Meet the Press (Sandwich Press that is) for Paninis on Stove, Grill or Campfire
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
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10% Savings plus The Pie Iron/Panini Press Camping Cookbook (a $7.95 value)
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 8″ x 4″
Steel and Wood Handle
Rome makes this cast iron panini press with a long steel and wooden handle to be used safely on your stove, grill or campfire. It measures 8 X 4 inches.The wood provides protection from the heat. Cast iron heats evenly and quickly for a delicious sandwich. Try your favorite bread that fits the press and your favorite filling; meat, cheese or fruit. Camp cooking is ideal for your panini sandwich maker. Add this cast iron panini press cooker to your selection of cast iron camp cookware, and other cast iron cookware accessories. Cast iron is more than a purchase; it is an investment. Check out the other camp cookware
TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE WITH CAST IRON COOKWARE
Panini Toasted Sandwich
Camp Cooking Is Fun for the Family!
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense for Kitchen or Camping
Cast Iron Cookware Makes It Easier To Go Green In Your Kitchen
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense for Kitchen or Camping
Tips for Greener Living
“Green Home Checklist: Room-by-Room Steps We Can Take, Starting Right Now,” by a writer named Crissy Trask. Trask offers useful advice on how to green up the kitchen. Trask describes the kitchen as “a hot-spot for waste“. A typical household discards an estimated 474 pounds of food waste each year.
University of Arizona research suggests:
- Buying more fresh food than we can eat before the expiration date is up and allowing leftovers to expire in the fridge are culprits.
- Solutions? Make menus, avoid impulse buying and compost your food scraps.
Other good advice for the kitchen:
- Replace disposables such as paper napkins and plastic wrap with cloth napkins and glass food-storage containers
- Get rid of Teflon-coated cookware, which can give off toxins when overheated or damaged, and replace with cast iron(“properly seasoned cast iron…is naturally nonstick”).
Cast Iron Skillets, Green, Healthy, Non-Stick When Seasoned Properly
- Buy high-quality reusable [shopping] bags that will give years of use instead of plastic shopping bags.
Lodge 6 Quart Camp Dutch Oven
Even Kermit Will Find It Easy To Be Green
Can You Guess the Password for Healthy, Non-Stick and Economical Cookware?
Posted by Doyle Bailey for The Cast Iron Cookware Shop
What are passwords? A password is a phrase in a string of characters that is used to authenticate and prove identity in order to gain access to a resource. 
What do good passwords do?
- they can keep girls out of a boys club since they will never know it (works for girl’s clubs too)
- “Open Sesame” opened a rock cave loaded with treasure for Ali Baba.
- give you access to your sites on the web.
- deny access to a person or group you do now wish to allow to enter
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How Your Weak Passwords Get Hacked
- some people use the same password to access all their sites. If one gets hacked, access to all is gained.
- using the name of your child, pet, possibly followed by a “0″ or “1″ (since you often must use a number).
- use of your city, college, football team, date of birth, “god” , “let me in”, “money”, “love”, etc…
- there is free software available to hackers and they are people who want to log in to your sites using your credentials.
What can you do to select stronger passwords?
- randomly substitute numbers for letters that look similar (eg. the letter “o” becomes the number “0″.
- randomly throw in capital letters
- think of a favorite place or quote and combine the first letter, alternating upper and lower case letters mixed with numbers and characters.
- Roboform, for Windows users will store your passwords in an encrypted foremat. Mac users can use 1Password, which also has an I Phone application.
- once you have selected a password, use “password strength tester” to discover how secure it is.
What Is the Passord to Unexcelled Savoury and Healthy Cooking?
Here is is for you: “cast iron cookware”.
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense and is your password for Kitchen or Camping
cast iron fry pans, dutch oven, griddle
ROME CS5-A FIREPIT COOKOUT SET with TOTE
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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 pieirons and forks. Enjoy these cast iron cookware accessories with your cast iron camp cooking. Along with your cast iron camp dutch oven and your Sportsman”s Grill, include this camping accessory to complement your cast iron camp cookware.
