Book Review: Cast Iron Cooking With Sisters on the Fly by Irene Rawlings

I recieved this book from netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Due to my abscense from blogging I am just now getting around to catching up on posting my netgalley reviews.

I was excited when I saw this cookbook. I love cooking with my cast iron pan. So I was rather disappointed when I saw just how many recipes there were that had nothing to do with cast iron cooking. I did like the layout of the book and pictures that accompanied the recipes.

The book has does a good job with giving the throw together food and cook it over a fire feel  that reminds me of the very few times I have been out camping.  It has some interesting recipes, though there were a number I honestly do not ever see me making. I enjoyed browsing through it and spent some extra time in the cocktail section (though I don't drink much in the way of alcohol). I'm still scratching my head on what cocktails have to do with cast iron.

Over all it was a decent book and was fun to flip through. I don't see it being a permanent fixture on my shelf but I can see how people who enjoy country recipes would want to read and try so many of the recipes. It wasn't a bad book but I don't think it was personally a book for a Jersey Girl like me.

I give the book 3 stars.

T is for Tuna

Ok I admit it I've never had tuna casserole Its not that I don't intend to ever try it...I just haven't had the chance to try it.

I found this recipe written down on a very old and very yellowed index card kept inside an industrial metal green recipe box that was my grandmother's. I'm sure she copied it from a magazine. Perhaps it was from a cookbook complete with housewife in a frilly apron on the cover. Either way here is a fun throw back recipe.








Tuna Noodle Casserole

 1 can Cream Of Mushroom Soup 
 1/3 c  Milk 
 6 oz Tuna, Drained 

 6 oz Egg noodles cooked and drained

 2 Eggs Hard Boiled, Sliced 
 1 c  Peas Cooked

  1 c  Potato Chips

 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Blend soup and milk in 1-quart casserole.
Stir in tuna, noodles,eggs, and peas.  Bake 20 minutes.  Top with crumbled potato chips;

bake 10  minutes longer.

A is for Apricot

Here it is day one or rather day A of the A-Z blogging challenge. I will be doing two posts per day as an extra challenge to myself. One is an etsy shop feature the other being food related.

For this first day I could have gone with the obvious choice of apple but no I wanted to change it up. So today you have apricot! Apricots are wonderful for people who are dieting
They have about 17 calories each and contain vitamins A,C,E,and K. They are also rich in Iron and Potassium.


The following recipe/photo is courtesy of  Janet Hudson of Vegan Feast Catering. She the author of the cookbook The New Vegan: Fresh Fabulous and Fun

Apricot Tarts

Recipe:
1 Recipe Puff Pastry
2 apricots, sliced
8 apricots
1/2 cup raw sugar
1/2 water
2 tbsp agar agar
In a sauce pan bring apricots, sugar, and water in a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar- add agar and continue to stir until thickened. Remove from heat and chill.
Roll out puff pastry and cut out stars - ladel some apricot sauce, star, and repart until you have a short stack. Top with a slice of apricot.
Bake 400 degrees for 20 minutes.