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I received a review copy of this book via Netgalley,

TLDR: Good cookbook for teaching you how to maintain and restore if need be cast iron cookware and lots of great recipes to boot!

I recently got an old, wellseasoned cast iron skillet after years of trying to find a decent new one.
Around the same time, this cookbook became available for review on Netgalley, Good timing! I'm not new to cooking with cast iron cookware, In fact, I grew up in a household that cooked everything in cast iron, but I still learned from this book, I've heard the "don't use soap, it'll ruin the seasoning" mantra for decades, but the author explains why this isn't the case with modern soaps.
Just in case you do mess up the seasoning, though, this book has you covered,

The recipes are appetizing and range from really easy to quite ambitious, When you think of cast iron cookery, you may think of heavy, mostly Southern cooking such as biscuits amp gravy and fried everything, This book has some classics like that and teaches you how to do them well but also some lighter fare, Yum! Campers and reenactors wake up! Get your cast iron skillets out of the camp boxes and learn how to use them all year round!
Whether or not you've used cast iron for cooking before you will find a lot to learn and apply to your daily cooking experience.
The beginning of the book will acquaint the reader with terms and necessities before getting into the recipes, some of which are suitable for historical reenactments.

So whether you hope to learn more about cooking with cast iron in the oven, stovetop, grill, or alath century, this book is the very thing!
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Quarto Publishing Group Harvard Common Press via NetGalley.
Easy to follow recipes that actually turn out as good as they look, I found myself utilizing this book more than once when planning menus for the week, Not Your Mother's Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook by Lucy Vaserfirer is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late December,

The cover image alone of bibimbop being cooked and presented in a cast iron skillet was enough for me to pick up this book and consider its possibilities.
There are chapters on breakfast, appetizers, main courses, side dishes, sauces, and desserts, but I wouldve liked more photos than there being one for every fourth or fifth dish.
Vaserfirers voice is plainspoken, intelligent, upfront, and made the act of cleaning and seasoning cast iron a breeze, My favorite recipes are for corn fry cakes with jalapeño maple butter, scotch eggs, chicken and wild mushroom pot pie with biscuit topping, seared whole trout, Vietnamese salmon yellow curry, saag paneer, southern fried okra, masa cornbread, and creamy horseradish sauce.

This book works for great for a beginner and an advance castiron cook, The first part of the book introduces you to how to care and use your castiron then comes the great recipes from breakfast to dessert this cookbook will give you a recipe for every meal.

Let me just say the biscuit recipe alone is totally worth the Kindle price that is how amazing they were, I am not a newbie to castiron and have backed several different recipes of biscuits in my castiron but nothing like the amazing taste of these.

Recipes are easy to follow the only downside to the books was it just needed more pictures of the finished products,
This book offers plenty of tips and tricks, along with a bevy of recipes, There is a lot of info here that covers everything from care and cleaning of your cast iron cookware to tricks to get the best results.
The book also has a large collection of recipes, Breakfast, main dishes, sauces, appetizers, side dishes and desserts are covered, This is my sincere review that I am posting of my own accord, Thanks to NetGalley, I was able to read Not Your Mothers Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook by Lucy Vaserfirer, In the introduction Vaserfirer discusses why to use cast iron cookware, and which types she recommends, She also details what one can cook in cast iron, and what the various sizes of skillet are suitable for, I particularly appreciated that the skillet sizes were listed in both inches and cms here, She then goes over the various tools and utensils that are useful for cast iron skillet cooking, some of which are also pictured in a keyed photo.
An indepth overview of different cooking methods follows, before a couple of exhaustive sections on cleaning and maintenance, another on seasoning and then finally restoration.
The introduction ends with a section full of information on the recipes to follow, and the ingredients they use,

There are six recipe chapters Eggs and Breakfast, Starters and Snacks, Mains, Sides, Sweets and Bakes, and finally Spices and Sauces, Each recipe has an introduction with serving suggestions and yield, a recommend skillet for preparation, the cooking method used, followed by the ingredients and then finally the directions.
The ingredients are listed both in cups and grams or ml, and the size in both inches and cms, Oven temperatures when applicable, are listed both in Fahrenheit, Centigrade and gas marks,

