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Five Recipes
from the Cabin
Early Summer Edition
What's inside
Five recipes. Cast iron, woodstove, open fire.
This isn't a cookbook. It's five things I actually cook up here, written down the way I'd explain them to a friend standing in the cabin kitchen. No equipment you don't already have. No ingredients you can't find or forage yourself if you're paying attention this time of year.
Each recipe has a short note before it - where it came from, why I make it, what makes it work. The rest is straightforward. Ingredients, method, done.
01
Pan-Fried Brook Trout
Cast iron · Open fire or woodstove
02
Wild Turkey & Early Greens Soup
Woodstove · Low and slow
03
Asparagus with Brown Butter & a Fried Egg
Cast iron · Woodstove
04
Early Mushrooms on Toast
Cast iron · Woodstove or open fire
05
Strawberry Rhubarb Compote
Woodstove · Maple syrup
"The best meals I've eaten up here were the simplest ones. Something fresh from the land, a hot cast iron, butter. That's it. I want you to have that feeling wherever you are."
- Shawn James · My Self Reliance