Blue Cheese and Bacon Burgers + A Bull Moose Visit
So I've heated up the Weber Kettle and I'm brushing down the hot grill when I hear a "SNAP" from 30 yards away. This big guy has wandered onto my property and is feasting on my Gambel Oaks.I was really...
View ArticleHatch Green Chile and Chorizo Pizza
Sometimes simple is best. Whole wheat dough, olive oil, a tiny bit of tomato sauce, green chiles, chorizo, mozzerella & jack cheese with a little cojita crumbled over the top. 500 degrees on a...
View ArticleCast Iron Skillet Steak
This is Adam Roberts aka The Amateur Gourmet's food2.com video on cooking a steak. Besides being funny it is a good technique and he gets bonus karma for using a cast iron skillet. One of the more...
View ArticleBeware of crap cast iron endorsed by celebrity cooks
Hey Y'all, watch out for the flying shards of red hot cast iron! http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/paula-deen-cast-iron-pans-are-recalled/ Low quality casting produces voids and/or...
View ArticleThe last of the Eries
In 1880 the Seldon & Griswold Manufacturing Company began producing cast iron hollow ware (what we now call cookware) in its Erie, Pennsylvania factory. Labeled "ERIE", the finished product was...
View ArticleYou Stupid Bloggers Killed Gourmet Magazine
That is the gist of Christopher Kimball's argument found here. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/opinion/08kimball.html?_r=2 Kimball is the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, author of several...
View ArticleSmothered Pork Chops with Apple Cider, Onions and Mushrooms
Comfort Food Rather than give the exact recipe (which would be hard because I didn't measure much) I'll just go through what I did and you can follow or vary as you like. Brown 4 pork chops in a...
View ArticleJoanna Pruess' Cast Iron Cookbook
As a blogger I've received a few free cookbooks. The author/publisher will send out copies hoping for some publicity. Until I received Joanna's book I had not been given one that I actually wanted to...
View ArticleIntroduction to Camp Dutch Oven Cooking Videos
Texas Parks and Wildlife has uploaded some great introductory videos about outdoor Camp Dutch Oven cooking. http://www.youtube.com/user/TexasParksWildlife Enjoy the videos and if you haven't tried...
View ArticleLucky Number 13 - Habanero Hot Sauce
I really like hot sauce. After draining my 46 bezillionth bottle last weekend I decided to make some myself. I've made various kinds before but this time I decided to quit dicking around and make some...
View ArticleCarne de Puerco en Salsa Verde
I was looking for something to do with the last bits of the pig we won at a benefit auction. I really liked that pig, we'll call him Melvin. Melvin was a fine pig and the 4 shoulder steaks seemed to be...
View ArticleSunday's Roast Chicken & Dinner Rolls - Camp Dutch Oven Style
In a classic case of "monkey see, monkey do" I was inspired to haul out some of my black pots by the videos featured in a recent post. Before doing this the tub I use as a windblock had to be freed...
View ArticleChicken Frying Videos
YouTube = a busy (or lazy) blogger's best friend. The first video includes a tour of the Lodge plant in South Pittsburgh Tennessee.
View Article2 Excellent Pie Tutorial Videos rev. B
Jumble Berry and Strawberry Plum pies. These look great and I really wish it was summer right now. Making pie crust (and biscuits) is reason enough to own a food processor. It took me about 4 years to...
View ArticleOrange Scrubby, you're the one
You make cleanup time lots of fun, Orange Scrubby, I'm awfully fond of you... OK, maybe it isn't fun but this woven plastic scrubby thang is by far my favorite tool for cleaning up cast iron...
View ArticleRed Beans and Rice - Adapted from Chef Paul Prudhomme's
Red Beans and Rice is a traditional Monday lunch in New Orleans so if you get cracking you can have it ready in time. I adapted mine from the version Chef Paul Prudhomme placed in his Chef Paul...
View ArticleInternational Dutch Oven Society's 2010 Championship Cookbook
The recipes in this book are the same ones that the teams will prepare in the upcoming 2010 World Championship Dutch Oven Cook-Off. All of the recipes are suitable for both indoor and outdoor (camp...
View ArticleJust how good is the seasoning on a Lodge pre-seasoned pan?
Scrambled eggs are a pretty decent test of any skillet. I thought it would be interesting to scramble a couple eggs and see how well a brand new Lodge Logic pan did with them. For comparison I used an...
View ArticleGriswold Pop-over Pans
I did not know a whole lot about old cast iron when I bought these "muffin pans" back in the early 1990s. It turns out they were called "Pop-over Pans" and they really aren't very old. The pan on the...
View ArticleSkillet Porn - Sizzling Lodge on Lodge Action
Fajitas were on the menu. After the marinated flank steak left center stage on the Lodge Sportsman's Grill there was still plenty of heat left in the coals to handle an ancient Lodge #9 full of onions,...
View ArticleBig Iron - Wagner Ware Pie Logo #14
It has been raining a lot here. The grills and smokers are cold and wet so the last few days have given me a chance to move a piece of old cast iron from the project pile to the electrolysis tank. This...
View ArticleBS&R Century 10 inch Deep Camp Oven
A cute little Camp Oven followed me home. The oven you see in the middle was made in the 1960s by the Birmingham Stove and Range company as part of their Century line. The oven is a 10" DEEP CO and...
View ArticleThe Missing Money Shot
What the hell...It turns out I did have a photo of the Chicken and Sausage stew mentioned in the previous post. Doh!
View ArticleIs this thing on?
Still alive, still cooking, might post more content. Hope everybody is doing well and Happy 2016.
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