graham crackers...shaved chocolate...substitute for toasted marshmallows...seriously
...and how to clean cast iron cookware...
I am so ADD, or cramming so much life into tone lifetime, that all this ends up in one article
Sunday, September 5, 2010
more on s'mores and cast iron cookware
Every summer holiday that has a fireworks display, Memorial Day, the 4rth, Labor Day.. we have an urban fire and have root beer floats. ( My In-laws and people from Western Pa call them brown cows.) Then we pick up our lawn chairs from around the fire circle and walk down to the end of the yard where there is an out door stage perfect for viewing the seasonal replica on the bombs bursting in air. over the lovely river. There is a break between clusters of trees and also a space between the high shrubs and the bottom layer of the thick canopy of leaves above, making a dark frame around the huge 3-D blossoms and colorful explosions. Perhaps of you have ever lived in a real war zone, you would want to stay home, but my yard is the gathering place for friends and family. There are times we make a whole night of it and sleep out.
Tonight we did something different. I thought about s'mores after it was not reasonable to go to the store for graham crackers that we needed. So, i looked on the web for recipes and adapted one for our gluten free needs. They turned out so well, they practically melt in your mouth. I pierced them with the tines of a fork, and cut them into marshmallow-sized squares. Then i shaved dark unsweetened chocolate all over them while they were still hot. That was tasty enough, but them we brought out the long forks, and a basket of marshmallows and the secret ingredients i mentioned in my last post... grandparents, extremely healthy homemade s'mores, fireworks, a crackling fire, a chill in the air for snuggling with little double digit aged , but still little and lovable kids... what more could one want!!!
Then, while we were not looking, little pyromaniac boy placed three big logs in the urban fire place, and we had to linger long after the beautiful display and the grand finale...By the way the colors are more brilliant and pristine when there is no humidity or haze. Everyone has gone home, and the little ones are in bed. I am literally roasting a few of my cast iron frying pans, dutch oven, and lid. I roasted potatoes in over the fire last week while camping, and with a plastic scraper, my frying pan was like new. I liked it up on the internet, and throwing your cast iron into a fire will take off any old harmless, but annoying and ugly crustiness that can form around the rims on the inside and outside of these kitchen favorites.
I can't wait to see them tomorrow. it is still warm in the daytime, so I will season them in my out door oven for a several hours each, and they will be like new. The website said i should not need to do it again for another 10 to 15 years...mine have never had this treatment, and they were in their 25th year of near continuous operation. Cast iron and fireworks and s'mores...really if I had any self respect, i would not have run these three subjects all together...time is always fleeting. here is another. ! And 10 labor days ago, I was in labor...OH my baby is ten!!! I am getting old!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
S'mores and Serenity
First of all...I had an epiphany about how to make s'mores that are not the least bit unhealthy and I am sure i could attain instant fame or infamy were i to go fully public!!! I can't risk my reputation...so readers will have to fire me a one on one...I am sure that if you are crazy enough to follow the recipe, you will never want to implicate yourself by leaking it ti the media--so "cawl me and we'll tawlk" and after i tell Ya, I'll have ta kill ya...But were are talking no refined sugar, and no gluten...
I will list a few vignettes of a vacation well spent...in a few minutes... somebody's at my door...
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