Serves 4 For the chilli salt 1 tbsp sea salt flakes 1 tbsp golden caster sugar ½ tsp cayenne pepper Zest of 1 lime For the pineapple 1 pineapple, peeled and sliced into rings 1 tbsp butter 20ml water or rum 1 To make the chilli salt, put all the ingredients into a food processor and blitz to a fine powder. 2 Put a heavy-bottomed frying pan or skillet over a medium-to-high heat.
The author's "traditional outdoorsiness" probably includes bringing along a cast-iron skillet.
The commonly accepted method of making coffee suggests the need for both: coffee beans are roasted in a skillet or oven, pounded and ground with a mortar and pestle, and then poured into a pot that is half full of cold water and, sometimes, ginger root.
I did a few takes on what you might call oeufs en cocotte – except these were really more eggs en skillet.
Certainly, it's the first purportedly upmarket restaurant I've been to that serves desserts on an iron skillet, anointed with brandy butter.
Heat half the oil in a large frying pan or skillet, add the floured sardines and cook, turning once, until evenly browned, then remove from the heat.
Served in a cast-iron skillet, apparently straight from the core of a nuclear reactor, it partnered gnocchi and oxtail ragout under a breadcrumb crust.
Out to brunch The locally beloved Tempo Café (21) at 6 E Chestnut Street (001 312 943 4373) does classic gut-busting American diner breakfasts, such as the "Poor Man's Skillet" with three eggs, ham, green pepper, cheese and onions over hash browns.
"O.K.?" I rushed in and opened the bottom drawer of the stove, where Daisy kept the pot lids, searching for one large enough to cover the big skillet.
Someone at the table said "Look at that!" and with the skillet in one hand I waved with the other, the Lipschers and their guests limply waving back.
I like the way my tongue buzzes from the copper electroplating on the bottom of her Revere Ware skillet, how it tickles my teeth the way a penny can't.
