works of wanderlust

Category: cast iron

  • Ten Hunks of Meat for Any Occasion That Cook Great on Cast Iron

    Apologies to my vegetarian friends out there, but this one is for the omnivores in my audience. Never was I so convinced of the superiority of cast iron as part of my cooking contraptions than after I’ve plated some perfectly seared meat. Hopefully these ten classics will inspire you to oil up a pan. 1.

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  • Making Homemade New York(ish) Style Pizza for Pi Day

    The kid was determined to eat round for March 14th. We’d already made a pair of fruit dessert pies for later, but she decided that pizza was on the menu. What better way to make use of one of those specialty cast iron pieces that doesn’t otherwise see much day-to-day use: the 14 inch pizza

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  • This is Pi Day

    Any excuse to bake something, my pie skills are not top game but with the assistance of my daughter we managed to bake a pair of non-standard cast iron pies to celebrate the dad-jokiest of days. We doubled the recipe below to make a six inch mini (or as the teenager would have it, personal)

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  • Pi Day, Eve

    We spent the evening making pies. Tomorrow is March 14th. It’s one of those “we celebrate the day because it’s funny“ kinda days. The third month. The fourteenth day. 3-14 3.14 Pi. π Pi day. Last year I bought a pie on my way back to my office after lunch. It was March 13th. I

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  • Why do I need to put so much work into my cast iron?

    Can’t I just beat it up and use it how I feel like? I was reading a r/castiron post over on Reddit recently and someone asked this simple question. It was along the lines of why y’all putting in so much work to your frying pans? I don’t and it still mostly works. Who cares!

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