A Pot Worth Its Salt
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Salt has a very interesting history. “Civilization was built on salt” according to an excellent article written by Sari Lehrer in the April 2012 issue of Whole Living. According to Lehrer:
“Man followed beast to the salt licks, the paths they trod became roads, and communities rose up alongside the licks. Its value (salt) went well beyond the value to cure and preserve; salt was used as currency and antiseptic, as well as for tanning and dyeing cloth”.
SALT IN HISTORY
- celibate Egyptian priests abstained from eating salt. It was thought to promote sexual desire.
- the word “salary” comes from the Latin salarium, which had reference to the money paid to soldiers of the Roman Army for purchasing salt.
- scientists have found signs of the presence of salt on Mars, which could be an indication of life on the planet.
- during World War II, the Nazis frequently hid their plundered European art treasures in salt mines.
- mined from salt deposits, table salt has had most of its minerals removed. It is harvested by creating a brine by forcing water into the mines which is then evaporated leaving the salt.
- “When It Rains It Pours” Morton Salt introduced this motto in 1914. The idea was that their salt would flow freely even in humid, rainy weather. The company added magnesium carbonate, which served to keep the grains from clumping.
- the oceans contain an average, by weight, of only 2.7 percent salt.
There is no cast iron pot in your kitchen or campsite more “worth its salt” than a cast iron camping dutch oven.
Lodge Camp Dutch Oven
Camping Dutch Oven by Lodge. It’s feet will sit safely in the campfire or coals and it’s Stay Cool Handle makes it sturdy, easy to manage and perfect to hang over your campfire if you prefer. The Cast iron oven stays hot; the Handle stays cool. The lid, with it’s own feet, is Reversible and can be used as a Griddle for those early morning camp pancakes. Just right for your Cast Iron family outings.
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense for Kitchen or Camping
Camp Cooking Is Fun for the Family!
GET READY. CAMPING TIME IS HERE!
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
GET READY. CAMPING TIME IS HERE!
Camping describes a range of activities. Some campers set off with little more than their boots, whereas other travelers arrive equipped with their own electricity, heat, and patio furniture. Camping is often enjoyed best in conjunction with activities such as fishing, hiking, tailgating and hunting.
BAYOU CLASSIC Cast Iron Cookware
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Bayou Classic 3 Piece Skillet Set
Cast Iron Cookware Shop and Bayou Classic Cookware make a fortunate combination. This collaboration of Cast Iron Cookware makes it easy for you to cook big or to cook small; in your kitchen, backyard or wilderness campsite.
With a Three-Piece Skillet Set, you will have a pair for your kitchen and one to take with you camping.
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense for Kitchen or Camping
Any Idea What Is In This Cast Iron Pot?
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense for Kitchen or Camping
We have exchanged e-mails with someone who has posed a mystery we cannot solve. We can only guess. Her last e- mail stated:
“I found a small 6 inch tall footed cast iron pot with a brass lid. Inside is a ‘tool’ that has a brass handle and a cylinder shaped composite piece 2 inch x 3 inch apparently for stirring. Any idea what it is”.
What do you say? Someone must have seen something like this before. Leave your comments below, even your best guess.
Mystery Object
CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE
Cast Iron Cookware Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Cookware You Will Pass On To Future Generations
Sometimes my learning curve can be a little on the slow side. When it comes to cooking with cast iron pots and pans, there have been some lessons I have been slow to learn. Here are a few:
1 .My mother and my wife knew what they were doing when they cooked with cast iron cookware. They both refused to cook with the so called “non-stick” products offered them. I tried a few and discovered that the black flecks in my scrambled eggs were not black pepper but “stuff” that had flaked off the cooking surface. Who knows what that stuff really is? “Cast iron cookware allows you to taste the food not the cookware”.
2. When you share a meal with your spouse and friends, it sustains you in many ways beyond the obvious nutritional value. I have discovered that this type of “soul food” is best prepared in a cast iron dutch oven or my 12 inch cast iron skillet. The root meaning of “companion” is someone you share bread with in a meal. To me cornbread is the essence of breaking bread with someone you love, especially since that just happens to be her favorite food and I love to make it.
3. Always keep your cast iron cookware well-seasoned. It is not difficult to do so but there are no substitutes or short cuts that can replace well-seasoned cookware.
