We’re Giving Away a Calphalon Cookware Set
Pick out a recipe and start cooking with a new set of cookware. But not just any cookware, Calphalon’s Unison Non-Stick Cookware – it revolutionized the non-stick cooking surface.
These pots and pans have been specially textured to seal in flavors while preventing food from sticking to them. We are giving away the full $649.00 set which includes one 8-inch Omelette Pan, one 10-inch Omelette Pan, one 2 Qt. Sauce Pan with cover, one 3 Qt. Sauce Pan with cover, one 4 Qt. Sauté Pan with cover, and one 8 Qt. Stock Pot with cover.
In order to take this set home, tell us what’s the most memorable meal you’ve ever cooked in a skillet and why.
The contest begins February 1st and ends February 28th. Click here for official rules.
Find out what we’re giving away tomorrow, and enter to win all the other prizes being given away this month!
I made my husband my lemon chicken – it was the first time I cooked for him, He does all the cooking now! And he loved it!
This would look nice in my kitchen…
My most memorable would be cooking cornbread in a skillet for my first holiday meal.
the first time I made skillet lasanga, my family loved it. Usually make it about twice a month.
Fried orka in one cast iron skillet and fresh creamed corn in another. Add fresh, sliced tomatoes and that’s a perfect meal for me. Never get tired of that meal!
Made Sour Cream Cornbread in my cast iron skillet a few weeks ago. It was sooooo moist and came out of the oven BEAUTIFUL! I love a skillet!
I was newly married and didn’t know much about cooking–made stuffed chicken backs! They looked good, but we couldn’t figure out how come there was no meat on them–LOL! Live and learn.
Made stir fry for my inlaws. It went better than expected.
liver, onions and gravy with mashed potatoes love it
I made my flat iron steak. Delicious
hamburger helper
The first time I had my new in-laws over for dinner. I made a roasted chicken and made corn bread in my new skillet – that was 35 years ago – I could really use a new skillet!
When I was a teen I wanted to cook something that sounded exotic for my parents who did not eat anything exotic ever. I made ratatouille over polenta which was a huge challenge for me. They loved it and it’s a wonderful memory I’ll cherish!
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The most memorable meal I ever fixed was an omelet for my beloved late sister. In her mid 50′s, she and I were very close, only a year apart and looked like twins! She had been given days to live and asked that I make her a bell pepper and onion omelet when she got home from the doctor’s appointment. I watched that pan with the most eager eyes, trying to make everything just right for her. It came out beautifully, truly picture perfect! It was as if it was ready-made for a magazine shoot. Seeing her enjoy that omelet that I made, with all the love and care I could muster, is a memory that I will always cherish!!
Shrimp scampi is the most memorable skillet meal as it is my darling husband’s favorite.
I like making Beef Stroganoff in a skillet. It’s quick, easily, affordable and filling. It’s a real, home-cooked meal and I would often make it for my mom after her work.
I can remember cooking my first pan of cornbread with my mom’s supervision, about 32 years ago now! She has an incredibly simple recipe, corn meal, buttermilk, soda and salt, the tablespoon of bacon grease in the pan is the only oil. Mixing the batter, pouring it carefully into the heated cast iron skillet, hearing the satisfactory sizzle as batter met bacon grease, and the heady aroma of baking bread. The best part was getting the “hooray for the cook” cheer from the family!!
My son’s great grandmother had cancer and could no longer live alone in her apartment. I was there to help her dispose of her belongings and make the move to a care facility. She was passing on all her famous recipes to me and went thru each one. Her most famous was her Italian beef. She made out the list of grocery items needed and I went shopping. Upon my return we cooked up layer after layer of thinly sliced beef with her special recipe in the frying pan that she had just for this occasion. We had a wonderful dinner together and she passed the recipe and the pan on to me. She has been gone many years now but I still think of her fondly everytime I take that pan out to make her recipe for the Italian beef.
My most memorable meal cooked in a skillet was the time my father and I took a fishing trip upnorth to the sunrise side. We spent the night in a campground and slept in our SUV. When we woke up, we prepared breakfast outside in the back of our vehicle. Over a lit gas stove, we fried eggs and cooked bacon in our frying pan. Roughing it with family; fun times.
Pasta Puttanesca, because I think that it was the first time that everyone loved my cooking, and I loved it because ti was easy to make.
My skillet is used for everything.chili, stroganoff, chicken. You name it. It’s always great to have a good skillet.
To me the most special meal I’ve ever made in a skillet was when I was 12. I wanted to surprise my mother with breakfast for Mother’s Day. I woke up at 5am and got out her favorite pancake recipe. I didn’t take into account that they didn’t take very long to make and ended up having to surprise my mother with a 5:30 am surprise breakfast but she didn’t say a negative thing about it and just smiled and told me they where the best pancakes she had ever eaten.
I have my grandmother’s cast iron skillet that my mom used and then passed on to me when she was no longer able to cook with it. The first meal I cooked in that skillet was fried chicken and then used the skillet to make cornbread for the meal. I tried to chanel my mom and grandmother and think I did a pretty good job!
When my husband and I were dating, I quickly learned that he is a far better cook than me. Well, at least when it comes or old-time southern cooking like our grandmothers used to do. In fact, just the week before he had called to ask me out an I had declined because I had too many papers to grade and lessons to plan for my middle school classes, my online high school students, and my junior college freshman writing classes. He was persistant, though. He said, “Why don’t you let me cook dinner for you on Saturday? After all, you have to eat and I will cook and clean up!”. How can a girl turn that down? So, he came to my house and cooked a gourmet meal and cleaned the kitchen after we ate.
