In the Kitchen

[thartley]

Okay, I'm parking this thread here and we'll see how it does for having legs of its own to warrant a real "room" here in Isaraland.

I'm going to kick it off with a simpleton question.  Has anyone here ever seasoned a new cast iron skillet? I need a good stove-to-oven skillett if I am ever going to enjoy a homemade frittata. 

[KitKat]

I'm no expert on seasoning a cast iron skillet, but I think you rub oil on it and place it in a hot over for awhile?  Let's google it, and see what we come up with.

[KitKat]

Found this link, maybe this will help you. 

http://www.melindalee.com/Cast-Iron.html

[thartley]

Ok, I'm heading out in a few minutes and the skillet is on the list.  I'll let you know if I burn the place down. 

[Ginafish]

I'm lucky to have inherited seasoned cast irons, and bought a few new ones. We seasoned them with oil and baking them empty. Never wash them with soap, it'll take away the seasoning. Wash them out with water as best you can, then use salt and a paper towel to 'scrub' it. Rinse it out again, then oil it slightly till you need again. Don't let water ever sit in it, or it'll get rusty and you'll have to start again.

[thartley]

Okay, this is still on my list of things to do.  Thanks for the tips.

(in the oven til it smokes, but not til it catches fire, huh?)

[Ginafish]

I forgot the part about drying cast iron! Opps! After you rinse it, heat in the oven, stovetop till its dry, then oil it.

I won a cast iron snowman cast yesterday. 6 little snowmen that would make um...small snowmen cornbread? Or maybe just use it as a decoration? Anywho, it came with 'seasoning' instructions, 350 for 15 minutes. Whatever skillet you buy will most likely have instructions too.

[Pat52]

http://www.lodgemfg.com/usecare1.asp

http://www.elise.com/reci...01660spinach_frittata.php

Enjoy your frittata.

[KitKat]

Terri, have you tried your cast iron skillet yet? How was your frittata?

[thartley]

sadly, I've not been to the store to get one yet.  And I have to work again today.  But its been on my mind....everytime I see the eggs in the fridge.

I think I'll go in to work early and get it over with....so I have time to shop.  We got out bonuses at work more than a week ago, and I've bought nada, zip, zilch.  Its just sitting there in the bank, smiling at me.   

[thartley]

I was looking for Louis Rich turkey bacon yesterday at the store and noticed that the Oscar Meyer brand had a teeny tiny Louis Rich logo on the packaging.  I didnt know they knew each other.

[Ginafish]

http://isaraurl.com/baconmuffin

EwwwWW!!  I'm not sure if this sounds really gross or good...

Apparently Louis Rich is a sub-company of Oscar Meyer. They have both names on a lot of meat products.

[KitKat]

 
The only thing good in that muffin is the honey.

[Darth Gamerak]

Making My InFamous Bedrock Choco Loco Cookies.(( I enter them in a Seattle WA Bake off)) I lost but i think they taste swell. I can still hear someone saying now" Crikey! these cookies taste like sh**!!. i say Its not Sh** it's 3 Types of Choclate mix with peanut butter.=)

[heavyj]

that's why your pregnant

[thartley]

that's why your pregnant

[heavyj]

  Weekends are always great because we get to do it together.

this is what i was referring to. and oh by the way you guys stood us up.

[KitKat]

Sigh, why does baking a half chicken take so long to cook. I put it on at 5:15 at 375 and it's still not done. I raised the temperature to 400 at 6:00, still not done.
We don't usually eat this late and I'm starving.  

[thartley]

Wow...make sure your heating element isnt dying in the oven. I usually have an oven thermometer hanging from the center rack.  Then my mom goes and tells me that there is a special way to use those things to get an accurate reading of oven temp.


On a different note, I was watching Boy Meets Grill this morning and he was sampling a peruvian dish of some sort of fish that had been enzymatically cooked and prepared.  When I make chicken fajitas, I marinate the chicken in lime juice, and I've noticed that if the meat sits in the lime juice for a good little bit (about half an hour) it begins to look cooked.  I didnt know it actually WAS cooking.  Wierd...

The dish was called "ceviche"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceviche

[KitKat]

Well, I wish now I'd marinated the chicken in lime juice, that would have made the cooking time much shorter.  I have a gas oven and I don't bake very often.
Thanks Terri, I'll remember the lime juice trick. I'm going now to check the meat with a thermometer. It's done at 190 degrees.

[thartley]

Yeah, I dont think I would ever consider relying on a lime marinade to cook my chicken.  Fish, yes.. chicken, not so much.    But the lime marinade on the chicken when you're making fajitas is delicious!

[KitKat]

lol, it finally got cooked, but discovered what may have been the problem. I now know I have 2 BROKEN thermometers.

[Ginafish]

Yesterday, our oven thermometer said the temp was 500, when we had the oven turned on at 375! I didn't know your oven could get hotter than it was suppose to!

I watched a little FoodTv yesterday morning. A show with Guy, who was the reality show winner of FoodTv's Next Host, or something. He cooked an awesome, but complicated sangrio shrimp with tortilla cake recipe. I'm drolling thinking about it.

[thartley]

haha!!  I watched that, but got distracted before the cake was assembled.  He's alittle "all over the place for me" and his refrigerator looked wierd.  Big red 05 on it.  And why was he wearing a bandage on his arm?  Was that a masonic ring on his left hand?  Also, I dont think he was wearing the gold bracelet on his right wrist when the show first started, but after the commercial break, there it was.  And why the big 'ol watch?  Too much bling for the kitchen.

[KitKat]

  Haven't seen him before, but after all's been said, lol, now I have to watch his show.
 When is he on?