The Storm That Nearly Broke Me | Cooking Through a Texas Ranch Storm

Now, Ken, there is I mean, you've been through a lot of storms. Yes, ma'am. But there is one that maybe you would call like the epic storm of your career. Is that correct? The one that we're saying maybe nearly even broke you. >> Howdy. My name is Kent Rollins. I've been a cowboy and a chuck wagon cook for over 30 years, cooking for ranches all across America. You might have seen me on the Food Network or alongside my beautiful wife Shannon on our YouTube show where we share cowboy cooking from the trail. But now we're going to take you behind the scenes to real campfire conversations. Join us as we share humor, cowboy wisdom, and stories full of history, heart, faith, and of course, a little fire. So, grab you a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and welcome to the podcast. Hey, thank y'all for joining us here on this podcast. My name is Kent Rollins. This is my beautiful wife, Shannon. Oh my gosh. And there's a lot of stuff people might not know what really goes on when you're a chuck wagon cook. >> That is absolutely true. And when we got to thinking about all your crazy stories, I think the thing that people don't realize, the hardest thing about being a chuck wagon cook is not what you would think. It's not like, "Oh, we ran out of groceries. Oh, I messed up this recipe. I burned the biscuits." What, Kent, would you say is the hardest thing about being a chuck wagon cook? >> Mother Nature's forest. Weather. you. I don't care how good a weather man you think you are or what's fitting to happen. This is not a stand and stir inhouse place. This is outside in mother nature's elements and she's wanting to kick your butt if she gets a chance. >> You have cooked. You have said you have cooked in everything that mother nature has created. Is that correct? Tornado, hail storms. >> Yes. >> Have you been in a hurricane? >> I've been real close when it's 70 mph wind and it was raining straight down. And in Oklahoma, we used to have more earthquakes than anybody. So, I've had some of them, too. Shake the dishes. When something is thrown at you like that, and you've said it so many times, when you're a chuck wagon cook, you don't have just plan ABC. You have plan X, Y, Z, and then you have to look in the dictionary to see if there's any more alphabet most of the time. But you never let it stop you, >> right? You know, >> you can't because there's no there's nobody there. You can't call in sick. >> A chuck wagon cook cannot have a sick day. You just have to get through it. So, in fact, can can you just paint a picture for those that do don't know what our camp setup looks like? >> You know, we we pull in off this old pasture road to a camp that's maybe six, seven miles off any major highway or civilization. And uh trailer's on a wagon, unload Bertha, which is a wood stove first. >> And and Bertha is not just a wood stove. Bertha is a big old gal. >> She's 385 pounds a hunk of burning love. She is. And uh get her set out there first. Roll the wagon off. And then we have a 16x 24 tarp that is pitched just like a roof. >> Big canvas tarp >> which we call the fly of the wagon. >> The fly is attached above the wagon by a pole shoots out over and that's where our cover is. We have our kitchen bertha the wood stoves under that and then we have a little excess for the eating area or hanging out >> living room, dining room, all the accessories. >> Okay. And then of course in camp we have our tepee set up. >> Sometimes cowboys are set up in camp with us. Sometimes it's just us which is really nice. >> Yeah. In this particular ranch they were all staying in a bunk house. We were out there by oursel. >> That's right. So it was just us in camp. >> And we always set up the night before >> the works the work start. So yeah, we we settle into camp. Um and I remember it was so peaceful. We got the wagon set up, our tepee set up, and it was just us in camp. It was a pretty nice camp. Um, like you said, we were about Were we about like 15 20 miles from town? >> Yeah, probably >> 5 miles from the the road. >> Yeah. >> So, we were we were remote and it was nice. But, so here's where it gets a little hairy. I remember the ranch manager, Rob or owner, called Kent on the cell phone and it was really nice because a lot of times we don't have service in camp and he said, "Hey guys, there is a tornado coming. You should head into town." And Kent's like, "Okay, whatever. Great." And I'm thinking, "Oh, I need to get my stuff together. We need to pack the truck and get out of here." Kent's not moving at all. And Rob calls again. He's like, "Guys, it's getting really bad." where his house was situated. He was right by the road where he had already seen five stormchasers like barreling through. He's like, "Guys, it's going to get bad. You need to get to town. I'm freaking out." Kent again, >> you have no care in the world. >> I knew what was going to happen. >> So, the reason you knew and you were not afraid is Kent said, "The nature signs are are there's no problem." >> Yeah. >> So, Kent is there. He's like looking like, "Oh, the birds are not moving in a southeast direction and the cows are eating grass at like 3 seconds a bite, so we're fine." I