Cast Iron CookwareShop and Rome Popcorn Poppers

Popcorn is a type of corn which explodes from the kernel and puffs up when heated. Corn popping was originally discovered by Native Americans. It became popular as a snack food during The Great Depression in the United States, especially in movie theaters.

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Corn pops because, unlike other grains, its kernels have a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy filling. This allows pressure to build inside the kernel until an explosive “pop” results. Some strains of corn are now cultivated specifically as popping corns. The kernels that do not pop do not have adequate moisture to pop.

Add a couple of tablespoons of canola oil or olive oil in the popper, add about 1/4 cup of kernels and spread evenly. Hold the pop corn popper over flame or heat source. Do not stick in the coals. Heat and shake frequently while the kernels are popping. When the popping dies down, remove from heat and check to see if the popcorn is done. There will almost always be a some kernels that do not pop. If you try to pop every kernel you’ll probably burn the kernels that have already popped.

#122-T Pioneer Popcorn Popper
Rome’s version of an all time cooking favorite with every one, the popcorn popper. It has a removable handle that makes for easy storage and a removable lid for versatility in cooking. The Rome Pop Corn Popper pops 2 quarts. (measurements 3″ deep x 9″ diameter. 27″ overall length).

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Cast Iron Cookware Can Teach Children to Make Fun of Sandwiches

Puzzled about activities you can do to entertain your bunch and maybe teach them something at the same time? Maybe Cast Iron Cookware Shop Can Help. Children love to participate and a special bonding takes place when you do things with them that is age appropriate and lots of fun.

Rome Industries #1705 Square Pie Iron -
makes classic, best selling Pie Irons which have been loved by campers for years. The generous cooking cavity makes terrific sandwiches and deserts without wasting bread. Solid cast iron design can withstand the heat of the your campfire or fire pit.

( measurements are 4 ¼” x 4 ½” Head; 28″ overall length. Weight: 3.10 lbs).

WHAT IS A PIE IRON?

A pie iron is a way to cook grilled cheese sandwiches and fruit pies over a campfire. Place the food in the case formed by the two cast iron compartments that hook together with a hinge forming the cooking compartment. Use two pieces of buttered bread with cheese or a fruit filling. Metal rods with wood handles extend from the castings so the user can easily handle the pie iron over a campfire. A few minutes over the heat and a perfectly toasted sandwich or pie emerges from the cooker. Kids will love to experiment with different fillings and will delight to see the hot, toasty sandwiches that emerge from the pie iron. Best of all they cooked it themselves.

The Rome CS-5 Cookout Set includes one square cast iron Pie Iron, one round cast iron Pie Iron, one S’more Maker and eight hot dog and marshmallow picnic forks.

Enjoy these cast iron cookware accessories with your children and teach them to make “fun” of their sandwiches even as they learn to cook over a campfire.

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Cast Iron Cookware Creates Crispy or Deep Crust Pizzas

Pizza is a world-popular dish of Italian origin, made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is often covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based sauce and mozzarella cheese. Other toppings are added according to region, culture, or personal preference. In the US regional forms of pizza, many bearing only a casual resemblance to the Italian original, may be found.We lived in Argentina, with its strong Italian influence, and enjoyed Argentine pizza. We traveled frequently to New York and like New York style pizza. Last year we visited Italy and delighted in the pizza there.

Pizza can be high in salt and fat. There are concerns about negative health effects. However, before we abandon pizza, we might consider
a more Mediterranean style diet and pizza which is rich in olive oil, fiber, vegetables, fruit, flour and freshly cooked food – including traditional Italian healthy pizza.

This handy pizza pan by Universal measures 14 7/8″ x 10 1/4″ x 1 7/8″. Use it to create crispy or deep crust pizzas with ingredients that your family likes best. Kids and grown-up kids will love it.Your pre-seasoned castiron pizza pan will bake and grill and can also be used as a griddle. Biscuits will brown on the outside and be moist on the inside.
The taste is great and the clean-up is super easy.

You will love your pre-seasoned cast iron pizza pan by Universal,
You will love the crispy, or deep crust pizzas you make for your family,
And you will want to give yourself a big hug for getting your pizza pan.

“Taste the Food and Not the Cookware with Cast Iron Cookware.”

