Lodge Cast Iron 15″x 11″ BBQ Grill-Grate

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CELEBRATE SPRING AT ITS FINEST WITH CAST IRON CAMPING COOKWARE AND ACCESSORIES FROM  CAST IRON COOKWARE SHOP. Cast Iron Lodge BBQ Grill-Grate Lodge’s BBQ GRILL-GRATE grills those vegetables AND holds them on the grill. It measures 15 x 11 inches 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 delicious camp meals.

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Lodge Logic L10C03 4 Qt. Cast Iron Camping Dutch Oven

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Cook In Cast Iron Tonight on Your Firepit or When You Camp

This Lodge 4 quart cast iron camping dutch oven is small enough to pack easily and large enough to feed a family or group. The flanged lid will hold hot coals  that facilitate cooking and  keep ashes out of the pot. The cast iron camp lid can be turned upside down for use as a griddle. You actually get two cast iron cookware products for the price of one. The dutch oven legs provide stability and safety for use over your campfire or fireplace. This camp dutch oven is a skillet, saute pan, casserole cooker and fry pan all in one. How’s that for a utility castiron pot? A lifetime investment you will be able to pass it on to your children or grandchildren.  In our family cast iron cookware is passed down from one generation to the next. The cast iron dutch oven was originated for outdoor cooking and for centuries has done it’s job.

Camping is Cool/ Cast Iron Cookware is Hot

CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKEWARE

Cook with Cast Iron Cookware and Keep the Change

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Cook with Cast Iron Cookware and Keep the Change:

My suggestion is in two parts:

First Part:

Make a change that will amp up the flavor of all kinds of dishes. It does not matter if it is sweet, spicy or smoked, garlic is loaded with healthy nutrients and you will love the results.  You may be thinking that garlic’s  most common use is to ward off vampires. Even if you are of “Team Jacob” (from the Twilight books, which I enjoyed), these little cloves from the lily family can help maintain normal cholesterol levels and contain the compound allicin, which has an anti-fungal action and is what imparts that pungent odor. Even as I write this blog post I have a pot of beans cooking with onions and garlic and the kitchen smells delicious.

Garlic & Press/Wikipedia Photo

Lawrence E Karol writes in the March 2010 issue of Body + Soul Magazine:

“In the kitchen, garlic embraces everything it encounters–vegetables, meat, pasta–and when roasted, it’s practically a confection.”

Do not be an “alliumphobe” = fear of garlic, onions or leeks.

Make the change to cooking with garlic and I suspect you will keep the change.

Second Part:

Make the change to cooking with cast iron cookware, if you have not already done so.

Your purchase of cast iron cookware is more than a purchase. It is an investment. Long after you have forgotten what you paid for your cast iron cookware, you will remember the quality of the cookware.

This ultimately means more change to keep in your pocket since you will not be purchasing new cookware every few years.

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Your cookware is a legacy you can pass on to your children and grandchildren.

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Cast Iron Cookware Will Help Keep You and Your Family Healthy

Could your pots and pans be making you sick? If you are not cooking with cast iron cookware you might want to remember:

• that other non-stick cookware is required to carry a warning that the fumes emitted during cooking can kill your pet bird (if your Tweety Bird isn’t safe, what about you and your family?)

• to look at a “non-stick pot or pan” and see how much of the coating has flaked off. Where did that stuff go? Do you suppose you might have eaten it with your food?

• that you may need to toss your “non-stick cookware” or get Tweety, all of your family and you out of the kitchen when you cook.

Cooking in Cast Iron Cookware can actually be a vital component of a healthier lifestyle.

1. If your cast iron cookware is well-seasoned, is is virtually stick-free and thereby requires little or no oil, which is important for heart-healthy recipes.
2. You can use a cast iron skillet to cook healthy veggies and lean cuts of meat.
   

   Lodge 12 Inch Skillet to prepare any of the other dishes you would cook in a "non-stick" pan. Cast iron is not just good for the heavier "comfort foods" but you can prepare healthier, lighter fare with cast iron cookware.

3. Cooking is cast iron can also boost your intake of iron since trace amounts of iron gets absorbed into the foods you cook. That is better than the stuff that flakes-off the “non-stick” cookware you may be using.

Keep “Tweety Bird” Your Family and Yourself healthier by cooking in Cast Iron Cookware. It will allow you to TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE.

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Cookware with Benefits for Everyday and Gourmet Cooking: Castiron Cookware

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Castiron Cookware combines the versatility of cooking for everyday and for gourmet.