mean, he's got all these like weird nature signs and I'm saying the weather channel said, "Get the heck out of there. We need to go. I don't care what this cow is saying." So, he's trying to like talk me off a cliff. He's having no problem. >> No problem at all. So then it starts getting like you can see this storm building and I remember looking up and you had you had anchored down the tepee and the fly. >> Yeah. >> Just in case. And I remember you could see the storm building in the south was it? Yeah. >> Southwest. >> And sure enough this thing, you can see it just heading straight forward for us. And then all of a sudden, for no reason at all, it turns and heads right for town and hit town. And I'm thinking, you've got to be kidding me. How did you know this? >> Well, you figure it out. All the old-timers told me this when I was little anyway. But >> you depend on mother nature, you know, to give you signs to for warning. And that is all the critters that's crawling on the ground or flying or everything in the world. Now, there was all kinds of doves in camp. All kinds of sparrows in camp, metal larks, you know, cows were grazing not too far from us. They know more than we know about weather due to barometric pressure mostly. And they wasn't leaving camp. So, I'm thinking this is probably the safest place to be. And it was cuz even Rob got shingles blowed off his house. We didn't have nothing blown away. >> No. It was crazy. And that just goes to show you like some of the simplest things in life are still the best. >> That's right. >> And like for us in camp, we don't have running water. We don't have electricity. >> We do when it rains or it thunders and lightnings. >> Well, there you go. But I mean, we get the job done just like you would in a modern kitchen. >> Oh, yeah. >> So, um, >> it's easy. >> It It's easy when you simplify things. If you don't, and that's once something you've always said like >> life is simple. It's people who complicate it. And the weather or predicting the weather can can be the same way, >> you know, and it works whether it's a tornado or you're fishing to have a blizzard. Uh, and you can always sort of get a, you know, weatherman, they have this day called 10day forecast, you know. >> Yeah, >> we we had them at one time, you know, you you just sort of take into effect. And when I was on ranches so much, I used to keep a diary of what the weather was, but I'd also write down in there what I saw today to predict the weather. >> Oh, really? You know, if you seen this late in September, October in the fall and all the geese and all the sand hill cranes were flying south just as fast as they can. Nor's coming, you know. But you always just like a sailor, red sky at night, sailors delight, you know. >> And you have a trick with a cup of coffee, right? On how to predict the weather. What is that? >> Well, you take cup of coffee that old Bertha has boiled up so nicely. And you pour it in a cup. Now, if the bubbles stay in the middle, the storm is coming. If they go to the outside, it's fair weather. It's just like a barometer that the weather people use. It's all due to pressure. And it's never failed me. I've seen it when we've done it, and we even did a video on it one time where we said, "Hey, storm's coming." It rained that evening. >> Yep. >> So, it don't take a whole lot to predict the weather. You know, uh, I've been a meteorologist half my life. >> Now, we're calling this episode the storm that nearly broke you, which was an epic storm that you had in the Texas panhandle, but you have actually been in a lot. I mean, obviously cooking for over what, 35 years in a wagon. You have come across a lot of bad weather. So, like, what was one of like maybe the top five? >> I don't know. was probably 13, 14, 15 years ago. Uh Randall Gates, good friend of ours, and he called and he said, "Hey, Kenny," he said, "I'm going to need to cook for about 3 weeks if you could help me out." Just like every place I've ever been in my life, the first day and evening was so beautiful. And everybody was setting up their tepee. It's probably I think 17 cowboys is what I was feeding. And uh we got all the all the pegs drove in good. Randall come over there late that evening and he said, "I just talked to Julie on the phone, Kent." And he said, "Uh, there's a tornado about five miles west of here with softball size hail." He said, "Anything we need to do?" And I said, "We'll pray a little that goes around and we'll drive them tent pegs in a little deeper and them fly stakes down in the ground." >> See, and that's the difference with me. I mean, I'm out of there and you guys just hunker down. >> Well, I mean, that's that's the job. You've always heard the expression weather the storm. >> Oh yeah. >> You know, so >> literally >> we if they're out there in it, I need to be out there, too, cuz you never know cuz that that wagon may be theirs, but it's my responsibility while I'm cooking on that ranch and that's my family to take care of. So, we got her all ready there and drove all the stakes a little deeper and Randall went around told everybody, you know, said, "Hey, it's a bad storm coming." Well, it started hailing. And they were sort of like golf balls. And I'm thinking, ain't nothing