The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook: Recipes for the Best Pan in Your Kitchen
"Solid, plain, steady, trustworthy—this might be the tool to reunite the two Americas! The authors, who live in Seattle, have an instinctive sense of all-American cooking as shown by their recipes for open-face sloppy Joes, chicken with herbed dumplings and cornbread. But there are interesting variants too, like fennel-ricotta skillet bread and brown-sugar coffee cake."The New York Times Book Review"…a distinctive blend of traditional and modern insights…this book makes a good compliment to the purchase of your first cast iron skillet."Cooking with Paula Deen"Just like one of those pans that gets handed down from generation to generation, this new collection of recipes bears the well-seasoned finish of a good frying pan."The Seattle Times, Pacific Northwest magazine"Owners of cast iron skillets will find this packs in a fine set of recipes created by the mother/daughter authors Sharon Kramis and Julie Kramis Hearne, blending old and ndw styles and flavors in nearly a hundred appealing dishes. Color photos pepper ideas on using the cast iron skillet to bake and cook and are accompanied by tips on care of the skillet."The Midwest Book Review"Kramis and Hearne helpfully preface their recipes with a cast iron maintenance defriefing. you'll really start to warm to cast iron when you picture a puffed Dutch baby, a golden Dungeness crab quesadilla, hearty beef stew, or tender baked halibut…So dig out that cast iron cookware from the back of the cupboard—you'll find out it's more than a relic of the woodstove era.Northwest Palate magazine