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Just bought a dutch oven /ck/. What should I make? What's your favorite dutch oven recipe?
Personally, I like a good cobbler.

Need your help guys.

So for Christmas, I got a lodge cast iron dutch oven, and a 10'' lodge CI skillet.

Would I benefit from taking my bench grinder and smoothing the fuck out of the skillet, then seasoning it, or is it good as is?

Also, if I do smooth it out, should I do it with the dutch oven as well?

Savory Dutch Oven Chicken & Taters
1 giant-ass economy package of skin-on bone-in thighs or breasts, whatever's on sale
3-4 potatoes
An onion
Several slices of bacon
Salt, pepper, Italian seasoning
Worcestershire sauce
Red wine and garlic/garlic powder (optional)

1) Preheat oven to 350.
2) Preheat Dutch oven on medium heat. Pour in a healthy dollop of olive oil.
3) Chop up the bacon and onion together and fry them when oil is hot.
4) Slice potatoes into medallions 1/4" thick.
5) When bacon is mostly-done and onions starting to turn translucent, shove them in a big pile on one side and stick the chicken in skin-side down. You're only going to fry them on the skin side so all that lovely fat can caramelize. Salt and pepper the hell out of the chicken, season heavily with Italian seasoning. Garlic powder or garlic cloves are nice too.
6) After several minutes, use a spatula to ladle the onions and bacon on top of the chicken. This way they both get fried and you only dirty one dish. Sprintz the entire thing with Worcerstershire sauce. Dump like 1/4 cup of wine in if you have any. Balsamic vinegar is nice too.
7) Throw the potatoes on top, salt them liberally, put the Dutch oven lid on, and stick in the preheated oven. Go fart around on the Internet for 45 minutes.
8) Bring out the Dutch oven with NON-ORNAMENTAL potholders. When you dish up the chicken, pull off and discard the skin because chicken skin is gross.
9) EAT.
10) If there are leftovers, add a couple cans of chicken stock, bust everything up in it, and make soup. Throw in a couple handfuls of pasta 10 minutes before you want to eat. Cook once, eat twice, hell yeah. Total price should be about ten bucks for two nights' eating.

I mean the ones you kinda-sorta came up with on your own. Maybe it started as a simplified version of a published recipe and evolved as you did your own thing with what you had available....

Here's one of mine:

Savory Dutch Oven Chicken & Taters
1 giant-ass economy package of skin-on bone-in thighs or breasts, whatever's on sale
3-4 potatoes
An onion
Several slices of bacon
Salt, pepper, Italian seasoning
Worcestershire sauce
Red wine and garlic/garlic powder (optional)

1) Preheat oven to 350.
2) Preheat Dutch oven on stovetop at medium heat. Pour in a healthy dollop of olive oil.
3) Chop up the bacon and onion together and fry them when oil is hot.
4) Slice potatoes into medallions 1/4" thick.
5) When bacon is mostly-done and onions starting to turn translucent, shove them in a big pile on one side and stick the chicken in skin-side down. You're only going to fry them on the skin side so all that lovely fat can caramelize. Salt and pepper the hell out of the chicken, season heavily with Italian seasoning. Garlic powder or garlic cloves are nice too.
6) After several minutes, use a spatula to ladle the onions and bacon on top of the chicken. This way they both get fried and you only dirty one dish. Sprintz the entire thing with Worcerstershire sauce. Dump like 1/4 cup of wine in if you have any. Balsamic vinegar is nice too.
7) Throw the potatoes on top, salt them liberally, put the Dutch oven lid on, and stick in the preheated oven. Go fart around on the Internet for 45 minutes.
8) Bring out the Dutch oven with NON-ORNAMENTAL potholders. When you dish up the chicken, pull off and discard the skin because chicken skin is gross.
9) EAT.
10) If there are leftovers, add a couple cans of chicken stock, bust everything up in it, and make soup. Throw in a couple handfuls of pasta 10 minutes before you want to eat. Cook once, eat twice, hell yeah. Total price should be about ten bucks for two nights' eating.