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You can cook just about anything in cast iron. Of course castiron cookware is best known for its good old fashioned cooking but do not let this reputation fool you. Due to its even heating qualities (heat retention and distribution),and the fact it can be used in the oven and on the stove top, you can cook just about any food, including gourmet in it.

Cast iron cookware offers:

1. a large selection of pots, pans, and cookware shapes. You can choose from cast-iron griddles, grill pans, serving pots, Dutch ovens, pizza pans, roasters, casseroles, waffle makers, muffin pans, corn bread pans, camping cookware, bread bakers, dog’n brat, panini sandwich toasters, pie irons roasters and more.
   

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2. multi-use pans A single pan covers a multitude of dishes. A single cast iron skillet can be used to bake a cake, make cornbread, sear a fillet, roast a chicken, fry potatoes, or stir-fry vegetables. You can get a cast iron casserole with a grill pan lid and have two pieces for the price of one.
   

   Kinetic Casserole Enamel Grill Pan

3. cast iron cookware does not particularly care where you use it. You can prepare a dish in enameled cast iron cookware and take it to the table and serve from it there. It is so attractive that it will enhance your table with a presentation appeal and it will keep your food warm throughout your dinner due to its heat retention. Cast iron camping cookware is at its best at your backyard fire pit cookout or at your camp site in the great outdoors.
4. cast iron cookware can cook almost anything (including gourmet dishes). “Cast-Iron Cooking for Dummies“  by Tracy Barr has great techniques for cooking and recipes as well.
   

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Cast Iron Dutch Oven: the Pot that Won the West

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Some say the cast iron dutch

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

oven goes back hundreds of years. Others maintain the dutch oven originated with the Chinese 2,500 years ago. A great source for further investigation is “Dutch Ovens Chronicled, Their Use in the United States” by John G. Ragsdale, published by the University of Arkansas Press.

In 1704 Abraham Darby traveled from England to Holland to inspect the Dutch casing process which used brass vessels cast in sand molds. When he returned to England, Darby experimented with this process and eventually patented a casting process using a superior quality of molding sand as well as the process of baking the mold to improve casting smoothness. Soon Darby was casting and shipping pots to the new colonies as well as other parts of the world. Ragsdale suggests that the name “Dutch Oven” may have originated from the original Dutch process for the casting of these metal pots. Others believe that the name may have come from Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania who used similar cast iron pots or kettles.

Cast Iron Dutch Ovens can have:

• a  flat bottom having three legs to hold the oven above a bed of coals for a heat source from below the dutch oven
• flat sides and a flat, flanged lid for holding coals for a heat source from above the dutch oven therefore giving it an “oven” effect
• a steel bail handle attached to the “ears” on each side of the dutch oven near the top to enable carrying

This type of oven is a cast iron camping dutch oven.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

Cast Iron Dutch Ovens also come Enameled

Lodge Red Enamel Dutch Oven

in beautiful colors that are so attractive that you can  serve your guests at the table from your dutch oven. Your food will stay warm because cast iron is great for its heat retention.

When the West was opened and the United States was expanding and people were on the move, they were forced to leave their large, heavy cook stoves behind.  People learned to cook complete meals from stews to soups, bread to biscuits, in their Dutch Ovens.  This pioneering spirit is not a lost art. Wonderful and tasty meals are still being prepared today in cast iron cookware.The cast iron dutch oven was the “Queen of the Fleet” when the Prairie Schooners rolled westward. It still reigns.

TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE WITH CAST IRON COOKWARE

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Cast Iron Cookware Will Warm Your Food and Your Family

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Where is the center of warmth in your home? In our home it would have to be the kitchen. My wife and I both enjoy cooking and I do not even mind the clean-up afterward. There is even a special stool where the younger grandchildren stand to help their “Nona” cook.There are rocking chairs in our kitchen for friends to rock and chat with us. There is a lot of warmth and it does not all come from the oven or cook top.

We have a large collection of cast iron cookware and I suppose these grandchildren will teach their children to cook using the same dutch ovens, roasters, skillets, cornbread pans and casseroles.

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Sometimes we take the fun and warmth outside to a firepit where we roast hot dogs, marshmallows, S’mores.

Camp Cooking Is Fun!

Cast iron cookware travels well to the back yard or to your campsite with Waffle Makers, Panini Presses, Pie Irons, Bread Bakers and Dog ‘n Brat Makers.

Bask in the warmth of your kitchen, your backyard fire pit or at your campsite with cast iron cookware and cast iron cookware camping accessories.

