Category: Cowboy Cooking Trail Recipes
Here's a look at frontier cowboy recipes and trailside cooking. Did you know that a ranch's cook shack was a private realm ruled over by a cantankerous master cook? He was a permanent member of the outfit and wielded even more power than the itinerant cooks who filled in on western cattle roundups and on the trail. He slept in the cook shack rather than in the bunkhouse, and he made certain the hands showed proper respect – which he sometimes enforced with the broad end of a skillet. The cowboy cook's authority lay in the fact that he provided one of the single most important elements, along with sleep, that a cowboy both cherished and needed. And the food had better have been top notch, otherwise, top hands wouldn't work for such a place. Below are some terrific authentic western cowboy recipes.
Cowboy Goulash
BBQ Ribs
Beefy Beans
Easy Texas Chili
Cowboy Coffee
Mock Apple Pie
Sausage & Taters
Western Baked Beans
Chuckwagon Stew
Green Chile Stew
Cowboy Brown Biscuits
Corn Fritters
Indian Fry-Bread Tacos
Cowboy Beans #2
Cowboy Fry Bread
Son-of-a-Gun-Stew
Vinegar Pie
Red Bean Pie
Sourdough Starter
Sourdough Biscuits
Cowboy Beans
Son-of-a-bitch Stew