Cast Iron fridays

    I have started up a cast iron sharing event.
You are most welcome to join in with a post (new or old) just link up back to here to help spread the word. 
    If you no longer use cast iron but still have a favorite recipe or method please feel welcome to share. This is a learning and sharing event for all of us interested.
    Any of you that have used your cast iron at events or camping are most welcome too.
   This is for anything cooked, grilled, baked indoors or outdoors in cast iron. This also includes cast iron dutch ovens with the legs and special lids to hold the hot coals.  This event also includes cast iron pieces enameled 

     Happy Cast Iron Fridays everyone and Welcome.


This past week I haven't done anything really special to share with you in my cast iron. We have a friend that is staying with us from Georgia that I was hoping to be baking up some dutch oven pies outdoors but our weather here has not been cooperating at all. Now they are saying snow over the weekend. I say Really? haha
  Just some of my normal dishes instead: eggs for breakfast, I grilled a sirloin pork roast in my grill pan-which is my favorite way to cook tenderloins and little roasts now where I get the grill pan very hot, spray the meat with a bit of olive oil and season and grill the meat on all sides-then turn the temperature down add a meat thermometer and a lid, grill til done. Let rest and enjoy. It's just like grilling outdoors on your grill. I did also make up a skillet of apples.

These apples are easy and delicious and a good way to use up fruit that needs to be worked up. This is good with peaches or pears too. I add just a little water to the pan, spice as desired, and sweeten as desired.This batch I used pure maple syrup. I also add a little instant tapioca to thicken. Cook in you cast iron skillet with a lid til tender. I check them every 5 minutes or so.

   In the mail this week I received my issue of the Southern Cast Iron magazine. In it was something I had never thought of. They were suggesting to chill your cast iron skillet in the freezer, then make up a summer cold pie, and keep in freezer til ready to serve. Just as the cast iron skillet keeps your hot dishes hot longer, the same is true for cold.  Just remember to never put a hot skillet into cold, or a cold skillet into hot water or it may crack.  Here is a link to an old favorite icebox cake that can also be made in your cast iron pan  Here is a photo from that site of the cake

So glad you dropped by