aKathy's What's for Dinner 11/05

All y'all with your fancy cornbread recipes... I just use the box mix and call it good. Haha. (Feel free to kick me out.)

We got up at 5:30 to vote, were in line at 5:50, and home by 6:15 (polls opened at 6). We were numbers 6 and 7 in line. I took a shower when we got home and took a nap before work. DH has the day off, so he's been napping/watching Unsolved Mysteries.

Two more days til my last work day of the week and then VACATION starts Friday!

Edit: I am also getting an ultrasound to rule anything out from my labs last week, but I am hopeful it was just a fluke and nothing is amiss.

I'm going to have to google that as well!


Not an option for me! Tex-Mex food just isn't big here. It's only been recently that I've been able to get corn tortilla.

I have never used a recipe. Learned from my grandmother and mother. Break the egg and mix it with a spoon. Add a bit of milk, using a coffee cup. "About that size". Then just enough cornmeal to have a runny but thick batter. See how that all makes sense? But the key is to have the fat of your choice(I use avocado oil) screaming hot in your screaming hot pan. You want it to sizzle when you pour it in. Then back to the oven to cook to a golden brown.

My old dog Amelia loved tug of war. Ellie only likes chase. Meaning I chase her and she runs big circles around the yard.

This Canadian LOVES cornbread of any variety and it is damn hard to find here!   

I would love a recipe to make it in muffin tins if anyone has one!

@delta Dawn: Walker is a German Shepherd/Bernese Mountain Dog mix and he loves to play! He loves to fetch, play tug of war, run and chase birds, squirrels, etc. He is still young though so he has lots of energy.

Happy Tuesday! I love corn bread but I won't tell anyone here how I make it. I don't want to lose any of you as friends

It is still very warm here for November but the past couple of days have been extremely windy and it has brought the much needed rain. I spent two hours on the phone this morning with a government agency trying, again, to get a matter resolved for a client. This issue has been going on for over a year now. Someone is not doing their job and it is not me.

I have no idea what is for dinner. I need to get back to cooking more.

Wowww.....childhood memory unlocked! My Mom wasn't southern, but she had that cast iron corn bread pan that made the bread look like corn cobs.
Wonder if my sister still has it? We grew up on Jiffy mix, and we ate it either with just butter or butter and Mussleman's APPLE BUTTER !!!! I LOVE
that combo! I have tried to make it from scratch, and it comes out flavorless and the wrong texture. Also tried several different brands, and Jiffy wins
every time.

In adulthood, restaurants sometimes offer honey, and once I tried that---omg---honey and real butter ?!!!! Okay, I think I'm gonna NEED to make
some cornbread tonight! My preference is Mussleman's Apple Butter----no other brand works for me. Although I LOVE all of Smucker's jams/
preserves, their apple butter isn't yummy for me.


When Mom died (in 1990), we divided all of her cookware, dishes, etc. Mom's 1970's (or maybe 1980's?( Oscar food processor still works perfectly. We still use some of her high-quality pans, etc. She was an excellent cook and baker, and also dabbled in gourmet cooking sometimes. We still
make many of her beloved recipes.

Speaking of family recipes............my siblings are arriving here Thursday night so we can FINALLY go through alllll my Dad's stuff. Even though he died
2 years ago, it's been difficult to find the perfect dates for them to travel. I've already gotten the ingredients to make a Mom's "famous" recipe for them,
and they'll be thrilled. Mom's beef stroganoff was also my little brother (he died in 2009) and Dad's favorite. I made it for them when I visited them in D.C. every time,
and they appreciated it so much. Also made it several times for Dad when he lived with us.

I'm also going to make one or two of my Mom's yummy desserts while they're here....so between yumminess and reminiscing and laughing our heads off,
I look forward to seeing them. BUT----like any family, we also have sad memories, too. But my Dad really was HILARIOUS (Mom was NOT! ) , and we have sooo many
inside family jokes. He could imitate ANY accent, he had very sophisticated humor, was erudite, but also very loving and kind.

He DID have a horrible
temper, but it was never taken out on US. some of you might remember I vented about his temper A LOT when he lived with us. It wasn't
directed at US, but it was soooo stressful and I got so angry so many times. It was things like hearing him drop something and cussing.
Not being able to open something, needing help, etc. and cussing.

Imagine that during QUARANTINE !!! . Yea, it was so, so hard
dealing with that. Thanks to all of that, I have *complicated* feelings about his death. Ugh, it's been hard. I yelled at him many times,
and of course, I regret it and have horrible guilt.

I sooo miss the FUN times we had watching our fave shows, reminiscing, looking at photos, LAUGHING, etc. I also REALLLLY MISS
going to get a hug from him when I was missing Meaty and Sophie sooo terribly!


I already know it'll be harder for me, since they just aren't as emotional as me. Same as when our baby brother died. I adored him and was more like a Mom
to him than Mom was; so our relationship was different than theirs was. I was a complete wreck after he died, and wanted to talk about it, but they never
did.

Unfortunately, it's similar with Dad. Just the other day, I was trying to find a sweatshirt in Dad's room that has very happy memories attached to it.
Just opening ONE drawer and seeing all of his clothes made me sob. I can accurately predict they will NOT be sobbing over seeing Dad's clothes!


hen there's alllllll the homemade birthday cards we drew for him as kids that he saved. ALLL the photos, photo albums, etc. etc. Immediately
after he'd died 2 years ago, I happened to find a photo album I'd never seen. It included a lot of letters from Congressmen, other D.C. political
people, etc. etc. Many of them were praising the work he did on legislation/ lobbying, etc.

Dad spent many years "on the Hill" (D.C.-speak
for "Capitol Hill") as a lawyer who lobbied. (that may be an oxymoron, I'm not sure). ANYHOO........
It was very cool to learn that part of my Dad's career that he'd never shown us.

Wowww.......I am RAMBLING, huh? If you even made it this far, I apologize to your eyes!
It's time to leave and go vote, then go run some errands. I got one of my severe headaches
yesterday while grocery shopping---ugh! I LOVE grocery shopping, so the headache ruined it.

HOPING not to get another headache today......that's the last thing I need while standing in line
to vote!


(( hugs )) to anyone who needs 'em !!!!

I will take cornbread any way I can got it. I am not picky. I googled hush puppies and yeah they raise the bar.

I had a great big Siamese named Simon who was the world's best fetch player with the plastic ring from a milk jug. He would flip in the air jumping after it and would bring it back for you to toss it again. You'd get tired before he ever would. I miss that sweet boy!

The SNF doesnt have nurses and med techs?

There are 2 different kinds- dry and crumbly and sweet. I like the sweet kind a little better for eating plain, but the dry one works for beans and cornbread. (And I assume for chili, but we all knoe how I feel about chili, so I will never know!)

I made chicken enchiladas this evening.