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop Cautions Be Careful Who Your Dutch Oven Hangs Out With

Your cast iron dutch oven takes such good care of you on campouts, back yard outings, “staycations” and tail gate parties, shouldn’t you be concerned who it “hangs out with“? I confess I have strung wires between trees to hang cast iron dutch ovens with bails, kettles and coffee pots. Cast iron camp dutch ovens even have “feet” so you can set them directly on a bed of coals. But how much better is it to have a solid, well-made tripod with a galvanized chain so your dutch oven can hang out in style and you can adjust the heat but adjusting the height?

The Lodge rugged tripod is made of hot rolled half inch solid bar stock with 24 inch galvanized chain. The tripod legs measure 43 1/2 inches. (Lodge makes a taller tripod as well). Use with any cast iron product that has a bail handle.such as dutch oven, camp dutch oven or cast iron kettle. Cook your food over the campfire and keep it at serving temperature in your castiron pot. This tripod travels well in car, truck or camper. (dutch oven not included)

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Out of the Frying Pan And Into Your Plate with Cast Iron Cookware Shop

Cast iron cookware is excellent for going from stove top to your table top.

Food goes from your frying pan to your plate without sticking, without tasting like the cookware and with a fullness of nutrition and flavor.

This Round 10 inch Fry Pan by Kinetic is made with Quantum 2 Non-Stick Coating which makes your Fry Pan even more durable and abrasion resistant. Use it to saute or pan fry any of your favorite recipes. Cornbread “pone” or Pineapple Up-Side-Down Cake, it’s all delicious with Cast Iron. Pour Spouts on Each Side make for safe easy handling for left handed as well as right handed cooks.
Black Enamel Interior

Blue Exterior

This 1.5 qt. Covered Saucepan by Kinetic comes with a Special Fry Pan Lid. It’s TWO in ONE. The Lid becomes a Personal Sized Open Fry Pan.
For One Price you get both the Sauce Pan and Skillet. Cast Iron provides even cooking for stove top and oven. This Pan is ideal for one or two person households or for your favorite white, brown or red sauces. The Fry Pan Lid make a great griddle or grill as well. It’s bright color dresses up your kitchen or table.
Creamy Enamel Interior
Red Exterior

15 3/4″ x 7 5/8″ x 1 3/4″
This Skillet/Griddle by Universal is ideal for Fajitas with your family’s favorite meats and veggies. Grill your favorite steak, chicken, pork, fish or tofu. Onions and peppers saute to a perfection. Use your Cast Iron Skillet for other dishes as well. Your meals taste better with Cast Iron.

This Pre-Seasoned skillet is ready to use with just a quick rinse with a little warm water and soap. Not too big yet not too small for family use. It can pan fry, saute, bake and be used as griddle. It’s handy pouring spout allows for easy drain-offs.

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Cast Iron Cookware On Recognizing A Yes Moment

One of the important lessons of life is knowing when and how to say “yes” and when and how to say “no“. Sometimes when we are at our busiest there are “yes moments” we should not miss. There are also times when we should say “no“.  When there is a clearly identifiable “yes moment” in your life, consider the benefits and the consequences of giving yourself the green light.

Family therapist Terri L. Orbuch, PhD. mentions three occasions when you should give yourself a green light. Here are her three things and I totally agree.

1. When It’s Your Passion. She affirms: “Agreeing to something that moves you feeds your personal energy reserve. It a guaranteed good time”.

2. When It Boosts Personal Bonds.

3. When It Sets A Good Example.

Let me see if there can be some application to cast iron cookware.

1. Cast Iron Cookware is certainly a passion for me and for many others. In Dr. Orbuch’s words, it “feeds my personal energy reserve“. I have a good time talking about, studying about its history, buying it and most of all cooking with it. To my way of thinking, you would be wise to give yourself a green light to do any or all of these things.

2. When my wife and business partner suggested we add cast iron cookware to our product line, it was a “yes moment” for both of us and has been good for our relationship and the business.

3. It sets a good example to use cast iron cookware. Using this cookware models good behavior for our families. It keeps potentially harmful substances out of our food, saves energy, is environmentally friendly, and allows you to “taste the food and not the cookware“.

