Cooking Up A Great New Year

TIS THE NEW YEAR! Hoorah for 2013. Lets start my first blog post of the new year with a lesson for the first world. It started as a bag of plums and ended with burnt pots and pans. The following pictures represent how to light a Jiko (charcoal stove). My jiko's name is Terry. She can sometimes be a bitch. But Terry and I took an adventure on how to make an oven and then made some amazing Plum Cobbler. The Plums were picked straight from the tree and I still have a ton left. 

My bag of tricks.

First soak a cotton ball with menthylated spirits. Extremely flammable.

Keep away from your eyes and mucus membranes.

If you have a neighbor that is tired of seeing you struggle with just spirits, he will by you cedar kindling. Add that if you can.

Pile copious amounts of charcoal on top.

Light inside. 

Place outside in a well ventilated area. 

15 mins later you are ready to get to cookin'.

Here comes the plum cobbler. 

On the bottom of your big pot put some stones. I used pink quartz. You don't have to be as fancy

1/2 cup of melted butter. Or Blue Band.

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1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of flour, some baking powder and 3/4 cup of milk.

Pour the flour mixture on top of the butter. Do not stir.

Put the cut up plums on top.

Pour some more sugar on top. 

Put the little pot inside the bigger pot on top of the stones.

Place on top of the charcoal jiko.

Cover.

Halfway through it should look like this.

Finished product.

Eat with fork straight out of the pot every 3 to 4 hours until finished.