Favorite Southern Recipes:
1. Spoon Rolls
2. Aunt Mary's Pot Roast
3. Roasted Vegetables

Imagine a warm winter kitchen filled with the aromas of oven-baked pot roast and hot, homemade rolls. If you think you don't have time for such luxuries, take heart. Comfort food doesn't always require a huge amount of time or effort. You can have the delicious roast and rolls featured here ready for the oven in 10 minutes. These top-rated recipes are from A Skillet Full of Traditional Southern Lodge Cast Iron Recipes and Memories, a community cookbook benefiting our friends in the Historic Preservation Society of South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The town is home of the National Cornbread Festival and Lodge Manufacturing Company, makers of cast-iron cookware.

For more information and tips on cooking with cast iron, see "From Our Kitchen" on page 131 of the February 2004 issue of Southern Living.