Corn Bread and Soup, a Hearty and Healthy Winter Meal (my 12' skillet)
4. Healthy and delicious meals need not be mutually exclusive. Meats and veggies cooked with olive oil or vegetable cooking spray are delightful, tasty and healthy. It took me a while, but I have learned to cook in a healthier manner with my iron pots, skillets, dutch ovens, grills and griddles.
I suppose this can be summed up by saying: listen to your mother, wife and persons of wisdom whom God has placed in your life. You will eat better, live more wisely and have fewer regrets. After all, it is the sign of a truly mature person who can do something, even though it is what their wife or mother wants them to do.
My Favorite Pan and Bread
Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven
Lodge Cornbread Stick Pan for Lots of Tasty Crust
Mamaw Would Have Been Proud of Me
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Every one called my Mother “Mamaw”, including her children. Often when embarrassed by my behavior (which was too frequently), she would disclaim: “I did not raise him like that”.
We lost her a number of years ago but I would like to think that yesterday she observed what I did:
* gathered a mess (Southern expression for a lot) of collard greens from a flower bed. I planted with them with my own “brown thumb), cleaned and cooked them.
* made corn sticks in our Lodge corn stick pans. I like these cast iron pans because they have more cooking surface for more tasty crust and they do not stick. I just washed them with hot water and dried them thoroughly before storing them.
* prepared a special “Mamaw Salad” of grated carrots, mayonnaise, raisins and boiled eggs. (6- 6″ carrots grated, 2 hard boiled eggs, 4 tbs. light mayonnaise, and 1/2 cup raisins).
* served with pepper sauce spread lightly over the collards and some peppers from the sauce, all from the same flower bed garden.
{A side note: this small garden produced an amazing number of egg plants. Imagine my difficulty in getting the laying hens in there! You are right. She did not raise me like this.}
When it comes to southern cooking and “soul food”, especially prepared in our cast iron cookware, we try to eat healthy food and these pots and pans allow you to cook with just a little olive or vegetable oil and not fat.
Some of Our "Family" of Cast Iron Cookware
In case you haven’t guessed it, she did raise me this way.
Lodge Cornbread Stick Pan
CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE
Rome’s #63 Chrome Plated Steel Grill Basket A Sure Winner for All Your Our Door Cooking
Posted by Doyle Bailey for the Cast Iron Cookware Shop
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Dimensions: 8″ x 11: x 1 1/2″
Camp Fire Grilling Is Fun for All
Overall Length: 29:
Chrome Plated Steel
Rome’s #63 Chrome Plated Steel Grill Basket is great for chicken, steaks, pork chops, burgers,veggies, toast and anything that you want to grill that will fit in this grill basket. You name it; you can cook it with the Rome Grill Basket. The tight fitting edges of the outdoor grilling basket combined with a small grid pattern make it easy to cook your favorite foods without anything falling into the fire.
Perfect for grilling veggies or meat over an open flame, it’s sturdy chrome plated wire cleans easily with a brush or steel wool. The basket´s cooking depth is 1½” with 8″ x 11″ dimensions. Overall length is 29″ with a handle to keep your hands safely away from the flame. Made by family camping cookware specialists, Rome Industries, the Rome hamburger grill basket is a sure winner for all your outdoor cooking and camping need. Add this easy to transport, easy to use, easy to clean camping grill basket to your collection of cast iron cookware accessories.
Perfect for your:
- backyard fire pit cooking
Complete Your Camping Gear Before You Go
- tail gating or camping out
- fireplace grilling
Rome # 63 Grill Basket
Try Your “Skillet” At Making Cornbread
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Corn Bread and Soup, a Hearty and Healthy Winter Meal
Cornbread is easy to make and tastes best when made in a cast iron skillet or pan. Find a good recipe and soon you will be making it without even looking at the recipe. I like to experiment. For example, jalapeno pepper slices is a favorite for me.
If you like lots of tasty crust, corn stick pans, muffin pans or cornbread wedge pans may be just the thing for you. Whichever you choose, you will be pleased with the even heat distribution and easy clean up of non-stick cast iron cookware. (Note: when the cookware is properly seasoned).
CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE
Cornstick Pan.
Cornbread Wedge Pan