Cast Iron Saturdays- Stews & Soups

   Welcome back for Cast Iron Saturdays. Where I explore and share recipes using cast iron pieces.

   Allot of us are experiencing the winter season now, many with snow and cold temps brrrr. Nothing like a good stew to warm us up. I love making these, but since we don't eat allot of carbs any more I don't make as often as I used to-but I love these.

  One of the dishes we always had going in a crock pot at the woods house during deer camp was beef stew.

  Dutch Oven Beef Stew  this link shares a video instead of a photo, to make gluten free can follow instructions using a gluten free flour blend. This is a traditional way to make beef stew

The Ultimate Beef Stew  I am loving this recipe and will be pinning it to my cast iron Pinterest board-no thickener added as it is finished off in the oven. She mentions the high salt in beef stock-yep I only buy unsalted broths and stocks now if I don't have my own on hand.

From Le Creuset-Their secrets for the best stews

Sweet Potato Chowder I thought this one sounded good-can change to vegetarian by using a vegetable stock and eliminating the bacon. Make gluten free by using a gf flour. I would also add more veggies-anything you like.

Appalachian Burgoo  Yum this one sounds hearty and "good eats" for meat eaters though

Hearty Hunter's Stew-another stew for meat eaters with venison and beef

Split Pea Soup  This is one of my favorites but I have always made this with a big ham bone with meat.  I am sharing this recipe as it offers different ways to make this along with a vegetarian option I had never thought of using chicken

Smoky Spanish Vegetable and White Bean Soup with Kale  this recipe is so loaded with flavors, sounds delicious-to make vegetarian they list the option of using vegetable broth or stock  I think this is another recipe to save

Red Bean and Bell Pepper Rice Soup  another yummy vegetarian hearty soup

Easy Lentil Potato Soup   I have not made a lentil soup in years-this one sounds delicious too, and I am pretty sure I still have some lentils in my pantry

Nothing better than homemade biscuits or breads to go with your homemade soups and stews.

  If you have a cast iron corn stick pan  Old Fashioned Southern Corn Sticks   to make gluten free use gf flour  This link is full of information on these

Cast Iron Buttermilk Biscuits  for gluten free use a gluten free all purpose flour

  Hope you enjoyed these recipes.

    Happy Saturday and if you live in winter right now-stay warm and safe   They are saying we could get snow here in Missouri, the map looks like we may just miss the heaviest of it, but we are returning to more winter temperatures today going forward.

Cast Iron Saturday--Bread

 I almost forgot to post recipes for cast iron.  We finally had a huge storm come through most of the night and early morning. The oppressive heat and humidity is gone for now.(PS for some reason I was thinking it was Saturday-nope it's Friday the 13th haha so I am not late after all-a senior moment I guess)

  The lake out my windows is lovely and very calm this morning

Loving the look of the water this morning

   Years ago I would bake all of our breads. It was fun and rewarding for me to do-and there are soooo many choices of recipes and different breads to choose from. I loved working with sourdough too.  Over the years though I discovered I had celiac-so no wheat or gluten for me, and with Larry being diabetic back in the early 90's we cut out allot of bread-turns to sugar-and as we get older it is more difficult to keep the weight off-so we have drastically reduced carbs, especially breads for Larry.

 

    However, if you have no health concerns bread is even more rewarding to bake in cast iron and over and under coals. If you are serving guests-they will love your breads.

How to Bake Bread on a Camp Fire  he is also using tin pans

How to Bake Bread in your Dutch Oven with coals on top and bottom nice video

No Knead Dutch Oven Bread

and if you are out camping or in your back yard-Camp Fire Bread on a Stick

Cast Iron Irish Soda Bread

There are so many different breads-One just needs to explore recipes that you would like to bake.  Hoping this will give you a start

Happy Friday the 13th and weekend