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Well, to us it is, anyway. The many cast iron skillets, griddles and pots we have get lots of use, year round. Frying, braising, stewing, baking, you name it. Admittedly, the most use of the skillets get are with the timeless eggs, ham/bacon/sausage/hash and potatoes, but truly, the use of such cookware makes me smile no matter what I'm tossing in them. Here's a dead easy dinner for 2-4. Home style sukiyaki. A few veggies (broccoli rabe, scallions, Chinese cabbage, onion and snow peas tonight) some meat of decent quality thin sliced, some tofu if you like, a couple of eggs, a simple cooking sauce (shoyu/soy, mirin/rice wine--for cooking-- and a tiny bit of sugar). Practically no prep other than cutting. Cook until piping hot and bring the whole shebang over to the table. Sit down, crack a brew and dig in. Historically, the dish is said to have originated in the agricultural areas with the peasantry tossing together whatever veggies, and any meat they might have, onto a flat spade shovel and had at it in the fields over open fires. I know some of you out there *really* know how to make music with their cast iron. Show whatcha' got!
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its taken a few years,but I have converted the wife over to cast iron cooking.ham,eggs , chicken,all of it get the cast iron treatment now.
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KG: The backyard grill is buried under 3 feet of snow....so....
(just as one example) I seasoned the lamb chops (thick one's from Pace's in Saugus);seared in the cast iron skillet,fast and hot until browned nicely, then put the whole thing in the oven with lid on at 250 degrees for 15 minutes.
Crispy seared outside.juicy and perfect medium rare on the inside. Easy.Veddy good!
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If you must cook indoors, cast iron is the true path...nothing else works as well.
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Does simple stuff like sausage, hash browns and eggs (to follow) count? Runnin' cast iron on cast iron in Idaho.
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Does simple stuff like sausage, hash browns and eggs (to follow) count? Runnin' cast iron on cast iron in Idaho. That is a thing of beauty. That stove should make all food taste good.
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Even lazyazz cherry pie with ready made crust. He who cuts his own wood is twice warmed, he who cooks with it is thrice warmed.
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Awesome pics there guys,
I used cast iron for eggs, bacon, and have no problems with sticking, but if I use it to cook burgers for example then use it to fry eggs in the next day, it sticks.
I try to use a good olive oil for cooking everything. What do yall use in the care and use of your cast iron?
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Kamo, I could eat both of those chickens by myself! The skin looks just right. You can keep the tofu tough.
My wife says I have iron skillet fetish. I have several griddles many skillets, one that is square I make cornbread in and a deep skillet called a chicken cooker. I have started picking up a few sheet metal skillets lately and like them also, especially for cooking directly over a fire.
I have never been one to like breakfast espeecially well but I cook hashbrowns and then 2 eggs mixed well and cooked like an omelet and foulded like a taco and 4 HOT sauage patties. I put the taters on the bottom then stack the 2 eggs on top then put the 4 sausage patties on topof the eggs. Easy as it gets and the flavors blend together well and the consistency is good, cremey egg and crispy hashbrowns. You don't even need to salt it, the spicy sausage takes care of the seasoning.
Only thing don't use iron for is making chicken and dumplings.
Eating fried chicken and watermelon since 1972.
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outdoor fire apple cinnamon cake - tastes better than it looks
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Well it look pretty dng good.
Eating fried chicken and watermelon since 1972.
You tell me how I ought to be, yet you don't even know your own sexuality,, the philosopher,,, you know so much about nothing at all. Chuck Schuldiner
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outdoor fire apple cinnamon cake - tastes better than it looks That looks fantastic.
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KG: That looks like duck(?) Got a recipe?
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I only cok on cast iron. My free range eggs are awsum on cast iron. ALso, it is safer since our bidies need iron and no doubt we get a bit of iron when we cook on it. My sis works at a hospital and she reads a lot about old timers disease. A high percentage of old timers with this disease cooked with aluminum pans for long periods of time. For this reason I only cook on cast. Nice post Camo.
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a dutch oven with legs is so versatile - many times we'll flip the lid over and use it as a frying pan while we cook something else in the dutch.
kudo's to the biscuit picture. Thru trial and error we've finally figure out how to make them in a dutch.
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every time i go to Leighton's i gain weight.
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