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Hacking Extreme Grilled Cheese
Even if you have been a reader of my blog and fan of Cast Iron Guy since it’s very early days, chances are high that you didn’t know me before the pandemic. I used to be a guy who spent ten to twelve hours per day either downtown, or transporting to and from downtown for
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Recipe: Cast Iron Breakfast Hashbrowns
I’ve eaten breakfast in many places around the world, and its fair to say that anywhere you wake up to a meal that place probaby has it’s own style of morning eats that defines it as a culture. At home, I tend to spread a little jam on some toasted slices of sourdough bread and
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Stir Fried Campfire
It had been far too many months since I had found myself with a good day to build a small campfire in the backyard. But Saturdays, even chilly ones in mid-Spring, can sometimes avail themselves of enough freedom and opportunity to reignite something interesting, sometimes literally. My plan to have winter fires outdoors this past
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Sourdough Muffins
What are English Muffins called in England? Muffins? Breakfast muffins? Half a Benny? As I grilled these doughy disks on my cast iron skillet this morning with my daughter lingering over my shoulder hoping she could nab one for her breakfast, I wasn’t really pondering such things. As 2022 progresses and I recall back to
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Lotsa Bread
I’ve been thinking about bread a lot more than I’ve been writing about it here. Eating it too. I crossed yet another sourdough milestone this past weekend when I extracted from my hot oven a pair of pandemic bread loaves, loaves numbered two-hundred-and-forty-nine and two-hundred-and-fifty. Yes, I keep track. And yes, I’ve baked 250 loaves