poll – Cast Iron Guy

2021-02-16

Sculpting Sand & Polar Vortexes

The cold is breaking. Where I live in Edmonton, Canada, a small city of about a million people in the middle of the Canadian prairies, it gets cold. Yet, even a stretch of brutal chill is mostly unusual. A polar vortex as they called it, where we’ve not had a…

2021-02-05

deeper thoughts

Would You Rather Camp or Trek?

Here’s a question for any outdoors person… given a year to do one or the other, and all things being equal, would you rather: Camp, in as much as you have a whole year to build an amazing setup in the wilderness, craft a log cabin with your own hands,…

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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.