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3343. PelleNilsson - 11/13/2005 8:24:27 PM Shadows on the kitchen wall.
 3344. thoughtful - 11/14/2005 4:57:58 PM Well I took a stab at it and made a recipe called "real southern corn bread". I used the self-rising white cornmeal, melted bacon fat in a cast iron pan and baked the batter in the pan.
Came out tasting very bland except it tastes like bacon grease.
It may be authentic southern, but it's unfortunately not the corny taste i'm looking for. I'll keep trying. 3345. alistairconnor - 11/14/2005 5:35:02 PM Sounds like the "self-rising white cornmeal" bit is your problem. Go find some organic stone-ground dirty looking cornmeal, and add your own baking soda...
Just a generic comment. I know nothing about corn bread, but what you bake is never better than the ingredients. 3346. Jenerator - 11/14/2005 6:21:28 PM Thoughtful,
I have some deep Southern roots, and so one of my valued posessions is a Civil War cookbook.
The recipe for campfire biscuits for infantry is almost identical to the one you posted. When they didn't have cast iron pans, they used their musket blades directly in the fire.
Because so many of the Confederate soldiers lived on cornmeal and lard (lard if they were lucky, water if they were unlucky) many of them got scurvy. 3347. robertjayb - 11/14/2005 6:21:56 PM Get some regular yellow cornmeal, Aunt Jemima's or such, and follow the recipe on the box...maybe add an extra egg. 3348. Jenerator - 11/14/2005 6:37:26 PM In a different direction, I stumbled onto a delicous Greek/Persian restaurant this weekend.
My mom and I were thinking of going to a noodle-house in little Vietnam. Two doors down from our favorite place was a new cafe called Yum Yum. We thought for sure it was another Vietnamese (or Korean) place, but I noticed that it was full of Mediterrean and Muslim looking people. We decided to try it inspite of the name.
It had the best baba ghanoush I have ever had. He grilled the egg plant and prepared it in front of us. The hummus was very smooth and midly flavored. I suspect he used chick peas and fava beans to get a softer favor and texture.(?)
I ordered the Gyro plate which was similar to a kebab plate with saffron rice and it was sooooooooo good. The meat was fresh and spiced perfectly and the tzatsiki was the perfect mix of yogurt, spices, mint and onion.
The dessert menu was limited (cheese cake or Baklava) but he gave us his hidden house specialty. I think it was called khooma (?). It was similar to Baklava but not as drippingly sweet and it was made from vermicelli rather than phylo.
My mom only ordered the house soup which was a chicken based broth with lemon, ginger, parsley, mushrooms, onions, and fresh herbs. It was fresh, like a restorative broth that you sip on a rainy ay.
Anyway, my mom and I feasted for less than $20!! I can't wait to go back.
The chef's daughter, a sixth grader, let us know that she and her family moved to Richardson from Lebanon and that her dad was a professional chef back home. 3349. thoughtful - 11/14/2005 9:31:45 PM I tried the yellow corn meal version several times in several different ways and it's still not the flavor i want. That's why i went with something different. The southern way said it has to be white corn meal. But it's not what i wanted.
3350. PelleNilsson - 11/14/2005 10:12:17 PM I'm sorry about the sorry picture that originally appeared in #3343. I must have saved the wrong version in Photoshop. You may think the new one is rotten too, but at least it's rotten in the way I intended it to be. 3351. Neato - 11/15/2005 10:07:56 AM Thoughtful, I make cornbread that has real corn in it, as well as the ubiquitous yellow corn meal. Maybe that would give you the corn taste. I reckon you could add a cup or so of corn off the cob to any recipe. 3352. thoughtful - 11/15/2005 4:58:16 PM This year's xmas card has been ordered...a picture of my back yard in winter taken from our dining room window.
Will be with a dark green background and the following haiku.
Sound enough to stand
Strong enough to bend into
Winter's icy hand
3353. PelleNilsson - 11/15/2005 5:40:01 PM Beautiful. Pristine. 3354. thoughtful - 11/15/2005 7:43:07 PM thanks pelle.
I was thinking how much I'll miss that view when we move to the new house...if we ever get there.
The cedars so nicely frame the maple which turns a lovely color in the fall.
Surprise of surprises the pear tree on the left (little one hiding behind the cedar) has put out a ton of fruit this year. For some reason, the usual suspects (squirrels, raccoons) have allowed us to eat the pears this year vs. years past when they've stripped the tree bare.
Hubby's been eating pears for lunch every day and I've made pear crunch and pear cobbler for dessert. Very tasty. 3355. jexster - 11/16/2005 3:32:21 AM My brother just this morning told me they had to put Ernie the Cat down..stomach cancer
An Alternative To Euthanasia For Your Family Pet 3356. PelleNilsson - 11/20/2005 6:26:46 PM It is snowing. Not much so far, perhaps an inch, but still. 3357. Magoseph - 11/20/2005 8:57:16 PM We had a little snow, not much, but it's starting to be quite cold at night. 3358. alistairConnor - 11/21/2005 12:34:46 AM Got a good crop of pears this year, but they are not keepers : I left them sitting in a basket for a couple of weeks and they all went rotten.
Apples : only one tree put out this year. Beautiful looking red ones. Spotty, because I don't spray them, but definitely keepers. When we finally picked them a couple of weeks ago, at least half had been gnawed by rodents.
Damn cold, below freezing all weekend. Ice in the ponies' drinking trough, which is a problem. 3359. judithathome - 11/21/2005 5:06:03 AM Jex, so sorry about the cat...I hope he didn't have much pain. 3360. judithathome - 11/21/2005 5:12:25 AM So, proof that I don't belong in the garden club. I received a door prize two months ago...a boxed pot containing an amarylis bulb. I put it in the garden room, still in the box, and forgot about it. The box had holes punched in it and what I should have done was open it, hydrate the bulb and wait for it to grow.
What I did was forget about it until today when I was moving stuff around and found the box...amazingly, with a sprouted amarylis bulb that already has a huge pale blossom trying to punch its way out of the box! I've now put it in the pot and broken up the cube of compressed soil that came with it and put it in the light but it looks as though the stem is permanently warped to the side and the bright red color of the bloom will remain a pale weakened slamon color. 3361. judithathome - 11/21/2005 5:14:49 AM salmon color....sheesh! 3362. wonkers2 - 11/21/2005 8:08:52 AM Yeah, Jex, so sorry about the cat. PLease accept my deepest sympathy. I hope you gave it a decent burial with lots of flowers and appropriate rites. (Howzzat, ladies?)
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