works of wanderlust

Tag: personal backstory

  • Fail Up Friday: Forked Cream

    If you’ve been reading along for the last few days, I posted a comic earlier this week that tried to find a bit of humour in some recent… um… less-than-perfect cooking efforts. Thinking about funny ideas for future comic strips means I’ve also been thinking of all the fails I’ve had over the years. Not

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  • Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Cooking with Friends

    Bear with me. Just as I may be accused of jumping on the pop culture bandwagon (following my twitter and news feeds being filled yesterday with the sensationalized announcements that some middle-aged actors from a television show that ended fifteen years ago are having a reunion episode) apparently authors of cookbooks do the same. Back

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  • Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Five Roses

    There was a point in time about fifteen years ago when I would have told you that the best way to make pancakes was to follow the directions on the box. And see, everyone who dabbles in more advanced cooking techniques than as-per-manufacturers-instructions likely has a story of that one recipe that upon discovering it

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  • One Month Down, Many to Go

    February one. It is the first day of the second month of 2021 and so also the start of my second month of daily blogging here on castironguy.ca. I thought about writing of the challenge of finding time, space, and focus to write here every day for a whole month, and while those words may

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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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