to this, you know, got this made. I just laying on there in the cot listening to that rain beating on there. And then I got to noticing that some of that hail was hitting them tepee poles and sounded like baseballs coming 60 70 mph, just pinging as it hit the ground. And then I heard them beating on that pickup that I had parked out there. I unzipped the door just a little and looked out and it was probably, I'd say, baseball in size. But they wasn't all just round. It's just old jagged pieces of ice. >> Yeah. >> The next one hit, ripped a hole in my teepee sort of right up there at the top where it hit because it just cut it and about that time the wind blew the teepee over. Now a tepee is just held with two poles. It's not an Indian tepee, >> right? So these teepeees are not what you think of if you haven't seen um if you're watching on YouTube, we'll pop up a picture of our tepee. So what they're called, they're not traditional as you would think Native American teepee. They are what's called a range tepee or a cowboy tepee. So it's still um triangular, >> but it typically has two poles on either side that holds it up. >> Yeah. And they do a good job. >> Okay. So it's blown over, but you're inside >> and I can feel the hail hitting me in the back through the tarp. So I'm thinking I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know where to go when it's getting like this. And that's under the cot. So >> I crawl under the cot. And I mean it's just beating you to death. You know, I can feel it hitting me in the butt, hitting me in the back, and I'm thinking it's time to abandon ship. Now, I was born naked, you know what I mean? And I sleep naked. So, I put on my Crocs and I made me a mad dash to the pickup. And I mean, that hail was hitting me in the back of the head. They was windows and pickups down there that got cracked so bad from the hail. When it finally quit, I snuck in there and got my clothes, put them back on, went around there to look at the fly that wagon, and it there was probably four big old holes in it that had just beat in there from that hail. All the firewood was wet, you know. But, uh, Randall come around in a minute. He said, "You all right?" I said, "I got bruised a little, but I'm all right." I said, "The fly is standing, but it's got some holes in it." But everybody survived. Everybody knew what was going to happen in a way. and everybody overcame. There was nobody panicked and said, "Oh my god, I'm leaving and going home." >> That's the thing that's crazy to me. I have been in a few storms and nobody panics. Like >> you can tell when there's a little bit of a stress or like, "Oh, we need to do these things to get ready for the storm." But uh in in cowboy camp, nobody panics and you just kind of take it the way it comes. But there's, you know, so many storms that really in a way you think it can't get no worse than this. You know, there's no man on a ranch told me one time, he said, "You you can rest when you die." You know, and that was sort of the mentality that a lot of them old-timers had. You you never let anything phase you. Always weather the storm. >> Now, Ken, there is I mean, you've been through a lot of storms. >> Yes, ma'am. >> But there is one that maybe you would call like the epic storm of your career. Yes. >> Is that correct? The one that we're saying maybe nearly even broke you. >> I think of that every time we set a the fly up on a ranch somewhere and people say, "Oh, the weather's going to get bad." And always say, "I don't think it can get no worse than it was, uh them two or three days in the Palader Canyon." Now, for those of y'all who don't know where that might be, you draw you a line from Amarilla to Claude, Texas, and then you just go just a little bit to the south. There's the Pelador Canyon. second largest in the United States. Set up camp first night. Everybody got in their teepeees, you know, after supper. We always cook steak when we move camp. So, everybody was fat full and happy. And the next morning, I got up 2:00 and had old wagons set up, you know, like the fly, but had canvas walls that uh snapped in, closed it all up cuz in the winter when it's like that, I don't sleep in a tepee. I sleep in there where it's all closed up with bertha and got a good wood pile and I can cook I can keep it above freezing most of the time. >> It's pretty cozy. >> It is. Yeah. >> So, uh that night I thought, well, it is a beautiful night. Stars were shining. Wasn't no wind. Next morning I get up 2:30, keep me a little transistor radio in there to hear the weather. Uh or maybe catch up on a little news on occasion. Turned it on that morning at 2:30. This guy said, 'Oh, it's going to be a beautiful day in the Texas panhandle today. He said, 'But hang on to your stuff tonight. Put a rock in your pocket and wear two layers of long handles cuz it is a three dog cold night. And that's when it takes three dogs to get in bed with you to keep you from freezing. So I heard him say, "Ws tomorrow 65 mph with gusts to 80." And I'm thinking that there will tear the top off a windmill. And all that time where they were given that weather, as I went through the day, I'm thinking, what can I do to prepare for this? It's not one of them deals to where we're going