The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Duleigh]

For me, cornbread is best served at the bottom of a bowl of chili. For some reason the sweetness of the cornbread and the fruity heat of the chili peppers is the perfect combination.

 

[NotWise]

cornbread with butter.
cornbread with maple syrup.
cornbread with molasses.
cornbread with beans.
cornbread with chili.

They're all good.

 

[iwatchus]

Last weekend, a restaurant gave me apple cinnamon butter to put on a corn muffin. Interesting, but I ended up preferring the muffin plain. My SO used it on whole wheat toast.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Cornbread crumbled in a glass, then fill the glass with buttermilk and eat with a spoon. Not sweet cornbread, we don't do sweet cornbread in my family.

cornbread with butter.
cornbread with maple syrup.
cornbread with molasses.
cornbread with beans.
cornbread with chili.

They're all good.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Back to writing, talk to y'all later, maybe after the cows come home.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Back to writing, talk to y'all later, maybe after the cows come home.

So around dusk then?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Looks like, yes.

So around dusk then?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Currently, I'm reading Fred Saberhagen's The Dracula Tapes, and Count Dracula casts himself as the victim of the group of vampire hunters from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. In part set in his Castle, when we suppose that a baby was given to the brides, Drac claims it was a suckling pig. There are also many other places where he shows how Van Helsing, Harker, Seward, and the rest of them misunderstood him. It's quite a good read, and I've read it before (from my father's collection). Those books were all stolen years ago when the home I grew up in was broken into after Pops and Mum moved away and before they sold the property. Bought the digital version of it this time.

 

[NuclearFairy]

My muse has finally woken up.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Does it have claws?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Time for supper, then to listen to Donnie read to Jo and me, and after that, put him to bed. So very different listening to him read rather than reading to him.

 

[JGittes]

Hot cornbread with butter and honey.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Cornbread - I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Yes! Finally I could finish that chapter. Now let's see tomorrow if I can write the next one, or maybe finish a chapter in my other WIP. Or maybe, I'll go crazy and make some headway in one of the three short stories I have staring at me.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Cornbread - I have no idea what you are talking about.

It's a really dry, chewy, yellow bread that leaves crumbs everywhere. And raises huge controversy over the sugar and no sugar factions.

 

[sirhugs]

It's a really dry, chewy, yellow bread that leaves crumbs everywhere. And raises huge controversy over the sugar and no sugar factions.

and it doesn't dunk well in coffee.

 

[iwatchus]

It's a really dry, chewy, yellow bread that leaves crumbs everywhere. And raises huge controversy over the sugar and no sugar factions.

Some of it can be pretty moist (another varietal difference), but it does crumble everywhere, even moist. So it is not a good choice for dunking in anything. And it always has a grainy texture.

Sweetened or not, it tastes sooo good, although some of the dry variations are a little too dry for me.

It's a traditional American food, from the days before we discovered world cuisines.

 

[Duleigh]

YARRRR!
(or is it ARRRR?)
Shiver me timbers maties! It be the most glorious of days...

The 30th Annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Arrr... let yer inner pirate out ye scurvy bilgerats! Spend the day communicatin' the way man were meant to be talkin.

Thirty years ago, "Cap'n Slappy" and "Ol' Chumbucket" realized that the pirate vernacular was fading and needed gather with yer mates an' let yer inner gentleman o' fortune free. this here day been made just fer ye! At me 'ouse we celebrate with manly priveteer movies, like Muppet Treasure Island an' Yellowbeard... arrr

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Yarrrr! The sun be rising above the main mast and it's going to be a hot one today so ye better get below and get the rum.

Ahoy! The coffee be brewing and the teapot is hot. Biscuits and hardtack for everyone!

I'll be in me cabin penning a letter to the Governor, ye scurvy mates.

 

[NotWise]

Hot cornbread with butter and honey.

I second that motion.

 

[NotWise]

Cornbread - I have no idea what you are talking about.

It's actually more like a cake then a bread. It's made with a batter with yellow cornmeal added rather than from a dough. Recipes and cooking instructions vary.

As to the sugar controversy . . . I think it tastes a little bitter without sugar, so I always add some, but not usually enough to make it very sweet.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Cornbread - I have no idea what you are talking about.

Poor Rusty! Obviously this is the time for the Usual Suspects to flock to your recipe page.

 

[Duleigh]

Cornbread - I have no idea what you are talking about.

It's a southern/western US kind of thing. It's a quickbread made from cornmeal, flour, milk, butter, salt, and an egg. Some claim that adding flour makes it "northern" cornmeal but it's a binding agent

It's usually made in a cake pan and served in squares. It pairs best with Barbeque, chili, fried chicken, and fried fish. You can take the cornbread dough and fry it in a pan like a pancake, these are called Johnny Cakes. Or, you can take a small ball of the dough and cook it in a deep fryer - these are called "Hush Puppies" and here in the deep south, they're a necessary part of a healthy diet (as is fried chicken, grits, collard greens, and cucumber salad)

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's actually more like a cake then a bread. It's made with a batter with yellow cornmeal added rather than from a dough. Recipes and cooking instructions vary.

As to the sugar controversy . . . I think it tastes a little bitter without sugar, so I always add some, but not usually enough to make it very sweet.

The secret to good cornbread is a teaspoon of paprika ...

 

[CuriousRick]

The secret to good cornbread is a teaspoon of paprika ...

I have never heard of that!! I love cornbread but I can't really have it