Will Cast Iron Pass the Test?

by BigMama on September 10, 2010

in Le Creuset,The Daily Dutch Oven Podcasts

Cast Iron vs. the Human Head I recently finished reading Kitchen Confidential, that incredibly blunt and hilarious book written about 10 years ago by Anthony Bourdain, a New York City chef who made his name exposing the culinary underbelly of the restaurant trade and now travels around the world eating stuff the rest of us [...]

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Dutch Oven Cooking for a Large Family

by BigMama on September 10, 2010

in Cooking with Kids,Le Creuset,The Daily Dutch Oven Podcasts

More Mouths to Feed Means Buy a Bigger Pot When my first husband and I divorced, I became the single mom of three. Three light eaters. They would eat almost anything, but they didn’t eat much of anything at one sitting. Dinners were easy after a long day at work: English muffins with peanut butter [...]

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5 Quart Dutch Oven, 11 Month Old Baby

September 6, 2010
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A friend’s son. Too cute not to share. Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Prissy Dutch Oven Cooking

September 6, 2010

Prissy Dutch Oven Cooking Will Get Me Laughed Off the Internet Ok, so there are a TON of blogs about cooking in a dutch oven. So far, though, all of the ones I’ve read about are the cowboy/country/pioneer/outdoor/camping type dutch oven cooking. The kind where you need to count coals and what not to get [...]

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Creme Patissere in a Staub Sauce Pot

September 6, 2010

The first time I cooked in a Staub Sauce Pot,  I slightly doubted its capabilities, and was not sure on how well it would preform with its first task.  Around a month ago, when I made a Creme Patissere from a French cookbook, “The Essentials of French Cooking”. I have no idea what I was thinking at the [...]

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Vegetable Gratin in a Le Creuset Stoneware Dish

September 6, 2010
Campari tomatoes, crookneck squash and zucchini layered in a Le Creuset stoneware baking dish

A Better Vegetable Gratin. For years, 24 years actually, I have made one and only one dish with zucchini and crookneck squash: sauteed with onions and basil. And then, a recent issue of Cooking Illustrated demonstrated how these types of squash can be combined with onions in a spectacular gratin, packed full of flavor, not [...]

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