Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

@BriardChickens

This house, it turned out that the leach field was also the home of a spring.....

So, the random times whenever the spring was running full, the leach field wasn't able to hold all of the spring water AND our household nasty water....


the result was that all of the sewage water would come back and flood the house.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, you should have seen me.... I had everything redone, I, *I* didn't care about the cost!!

I had them put in a bigger septic tank, AND make an entirely new leach field, and you should have heard me "You will dig this leach field DOWN HILL from the house!"

And the workmen were explaining how cool the leach field was, and blah de blah blah, how it would never go bad, and blah this and blah that, and I just looked at them and said, And if it does go bad, guarantee me, WHERE does the sewage go?????

Anyway, it was funny in hind sight.

 

[Beer can]

I saw some corn bread muffin talk. Anyone ever try cornbread cake with cottage cheese and broccoli? It is super yummy!

 

[Beer can]

@Amberjem You asked the other day what I was watching on Netflix? If you like 'Mad Max' type movies I just started watching the third 'Revelation Road' movie, but I'll have to finish it some othertime, time for sleep. I started watching the first one and wasn't interested, seemed pretty low budget. When I finally went back to it and watched the rest it turned out to be a darned good movie. The second one was great also. Yes it is a Christian religious movie but it isn't a typical one. Lots of action and guns and shooting. Very good movies IMO.

 

[vehve]

Morning. I've never had cornbread, might try making some some day...

 

[Alaskan]

Morning. I've never had cornbread, might try making some some day...

I love cornbread.... I was raised on it....

and you can tweak the recipe any way you want... doesn't matter really....

So, usually mostly corn meal, a little wheat flour.... but you can got 1/2 and 1/2 on the flours, or even do 100% corn.

Then I always use one stick of butter, I melt it in the cast iron pan, in the oven as the oven heats up, while I make the batter

To the flour and a bit of baking powder (can't remember which, anyway, you want the one in a can, not the one in a box), sometimes sugar, but never much, and only a tiny bit of salt

then add the liquids, an egg or two, not more than 3, milk, or sour cream, or half and half, or cream, I like the juice from a jar of jalepenos.

Also for liquid, you can use the liquid from a can of corn, with the corn too.

Adding shredding cheese is also nice, any kind you like of course

Then take the cast iron pan from the oven, swirl the butter all over the pan to grease it, pour the rest of the melted butter into the batter, mix it all, and pour it into the pan and put into the oven... I think about 350 to 375 ish.

If you made it thick/pretty dry it will cook faster, if you made it very soupy it will take longer to cook.

However, you never want your corn bread over cooked and completely dry, you want some moisture in it, so don't let it sit in the oven too long.

If you used lots of moist ingredients, then just take it out of the oven when everything is cooked, don't wait for it to get completely firm, because that is spoon bread... corn bread with so much liquid in it that you can't slice it like a pie, you need a spoon.

Usually using a can of corn in the mix will result in spoon bread.

 

[JW12]

Cornbread and buttermilk.... One of my all time favorite comfort foods!

 

[JW12]

Since I'm on my iPad .... For all the times you have done this amber here is one back!

 

[vehve]

Al, whole sweet corn kernels in a can?

 

[Beer can]

If you never ate it before vehve it can be kinda dry and grainy, great with a good hot chili though. I've made homemade cornbread from scratch (Funny saying that on a chicken site Lol, not the chicken feed) I bake it in a bread pan and slice it like bread with jam. I prefer using Jiffy mix and making muffins for chili. When I add canned corn I don't use the liquid. When I make jalapeno corn bread I just chop some up and add to the mix and put a few slices on top for looks. Sometimes I make cornbread pancakes, with real maple syrup or mollasses (the family thinks I'm gross but I like mollasses).