Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated, The Vestry and Luterun Council met (very briefly, just as EYP promised), we stopped by :eek:Wally Jr.:eek: for yogurt and N.O.T. chips, et N.O.L. and have achieved nappage. That’s as productive as any Sunday ought to be.
I know someone who adds sugar to cornbread. Nobody ever eats her cornbread except her. Such an abomination shall never pass my lips!
Look, on this cornbread issue. The one I make does have some sugar, but not a lot, and is very heavy, having more cornmeal than flour. It doesn’t taste sweet, not at all. It was originally from a Marine cookbook I’m told, more than fifty years ago.
I like it very much. It gets nice and crusty and soaks up lots of butter, due to it’s firm texture.
I don’t care how you make your cornbread. I’ve even eaten it with creamed corn in it. (T’was good.) I had a roommate once who was a chef in an eye-talian restaurant who made the best cornbread. He wouldn’t tell me what he put in it, but it was kinda sweet.
Yesterday was supposed to be a pet adoption event at Wifey’s office. I went over there after it started expecting to help wrangle puppies. (I won’t tell you why I was late. That’s a rant for another day.) Well, they din’t have any puppies, just a cage full of kittehs. They were cute an all, but none of them got adopted. 
Kittehs have it tough, 'cause it’s so easy to get 'em for free. People don’t want to pay shelter fees. Puppys, on the other paw, bring big money, iffen you can attest to their lineage somewhat. :dubious:
Afterwards, about 2:30, we headed out to an open house at a new distillery a couple miles away. We drank some whiskeys and a vodka, and had some really good sammiches. The whiskey was good. About on a par with Crown Royal, but more expensive. You would think that when you eliminate the cut the distributor and the retailer get, that they could beat the price of the competition at the liquor store by a little bit. But no. They want to be a ‘boutique’ distillery. Like everybody else.
We had a good time though.
Oh hey, about lemon icebox pie, here’s the Betty Crocker recipe. It’s got more ingredients in it, but it sounds really good, and kinda cheesecakey. (is so a word!)
swampy sent me a recipe by PM that looks pretty much like the one I saw on TV. The only difference ts that the TV one uses whipped cream, and swampy insists Southern ladies always cover it with a meringue.
I actually have 4 (four), count them, 4 vacuum cleaners.
I bought a Hoover upright when I moved in, it is made to pick up dog hair.
Then we got a shop vac, which my son likes to use as a regular vac for around the baseboards and in the corners.
My mother gave me her old Electrolux, which we keep upstairs since most of the upstairs is carpetted.
Then I bought a stick vac for the upstairs bathroom. However, my son likes that one the best so he uses it everywhere. It does suck well, but the collector is so small you have to empty it 3 or 4 times just vacuuming the living room.
Bumba, where I live adopting cats is free on Fridays, and there are usually several months throughout the year when cats are free. They aren’t too picky here either about people adopting cats, no rules about keeping them indoors. they all come microchipped though, so if Adam ever gets picked up they know where he belongs.
My mother called with some sad news. At the wedding yesterday she was seated at the same table as one of my aunts. My mother said they talked for a while, and then my aunt turned to her and said, do I know you? The last time I saw that aunt was several year ago and she was (more than) a little forgetful then.
Anyway, my aunt got home from the wedding, had a heart attack, collapsed, and died early this morning. I suspose it was good that my cousins were still there when she collasped because she was still living alone.
I think it rattled my mother a bit to have just been talking to her and then she is dead.
nut, can you get self rising cornmeal mix over there (I use the one at Aldi)? If so, get a bag and follow the instructions. If not, this one works well:
1.5 c. cornmeal
.5 c. flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
.5 tsp baking soda
.25 c. oil (can be corn, olive or animal fat)
1 egg
1.25 c. milk
Preheat the oven to 400F.
