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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Cast Iron Grill-Grate Lets You Grill Great

Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop

Lodge’s 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

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Cool Cast Iron Camping Cookware & Accessories

Some really “cool“  Camping Cast Iron Cookware and Camping Cookware Accessories are really “hot” for  2010 camping.

There are some really good reasons to get to the great outdoors and camp.

Here are some:

• the soul deadening pace of modern life. Even if you win the rat race you are still a “rat”.
• the ceaseless activity that drains our vitality.
• being harried and hassled by life’s demands
• being stuck on fast forward and running on empty
• add your reasons and comment below

Some Reasons to Go Camping:

• camping is fun and family friendly
  

  Camping is Cool

• camping allows you to be who you are and want to be in a place you want to be. Tension is who you think (or others think) you should be. Relaxation is who you are (Chinese Proverb).
• camping is still affordable
• fun activities while you camp offer numerous possibilities. Use your imagination
  

  Rome Panini Presses

• no doubt you can think of others. We would love to hear from you.
  

  Rome Popcorn PopperLodge

  

  Rome Firepit Cookout Set

  

  Round Pie Iron by RomeS'More Maker

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  Camp and Cook In Cast Iron

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Pollo Moruno with Grilled Vegetables

Chicken on your grill with vegetables makes for an easy, healthy meal for the holidays.

Ingredients:

Chicken

• 2.200 pounds (1 kilo)boneless skinless chicken, breasts

• 2 teaspoons ground coriander

• 2 teaspoons ground cumin

• 2 teaspoons Spanish paprika

• 1 teaspoon chili, flakes

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

• 1 tablespoon pureed garlic

• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon, juice

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1 tablespoon water, optional

• 6 wooden skewers, soaked in water, for an hour

Vegetables

• 1 red pepper

• 1 green zucchini

• 1 garlic, clove, chopped

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• a liberal sprinkling of dried basil

• a liberal sprinkling of dried oregano

• salt and pepper, to taste

Preparation:

Chicken

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Place the chicken breasts in a bowl. Combine the rest of the marinade ingredients. Mix very well. Coat the chicken thoroughly. If you find that the marinade is too thick you can add the water.

3. Cover and marinate a minimum of 3 hours.

4. Place the chicken breasts on a very hot grill. Grill the chicken for 4 to 5 minutes per side. Slice chicken into large bite size pieces.

5. Cut red pepper and zucchini into large bite size pieces. Toss vegetables with garlic, oil, herbs and pepper. Grill vegetables.

6. Alternately skewer chicken with vegetables. Finish cooking skewered chicken and vegetables in the oven for a few minutes until chicken is cooked through.

Yield: 6

Recipe courtesy of Michell Perez

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop and Cooking Over A Campfire

Portable fuel-burning stoves have made things much easier when it comes to camping. Most public camping areas have been picked clean of available wood for a campfire. I can see where portable stoves are useful. However, there’s a certain mystique about cooking over a wood fire while camping that the little stoves can’t begin to approach. Besides is it really camping without the smoke, sometimes in your eyes?

HERE ARE SOME TIPS CONCERNING COOKING OVER A CAMPFIRE;

First, you have to build a fire and let it burn down to a good bed of coals. It is the coals that you want to cook over rather than the fire itself. They produce and ashes and more heat. Also the heat is more consistent and controllable. It is really nice and helps you to control the heat when you use a camping tripod to hang your dutch oven (with a bail), coffee pot or cast iron kettle over the bed of coals.

The densest wood you can find makes the best coals. Oak, cedar, mesquite, pecan, or other hardwoods make good coals, while pines, aspen, and other light woods don’t. Before you attempt to cook, you need to build up at least a couple of inches of live coals and then let the main fire settle down a little.

For fire safety and convenience, dig a fire pit at least 8-10 inches deep and around 2.5 feet square, bigger in both dimensions if you plan on staying a few days or if you plan on having a “bonfire” at night. Keep the dirt you remove from the fire pit to fill in the hole when you break camp.