Do not allow people to manipulate you into saying “yes” when you really want to say “no”. But by all means learn when to say “yes” when even at your busiest there are “yes moments we shouldn’t miss“.

This Cast Iron combination deep skillet and shallow skillet/griddle is a useful addition to your castiron cook ware. The shallow skillet serves as lid, skillet and griddle. The fry pan is 10 1/4 inches in diameter and 3inches deep. This multi-use cooker is a dutch oven, saute pan and fryer, all in one. This cast iron combo set is a great gift for your family members who are just starting their cast iron kitchen ware. You will be happy you said “yes to this Lodge cast iron combo cooker.”

Lodge’s BBQ GRILL-GRATE grills those vegetables AND holds them on the grill. There is no “veggie escape” into the coals. It also holds those delicate fish in place. This cast iron grill cooks your steaks, sausage, bacon and other meats evenly without flame damage. It is great for camping and grilling on the beach.

Cast Iron Cookware can help you recognize a “yes moment” and go with a green light to begin or add to your collection of cast iron cookware.

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With Cast Iron Cookware You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too. Sweet!

To have one’s cake and eat it too is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech. Stated negatively “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” would seem to imply that in consuming or using up a particular thing it is longer available to us. It may also indicate having or wanting more than one can handle or deserve, or trying to have two incompatible things. The proverb’s meaning is similar to the phrases, “you can’t have it both ways” and “you can’t have the best of both worlds.”

The amazing thing about cast iron cookware is that:

YOU CAN HAVE IT BOTH WAYS:

You can have cookware that looks exquisite but is not expensive.

You can have cookware that is non-stick but does not flake chemical coating into your food.

You can have cookware that goes from stove top to table top.

YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Cast iron cookware is as old fashioned as Grandma and as modern and fashionable as you

Cast iron bakes corn bread, griddles pan cakes and sautees the latest dishes from your favorite chef.

Cowboy campfire to college football tailgating parties; cast iron cookware goes anywhere with you and does the cooking you want and deserve.

Cast Iron Cookware is so versatile it goes from corn bread to pineaple up-side-down cake.

With cast iron cookware you can
have your cake and eat it too. Sweet. You get the best of the world of old fashioned taste and cooking and new fashioned style and taste.

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop Features Rome’s Firepit Cookout Set

Fire pits have been in existence for a very long time and they have remained a popular item because of their versatility. A fire pit can be as simple as a pit dug into the ground to an elaborate gas burning firepit of stone, brick, and metal. The purpose of a fire pit is to contain a fire and prevent it from spreading.

The Rome Cookout Set includes one square cast iron Pie Iron, one round cast iron Pie Iron, one S’more Maker and eight hot dog and marshmallow picnic forks. Enjoy these cast iron cookware accessories with your cast iron camp cooking, tailgating parties, patio fire pit cooking or fireplace cooking.

This Rome Cookout Set includes one square cast iron Pie Iron, one round cast iron Pie Iron, one S’more Maker and eight hot dog and marshmallow picnic forks. Also includes a thirty inch by 10 inch canvas storage bag for your pie irons and forks.

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop’s Challenge: Put Us to The Taste

The season of gift-giving is upon us.Here are some things you might want to keep in mind when you buy gifts for family, friends or co-workers.

1. Practical gifts that show your “good taste”. When a gift is practical and corresponds with the interests of the recipient, it can mean more than the price of the gift. A most practical gift that shows your good taste is a gift of cookware. Cast iron cookware is hot this season with the economy in recession.

2. Make sure your present is safe for people and the environment. Show your good taste by avoiding giving pots and pans with non-stick surfaces. These are made using a highly persistent, toxic and bio accumulative chemical known as PFOA. Instead, choose the truly non-stick cast iron pots and pans which allow you “to taste the food and not the cookware“.

3. If someone on your gift list drinks bottled water, you can help them break their bad plastic habit. Show your good taste with a gift of a faucet-mounted water filter and a portable drink container made from stainless steel, aluminum or a new type of unbreakable plastic that is free of the estrogenic chemical bisphenol A. Who wants that plastic taste in their water?

