chuckwagon

The chuckwagon was a commissary on wheels, a stout wagon covered with canvas and equipped with a box at the rear for storing tin dishes, a Dutch oven, a frying pan, kettle, and coffee pot.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

The day trip includes transportation, a private guide, a gourmet chuckwagon lunch at a historic lodge and a seasonally appropriate adventure program.

Goodall Time 2011

A retired industrial arts teacher and school administrator in El Paso, Texas, he got interested in chuckwagon cooking about fifteen years ago.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

Tolbert gives conservative Texas recipes and goes into the origins of chili as a cheap dish and chuckwagon favorite using lean, low-grade beef and kidney suet.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

Wayne Calk can fix a mean batch of chili as easily as he can fix up an old chuckwagon.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

But his favorite experience is taking his chuckwagon each fall to a ranch in South Texas to cook for hunting parties.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

With their vintage 1912 John Deere wagon, she and her husband, Don, have competed in chuckwagon cookoffs from Texas to Kansas to Wyoming since 1996.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

The history of the dish has conflicting versions: It may have been inspired by breaded wiener schnitzel and pioneered by the huge German population that arrived in Texas in the late nineteenth century; it may have been a chuckwagon invention—or perhaps it was shaped by both cultures.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

Shirley Creacy of Wild Cow Ranch in the Texas Panhandle firmly believes you can make anything in a Dutch oven over a chuckwagon campfire that you can prepare on a kitchen stove.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

I make a killer bread pudding with sourdough and Jack Daniels that is supposed to be an old Texas chuckwagon recipe, I'll send it your way if you'd like.

King Ranch Chicken | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007