Today, if you look to the sidebar, you’ll see that the brand new Biscuits and Such Store, complete with bells and whistles, is open.  This store, you may remember from the doofy video I showed a few weeks ago, is meant to work as a platform through which I can share products with you that I actually, genuinely, love.  What’s so exciting about this opportunity, for me, is that the whole philosophy behind Open Sky is honesty and trust.  I won’t ever be pressured to promote something to you that I don’t myself use, or that I haven’t hand picked because it’s awesome.

Here’s how the shop will work.  Essentially there are three ways that you can buy a product through me.  First, you can go directly to my profile on Open Sky.  This will allow you to browse through everything I’ve added, check out what I wrote about it, and purchase as you’d like.  You’ll also be able to browse through everything Open Sky offers, which is quite a lot.  The second way to buy through B&S is in the Biscuits and Such Store page right here on the website.  This page, which will evolve as I grow the shop, will show you the same content that the Open Sky profile provides with the added bonus of being able to purchase something without ever leaving my site.  The final way to purchase something will be through individual posts.  Here’s the thing.  I’m probably not going to write about every product I add to the shop.  I will tweet about them or promote them on facebook, but not everything will get an individual post.  Products that do get individual posts, however, will have an “add to cart” button in them so that if you are so moved you can buy the product I’m talking about without ever leaving the post.  I’m making it so easy for you.

The first product that I wanted to write about is the product (beyond our coffee pot) that gets the most use in our house.  It’s the product that I don’t even bother to put it away because I use it for everything.  It’s the product that if you were scrolling through my archives you would see more often than any other dish, pan, or utensil.  It’s my cast iron pan.  And I know it’s such a stereotype that I’m a southern cook who never uses anything but my cast iron pan but I have to tell you, this thing is magic.  Everything from bacon to caramel gets made in this bad boy and the best part is that each dish, every time that the pan is used, it gets a little better.  I got to pick the one product from my kitchen that I wanted to promote and ladies and gents, this is the product I would scream off my rooftop about.

So that’s it.  This is a product I love.  If you don’t have one, I am telling you this pan will change your life, even if it’s just making it easier to fry an egg every morning.  When I say I use this pan 1000% percent more than I use the fancy expensive stainless steel pans we saved up for, I’m not bullshitting you.  So, if you’d like to bring this product into your life, and if you’d like to support Biscuits and Such while doing it, I’ve given you all the tools.  And, if you order anything from OpenSky between now and August 16, you get free shipping (use the code FREESHIPPING). Mazel tov.