Stir the ingrediants together and pour into a heated, greased oven safe skillet (cast iron makes a wonderful crust) or into muffin tins, either greased or with liners (it will fill about a dozen and I use silicon liners) and bake for 25-30 minutes for the skillet or 20 minutes for the muffins. Remove from the baking pan and crumble into soup, eat as bread or butter and pour syrup on it. Happy baking!
Heathenated and went to the Mexican place for lunch with the gang. A couple of the guys in the group keep asking me if I’m going. They always smile when I say yes, but they are usually among the early arrivals and I have to tie off with the kid squad, meaning that the musicians and I are among the last to arrive and there is no room left at the big table. 
Fortunately, I was able to share a booth with a couple of the guys who are really interesting to talk with. 
It’s almost like the school lunchroom all over again in our fifties and sixties. 
Cornbread is just cornbread to me. I’ve had it with corn in it, had the light cake like kind, the heavy granular kind, sweet, unsweet, it’s all just cornbread to me.
Don’t all y’all southeners faint now, but I just don’t care that much for it. It’s okay, I’ll eat it, but it’s pretty far down my list of foods that I like.
My carbs of choice are potatoes, rice, pasta, breads, in that order. I’d rather have cornbread than a dinner roll or a biscuit, but that isn’t saying much.
Unless the biscuits are covered in gravy, or the dinner rolls have lots of cheese and jalopenos in them. Bread is the vehicle to get the tasty stuff into my mouth. The same for rice and pasta, only potatoes are good on their own.
FCM, thanks for the guidance on granite cleaning; but cleaning it everyday!?!? Well; we’ll see.
As for everybody else, assorted hugs, looks of concern, grins and hopes of happiness–read all but didn’t absorb it. And I don’t eat cornbread so I am of no help there.
Stayed in bed until after 8am today, and outside of a Meatloaf dinner at Logan’s I have been practicing sloth for my Sunday sin-o-the-day.
All y’all take care now.
Scary moment. Dumbass lady in 540 let her dog lose, it was chasing me and Gordie around a car before she got a clue and called it.:mad:
Sugar? Bless your heart
: heats up tar, plucks feathers off a passing Canadian Goose :
Not an organization known for its culinary prowess.;)
I have a regular vac, and I have to empty it after just my bedroom. How can 75lbs. of assorted mammal make that much hair?
That’s awful.
Overachiever. 
On the serious side my regrets about the Aunt and hugs to mom. And to the couple as well. The OW and I know what its like to have sad reminders on happy days.
Plane ticket to Arrrgh-Kansas or to across the pond?
A competitive person who has less might say, “That sucks.”
Despite yestidy being the first day of Fall, weatherwise, it was not leafing season yet, which is what we wuz in the Poconos for. Given NW NJ is sparsely populated, it is a good place to see lots of stars, that is until the fog rolls in.
**MetalMouse **- they also have a version that isn’t for daily use. I certainly don’t clean mine daily - heck, I don’t recall the last time I did it before yesterday. But it leaves a nice, shiny, slick surface. As it happens, I was in Lowe’s today, and there were half a dozen different granite-cleaning products - I’m sure you can find something you’ll like.
I just finished Roxy’s first hoodie! I even crocheted the buttons! Unfortunately, she and her daddy are at his mom’s so I can’t try it on her yet. It’ll be too big, I’m sure.
My in-laws are taking a drive from Ocala to Pigeon Forge. My MIL can’t see to drive and my FIL has Parkinson’s. They should NOT be on the road, but try to tell them that. Hope they have good guardian angels…
And on that note, it’s time to wrap up my weekend. Here’s hoping for a good sleep tonight!
Recipe?
Not that my blood sugar will like this AT ALL.
Hush such talk! Swampy will have a fainting spell, and bust something.
I shall report you to the state authorities! Crossing Mason’s Dixon’s Line with intent to sweeten cornbread. The legal paperwork will keep you tied up for weeks!
I am shocked, but I reckon that Alaska is about as far North as one can get and still be in the USA.