There are several designs of fire pits. Perhaps the easiest and most convenient is the Keyhole Pit. This pit is dug in the shape of a “keyhole” with a little side chamber out from one edge of the main pit. The main area is used for the fire itself and the side chamber is used for the actual
cooking. The cooking chamber should extend a couple of feet (up wind)
from the main fire and should be about a foot wide and only about 4
inches deep. When you’re ready to start cooking, shovel some
coals from the fire to the side chamber and you are in business.

Some Tips You May Find Useful:

1. Two ways to control your heat are to (1) add or subtract coals
or (2) raise or lower your cooking pots or pans. This is where a tripod is extremely useful. You can use
multiple cooking chambers (cast iron camp dutch ovens have feet to sit on a bed of coals and be stacked to give additional cooking chambers).

2. You can use a small grill over the coals, or you can pre-arrange rocks for the pot to sit on. (not too stable. can tend to “rock and roll”). If you use a grill, it should be easily moved so you can tend the bed of coals.

3. Here is a tip that can save you a lot of “elbow grease”. Make some dinners and wrap them in foil before you leave home. These are pre-packaged meals ready to throw in a coal bed for a few minutes of cooking. You start with some heavy-duty aluminum foil, preferably a double thickness about 2 feet square after folding. Then you lay out a piece of meat (anything from ground round to steak) along with some potatoes and veggies like carrots, onions, or corn and your favorite seasonings. Then fold over the foil and crimp it several times at the seam and at both ends. What you should get is a tightly-wrapped, sealed-off meal inside the foil. Then later, just sprinkle a few coals on the ground and lay the package on top. Then cover with a few coals and wait about fifteen minutes. You can cook baked potatoes the same way but they take a little longer. Remember a FEW coals. A little goes a long way. When you’re through, the fire will eat the foil and all you’ve got to clean is your fork.

4. Aluminum and other shiny cookware gets very dirty over a wood fire and is hard to keep from turning a permanent black. Frankly that is why is much prefer cast iron camping cookware. Here’s a trick to help in that department. Before you put the pot on the fire, make a paste from water and powdered soap. Apply the paste to the bottom and up the sides of the pot. Now start cooking. The soot will all stick on the soap, which washes off very easily when you’re through. Just don’t rub the soap off by sliding the pot around on a grill, etc. On frying pans, you need to come up close to the lip with the paste. Just don’t get any where it will fall into the food.

5. If you are car camper, try using a Dutch oven for baking or like a crock pot for stews and such. A true Dutch oven is a cast iron pot with three legs about an inch or two long, and a lid with a lip around the outer edge. Pots with no legs and no lip on the top are called ranch ovens and they are just regular cast iron cookware. You set them on a shallow bed of coals and then sprinkle more coals on the lid. Just like the foil dinners, you should take it easy on the number of coals you use both underneath and on top. In addition to stews or casseroles, you can bake biscuits or cobblers that always taste better outdoors.

6. Here’s a tip for the care and maintenance of your Dutch oven or any cast iron cookware. After washing, dry immediately. Then use a paper towel to wipe on a thin layer of vegetable oil (no animal fats) inside and out. Then put on the fire (or in a hot oven) for 4-5 minutes. This will cause the oil to glaze and bond to the iron, protecting it from rust and other bad things.

7. For fire safety, you should keep your shovel stuck in the pile of dirt removed from the fire pit. A little folding camp shovel works fine. Also you can keep several buckets of wash water for the next meal near the fire pit as well. When you are ready to leave, police the area for trash and throw that into the pit. Then, drown the fire and fill in the fire pit. Remember, a good camper “leaves no trace”.

Hopefully some of the ideas will be of use to you as you cook over your camp fire or fire pit. Enjoy the great outdoors or your great back yard and remember:

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

For really fun things to do with your campfire, get a Rome Industries Firepit Cookout set. Make tasty sandwiches or fruit pies with your pie irons, roast dogs or marshmallows with the handy hot dog roasters or make s’mores, everyone’s favorite. Rome make campfires more fun for you and your family.

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