Rome Panini Presses

Use cast iron cookware and cast iron camping cookware accessories to cook your food, keep it warm with cast iron’s great heat retention and help keep family relationships warm and cozy.

Rome Firepit Cookout Set

Warm up to family, food and cast iron cookware tonight. It will allow you

TO TASTE THE FOOD AND NOT THE COOKWARE.

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What The Cast Iron Pot Said to the Cast Iron Kettle

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The Cast Iron Pot said to the Cast Iron Kettle:

“Ever since you whistled at me I have been captivated by your charms. I supposed I was ‘pre-seasoned‘ to succumb to you. However, our romance at times is quite a ‘fine kettle of fish‘. You tend to reach a boiling point with me quite easily and sometimes you are a little over the top with your family pedigree of enameled cast iron cookware relatives.

Enameled Cast Iron Fry Pan

Admittedly they have an aesthetic appeal but at the heart of the matter, you and I, and even they, are made of the same stuff ‘cast iron‘. We all come from good stock. Our romance will endure and we will share many happy times together in the kitchen long after other cookware  has lost its ‘non-stick’ quality and has been discarded. We will ‘stick together‘ but the food will not  stick to us.”

Lodge Red Enamel Dutch Oven

Why You Should Use Cast Iron Cookware Tonight

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You perhaps have and use a nonstick pan all the time. Do not forget about the cast iron cookware you may have stored away in your cabinet.

There are reasons why you should get out the cast iron and use it tonight.

• cast iron cookware is so versatile that it can go from stove top to oven to grill with ease
• cast iron cookware allows you to bake a gooey pineapple upside-down cake in it as well as fry unbelievably crisp and tasty catfish
• cast iron cookware will enhance your reputation as an excellent cook

Pull out your hand-me-down skillet, or purchase a new pre-seasoned pan and try this recipe for Pork Chops with Pepper Jelly Sauce.

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet

Ingredients:

4 (1/2 inch-thick bone-in pork loin chops (about 2 1/2 lbs.)

1 tsp. salt

3/4 tsp.freshly ground pepper

3 Tbsp. butter, divided

3 Tbsp. olive oil

1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour

1 laege jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced

1/2 cup dry white wine

1 cup chicken broth

1/2 cup red pepper jelly

Steps:

1. Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper. Melt 1 Tbsp. butter with oil in a 12 inch cast iron skillet over medium high heat. Add pork chops and cook 8 minutes; turn and cook 10 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 150 degrees. Remove from skillet, and keep warm.
2. Add flour and jalapeno to skillet. Cook, stirring constantly, 1 to 2 minutes or until flour is golden brown. Add wine, stirring to loosen particles from bottom of skillet; cook 1 minute or until almost completely reduced.
3. Add chicken broth, and cook 2 to 3 minutes or until mixture begins to thicken. Whisk in pepper jelly until melted and smooth. Cook 3 to four minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in remaining 2 Tbsp. butter. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Return pork to skillet; turn to coat. Serve pork with sauce.

Cook with a cast iron skillet tonight and you will be an avid advocate of cast iron cookware.

CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE

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Supersize Your Wallet Not Your Body with Cast Iron Cookware

Good News for Dieters

How can you super-size your “assets” not your, er…body?

Research has shown that dieters who are offered a financial reward as an incentive to lose weight are five times more likely to meet their goal when compared to other dieters who have no potential monetary reward.

This has led to a number of incentive programs:

• companies have started offering everything from gift cards to cruises to employees who shed excess pounds in an effort to cut overall health care costs.
• Corporate Sponsors give cash prizes to obese participants who drop enough weight in a year.

What a healthy and well conceived idea! It is a win/win proposition for sponsor and participant.

This leads me to a question: Is there a pot

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

that can help you get rid of or avoid acquiring a “pot” and save you money at the same time? Cast Iron Cookware Shop proposes the following for your consideration:

• cooking in cast iron cookware can be conducive to cooking healthy meals of veggies at home and avoiding the “bloat” that can go with “fast food“. Cast iron cooked meals are “slow food” and can lead to enhanced communication in the family.
• cooking in cast iron can save you money in the long run. Yes, you can find less expensive cookware but you will be replacing it relatively soon. Cast iron cookware is an investment and not just a purchase. You will still be enjoying the quality of your cookware long after you have forgotten what you paid for it and you can pass it on to your children and grandchildren.
• cooking in with cast iron cookware instead of eating out is cost effective and will save you money.
  

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If you want to super size something in 2010, cast iron cookware offers you an incentive to use the cookware that will allow you to taste the food not the cookware.

Offers Incentives for Cooking