to run from it. We're here. We got count. Things are going to take place regardless. Whether it's 90° or it's 20 below zero, it's going to happen. So, it happened. And I mean, I have never seen wind like that in my life. And we didn't get any there wasn't any moisture with it. Uh there wasn't even no clouds hardly. It's just that old northwest wind that was howling and just a roll and a cloud of dirt down there because it'd been so dry during the uh the summer and the fall anyway. And it got so dark. I remember having to light a lantern at 3:00 that evening and the wind just kept beating and beating. And I'd go out there with that old sledgehammer boy and I'd draw back. I'd knock them stakes in the ground some more cuz it just kept popping them out, pulling them out. and I'd get it retied. And I remember when I was out there and you'd walk around the corner of that fly with that hammer and that old northwest wind would catch you and it was so cold it just felt like somebody was cutting you in two. I'd take that hammer and I'd drive them stakes in there and I'd get a hold of the fly rope and try to wrap it around them stakes and the wind just jerking you back all the time. Put me a half hitch in it, run back in there in the kitchen and try to get things to going. And there's a metal pole that sets by old Bertha so it don't catch on fire. It broke that string on that top pole up there where that metal pole is. And it's got a long pin in it that goes through that grommeted tarp. And it was just like a butcher knife when it come out. Cut all the way down one side from the peak to the bottom and then all the way to the other end. So we have a an 8ft rip here and a 14t rip going that way. the best thing I can do right now, take it all down because it's just going to shred it if I don't. So, I go to laying poles down, pulling ropes, just letting it blow up against ski trees over there cuz I thinking I just got two holes right now. I don't want it ripped to shreds. So, pull it all over there. Lucky enough when them old cowboys come in about 4:30, the wind had died a little, but they all look at me and they you could tell they were just dumbfounded. And he said, "Kent, what happened to the house?" I said, "Y'all been out there in it. You know what happened to that house." I said, "I called old Chris Morton. He going to bring me some thread and a needle." And I said, "I'll get it sewed up. Don't y'all worry." I said, "Cuz they're calling for snow at the end of the week." I said, "We'll get her back." That night after I cooked supper, everybody went to the teepee. My house was demolished. The fly was gone. >> It blew down your Oh, yeah. I didn't I didn't have TP. >> So you have no cover? >> No, >> you're just adjust your >> I'm sleeping right up beside O Bertha loving on. >> And what's the temperature at right now? >> Probably three >> three degrees. >> Yeah, but Bertha's blocking the wind, you know, so I'm thinking electric blankets working really good tonight. So after breakfast that morning and uh you know when you got the tarp up and you got two lanterns lit, it's pretty light in there. But when it's just wide open spaces and you got a lantern, it ain't putting out near as much light. It's a little harder to cook breakfast that morning. But we got them all fed. And I told him, I said, "To help me out," I said, "I got up early and I said, I fixed some burritos that y'all can carry with you. I know y'all are going to the top today," which is there was a set of pins at the top up there, and they were branding cattle that they had moved up there the day before. And I said, "Y'all can heat them over the Brandon fire." This way I can wash breakfast dishes and commence to sewing because it's gonna take a long time. >> And I want to point out too, this isn't just like you're sewing a shirt, like a button on a shirt. This is a super heavy canvas. Yeah. >> Like did you have a special >> had a big old big old leather needle, you know, and then >> I have some really good wax nylon thread that's pretty thick. You're going to patch it with a piece of tarp. So, I always carry extra tarp. Cut me a piece about this wide. Laid that fly out there and laid that down to where it covers. Now, you do this for about 3 hours sitting on a little wooden bench and your fingers is numb and cold cuz I can't hardly do this with gloves on. I wasn't even half through when it was time to cook supper. I mean, there's a lot to this that goes on because still you got to think, hey, I've got to cook cake for dessert that night. I got to make biscuits. It ain't just like I'm just sewing and that's all I got. So after supper that night, everybody went back to teepee. It was so calm and peaceful. I mean, you could have heard a prairie dog fart three miles away. I mean, this is some of the best sleeping weather that you could have if you was warm, you know. >> Yeah. >> Well, another night sleeping in that bedroom, laying by old Bertha. Get up the next morning. I get up extra a little extra early. get up about 2 that morning. Not only did I make breakfast, but I made a pot of chili. So, everybody commuted to the top in the pickup truck and I said, "Here, take this chili with you. These bowls, these spoons, these crackers, and that cheese." I