works of wanderlust

Category: tucking in

  • Gaige’s Famous Inside-Out Grilled Cheese

    Some day I’ll dig into my second-favourite cooking topic after cast iron, and write some posts about sourdough bread. In the meantime, know that my classic sandwich loaf sourdough serves as the base for a mouthwatering recipe that blurs my passion for cast iron cooking with fresh bread and delicious lunch foods. It’s a simple

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Why I Cook on Cast Iron (Part One)

    Do you remember the first time you got the perfect sear? I do. We had come into a couple thousand dollars as a small inheritance. The decision had been made years prior that any windfalls like that would be rolled back into our house. It was simple: money from a family legacy transformed into value

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  • When Good Iron Goes Bad

    My beloved twenty inch cast iron grill pan developed an ugly blemish over the autumn months. A scar. A scab. A patch of failing seasoning crusted, bubbled and flaked off leaving a rough spot the size of a medium pancake on the middle edge of an otherwise awesomely seasoned piece. This isn’t beauty-shaming. A good

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