Baking in the Egg

We've been enjoying our time with our newest family member, The Big Green Egg. We have yet to give it a "proper" name as it has not yet revealed wether it's a boy or a girl. Yes, we're strange that way... The kids like to name inanimate objects and then we start calling these objects by their name. My car is named "Black Dragon." Matt's truck is named "Black Bart." Uncle Adam's car is named "Red Dragon." And Tita Lisa's car is named "Honda."

We also name our stuffed animals. Among our stuffed animal collection we have: Velcro, Paint-Can, Dragony, Taggie Lion, Polka Dots, Marilyn the Sock Monkey and Google. I know this is a normal thing for children to do, but I think it's funny that as time goes on, we parents start to call these things by their given name. It's no longer "Let's get in the car! We're late for school!" It's "Black Dragon is waiting... We're late for school!" 

So as we spend more and more time with The Big Green Egg, surely it's name will reveal itself. Soon... 

We're learning more and more about our Egg and obviously it makes for a wonderful smoker and grill. We want to use it to it's fullest capacity, so we decided to try baking in it. Matt found a wonderful recipe for a peach cobbler called Queenie's Peach Cobbler. It calls for baking in a cast iron skillet. The only thing we modified was the baking method from oven to Egg. 

Queenie's Peach Cobbler a la mode

Before 

After

Almost gone!

It is such an easy recipe to make and it turned out so delicious! I'm thinking of using the basic recipe to make some sort of bread pudding. Yum! I'm so excited to learn that it truly is possible to bake in the Egg! This will really make summertime baking easier. Hooray!