For the love of Cast Iron

I love cooking with cast iron.  Chili, cornbread, mince meat pies, fruit pies, omelets... if we cooked it, it was cooked in cast iron.  Thanks to our great friends we have three sizes of skillets, HUGE, medium and small.
A little while back Grace and I baked an apple pie using the apples from our backyard.  Our apple tree produces more apples than we know what to do with, we're in them up to our ears, so any way to use them we are psyched about.

My chili recipe is one of John's favorites, so it is made often in our house.  In this picture you get a good idea of how grand our big skillet is, especially when it is compared to the smallest which I use for corn bread.  I LOVE cooking with them all, thank you to all our friends who gave us these wonderful skillets!