works of wanderlust

Category: cast iron guy

  • Ten Bread Creations Worth Warming Up Your Cast Iron

    An idea that often blows my mind is that a handful of ingredients like flour, water, salt and sugars can be blended together to form some of the tastiest food staples. Bread is one of those few universal foods, and cast iron turns out to be a great way to cook it …in a whole

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  • Guinness Sourdough (Part Three)

    A little more than a week ago I ran a bread-making experiment involving a loaf of sourdough and a can of Guinness stout. The results of that experiment were a less-than-ideal loaf of sourdough with a strong taste that didn’t quite make the repeat list. I thought a quick follow-up was due. So, yeah… the

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  • melt

    thin films of water painting asphaltwith spring soundsklooksh! kloompsh! klunsh!me treading carefully across aroundastrideblack reflections on the groundand remnants of wintercrunching underfootglinsch! grensch! glansch!gritstones pebblestraction against icy slicknesssweesse! schweesh! swaasse!that linger in shadecast by naked limbsleaflessthawingmeltinginto puddlesbecoming wet toes – bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each week to be creative, and

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  • One Last Trek

    During the summer of 2017 we travelled with friends just across the Alberta-British Columbia border to one of the highest peaks in Canada, Mount Robson and to climb the Berg Lake trail. Lucky those friends came along, because they remembered to bring something we forgot: strong tape. Good boots are one of the most important pieces of

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  • Two Months of Blogging Lessons

    The thing about writing a daily blog is that you’ve got to, well… write daily. I’m not looking for pity or sympathy. In fact, I signed up for this and I’m loving it as a way to start my weekdays or settle into a weekend. It does often take effort to figure out my topic,

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