works of wanderlust

Category: cast iron guy

  • Virtual Race Season, Take Two. Maybe.

    Sunday Runday, and on our morning ten kilometer trail run everyone seem to want to talk racing season. Except there is no racing season. Twenty-twenty-one is a racing write off. Or… it would be if it wasn’t for virtual races. Virtual racing. Oh, those virtual races. And why? Last year as the pandemic picked up

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  • The Great Big List of 50 Pancake Topping Ideas

    Saturday mornings are pancake mornings at our house. In fact, I was looking through some old videos yesterday (on my day off) and I had recorded some footage of my then-toddler daughter and I cooking pancake shapes and then smothering them in syrup. That is evidence enough that this has been a tradition for at

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  • Savoury Avacado Chicken in a Cast Iron Wok

    I’ve read all manner of reviews about one of the epic cast iron pieces in my collection, the fourteen inch wok, and it turns out the idea of a big and heavy iron wok is divisive and controversial. A traditional wok (which I do not own) is an agile tool. It is light. It’s meant

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  • Doubled Down. Do You Carry Multiple Cameras, too?

    I have a habit that I have not completely decided if it is a problem… yet. It results in lots of great photos, hours of video footage, heaps of social-media ready content, and nary a missed moment. It also results in a sore back, full hands, and often being the guy standing back recording the

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  • Season

    Three months into writing daily missives here on this blog and it occurred to me that there is one particular word woven through my stories to which I have not given much thought. It is a word with multiple, distinct meanings, and that fact should have been obvious for a guy who writes about the

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