Category: cast iron guy

  • Saturday Chocolate Chip Pancakes

    My twenty inch cast iron grill pan sees service at least once a week (when we’re home, that is) on Saturday mornings as a pancake making workstation. For at least a decade our family tradition is a fresh batch of these simple breakfast treats. 1 1/3 cups of all purpose flour3 tablespoons of granulated sugar1

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  • Looking for Treasure with Help from a Satellite

    Does anyone geocache anymore? More than a decade ago I bought myself a little handheld GPS unit. The Garmin took a pair of AA batteries, warmed up for at least five minutes, and hung on a little lanyard. I would connect it to the computer after downloading a small selection of local cache coordinates, send

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  • Book: Campfire Cuisine

    For Thursdays I was thinking about starting a regular feature called Tuck & Tech that would let me muse about gear, books, recipes, and other kit. I’m neither sponsored nor provided any of these things. I just find them interesting or useful. A curious recipe book showed up in my stocking this past Christmas: Campfire

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  • boundary

    I am not a poet, but a friend has inspired me to read more of it and think more critically about its place in the constellation of my creative pursuits. Occasionally, I’d like to post a poem here when inspiration strikes. boundarydemarcated by strict panels of hewn lumberset against remnant forest clinging to a river

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  • When This is Over I’m Getting on a Plane

    Travel Tuesday, and I’m sitting here (just like a good chunk of the world) locked down in my basement during a global pandemic. We (fortunately) banked partial refunds and credit for two sets of flights from twenty-twenty COVID cancellations. This means that last year we didn’t get to go any further than we could drive

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