During this Holiday Season, put cast iron cookware to the taste test. Invest in Cast Iron Cookware for yourself or the “foodie” on your gift list. It has been used for hundreds of years. Cast iron Cookware is so versatile it meets all your cooking needs; bake, broil, roast, fry, saute, brown, stew, or grill. Cast iron holds heat longer and goes form stove top to oven to table trivet and your food is still hot and ready to serve.. Cook with Cast iron in your kitchen, in your travel home or on your campfire. Treasure your cast iron dutch oven, roaster, skillet or casserole and purchase the cornbread stick pan, pizza pan, or biscuit pan to add to your selection. This cast iron is all pre-seasoned.
TASTE THE FOOD, NOT THE COOKWARE.

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Cast Iron Cookware Makes Food That Is Comforting to the Soul Without Being Bad for Your Body

Recession, unemployment, turmoil in the world, spiking cost of living all make this a time when we could use soul food or comfort food. However, the down side to this is that so many of the things we find comforting are so bad for our bodies. We all know “fat adds flavor“.

Heidi Knapp Rinella writes in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “…the food that’s so comforting to the soul is not so great for the body. Maybe that’s because there was less concern about fat content in those (earlier) times when we moved more and didn’t know much about fat’s deleterious effects on our bodies. Or maybe it’s just because, like a waistline spare tire , those memories tend to stick with us”.

But the good news is that you can still have flavor and comfort food, eat and enjoy it with a clear conscience, without endangering your health and shortening (no pun intended) your life. Do it right and you, your family and friends will not know the difference.

Millicent Braxton-Calhoun, program officer with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension writes about how to modify a recipe for macroni and cheese, which is commonly cited as a leading comfort food.

“Start by not adding salt to the pasta water and using low-fat milk and low-fat cheese”.

Other tips from Braxton-Calhoun:

1. Use the meat that is 90% lean, 10 % fat instead of the 80% lean, 20% fat.
2. Use ground turkey breast meat but read the label. If you get ground turkey meat that is not all breast meat, it may be as high in fat as some of the higher-fat ground beef.

Cast iron cookware can also be helpful. Use a nonstick spray instead of cooking with fat.

Mary Wilson , a registered dietitian and nutrition specialist with the University of Nevada says that the use of vegetables is a good way to sneak pasta dishes past picky kids. She points out that the use of a light Velveeta makes a creamy taste that kids love. Whole- wheat pasta increases fiber and that is healthy.

Instead of bacon, use cucumber salad with a rice-wine vinegar and some ginger with whole-wheat bread.

Substitute quinoa or millet for bread crumbs in meatloaf and turkey or chicken for meatballs.

There are many things you can do. Post your ideas and share with others what you discover. Look at the ingredients in a recipe, then search for what is out there. The intenet is helpful

MACARONI, CHEESE AND TOMATO BAKE

Ingredients:

8 ounces corkscrew pasta
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups non-fat milk
8 ounches Velveeta Light cheese, chopped
1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
1 14-ounce can chopped tomatoes, with liquid (about 2 cups)

Preparation:

Cook pasta according to package directions

Melt margarine in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in flour and salt until blended.

Gradually stir in milk and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low; stir in cheese and hot pepper sauce until the cheese is melted.

Place drained pasta in 8-inch square baking dish. Gently toss in tomatoes (with liquid). Pour cheese mixture over pasta. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Serves 6

This 4.86 qt. Casserole by Kinetic has a Grill Pan Lid. You get TWO for the price of ONE. A Full Sized Casserole perfect for one-dish meals
like cheese, macaroni and tomatoes. If you want to grill some meat to go with your meal you have a full-sized lid that doubles as a 10 inch Round Grill Pan. Your Cast Iron goes from stove top to oven and makes cooking and clean up a pleasure. Heat does not damage handles. These products are so attractive they can be used as serving pieces.
Black Enamel Interior
Red Exterior

A 7 qt. Oval Roaster by Kinetic. Use this large Roaster for one-dish family dinners or neighborhood get-togethers. Both meat and veggies fit in nicely. Its colorful exterior allows you to use it as a serving dish from your stove top, oven, buffet or table. This Cast Iron Roaster distributes the heat evenly for as long as your dish needs to cook or stay warm. Family meals will look and taste better with this colorful Cookware.
Black Enamel Interior
Blue Exterior

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