Good morning y’all, hope Thanksgiving treated you and yours well this year. Ready to get bombarded by ads until December 26th?
Commandment #19 – Bring it to Thanksgiving.
🍳Let’s Get Supper on the Table 🍳
Praise God Sweet Potato Pie – One year, we were teaching my toddler daughter that the reason we go to church is to “sing and praise God”. Later that year, I made this pie for Thanksgiving, she took a bite, looked around and exclaimed to no one in particular “Praise God!”.
Indeed, this pie is something worth praising about. The recipe is from Sean Brock’s South cookbook (with a couple of tweaks), and one of my favorites to make each year. Buy the book and learn a thing or two about Southern cooking from one of the best around.
Ditch the PFAS
Take care of yourself and buy a skillet this fall.
- Cook fresh, homemade food 🍔
- Be a healthy human – create food without the chemicals
- Make some new traditions for your folks around the table
- 10.5″ Cast Iron Skillet – The true ride or die. Just $25 for great food everyday.
- 12″ Carbon Steel Skillet – Quick heat and easy to use.
- Enameled Dutch Oven – Goes with Fall like Gilmore Girls and Apple Cider.
- Cast Iron Dutch Oven – For truly awesome meats and chilis
Black Friday(!!?) has arrived to officially kick off the Christmas buying season. And as we all get pummeled from advertisers each and every day up through when Santa Claus slides down the chimney, remember that sometimes the best gifts are the ones people aren’t even expecting to know about.
My wife and I got married in the fall of 2017, and my cousin went off registry to send us a heavy piece of wrought iron shaped as a 10” cooking skillet. She worked the restaurant scene and swore by it, and encouraged me with a couple of recipes handwritten on the cards. Obviously it became one of my favorite things in my house.
So here’s my pitch for Black Friday 2025: Buy some of your folks a skillet this holiday season. Give them out like Oprah gives out cars and cash, and watch as people embrace a healthier way of cooking and living over the next year.
Community Table
🚨NEW SEGMENT ALERT🚨 – I am enjoying all of the photos I get each week of various cast iron creativity out there. This week, I made some dressing / stuffing for Thanksgiving dinner. My Dad’s grandmother (Nanny) apparently made the best dressing east of the Mississippi, which no one could ever replicate. But the spirit lives at the Thanksgiving table each year.
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Y’all be good. – Hendo
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