said, "Y'all heated up on that fire. I'm going to sew today. I'm going to try to finish and I'm going to try to get the kitchen back in shape." Well, that day it was back to sewing. And uh nearly got through. I didn't like maybe a good I'd say maybe that far on one side. >> Maybe 16 inches. >> Yeah. But I wasn't I didn't want to set it up and think I have to take it back down to finish the sewing. >> Oh yeah. No. >> But we did get some snow that night and everybody sat around that fire and they said, "Your hands hurt." And I said, "Yeah, from sewing." You know, it's it's something that I took on to look thinking I can finish this. But there would be times during the day when I was sew and I'd think, you know, we'll just do without it. You don't quit in the middle of something. You know, a job never gets finished if you don't ever start. But if it's never complete, you look back, it's your fault you didn't complete it. You didn't have the gumption. You didn't have the try, the desire. And there's a lot of people that's going through stuff in life that they think, "I can't get through or I can't do that." Hey, you're never alone in that situation. God is there with you and all you got to do is ask him, "Lord, bless me right now. Give me the courage and the strength I need to get through this." The biggest thing is they got to have the faith to step out there and do it. And uh I'll never forget that there was of all the storms I've ever been in, that was the one where I'm thinking, "This will make you, this will break you." You know, one of my favorite quotes um is, "How do you eat an elephant?" >> Yeah. >> One bite at a time. And I'm sure when you were looking at that fly, which is massive, and you're just doing one little stitch at a time, but one little stitch and one more stitch that'll get you to the end. Oh, yeah. >> And you just have to like whatever you're going through. >> It may seem insurmountable, but it's just one bite at a time. It's one stitch at a time and eventually you'll get to the end. >> Yeah. I mean, if it was easy, everybody would do it. You know, my dad told me a long time ago, get a job you really like. Do it better than anybody else. You'll never have a job. I've been on vacation for 40 years. Well, and I also want to say like maybe for for those who who don't know >> the fly and camp is so important to not only the mor the the safety but also the morale of camp because it's your home away from home. >> Yeah. It's the camaraderie that's there. It is, you know, these people become family. Yeah. >> You know, and we take care of them that night especially. I got both lanterns going. Old Bertha is full of good hard mosquet wood. You know, it's been a long day for everybody. Everybody's feet's cold. People got frostbit ears, you know, and they sit around o birth and they're like, "Thank you, Jesus." With every one of them storms, Shen, that I've been in, you've been in, all the places that we have went and seen, there's always things we take away from it. And most of it is still we had the best view out our kitchen window that anybody's ever seen. We met some of the best people in the world uh while we were there. We all went through some hard times together, but we all learned something from it. And we all sat down every morning and we thank God for what we had and we had us a cup of cowboy coffee. And a lot of y'all might not even know what cowboy coffee is. And a lot of you think if you've heard the word, oh my gosh, that stuff is stouted float two horseshoes and a battleshoe. If you make coffee right, the way we make it, it is the best coffee you ever had in your life. I have recommended this to people who had acid reflux, acid indigestion. Coffee made their stomach hurt because you take that old big coffee pot and I I've got a big one that sets on the wagon and I fill it to water right here to the bottom of the spout. Set her on O Bertha, which is that wood stove. Let it get warm. Now, when that water gets warm, open the top. And for that big old pot, it's three handfuls of ground coffee. Big handfuls, which is about 2 and 1/2 cups. Shut the lid. We're going to bring it to a rolling boil. Don't leave the lid shut all the time because it'll boil plum over. Look at it. You can see it boiling. Don't just let it simmer. Let it boil. Now, so many years ago when somebody got burned at McDonald's for drinking coffee and then there was a lawsuit and everybody want to turn the coffee water temperature down for a long time. When you boil coffee and boiling, let me see, go back to my physical mathematical days, 212 degrees, right? When it's at a rolling bowl, it's probably about 230 and it's just rolling. When it's doing that, it's breaking down the tannon in the coffee bean, which is going to release acid. Let her boil five minutes. Slide her off there to the warm side. Take you a cup of cold water. Pour a little down the spout to wash the grounds down there. Pour the rest around the edge. What does that do? Settles all the grounds to the bottom of the pot. People used to say, "I put it in a sock. That's how I bowl it. I don't get no grounds in there." Who would stop before you put it in there? I'm not going to use a sock. I promise you this has worked for me forever and ever. And