A week or so later, he was coming over for an impromptu visit. Having been single for several years, I had become a lazy cook and not a picky eater. The cupboard was almost bare and I had planned to simply open a can of soup or eat a bowl of cereal. Now I felt like I had to prepare something more substantial. I took some leftover ham, mushrooms, diced onions and peppers and eggs and whipped up omlettes. It was filling and delicious! Plus, he bragged on my culinary skills like I was a master chef. To this day, we often enjoy the same menu when I need do stir up something on the fly.
I pan-seared chicken breast and stuffed it with goat cheese and sage. It was for my husband’s birthday and was absolutely amazing.
My deaf brother came to live with us last year. He was 14 years old then and had suffered more heartache than any child ever should. He was very reserved and quiet which made it difficult to know what his food preferences were. One morning we both woke up early and I thought that we should make Johnny Cakes together. We had so much fun cooking breakfast, laughing and chatting that we ended up spending the whole day going through pictures, telling stories and remembering good times.
I don’t truly remember what those little Johnny Cakes tasted like and I realize that is the whole point of the question, but sometimes it’s not really what comes off the stove that matters. Sometimes, it is what comes out of it.
I cooked a dish called Chicken Yorkshire. It was so simple and was an elegant presentation and was a big hit.
In what looked like a scene out of Julie and Julia, I decided I could make steak marsala. I carefully downloaded several recipes, borrowed a little from each, added a few touches of my own, and waa-laa, it turned out amazing. Not sure that I could ever recreate it with the same success, but would love to have this cookware set to try to wow the family with another attempt.
A fancy omelet with everything that I had leftover.
I could really use these so I can make a memorable meal.
Southern Fried Chicken, in a cast iron skillet…so many herbs and spices to make the Colonel jealous. With peanut oil, the crust crisps up so well. My go-to dinner.
Most memorable meals would have to be Omelet Sundays when my dad was still alive. We would chop everything up and make “made to order” omelets for everyone. I miss those days where he was the cook and I was his assistant…I just miss him.
my husband came from a home where his mum wasnt the greatest cook, she experimented all the time – and it wasnt great! so when we got married he loved EVERYTHING I cooked
I could do a plate of brocolli and he would love it. He was always proud to say I had never cooked a bad meal… until this day. I loved black bean beef from the chinese takeaways and thought I would try it myself, I had all the meat and veges in the skillet and added the black bean sauce I had bought. proudly served it with noodles to my husband to watch him spit it straight back out on the plate!! it was awful! I looked at the empty jar of sauce I had to use to find out too late that I was only supposed to use 2 tbsp sauce. ugh. Because he loves me, and wanted to be encouraging he tried to wash the sauce off the meat and keep eating – now it was just wet, gross meat lol! we still laugh about that night, and it has gone down in history as the only bad dish I ever made. never tried it again! 
I once cooked a cake in a skillet and it turned our really good. With today being my birthday I would love to win these pans and try to cook another cake in a skillet.
My most memorable meal that I ever cooked in a skillet was Fried Squash and Onions and cornbread in my grandmother’s iron skillet. The reason it was so memorable is my grandmother passed away one summer and left us with an abundance of fresh vegetables in her garden. We came back from her funeral and began to pick the vegetables and everyone pitched in and started cooking and preparing all of this wonderful food she left us.
We had our very good friends from Israel visiting and we decided to make something a bit more special. We made a Meditteranean chicken dish, with tomatoes, olives, onions, lemon juice and olive oil. It’s such a delicious one pan dish. And came out great.
Pure and simple, tacos.
a one skillet hamburger,onion potatoe,,and tomatoe meal in a cast iron skillet over an open fire with my new husband camping by the lake..
Spiced up made from scratch corned beef hash. It is delicious!
PEACH UPSIDE DOWN CAKE…
I made it in my cast iron skillet.
I couldn’t of DREAMED it being so good!
My man just FLIPPED for it !
When we were camping, I made breakfast in one skillet – bacon, hash browns, and eggs.
The first time I made shrimp scampi I thought it was the best seafood dish ever. I still love it and cook it but have ventured out a bit more since.
When I was younger my dad used to make a very elaborate
Sunday brunch each week for me, my sisters and mom.
It was something we all looked forward to each
Sunday. He’d have several skillets going at one time with eggs, bacon,
Pancakes, etc.
Now that I am married with my own family, I carry on the
Tradition at my house each Sunday.
I love this cookwre!
Thinking this will help my cooking… I need all the help I can get these days!
I made coconut fried shrimp for my mother-in-law’s birthday celebration. It turned out fantastically!
Seared scallops with tomatillo sauce- everyone loves it!
My most memorable meal was not my first meal cooked in a skillet but one I made about a year after my mom passed. She made the best beef stew and I was so thankful I had learned how to make it from her. I had made it many times before but I just couldn’t seem to bring myself to make it again until about a year after her passing. I made it in the cast iron skillet she bought and seasoned for me when I first moved out. Beef stew is one of my favorite comfort foods and making it brought a sense of peace and comfort and knowing she was right there making it with me.
I love to have my grown children come home and always try to cook a favorite for them. One of our favorites is a recipe for French Vinegar Chicken – pan sauteed chicken with a tarragon, vinegar, tomato sauce and that it simmers in and finished with a splash of cream. Special and delicious!