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Backyard: Fire
It’s been about a month since I settled on my backyard firepit solution but I haven’t said much about the pit itself save for posting a few photos of the results of my outdoor cooking efforts. My upgrade from a simple steel fire bowl was an effort to find a backyard firepit that answered a
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Banoffee Swirl Ice Cream
Tales from the Cast Iron Guy Creamery If you, like me, avoid those recipe blogs that spend the first fifteen pages of text explaining the backstory of the recipe, then I have a treat for you… merely two paragraphs, a photo, and of course a delicious ice cream recipe to follow. Our travel-food story goes
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a’la plancha
It’s Friday afternoon and it turns out that you really can learn something new every day. For example, while I was reading a new e-book that I had downloaded I also learned a new cast iron word. In fact, last night I was sitting in the truck waiting for my daughter to finish her dancing
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Should I avoid using soap on my cast iron pan?
About a week before I am writing this post, the official Twitter for Lodge Cast Iron posted a simple question: “Soap or no soap?” About fifty people weighed in on the debate, asserting a broad range of opinions from both Team Soap and Team No Soap. For the uninitiated the argument goes something like this:
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Backyard Ribs: Part Two, The Cook Up
This past Saturday morning I woke up at 6am and (after letting the dog out and setting the coffee to brew) I went to work making dinner. That is to say, I peeled open a family pack of pork ribs and mixed up a dry rub. I wrote about it in part one of this