I watched old-timers make it in coffee cans the same way a Brandon Fires. But when you make it like this, let it set for just a minute and you pour you a cup of coffee out of there. It is the smoothest coffee in the world. >> It is. And if you're making this at home, it's one quart of water to a4 a cup of grounds. And you can make cowboy coffee in any type of vessel. We've made it in a saucepan before. >> Made it in a tin can. >> It's just the process of boiling to break it down to make it smooth and we've blown people away. >> Oh yeah. We were at Branson cooking Missouri cooking for this festival. Seven weeks long. Coffee first thing on. Was doing a sourdough biscuit demonstration. And before that you're just we got four of them big old coffee pots and we're just pouring coffee. Pouring coffee. This guy raised his hand. They about 300 people out there watching. He said, "Uh, got a question for you, cowboy." I said, "What's that?" He said, "I am a coffee connoisseur." I said, "I don't know what that is, sir, but I like coffee." He said, "Uh, this might be the best cup of coffee I ever drank in my life." I said, "Well, thank you." He said, "How you make it?" I said, "I'll give you a recipe." I said, "It's water, coffee, and fire." No. He said, "I don't think you understand." He said, "I have coffee plantations all around the world." He said, "I import coffee. I sell coffee. I know coffee better than anyone. So tell me how you make it. He said, "I want to know what brand of coffee you use." I said, "Uh, I get mine imported." He said, "Where from?" I said, "Walmart." I said, "Folders." He said, "Oh, I don't drink folders." I said, "You've drank three cups today, brother. You're knocking it out." He said, "Well, give me that recipe." So, I give it to him. water to the bottom of the spout. Three handfuls of coffee. Let it come to a rolling boil. Five minutes. Pull it off there. Let it set. Pour a cup of cold water down the spout. You got good cowboy coffee. I didn't see him for about three and a half weeks, wasn't he? And then he came back and he mad as an old wet hen. Come up there want to fight. Told me that I ruined his life. Made him look like a fool in front of his friends. I said, "I wasn't there. You done that by yourself." He said, "That coffee was so bad and I had coffee buyers that I were entertaining and they said it was awful." I said, "You made it, brother. I wasn't there." I said, "You follow the recipe?" He said, "Yeah." Water to the bottom of the spout, three handfuls of coffee, let it boil five minutes. I had a stopwatch. Pulled it off, poured the cold water, let it set three minutes. He said, "You couldn't drink it." I said, "How big is your coffee pot?" He said, "A four cuper." And this is a true story. And I looked at him and I said, "Sir, sometimes you got to be smarter than what you messing with. >> It ain't. That's trying to complicate things." Again, >> that's complicated. And especially when you're making it in what, a two gallon pot? >> Yeah. >> Doesn't work with four cups. >> But hey, Shen podcast, we didn't even have to build a fire. >> No. and um with all like all your stories. That's why like you've got so many stories from the campfire to cooking to I mean out on the trail. Um that's why we wanted to do this. >> It's uh to me it's it's great to share stories because that's sharing history. >> Absolutely. >> And if we don't share history, it's lost. So >> that's what we're trying to do. Share history. a little humor, a little cowboy wisdom. Um, and we're going to be doing this every week. So, we'd love for you all to tune in, share, subscribe, follow, and please rate us on your favorite podcast. Um, five stars only, please. Anything lower, go to a different one. >> Yeah. First of all, before we get out of here, to all you servicemen and women and all you veterans out there, we appreciate and we salute you. We do. Uh we thank you for what you've done for us to keep us all safe. We commend you all, my love. It's always a pleasure to be with you. Y'all be sure and join us now. Uh because thinking I'm liking this better than cooking. >> We got a story every week and you never know what's going to happen. >> God bless you each and everyone. We'll see you down the podcast trail. Pioneer.

I've cooked through tornadoes, blizzards, and baseball-sized hail, but nothing came close to three days in the Palo Duro Canyon, Texas. In this episode, Shannon and I share the storm that nearly broke me, and when you're cooking for cowboys, there are no days off. We'll also share how you can read nature better than any weatherman, and the cowboy coffee recipe so good it made a world-class coffee connoisseur furious. Check out our BEST SELLING cookbooks. Get your copy here: https://www.kentrollins.com/shop Also available at bookstores nationwide, and Amazon www.amazon.com/shop/cowboykentrollins --------------------------------- Connect with us! https://facebook.com/cowboykentrollins https://instagram.com/cowboykentrollins https://twitter.com/Kent_Rollins --------------------------------- Kent Rollins Cowboy Cooking, Cast Iron, Outdoor Cooking, Grilling, Dutch Oven Cooking Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you, we may receive a commission for your click through and purchase.