Recently, I was reading a fascinating post by Zumalicious in which she talked about her thrill at finding a new skillet with a metal handle at a rational price. What's the big deal about a skillet with a metal handle, you ask? It can be used both on top of the stove as well as in the oven and under the broiler. Skillets with plastic handles, like inexperienced skilleteers,* can't take the heat.
So with this conversation in mind, I am issuing an Open Call to all you foodies out there in OS land for recipes using a skillet with a metal handle. (See my fabulous illustrative photo above.) Cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum, hard anodized, mess kit, the type of skillet matters not. Recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and everything in between are open for interpretation.
Tag your post "skilleteers" as well as "foodie" and "foodie tuesday" for good measure. Remember that you must use a metal-handled skillet. And please, please, please be careful not to burn your hand when taking your pan from the oven!
Have a great time with this. I'm looking forward to reading what I anticipate will be great submissions!
*Skilleteers have a certain kinship with both Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Willa Cather's O Pioneers! in that the true skilleteer will have both a certain dash and debonair charm as well as being open to exploring new frontiers of taste unveiled in recipes that feature the skillet as the main cooking vessel.
And here are the answers to my Open Call! I'll try to update this list as I find them. If you've posted a Skilleteer recipe today, please PM me and I'll add it.
This Skilleteer's Spinach and Onion Fritatta by CoyoteOldStyle
Skilleteers Easy Red Flannel Hash by Wayne Gallant
CLAFOUTIS!!! Bless You Julia Child by JK Brady
A Garden Torta by Nini Kahler
REAL Cornbread (Coyote's Skilleteers Open Call) by cardamom
Pan Puffy Pancakes by zumalicious
Related posts without a recipe:
The Second Best Breakfast Spot in California by bstrangely
Give me cast iron cookware or give me death by Gordon Wagner
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Besides, who goes to IHOP foe breakfast and celebrates birthdays in a birthday suit?
I burn my skillet!
No play a- footsie!
Play with flapjacks!
Eat cold pancakes?
What a wild Place!
Whoop J. Updike!
John Updike wrote:`
The Jungle. O! O.S.
meatpackers unite?
unionize and picket.
no see hog butchers.
I saw a film:`
Food, Inc.
Beware
wear bibs
eat yogurts
a great post
no buy toxin
no burn pan
pot in skillet
no eat @ all?
IHOP pancake!
Burger flapjack!
King Angus 1/3?
one third pound!
We okay? Hope!
Art, let's hear a great fresh food skillet preparation from you as well!
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Umbrella, I think that'd work. If it can be cooked in a skillet, substituted a casserole for this excercise works for me. Just remember to tag it "skilleteers" so it can be found!
But the old cast iron one. You could smack your drunk husband up side the head, kill a dawdling rodent, pound out a filet, drive nails, throw it in the basement for 2 decades and then clean it up a bit and good as new.
They retained heat very well and I would use one.
Not my kitchen.
Anyway, I don't do skillet food anymore. Pizza. Various braised beef cuts (sorry veggies), and BBQ. A man can always take refuge in BBQ.
I'm getting hungry.