Love cooking with cast iron? This is your spot! From skillet breakfasts to baked goodies and cozy dinners, these recipes are all about using your favorite pans to make simple, tasty meals with that old-school flavor.
Easy Peach Cobbler with Canned Peaches (Emma’s 5‑Ingredient Family Classic) Porch‑Swing Dessert in Under an Hour 🍑 Every small‑town church picnic in late summer featured Aunt Emma’s easy peach cobbler with canned peaches—a buttery, biscuit‑topped bake that required zero knife skills and could stretch a single #10 can of fruit to feed a crowd. She…
Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls (Fluffy Pull‑Apart Bread in a Pan) Introduction – The Crowd‑Pleaser That Smells Like Sunday Supper 🍞 Few aromas can hush a hungry household faster than buttery yeast rolls fresh from the oven. My family calls these easy homemade dinner rolls “snow‑capped pillows” because they puff tall, brown evenly, and brush up glossy…
Cast Iron Buttermilk Pancakes There’s a reason Saturday mornings always smelled like warm butter and sizzling batter in my Granny Mae’s kitchen. Her trusty cast iron skillet never left the stovetop, and every weekend it turned out stacks of pancakes so tender you could fold them like a love letter. When that deep‑black pan met…
Homemade Crunchwrap Supreme (Blackstone Copycat!) Drive‑Thru Favorite, Backyard Sizzle The Crunchwrap Supreme might be Taco Bell’s greatest invention: crunchy tostada shell, seasoned beef, melty nacho cheese, fresh lettuce‑tomato, all tucked inside a hexagon of griddled tortilla. But fast‑food wrappers get soggy on the drive home, and that “crunch” often turns to a sad chew. Last Saturday…
Cowboy Stir Fry (Blackstone Griddle One‑Pan Dinner) Herd‑Size Flavor, Weeknight Effort If you’ve ever camped with a hungry crew—or wrangled a family that eats like one—you know the magic of a single sizzling surface. This cowboy stir fry tosses russet potatoes, kielbasa sausage, zucchini, and bell pepper onto the Blackstone griddle and turns out a…
Sausage Gravy with Evaporated Milk Saturday‑Morning Comfort in One Skillet Saturday mornings at Grandma Nadine’s started with two alarms: the rooster and the sizzle. Long before cartoons came on, she’d have breakfast sausage popping in her cast‑iron skillet and a can of evaporated milk waiting its turn on the counter. Her sausage gravy with evaporated…
Southern Fried Catfish (Crispy Skillet Fillets) Catfish Friday, Done Right Catfish Friday wasn’t just a meal in my childhood—it was a weekly reunion of laughter, tall fishing tales, and sizzling skillets. When Grandma’s screen door slammed at 5 p.m., we knew the oil was already popping. Her southern fried catfish boasted a paper‑thin, garlic‑pepper crust that…
Southern Fried Pork Steak (No Egg Batter) Grandma’s Skillet Meets Weeknight Comfort “Grab a fork, this here’s supper!” My Great‑Aunt Opal announced those words every Friday when a platter of southern fried pork steak hit the table. Golden, crunchy coating that clung like armor, juicy pork inside, and that unmistakable Cajun kick that made sweet…
Cast Iron Skillet Peach Cobbler A Bubblin’ Summer Memory in Every Bite “Anybody want cobbler?” Grandma didn’t have to ask twice. The moment we spotted her black cast‑iron skillet sliding into the oven, we’d race to claim licking rights for the batter bowl. Her cast iron skillet peach cobbler took exactly eight ingredients and tasted…
Moist Lemon Loaf Cake | Tangy Starbucks Copycat Moist Lemon Loaf Cake Who else fell head‑over‑heels for that moist lemon loaf cake behind the Starbucks glass case—but balked at the price tag? 🙋♀️ Same here. One rainy Tuesday I eyed my last lemon, mixed up Grandma’s trusty pound‑cake batter, and hoped for the same tangy‑sweet…
