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Open fire walleye with blistered tomato pan sauce, asperagus and garden salad

Your first open fire cooking lesson

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Alexandra Kassis
Aug 01, 2025
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One of the very first nights at my cabin I made chicken soup over the fire. Mostly out of necessity because I didn’t yet have propane installed and needed to feed my mom, myself and brother after a long cold day of hard work building the woodshed. Yes, we started building it the first day I moved in.

For years, I dreamed of making food over open fires o…

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