Colleen, a master of “no trace” camping teaches Dutch oven cooking at “Nine-Mile Historic Ranger Station” in Missoula, Montana and at Southern Idaho College. She also teaches seminars and classes at Snowbird Ski resorts, International Sportsmen shows and at sporting goods stores across the west and mid-west. She has a successful Dutch oven catering business and has served as many as 1,400 at one event.
During the week, she will also be teaching and cooking lunch for 32 students who are part the JOBS summer program for Sweet Home High School.