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by bardo 🍁
2023-01-09
tucking in

Scratch Soup

Using up leftovers, scrounging bits of vegetables from the refrigerator, gauging spices, and adding bits that make texture and flavours and spicyness to what you and your culinary audience likes… this is what makes a good scratch soup.

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2023-01-08
running guy, winter sport

Suburban Ski Day

A sunny Sunday afternoon in January was the perfect day to go check out a few kilometers of trails through a local green (winter white) space in the Edmonton suburbs.

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2023-01-07
local adventure, video stories

adventure dog adventure

This may seem a bit silly, but I started editing together little one minute videos of my dog and posting them on Youtube. We go for a long walk, explore some trails, capture some 4k footage on my phone or go pro camera. I have a couple of these that…

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2023-01-06
book club

the three buck book club

It only makes sense that a guy who cooks on cast iron, spends time in the outdoors and enjoys cooking clean, simple food would also be into vintage books, right? I decided that I want to read more in 2023. I want do do a lot of things in 2023,…

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about

It’s about more than just food.

It’s about a mindset and a perspective on living a full, active and interesting life.

The Cast Iron Guy blog heated up in January 2021 as a journal of uncomplicated things, life lived, and a mindset that reflects the philosophical practicality of well-seasoned cast iron frying pan: enduring, simple, down-to-earth & extremely useful.

I write regularly from here in the Canadian Prairies about things that interest me, including the artistic inspiration I get outdoors, travel, gear, growing and cooking food, fire craft, suburban and nature trails, running, and (of course) the clever and curious ways I find to use my many pieces of cast iron cookware.

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