Austin “Pie” Moreno · The Chuck Wagon Cookbook

The suppers that fed the roundup, made for your kitchen.

Soft cinnamon rolls in a cast-iron skillet. Biscuits under bacon gravy. A slow pot roast with coffee-molasses gravy. 33 chuck wagon comfort-food recipes, each with the story behind it and what it costs to make.

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“None of it’s hard. All of it’s honest food.”Pie

33Complete recipes

96Illustrated pages

11Tales from the wagon

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The Book

Everybody Calls Me Pie

Forgotten chuck wagon recipes and the stories behind them, written for a regular oven and stovetop, with groceries from any store.

$17.99Launch price, through December 16.
$37.99 after that.

33 recipes with clear, numbered steps
A photo of every dish, in big, easy-to-read type
What each recipe costs to make
11 Tales from the Wagon, and a story with every recipe
A cowboy kitchen glossary, old grocery prices, high-altitude tips and kitchen safety notes

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Digital book only. No paper copy is mailed.

The Math

A week of real suppers, priced out plate by plate.

Every recipe in the book tells you what it costs. Here is what seven of the suppers come to at the grocery store.

Seven suppers, per plate

Crispy potato dumplings with bacon & onions$1.25

Cowboy cottage pie with cheddar mash$2.70

Cast-iron chicken with sage & bacon butter$2.85

Chicken-fried steak with cream gravy$3.35

Chuckwagon chili with beef & bacon$3.40

Roundup beef stew with fluffy dumplings$4.90

Dutch oven pot roast with coffee-molasses gravy$6.05

A full week, per person$24.50

And for something sweet

Sourdough cinnamon rolls, each40¢

Cowboy doughnuts, each40¢

Spiced apple hand pies, each60¢

Bread pudding, a serving75¢

Dutch oven peach cobbler, a serving$1.05

Pull down the skillet, put the coffee on, and feed the whole table for less than you’d guess.

Costs are estimates based on US grocery prices in November 2026, and yours will vary. Recipes and serving sizes are as printed in the book.

What’s Inside

Six sections, 33 recipes.

Every recipe gives you a story from Pie’s world, a short “Back on the Trail” note, the ingredients, clear steps, the cost and a photograph.

7 recipes

Breakfast at the Wagon

Sourdough cinnamon rolls, buttermilk biscuits with bacon gravy, syrup-pail flapjacks, coffee-rubbed steak & eggs, the roundup skillet and more.

3 recipes

Breads

Brown-butter skillet cornbread with whipped honey butter, frying-pan bread with garlic bacon butter, and cheddar-jalapeño drop biscuits.

11 recipes

Suppers

Chuckwagon chili, Dutch oven pot roast, chicken-fried steak, beef stew with dumplings, braised short ribs, cowboy cottage pie and more.

3 recipes

Sides

Potatoes & onions fried in bacon grease, sweet-hot cowboy candy, and skillet creamed corn with bacon.

7 recipes

Sweets for the Crew

Dutch oven peach cobbler, cinnamon-sugar cowboy doughnuts, bread pudding with brown-butter caramel, spiced apple hand pies and more.

2 recipes

Coffee & Drinks

Real cowboy coffee, done right, and a hot spiced cider for a cold night.

Plus 11 Tales from the Wagon. The strange old dishes, the pranks and the hungry crews, set at the end of the chapters.

Look Inside

Real pages from the real book.

Two book pages showing the Buttermilk Biscuits with Bacon Sawmill Gravy recipe — Pages 13 and 14: the biscuits and gravy, start to finish.

Two book pages showing the table of contents — Pages 4 and 5: the contents.

Close portrait of Pie smiling in his kitchen

Meet Pie

Don’t ask him why they call him that.

Pie is seventy-one. He spent fifty winters riding for cow outfits in the Big Horn country of Montana, a good many of them alone in a line shack with a wood stove, a coffee pot and whatever was left in the flour sack.

The recipes came down from Grandma Ruth’s kitchen, Granddad Eli’s tricks and Pa Walt’s roundup wagon. The old dishes that weren’t fit to eat stayed in the stories. The ones worth making got real butter and cream.

A note about Pie: Austin “Pie” Moreno is an AI fictional storyteller, and his family and their kitchen memories are fiction. The history notes draw on documented ranch and frontier accounts, and the recipes are adapted for today’s kitchen.

Questions

Before you buy.

Is a paper book coming in the mail?

No. This is a digital book, a PDF. Nothing is shipped. If you like paper, you can print the pages you want to cook from on regular US Letter paper.

How do I get the book?

You pay through Gumroad, and your download appears right after. Gumroad emails you the link too, so you can come back to it later.

What can I read it on?

Any phone, tablet or computer that can open a PDF. The type is set big on purpose.

Do I need a wood stove or a campfire?

No. Every recipe is written for a regular home oven or stovetop, with groceries from any store. Many use a cast-iron skillet or a Dutch oven.

Is this a subscription?

No. You pay one time and there is nothing more to pay.

Why does the price go up?

$17.99 is the launch price, and it runs through 11:59 PM Eastern on December 16, 2026. After that, the book is $37.99.

Is Pie a real person?

No. Pie is an AI fictional storyteller, and his family stories are fiction. The history notes draw on documented ranch and frontier accounts.

I have another question.

Write to hello@austinmoreno.com.

Put the coffee on. Supper’s in the book.

33 recipes, 96 illustrated pages and the stories behind them, for $17.99, one time.

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