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What's for dinner? - 2016
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Baked chicken, couscous and tossed salad.
My husband is making pot stickers.
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Rick came home from his mom's house yesterday with an old Griswold cast iron frying pan, two Pyrex glass layer cake pans, and a set of old metal colored drinking glasses with the matching pitcher. And a big smile on his face. And he had a special request for dinner tonight.
He wants me to make sausage and fried potatoes. With eggs. In the Griswold. With a coffeecake. In one of the glass pans. Seems that's how his mother made breakfast sometimes.
I explained to him that the cast iron desperately needs to be cleaned and re-seasoned; that poor thing has seen better days. BUT, I have my grandmother's Griswold and I can use that for our dinner tonight. I'll throw together a cinnamon flop (it's a cinnamon coffee cake, one of my mother's oldies but goodies) in the Pyrex. Meanwhile I'll go ahead and clean his mom's frying pan and re-season it this afternoon.
You have never had fried chicken until you've had it fried in a cast iron frying pan.
The things we do.....
He wants me to make sausage and fried potatoes. With eggs. In the Griswold. With a coffeecake. In one of the glass pans. Seems that's how his mother made breakfast sometimes.
I explained to him that the cast iron desperately needs to be cleaned and re-seasoned; that poor thing has seen better days. BUT, I have my grandmother's Griswold and I can use that for our dinner tonight. I'll throw together a cinnamon flop (it's a cinnamon coffee cake, one of my mother's oldies but goodies) in the Pyrex. Meanwhile I'll go ahead and clean his mom's frying pan and re-season it this afternoon.
You have never had fried chicken until you've had it fried in a cast iron frying pan.
The things we do.....
turkey noodle soup, a grilled cheese sandwich, and a half slice of banana bread.
Domino's pizza
How do you 're season' a frying pan. What's it seasoned with in the first place. The Pyrex sound lovely.
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The Pyrex pans are gorgeous.
To season cast iron, I gave the pan a good washing and yes, I used Dawn soap. I even used a steel wool pad. Gave it a good rinsing in hot water. Then, using a paper towel, I wiped a thin coat of Crisco shortening all over the inside of the skillet. Plopped it into a cold oven and set the oven temperature to 375. Let it go for one hour. Turned the oven off and let it come to room temperature. Took the skillet out of the oven, put in a couple layers of waxed paper and then put the skillet away.
I've been doing this with my grandmother's cast iron skillet for decades, whenever I think the skillet needs to be re-seasoned or when the food starts to stick a bit to the pan. After every use, I dry it with paper towels and then put it on the stove burner on Low for a couple minutes. Just to make sure it's nice and dry.
If you don't keep your cast iron seasoned properly, the food will stick and they're a bugger to clean. And if you don't take care of the skillet, it will eventually start to rust. Ideally, I guess you should use lard to do it properly. Although Cooks Illustrated says now to use flaxseed oil and the total seasoning process takes about three days. I'm not going there. Shortening has always been my seasoner of choice and I see no reason to change. But that's JMO.
(My fried potatoes and eggs didn't stick one bit in that pan tonight.) I love cooking in cast iron.
I guess I should mention that I have a glass top stove and people are always aghast that I use cast iron. Well, the trick is to put the skillet on the stove carefully and then.....don't move it. Don't move it, not even one inch. Moving the skillet will scratch the cooktop. I've heard, too, that the heaviness of the skillet and the food in the skillet can cause the glass top to shatter; fortunately that has not happened to me.....*knock on wood*.
My mom made chicken alfredo and I brought a cake and ice cream for dessert.
I don't know what dawn soap is except that it kills fleas!
I make mushroom Alfredo. Does she use cooked chicken
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Dawn is simply dishwashing liquid. Not for the dishwasher, but to put into the sink.
Bowtie pasta with freshly chopped tomatoes and broccoli. Some caramelized onion and some 'shrooms. And just a wee sprinkling of freshly grated Parmesan.
Trying to go back to Meatless Mondays around here.
Yeah, it was just chicken, fettuccine and sauce. Nothing special.
I had sweet potato alfredo last night.
Scallops on a large arugula salad.
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