15 Minute Refried Beans

Kent Rollins' Refried Beans, topped with melted cheese and garnished with green onions

Canned refried beans are ok, but with a little love, they can be great. This recipe is short, but it will make all the difference – and no one will believe it only took fifteen minutes! Start with canned refried beans or canned pinto beans. If you’re using canned pinto beans, drain them before you…

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Mexican Lasagna

Mexican Lasagna is one of the easiest and most flavorful meals that can be made in a Dutch oven over a fire in the great outdoors. It’s a Cowboy favorite, and has been a meal I made every time I spent cooking on a ranch. If you own our first cookbook, A Taste of Cowboy,…

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Meatball Sub Sandwiches

Kent Rollins' Meatball Sub with mozzarella stuffed meatballs and homemade marinara

This is a deluxe meatball sub with homemade marinara sauce and mozzarella-stuffed meatballs. There’s a secret ingredient in the meatballs that will make all the difference, so stay with me! We appreciate you sharing our recipes with your friends and family! Make the Perfect Meatballs The meatball is the star of the show, so we…

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Smoked and Crispy Fried Whole Chicken

Kent Rollins' Smoked and Fried Chicken or Cornish Game Hens

The most delicious way to cook a whole chicken is to get a great smoke flavor all over the chicken and then fry it up to be as crispy as possible. You can use a whole chicken or a Cornish game hen. The end product will be so tasty that your family won’t want to…

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Whole Hog Cooking!

Kent Rollins marinating a whole hog during roasting.

Large family gatherings, reunions, and celebrations are often centered around food. On farms and ranches, it is a common practice to roast a whole hog on a spit throughout the day while the kids play and the adults make up for lost time by playing corn hole, horse shoes, or just sitting around with a…

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Elk Chili – Chili Con Carne

If you’re here because you found yourself with some elk meat, you are in for a treat. This recipe will work for any wild game, really, or even a chuck roast or stew meat. We’re cooking on the Lazy T Ranch in Wyoming this week, and we have been fortunate to receive a couple of…

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Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Shrimp

Grilled bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp on a gril with fire peeking through the grates

Let’s talk barbecued shrimp. A lot of times, people will go for quantity over quality. I prefer to buy my shrimp about as large as you can find them, and I make fewer of them. Why? Well, the larger shrimp can be prepared in creative ways. Besides, they generally have a better flavor and they’ll…

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Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Remake

Howdy folks, and thanks for stopping by the website! We have had a lot of requests for a remake of the Taco Bell Mexican Pizza. We are happy to oblige! We decided to stay close to the original but we want to make it a little bigger, with more meat and cheese and lots of…

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Snickerdoodle Cookies

Freshly baked snickerdoodle cookies resting on a wire rack.

Howdy folks, and thanks for stopping by the website! While we were out on the book tour, we stopped and had a snickerdoodle at Crumbl, a cookie franchise. The cookies are so giant they’re meant for sharing, but I didn’t want to share. The snickerdoodle was the best I’d ever had. Of course, I wanted…

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Is Your Cast Iron Seasoning Flaking? How to Fix it!

Stargazer Cast Iron Skillet

I get a lot of questions about cast iron care, and this question seems to come up pretty often.  Why is my cast iron flaking and how do I fix it? We decided to demonstrate re-seasoning flaked cast iron. To do that, we needed a skillet to start flaking a bit. We used our Stargazer…

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