Tag: cast iron

  • The Case of the Missing Sheet

    The Case of the Missing Sheet

    And other silliness at my house. I mean, losing socks in the wash? Happens to all of us. A whole fitted sheet with extra deep pockets for a tall full sized bed? How did I manage that one!? It’s not like I have a house, and multiple blanket chests, and closets, and space to loose…

  • Mahogany Handles

    Mahogany Handles

      This isn’t a recipe. No, it’s the story of a very expensive stick, and how it brought a family heirloom back to life.  A while back, maybe a year, my mother passed on a cast iron waffle maker to me. I loved it. The problem was that although all the metal pieces were there,…

  • Vintage Kitchen: Glazed Honey Rolls

    Vintage Kitchen: Glazed Honey Rolls

    Welcome to the second week of Vintage Kitchen, where I’m making recipes from old cookbooks. Some of them are family heirlooms, some are not. This week, I pulled a recipe for breakfast out of the cookbook my Great-Grandma Ella left me when she passed away. The cookbook reminds me of her kitchen, and the things…

  • Restoring Cast Iron

    Restoring Cast Iron

    I’m pleased to present a guest post from Chris Maddox. We were both commenting on a thread about reseasoning cast iron, and he mentioned restoration. I happily begged for a guest post and he obliged. Cast iron is a topic I’ve covered before, and I’m happy to get back to it. I grew up cooking…

  • Eat This While You Read That: La Vaughn Kemnow

    Eat This While You Read That: La Vaughn Kemnow

    I’ve been waiting on this day for a while. I started this blog series with no real intentions in my mind other than a playful way of promoting some friends and authors in a way I knew I could do – cooking – and to hone my own photography skills with a challenge. It’s been…

  • Re-Seasoning Cast Iron

    A step-by-step for Anna, my cousin John’s lovely bride. Eat well and be happy! Clean First, you’ll want to clean them well with very hot water and soap, scouring out any dust and debris. This will be the last time you use soap on them. If there is lots of crusted gunk, you can put…

  • Cooking with Cast Iron

    I’ve been cooking with cast iron all my life, as my mother and grandmother, and great-grandmother before me all did. I know they did, I learned to cook in their kitchens by watching them, and then cooking at home. Now that I’m grown up, Dad and I have amassed quite the collection here on the…