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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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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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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
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Backyard Ribs: Part One, The Rub
It’s the first Saturday in May and I woke up to a clear blue sky and a weather forecast that was begging for a day outdoors. It’s always a gamble, of course, to plan twelve hours ahead of your cooking time for a backyard grill, particularly something as elaborate as a fire smoking some pork
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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.