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by bardo 🍁
2022-05-15
reversible grill (lodge 20 inch), tucking in

Recipe: Cast Iron Breakfast Hashbrowns

I’ve eaten breakfast in many places around the world, and its fair to say that anywhere you wake up to a meal that place probaby has it’s own style of morning eats that defines it as a culture. At home, I tend to spread a little jam on some toasted…

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2022-03-11
griddle (lodge 10.5 inch), sourdough

Sourdough Muffins

What are English Muffins called in England? Muffins? Breakfast muffins? Half a Benny? As I grilled these doughy disks on my cast iron skillet this morning with my daughter lingering over my shoulder hoping she could nab one for her breakfast, I wasn’t really pondering such things. As 2022 progresses…

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2021-12-17
sourdough

Sourdough But Not Bread

It’s been a long twenty-one months of pandemic craziness, but I’ve kept myself a little more sane by baking a lot of sourdough bread. A few loaves per week. A regular diet of sourdough toast for breakfast. A healthy source of bread for the family. But in all that time…

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2021-12-10
sourdough

I Heart Sourdough

Describe your 2021 in food. I had a lengthy post planned about all the different ways in which this blog has forced me to think about how I cook and what I eat and the enjoyment I get out of both those things… …then this morning I sliced open a…

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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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