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The Best Cast Iron Baking Book

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We are thrilled to announce that The Best Cast Iron Baking book is now available!

If you follow us, you may already know that we love to bake. Just like many of you, we baked more when the pandemic started.  We baked it all, cookies, cakes, pies, and Roxanne baked more artisan bread than she could count.

You might also know that we love to use cast iron skillets. Our cast iron cooking classes always sell out. We explain how to use cast iron and also the stories of cooks in our family who used our skillets and passed them down to us. Our skillets are truly filled with delicious foods, and overflow with precious memories.

Combining our love of baking with our dedication to cast iron skillets and Dutch ovens, is a dream come true. Writing this book and testing the recipes was a tasty journey of joy.

The Best Cast Iron Baking Book is filled with our favorite recipes. You will enjoy the Artisan, no knead breads that you can easily pop into a Dutch oven. Pizza and flat bread develop the most incredible, crisp crust when baked in a cast iron skillet. No breakfast or brunch table is complete without sweet rolls and coffee cakes.  Many a family feast has to include inviting dinner rolls and buttery biscuits.  Oh, wait, there are pies, cookies, brownies, and all kinds of desserts that are special and spectacular. For each, that simple cast iron skillet or Dutch oven is the only piece of bakeware you need to bake these delicious recipes.

You do not need to be an expert baker to start baking these recipes. And, if you shy away from cast iron, do not worry. We will share all of the tips and insider information so you can use your cast iron with confidence.

Have we mentioned the pictures?  The book is filled with the most inviting, moutwatering pictures. Just browse through the book and you will discover lots and lots of recipes that you will want to bake immediately.

You will be hearing lots more about this cookbook soon. We just had to share the exiting news! We could not be prouder. It takes a village to write and publish a cookbook, and we are grateful to all who help pave the way. Most of all, we appreciate all of you who read our books, enjoy our recipes, take our classes and share a love of baking.

The book is available at any of your favorite book stores, and through many gourmet or kitchen shops. If you don’t find it on the shelf, ask if they will order it for you. You will also find it on Amazon and other online book retailers.

Kansas City Introduced the Crock Pot. These Women Taught America To Use It.

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Kansas City Introduced the Crock Pot. These Women Taught America To Use it.  Click here to listen now.

That first job can lead to an incredible career. It did for us!

When we say “cooking and appliance expert” we really mean it, and once you read this post, you will see why that first job gave us unsurpassed credentials. If you EVER need creative recipes, up-to-date appliance insight, cooking classes, food writing or credible content, targeted cookbooks, corporate trainers or spokespersons, or kitchen-techno gurus, we are the ones to contact. From that first job in the test kitchen, we established ourselves as true cooking and appliance specialists and we continue to share our knowledge with companies or consumers. Whether it is developing creative recipes, testing new appliances, testing a new and delicious slow cooker dinner, developing inviting recipes for a new packaged food, creating magic in an Instant Pot, writing our latest cookbook or teaching sold-out innovative and fun cooking classes, we are the ones to turn to and we would love to explore how our experience and skills will benefit you.

We are all things kitchen and cooking related and bring all of our skills to each and every project and cookbook.  Be on the lookout for our two newest cookbooks! Stay tuned for more details but this fall, The Best Cast Iron Baking Book and The Official CorningWare Meal Mug Cookbook will both be released. You can pre-order each of them now on Amazon. Plus our latest release,  Toaster Oven Takeover cookbook, is available now.  We are recognized for innovative, current and completely tested new recipes and cookbooks.

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Toaster Oven Takeover Cookbook

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Given half a chance, a toaster oven could take over your family meals. It could cook delicious, easy food for every meal. It is about the hardest working, yet most under recognized small appliance and we have fallen head-over-heals for it. We appreciate the many benefits of the toaster oven so much, we wrote a new cookbook, Toaster Oven Takeover, and we are thrilled to announce it will be available April 20! [Read more…]

Dutch Oven, Crusty Bread!

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Have we mentioned we love our Cast Iron? Yes! We! Do!

If you have taken one of our classes, you know it is true.  And we want to share with you.  Roxanne has been busy baking delicious, crisp-crusted yeast breads in a Lodge cast iron Dutch oven. It makes a perfect environment for baking bread. The heavy covered pan traps the steam, so the bread develops a delicious, crisp, chewy brown crust, just like that bread you buy at the artisan bakery. If you use the Dutch oven upside down, it acts much like a bread Cloche, which is a bell-shaped specialty baker—but no, you don’t have to speak French. Just follow this link and buy a trusty cast iron Dutch oven!

Rice Cooker Revival and Toaster Oven Takeover

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Two new cookbooks are on their way!

Rice Cooker Revival is due out November 17, 2020.

Toaster Oven Takeover will be published in January, 2021.

We can tell you, shopping for groceries to test the recipes during a pandemic quarantine became a challenge and as they say, unprecedented. We do not write or publish any recipe that has not been thoroughly tested, so we stepped up and mastered on-line grocery ordering. It is a crazy time and an article in the New York Times captured it perfectly. We were honored to be interviewed for “7 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed How We Shop for Food” by Kim Severson for The New York Times.

We love writing cookbooks and sharing our passion for using appliances. It is fun to explore what else you can cook in the appliances and we know, many families will find that the appliances are the best, easiest, and fastest way to get a great tasting dinner on the table.

A rice cooker and a toaster oven? Before you say it, let us tell you, the new electronic rice cookers and toaster ovens are nothing like those appliances you might see in the garage sales or that your grandma used. These new appliances work great and offer so much versatility.

Rice cookers cook the best rice ever but do so much more. They often look like the Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker/multicookers, but are easier to use, and cook without the concerns that arise when pressure enters the picture. Best of all, many of the recipes in Rice Cooker Revival include cooking instructions for both the rice cooker and Instant Pot, so you get the best of both worlds and can use whichever appliance you like. (We love them both and use them both all of the time.) Recipes include everything you can imagine, including Brown Rice and Vegetable Buddha Bowl, Sausage and Shrimp Jambalaya, Chicken Tortilla Soup or even Warm Chocolate Lava Cake.

Toaster ovens go FAR beyond toast. Bake, broil, roast, and more. They are quick to preheat and bake so evenly that the perfect Instagram photo is easy to get. Families will love the efficiency and will count on the toaster oven when that big oven is full, or for everyday breakfast, lunch and dinner. Toast the nuts for a topping, bake the pizza or make the best Roasted Fish with Provencal Crumb Topping, Sheet Pan Beef Fajitas or German Chocolate Cake. Many of these recipes offer an alternate cooking time so you can use the convection oven setting, or not.

We will share more on both of these cookbooks as the publication dates draw near. Simon and Schuster are working their magic with beautiful graphics and photos. We can’t wait until we can share more about each book with you. If you have, or were thinking of buying a rice cooker or toaster oven, these are the cookbooks for you.