Cast Iron Friday's & Our Cinco de Mayo Dinner Plus More Recipe Links

 Good morning everyone,
Friday's is when I love to share cooking, baking, grilling and more in cast iron utensils.
    You are most welcome to share your own cast iron post, link up at end of this post.  
    I am hoping with warmer weather upon us more of you will be using cast iron outdoors on the grill  or baking in dutch ovens and wish to share with us.
   I enjoy doing these posts but if you are all bored with this already let me know and I will discontinue if there is no interest. I am not even concerned about no one sharing posts if the information is interesting reading for you.

   Today I had thought of baking an apple pie outdoors in the dutch oven, but it was a perfect day for me to work in the gardens. I am so far behind do to the cold April, but now we are headed right into hot summer temperatures already-ugh I had a feeling that was going to happen. So anyways I ended up working outdoors for about 8 hours today (Thursday), so no baking accomplished.

  However, for Cinco de Mayo Day I did use cast iron skillets and a grill for our meal. Our Wisconsin friends brought us down several pounds of their homemade sausages. I grabbed their chirozo and a pound of low fat hamburger and made us tacos. I added a can of chilies and diced tomatoes once the meats were browned. Also added in some garlic and spices.

Check out my new Lodge handle mitts. I was checking to see what cast iron our Wal Mart (big box store) was selling and found these. I used to have some quilted ones but they wore out. These handle mitts are so much safer for me to use on our gas stove instead of folding over one of those square ones. So I am loving these. They are made of plastic which I have never been crazy about but these do work really well.

Since my husband's heart disease has now progressed to congestive heart failure, I now read every label for salt content. I have never cooked or baked with salt using herbs instead, but it has been an eye opener on how much salt is in say a can of refried beans and the flour tortillas and and things you never would have thought of.
    So I used a couple cans of organic black beans that had just a little salt and rinsed them well with cold water and then made refried beans with them. I added garlic, a small can of green chilies and mashed them as they cooked, keeping some of the beans whole. These were very delicious.

I got out one of my cast iron griddles and heated up Hub's flour tortillas and my corn tortillas. I suggested that my corn tortillas have no salt in them at all-but he still wanted his flour ones 

   I want to share with you more links of delicious looking recipes using cast iron that arrived in my inbox this week. 

Blueberry Lemon Pound Cakes

  Don't these look delicious? I have two of these small skillets but I want to find two more to make desserts like this one.




Grilled Browned Butter Pound Cake

I thought this was really clever. Bake up a pound cake and then grill it add fruit




10 Cast Iron Recipes for any cookout

and this next one-Yum everything looks so delicious but this is not for vegetarians except for the grilled parmesan corn the rest are meats





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