Jealous of the ability to eat on the deck!
For tonight: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/spanish-chicken-with-chorizo-and-potatoes-recipe.html
Very easy and always well received by the hubby.
Ordering a pizza.
Thank you @alwaysamom!!! Sounds delicious!
Didn’t eat on the deck but GRILLED on the deck and was not freezing doing it! Grilled burgers and teriyaki chicken. Fun toppings like avocado, red onion and fresh tomato. Smashed potatoes with lemon, garlic and parm. Steamed cauliflower.
I hope you don’t mind if I ask a question on this thread. I’ve inherited 2 cast iron skillets. How do you who use them regularly recommend I clean them? I’ve heard some people say to NEVER actually use soap on them. I admit it, that kind of creeps me out. Thanks
I don’t use soap on mine. I won’t say I have NEVER - but very rarely and very, very little. My routine is to soak the cast iron in hot water for 1/2 hour or so after removing the food. Then I wash it out using very hot water. If I take a paper towel to it after washing it out, it appears quite clean!
Had salmon tonight with a yogurt & dill sauce, roasted potatoes, Swiss chard and broccoli, with a cold beet salad. Was very yummy!
I wash my cast iron frying pan with soap, just not a lot of it. After I (well mostly dh really) clean it out with a srubby sponge and afterwards I put it on the stove and put the heat on for a minute or two. If it’s sticking a little or I feel I did too good a job of soaping it, I give it a little bit of oil before the heating. It’s my favorite pan, I probably use it for almost everything I cook except scrambled eggs.
As for what’s for dinner - took advantage of the balmy 40 degree weather and no new snow to grill steaks. Aspargus (pan grilled in my cast iron frying pan), sauteed mixed mushrooms with a little red wine and cream) and a salad. We had devil’s food cupcakes for dessert because I’m mailing them to my older son for his birthday.
I would like to try a cast iron skillet. Does anyone have experience using one with an induction cooktop?
I had leftover chicken and some broccoli in the fridge, so I made Chicken Divan last night.
DH has a commitment until very late tonight, so I don’t have to cook. I should take the opportunity to get some take out that I normally would never get, but I’ll probably end up making an omelet or a salad.
Aack! I was going to use my iron skillet and see that when my FIL returned to DH after D2 sent him some cornbread in it that he returned it to us all rusted!
How do I return this skillet to its original state?
Last night was grilled salmon with roasted asparagus and spanish rice. Tonight might be an on your own night.
Nrdsb4: I think the best thing to do would be to wash the skillet in warm water, a very small amount of soap, using an un abrasive (soft) sponge. Then wipe oil all over it and let it sit with the oil on before wiping it dry but leaving a little oil in the pan itself. Usually I re- oil my iron skillet after each use, putting in away with a paper towel tucked into it.
@Nrdsb4 Scour/wash the rust off per #171. Then oil it lightly wiping it up with a rag. I usually then put it on a low burner for a few minutes - sort of a mini seasoning. If it doesn’t behave when you cook it’s easy to re-season a cast iron pan, just wipe it all over with a bit of oil then stick it in a 350 degree oven for an hour. Some advise putting it upside down on some aluminum foil so that you don’t have any oil pooling, but I know I never did that.
Dinner tonight was ocean perch (on sale) baked in the oven, topped with a sauce made from grated carrots, shallots, chives, a cup of tomatoes, a 1/4 cup of mayo and a 1/4 cup of cream cheese all whizzed in the food processor. Seasoned with a bit of salt, pepper and thyme. Green beans with toasted almonds and salad.
@abasket, your pizza chicken was a big hit tonight. I served it with pasta (topped with the sauce from the chicken) and a nice little salad. DH had seconds. 
Yeah, for happy husbands @Nrdsb4!!! Glad it worked out!
Marinated chicken/veggie kabobs on the grill tonight. Side dish of pasta stirred into sliced/diced onion, green and red pepper, mushrooms , grape tomato and skinny asparagus that was stir fried in olive oil. Topped with feta crumbles the last minute under the heat.
KSM, cast iron pans work great on an induction cooktop. I lay a paper towel between the glass and skillet as I worry about the glass getting scratched.
The Carbonara recipe upthread with a side of the most delicious, sweet new spring asparagus from the farmer’s market. Welcome spring!!!
I made a slow-cooker Chicken Korma recipe from Cooking Light tonight. I served it over coconut lime rice and it was easy and good with just the right amount of zing. I don’t use my slow cooker much because I always forget to start it soon enough but it was such an easy dinner.
@takeitallin, what is Chicken Korma? Do you have a link to that recipe?
Red beans and rice! Oh oh. Just realized we are out of rice - the new bag I bought walked out of the house and into my Boy Scout’s backpack for a campout last weekend. So maybe leftovers unless I can get to the store for more rice.