Atlantic Canada Sustainable Living: Potatoes, Steak, and Veggies

Make some kindling from chopped wood (with the appropriate tool)
Start your fire
Once fire has a good set of coal (12-15 minutes) add about four double handfuls of lump charcoal under the grate.
Let the charcoal get started and there should be very little smoke, almost none, from the fire.
Put your double foil wrapped potatoes on the grate to one side of the fire.
Chop up your veggies
Put your CAST IRON (not anything else like aluminum, it will melt) pan indirectly over the fire to start to get warm. Do not add any fat to the pan yet.
Prepare the streak with salt and pepper and maybe oil.
Move the pan directly over the fire and let it heat until it starts to smoke, add a generous amount of fat (olive oil, bacon fat). One of my favorite things to do is cook about 5 pieces of bacon, started in a cold pan, and the drop the steak into the sizzling hot pan once the bacon is done.
It is very important that the pan be hot before the steak goes in.
Drop the steaks in the pan, and let cook on one side (don't touch them for a least 3 minutes, keep that spatula to yourself, those steaks need time to cook and brown, and they won't brown up nicely if you keep pushing it around).
3-4 minutes for medium rare.
Use the steak done-ness test for your particular tastes, but it you cook it until it is a rubbery narly bone-dry sponge.. then I might have to take away your chef privileges.
Remember that the potatoes take a long time, at least 40 minutes. Which means that once you get your fire started, get the potatoes on and then do the rest of your prep and have a beer or whatever you brought for refreshments.
Once the steak is done, drop it onto some plates to REST.
Put your frying pan back on the fire and cook your veggies.
Oh... you wanted low-fat? This was practice. Low-fat takes skill. So you are going to have to keep cooking bacon and steak until you are ready to move on.