Lodge Logic L10C03 4 Qt. Cast Iron Camping Dutch Oven

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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

If Your Life Is The Pits, Try Fire Pit Cooking

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Who does not feel their life is the pits occasionally? It is possible that something as simple as cooking a meal at your campsite or in your back yard could be a solution. Camp cooking can get the endorphins flowing in the brain. These peptides can possibly  help you by trading in “the pits” for a

“fire pit“.

Add to Your Outdoor Cooking Enjoyment

Why Is Fire Pit Cooking Such a Natural Rush? It could be because:

• to build a firepit, if you do not have one, is a fun and easy project for the entire family.
• to cook over a firepit taps in to our pioneer spirit and helps remove the toxins of our lives that may be stuck on fast forward.
• to experiment with panini sandwiches, dog’brat, camp pizza creates lasting memories for all. Your children will tell their children about the experience and hopefully repeat it.
• to share the camp cooking experience is educational and fun for our children
• to eat a meal cooked outdoors is like a “communion service” and the food has a special flavor.
• to follow up the camp meal with s’mores is nostalgic, and notoriously delicious.

Rome Industries has created some innovative and practical products to make your Campfire Firepit Cookout Moments Memorable.

Choose from cast iron bread bakers, hamburger grillers, popcorn makers, square and round pie irons, pizza grillers, and more.

A Firepit Cookout Set includes a S’more Maker, Pie Irons, Hot Dog Roasters Firepit Cookout Set Storage Bags, cast iron waffle makers.

Rome Fire Pit Cookout Set

Rome Dog 'n Brat Cooker

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.

Lodge Cast Iron Cookware

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

Some of Our "Family" of Cast Iron Cookware

Cast Iron Grill-Grate Lets You Grill Great

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Lodge’s BBQ GRILL-GRATE

Lodge Cast Iron BBQ Grill Grate

grills your vegetables and will not let them escape into your campfire. It  holds them on the grill. It measures 15 x 11 inches . 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.

You can really grill great with the Lodge Cast iron BBQ Grill/Grate

TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE WITH CAST IRON COOKWARE

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.

Cook In Cast Iron Tonight or When You Camp

The Gateway to Family Fun with Cast Iron Camping Cookware and Accessories

Cook In Cast Iron Tonight or When You Camp

What do you do when family is not as fun as it once was? Here are some suggestions that may help put the fun back in family. They may just be the Gateway to Family Fun you have been looking for.

Cast Iron Camp Cookware: Gateway to Family Fun

• a family outing or camping trip can be the occasion to rediscover just how much fun being together can be. Hunting, fishing, hiking, exploring, birdwatching, photography and campfire cooking.

Teach your kids to cook over a camp fire or a fire pit.

Check out these easy ways to use cast iron camping cookware products:

Rome Dog 'n Brat Cooker

A Firepit Cookout set

Rome Firepit Cookout Set

gives you numerous fun options:

Make toasty sandwiches or fruit pies in your Rome pie irons.

Roast hot dogs or marshmallows in your Rome Hot Dog/Marshmallows Roaster.

Do not forget every one’s family favorite S’mores. Make three at a time in your Rome S’more Maker.

Not all camp cooking is done in a dutch oven or a skillet. While these are wonderful for preparing the main meal, what about dessert or fun activities around the campfire before time to turn-in?

Rome Popcorn Popper

The Old South Pot: A Symbol of Success

“In the old days, the hall mark of successful plantation life was the iron pot” according to Francois Mignon in”Plantation Memo: Plantation Life in Louisiana 1750-1970 and other matter”.

Oakland Plantation, Bermuda, Louisiana

When there was no silver on the dining room table, you could survive on pewter, earthenware, china or porcelain. You might even survive if your white-columned mansion went up in flames, but “life without an iron pot was rugged in the extreme“.

“In Louisiana all during the 1700’s (Great Pots Era), iron cooking utensils ranging from little three-legged pots nestling safely upright on the ashes in the hearth (today we call them camping Dutch ovens) to the big iron skillets, so masterfully handled by Negro cooks, were familiar equipment in town and plantation homes alike. It was early in the 1800’s however, that the day of the great pots dawned…sugar had come into its own and from year to year greater grew the demand for bigger and even bigger iron pots in which the cane juice could be started on its way to syrup and eventually to granulated sugar…”

Iron pots for making syrup and sugar, wash pots or clothes and iron pots for cooking food; they are all a part of what was life on a plantation. The iron pots from life on a plantation are today reminders of an almost forgotten yesterday. Some can still be seen on the Cane River Creole Plantations of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Today’s cast iron cookware

Lodge Cast Iron Cookware

may be pre-seasoned, enameled and somewhat unlike its predecessor from the past, but is still indebted to pots from the past for a heritage of nostalgic appeal and excellent cooking. Old fashioned? A little heavy? Nevertheless, cast iron cookware has its place in today’s kitchen and in the camping gear of out door cooks.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

Lodge 12 Inch Skillet

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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.

Lodge Cast Iron Cookware

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.
   

   Cast Iron Cookware

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 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.

Our "Family" of Cast Iron Cookware

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.

Cook In Cast Iron Tonight or When You Camp

Cast Iron Cookware Shop Celebrates Flavor with a New Orleans Jambalaya

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop celebrates the flavor of New Orleans by  offering you the opportunity to jazz up your menu with a popular and traditional New Orleans dish. No matter where you live, you can celebrate in an authentic New Orleans style flavor.

This spicy, flavorful dish is perfect for a party, and it really is “big easy.” The recipe can be easily doubled to serve 16 by using 2 packages of Jambalaya Mix, doubling all the other ingredients and cooking in a cast iron Dutch oven or cast iron  saucepot.

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

The Big Easy Jambalaya

Makes 8 (1-cup) servings

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

1. Heat oil in large deep skillet

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet

or 5-quart Dutch oven

Enamel Dutch Oven

on medium heat. Add onion and bell peppers; cook and stir 7 minutes or until vegetables begin to soften.

2. Stir in tomatoes, water and Jambalaya Mix. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover and simmer 15 minutes.

3. Stir in shrimp and sausage. Cover and cook 10 minutes longer or just until shrimp turn pink and rice and vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley, if desired.

CAST IRON COOKWARE  LETS YOU TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE