Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[FarmerJamie]

Took the wife out for breakfast yesterday to a new place nearby. Louisiana style food, was pretty good. Did some needed shopping and got her out in the sunshine a little bit.

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Bananas and a rum butter sauce. Almost Bananas Foster like

 

[Hinotori]

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Good Morning!! and good coffee to you!
No fire in the stove this morning it is a cool 45 out and is said to be 56 at 1pm.
I have been using my french press and pour over for making coffee. I found on amazon stainless steel mesh filters so no need to buy the paper ones.
I am eliminating as much plastic as much I can. Even ditching clothing with plastic in it.
I have had to stop using dawn dish soap due to the smell was making me wheeze. I bought Dr. Bronner's sal-suds and love it! it works great! I also stopped buy / using chemical laundry soap. I got the washing soda and soap flakes from Pure (brand) on amazon.
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I am also doing all I can to reduce our EMF, and wi-fi exposure.
We really enjoyed the info on this website https://emfacademy.com/

Have a great Friday!
Becky

Dryers and washers are a huge EMF source.

 

[CrealCritter]

Cooking up a vintage cast iron pan full of hot coals The pan needed to be rid of many years of nasty shortening build up. Was able to get the iron a nice orangy glow.

After about an hour cooking coals and ofcourse extra careful removal of pan from hell fire and allowed to cool. See all that white stuff on the pan and cement floor? That's shortening after being through hell fire, nasty.

After it cooled enough to handle, I ran a stainless steel brush around all surfaces of the pan. Much to my surprise it came clean very easily only took a few minutes of brushing. The cooking surface was smooth already so no need to do anything to it.

Next I seasoned it with a coat of lard and heated it up on the stove being careful not to get it too hot to start smoking. I'll most likely clean it well and season it again before I cook with it. But we have dropped the use of shortening in favor of lard. So that's all that will be used in this pan going forward anyways.

Did I miss anything restoring this vintage cast iron pan?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Mini Horses]

@CrealCritter Looks good to me. Lard is best to season. Good for cooking, too.

@FarmerJamie the pancakes look good....I'd not want the flood of syrup though just some. Bet it tasted good!

 

[Hinotori]

Cooking up a vintage cast iron pan full of hot coals The pan needed to be rid of many years of nasty shortening build up. Was able to get the iron a nice orangy glow.
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After about an hour cooking coals and ofcourse extra careful removal of pan from hell fire and allowed to cool. See all that white stuff on the pan and cement floor? That's shortening after being through hell fire, nasty.
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After it cooled enough to handle, I ran a stainless steel brush around all surfaces of the pan. Much to my surprise it came clean very easily only took a few minutes of brushing. The cooking surface was smooth already so no need to do anything to it.
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Next I seasoned it with a coat of lard and heated it up on the stove being careful not to get it too hot to start smoking. I'll most likely clean it well and season it again before I cook with it. But we have dropped the use of shortening in favor of lard. So that's all that will be used in this pan going forward anyways.
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Did I miss anything restoring this vintage cast iron pan?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

That's how I've cleaned all the ones Ive collected. Looks good to me

 

[FarmerJamie]

@FarmerJamie the pancakes look good....I'd not want the flood of syrup though just some. Bet it tasted good!

I had a tiny taste. It was very good. I had a southwestern omelet.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Spent some quiet time with the cats and coffee this morning, just reflecting and contemplating the coming year.

Chiropractor appointment Tuesday, the past two months have been rough with all the moving. Hopefully will get some relief. The Arnica (thanks @baymule ) provides some relief

 

[Mini Horses]

Well, it's here -- last weekend of 2023!

Looking back, it was a wet year. Spring was especially so, 2023. Reason for no garden, plus too much job! Plan to reduce the job time but, can only for more favorable weather to plant. Farmers will agree as they couldn't plant or had crops flooded out

Won't be any celebrating for New Year beyond .
Yep, that's it...I'm done just another day.

It's cooling for next few days. We've had some nice temps last couple weeks -- mostly the changes will be lower at night. My coldest 2 months of winter begins Monday.

 

[flowerbug]

...
Did I miss anything restoring this vintage cast iron pan?

a before pic?

i've not started over from scratch to that level, but my current most used pan has a few spots where the seasoning came off up along the edge of the pan but it doesn't really matter to me to make it look perfect because i really don't use that part of the pan much at all for cooking anyways. i just keep on using it and it will have to figure itself out in time. my smaller griddle pan looks nearly exactly like it did when i bought it. i don't use it for anything other than pancakes so it just gets buttered. that was the nicest thing i did in recent years to get the extra griddle so i didn't have to switch when cooking and i can keep the meat only in my normal cast iron pan and then only pancakes on the griddle.

 

[The Porch]

Dryers and washers are a huge EMF source.

yes, and the biggest in the house it #1 the electric kitchen stove and #2 the computer monitor.
I have gotten to where, if the item is not in use I unplug it.