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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 09:01am on 18/01/2005
I did dishes, I did a load of laundry, I got the Goodwill all bagged up and I made cornbread (this is all [livejournal.com profile] shirei_shibolim's fault) and I have just one more load of laundry to do before I leave and that's mostly the clothes I'll have been wearing to work.

We ate so much cornbread growing up, I think it's a wonder we didn't get pellagra. My mother's recipe was extremely simple -- cornmeal, salt, baking powder, egg, oil, water -- and she'd make a 13x9 sheet pan and we'd eat that with sweet potatoes for as long as it held out.

Ew.

So it took me some years of relative economic stability to go near cornbread again. Or maybe it was just that Sherman didn't serve cornbread, so I had some enforced years' separation from the foodstuff.

But. Anyway. I like it once again. Just don't make me eat the stale corner-crumbs with milk poured over.

To do today:
EVERYTHING ELSE WAH.
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posted by [identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com at 04:17pm on 18/01/2005
Otters are my favorite animal, Adult Attention Deficit Disorder is my favorite thing that's, uh, different about me, making that icon my very favorite one of yours, since it's v. much in keeping with the selkie-ness of the lj.

"ooh...fish!" just sums up ADD perfectly. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com at 06:14pm on 18/01/2005
Ooh- you got his cornbread recipe to work? Any tips? THe one time I made it, it just made heavy-as-lead cornbread which tasted great, but abotu half a piece filled one's stomach like a full meal. Aka, it didn't separate. What did I do wrong?
 
posted by [identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com at 08:01pm on 18/01/2005
So what you've got there is essentially a recipe for Lembas. Yum.
 
posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 08:14pm on 18/01/2005
I don't have any wheat germ in the house, so I just made regular cornbread. And the kitchen was freezing so it didn't much rise, but it was good. I am going to try The Lembas Cornbread in D.C. I'll let you know how it works out.
 
posted by [identity profile] sibylla.livejournal.com at 02:44pm on 19/01/2005
I've never cared much for cornbread, myself, but I can remember my next-door neighbour giving her granddaughters cut-up cornbread with buttermilk poured over as a snack. It smelled strangely appealing.

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