Chopsticks vs Fork
I have to eat Chinese food with chop sticks. I just doesn't seem right to me to eat Chinese food with a fork. Does anyone else feel this way?
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Apple Picking in NY
Years ago we used to go to Salinger's Orchard off Route 22 just outside of Westchester County in Brewster probably an hour's drive from NYC. I bet it's still there.
Favourite food blogs?
David Lebovitz,The Amatuer Gourmet, figs olives wine and 101 Cookbooks to name a few.
Food related pranks, I admit I once_____
The ol' ice cream cone trick... My husband and I each had an ice cream cone, I started to smell my ice cream and said "this ice cream smells funny. Does your ice cream smell funny?' He starts to smell it and then I pushed on to the tip of his nose.
A classic people fall for it every time.
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What do you eat with cornbread?
Chili, bean dishes of all kinds, soups, BBQ... so many things are good with cornbread.
Always, always, always, UNsweetened... for some reason, I just cannot stand the sweetened versions. I make mine in a hot skillet. Although all "authentic" southern cornbread recipes I've seen say no flour, all the REAL southerners I know (and there are a lot of them) use self-rising flour in their recipes. I don't use self-rising, but I do add a little flour to the cornmeal, about a 1:2 or 1:3 ratio. And it must be made with buttermilk.
What do you eat with cornbread?
I love cornbread with black-eyed peas.
Toasted with butter and syrup for breakfast is pretty awesome too.
What do you eat with cornbread?
molasses, sweet dark molasses. Definitely one of my favorite things in the winter. You gotta cut it in half so the molasses doesn't just run off the top. The next day you can crisp it up in butter and have some more molasses or just eggs and sausage. Oh man.
What do you eat with cornbread?
I love hot, freshly made cornbread for breakfast, either with just good coffee, or for a big breakfast alongside bacon or sausage and eggs.
Can't have chili without cornbread. Ribs, beans, greens and my favorite pork-tomatillo stew all cry out for cornbread. It's so good with almost any soup or stew.
I make my cornbread with no white flour -- just stone-ground cornmeal, salt and leavening, eggs and buttermilk. It gets cooked in a pre-heated cast-iron skillet with a dollop of bacon dripping, and it's always light and fluffy, even without white flour.
What do you eat with cornbread?
tuna noodle casserole...kind of strange, but I really like my mom's version of this retro dish, and while it makes the meal quite decadent, I love it with the "Rich Corn Cake" from the Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
What do you eat with cornbread?
I used to be in love with the cornbread from Boston Market.
A trip down memory lane: What food makes you smile?
I just recently remembered this snack my mom used to make us kids, and I've promised my grand-kids I'd make it for them. Saltine crackers spread with peanut butter and a marshmallow. Broil until marshmallow is as dark as you like it. Kind of an indoor s'mores I guess, without the chocolate. I'm going to go make some now. I haven't had one in oh, thirty years or so.
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