What The Cast Iron Pot Said to the Cast Iron Kettle
Cook In Cast Iron Tonight
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
OVEN ROASTED APPLE-CRANBERRY CRISP IN CAST IRON COOKWARE
Apple Cranberry Crisp
OVEN ROASTED APPLE-CRANBERRY CRISP WITH CREAMY SPICED CHANTILLY
A Bobby Flay Recipe
Ingredients:
1/2 cup very cold heavy or whipping cream
3 Tbsp. firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup Hellmann’s® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
5 medium Granny Smith apples*, cored and cut into eighths
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup fresh or thawed frozen cranberries*
1 cup plain granola cereal
Preparation:
1.Combine cream with brown sugar in medium bowl and whip to soft peaks with large whisk or hand-held mixer; set aside. Combine Hellmann’s® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise with cinnamon with wire whisk in medium bowl. Gently fold in whipped cream mixture.
2.Preheat oven to 375°. Combine apples with granulated sugar in casserole baking dish and roast 15 minutes or until slightly soft. Stir in cranberries and roast an additional 15 minutes or until apples are very tender and the cranberries have popped.
Lodge Red Enamel Casserole
3.Divide the fruit into 4 bowls or goblets, then sprinkle with granola. Top each with a large dollop of the spiced chantilly mayonnaise. If you choose, you can serve your Apple-Cranberry Crisp directly from the attractive holiday-red enamel casserole dish at the dinner table.
*SUBSTITUTION: Use peaches instead of apples and 1 pint of fresh raspberries instead of cranberries.
Serves: 6
Prep Time: 15 Minute(s)
Cook Time: 30 Minute(s)
TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE
Cast Iron Cookwareshop on Giving Yourself the Green Light to Go Green
Reader’s Digest is always so interesting, funny, informative and practical. The August 2009 issue is exceptional.
On the environment, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is quoted from a discussion of California Researchers at a recent conference on global warming. Chu suggests that the solution to global warming could be as simple as painting every roof and road white. It could, he says, be the equivalent of taking every car in every country off the road for 11 years.
Cast Iron Cookware also has a role to play in helping you to go green in your cooking.
1. Replace your chemically treated pans with the true, environmentally friendly cast iron cookware. You may make a lab technician angry
but who needs that potentially dangerous chemical substance flaking off in their food?
2. Join a Carrotmob Carrot mob, according to Time is a self-described “network of consumers who buy products in order to reward businesses who are making socially responsible decisions.” Their members make it a point to show up to buy products at a store that has promised to make specific environmental changes with the deluge of profits. Time reports Carrotmobs in 11 U.S. cities. Organized consumer purchasing can change business. Reward your local green market, organic food businesses and business enterprises who make environmentally friendly decisions. Carrots and other veggies are wonderful when they are cooked in a cast iron dutch oven.
Our Cast Iron Dutch Oven with Veggies
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GO ON. GIVE YOURSELF THE GREEN LIGHT TO GO GREEN AND LET CAST IRON COOKWARE HELP YOU.