works of wanderlust

Tag: campfire

  • Can I use an outdoor grill or campfire to season my cast iron pan?

    Iron. Oil. Heat. These are the three foundational ingredients needed to season any cast iron pan. If you have a cast iron pan, a bit of oil, and a heat source then you should be able to season that pan. And so the simple answer is, yes, if your heat source is a campfire or

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  • Suburban Fire Craft (Part Two)

    Back in early March I introduced my readers to my simmering big plans to upgrade my backyard fire pit set up. For years we’ve not made campfires in our backyard a priority, mostly because we could go camping any time we wanted and evenings in the city were otherwise filled with social visits and travel.

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  • Suburban Fire Craft (Part One)

    I have been making big plans for how I’m going to spend another summer of limited travel and quasi-lockdown in my little suburban backyard. See, for at least five years we’ve had a small fire bowl set up in our yard. It has served the purpose of gathering friends and family around some burning logs,

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  • Recipe: Cast Iron Campfire Waffles

    Recipe: Cast Iron Campfire Waffles

    Even far from an electrical socket, when I wake up in the woods I still have a few morning rituals. I need my hot cup of coffee brewed in one of a variety of ways: steeped, perked, or filtered. I usually try to eat a piece of fruit to start my day off right. And

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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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