I havent tried any of the recipes yet, but the way they are presented is wonderful and I truly wish all cookbooks would list them in the same manner.
Even if the recipes havent been tested in metric, not having to convert cups to grams is a huge boon, and makes life easier for those of us who prefer to use scales in the kitchen.
My only quibble, and it is a small one, is that I would have loved more photos of the finished dishes, Other than than, I think this is a very nice book and I will be attempting quite a few of these dishes once Ive seasoned my skillet.
Thank you Quarto Publishing Group Harvard Common Press for the free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, This book has anything and everything you would ever want to know about cooking with cast iron, I found the background and information more interesting than the actual recipes, I learned how to strip an old nasty rusted cast pan and reseason it like new, However, I would have liked to see more pictures with the recipe portion of this book, I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, This has humor, good recipes, and nice photos, all of which I appreciate in a cookbook, The recipes are easily to follow and great for someone who is just learning about the wonders of cast iron, Last year I have decided to introduce cast iron skillets to my kitchen, When I came across this cookbook from the publisher, I was very excited and went ahead to obtain a review copy and see what it offers.


The firstof the book is extremely helpful and informational to any newbies to using cast iron cookwares, Abundance of tips and knowledge on using and caring for the cookwares as they are more tricky to use than the regular nonstick or ceramic cookwares.
While online sources sometimes are confusing and even conflicting, this cookbook provides everything cast iron users need to know in one stop,

The recipes, mostly, are simple enough but there are still a good number of them that are not for quick, daily meals, Lack of pictures is another issue, to me, because pictures of the final products make cookbooks attractive besides the mouthwatering recipes, The great varieties of recipesof them altogether, however, do compensate the scarcities of photos, And I wish the recipes provide prep and cook time because this minor information would help readers to plan ahead without reading all the text to guess the time estimation.


The cookbook provides recipes formajor categories:
Eggs and Breakfast
Starters and Snacks
Main courses
Sides
Sweets and Bakes
Spices and Sauces

Most recipes are meat dishes so vegetarians might have to use this cookbook creatively by combining different recipes together and tweaking around to make it perfect for them.


There are some surprises in this cookbook and would make a great collection of recipes to cast iron users with some cooking experiences for example but by no means a Cookingcrash course for those who is new to cooking.
In terms of contents, tips and information, this is a solid and useful cookbook, There are those who love cooking in cast iron, and those who dont, Personally, I think a lot of the people who dont like cast iron are those who just dont understand it very well, Cast iron comes with its own rules, Dont wash it in water, It needs to be seasoned, and sometimes stripped and reseasoned, It can be heavy and awkward and difficult to use, But cooking in cast iron has a lot of positives too,

Cast iron holds heat well and distributes it evenly, It can be used on a stovetop, in the oven, on a grill, or on an open flame, It lasts forever. Its fairly inexpensive, especially compared to other pans that can last a lifetime, They come in a variety of sizes and styles, and theyre not all as heavy as they look, And as far as all those crazy rules, all you need is the right guidebook to help you find your way, Not Your Mothers Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook is that guide,

Lucy Vaserfirer is a big fan of cast iron, and her downtoearth writing helps you put all your concerns about cast iron aside.
She goes into detail about what to buy and how to care for it, and

she names names, She tells you what to use to clean it, what tools work best with it, how to store it, and how to use it to cook just about everything her one exception: bacon she bakes it.
Basically, she breaks it all down and makes it accessible as she shares her passion for cooking with cast iron,

And the recipes! She includes overrecipes for everything from breakfast to dessert, including starters, snacks, mains, sides, sweets, and even sauces, You can start off with a Fluffy Omelet or Biscuits and Sausage Gravy, move on to Falafel with LemonYogurt Dipping Sauce and Potato Latkes, to BeerBattered Fish and Pork Carnitas, to finish with Funnel Cakes or a Pear Tarte Tatin.
And that barely begins to cover the breadth of recipes here, Basically, Not Your Mothers Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook is worth its weight in gold, I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to get more out of their cast iron!

Galleys for Not Your Mothers Cast Iron Skillet Cooking were provided by Quarto Publishing Group through NetGalley, with many thanks.
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