I made the Obama Inauguration Cornbread and to be honest it was a “yes, we can” kind of recipe with a bit of a “no, we can’t” thing going on when it came to the taste test.
It’s hard to convince New Zealanders that cornbread is a top idea in the first place. It’s harder to [...]
Posted in Kitchen on 20. Jan, 2009
Creamed corn is one of those food items easily overlooked until I’m doing a bulk shop for a holiday at the bach. Then I always buy a can. And it sits in the pantry until the day one stays in the surf so long and becomes so hungry that you eat your flippers and beach [...]
Posted in Kitchen on 20. Jan, 2009
In reality this is a creamed corn (Watties?) cornbread recipe but the name needed a more American twang so I bring to you for the first time ever, Internet, the recipe for Obama Inauguration Cornbread.
Ingredients
2 cups of yellow cornmeal
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 cup of (Watties?) creamed [...]
Love and marriage. Horse and carriage. Dried fruit and booze. Somehow they all just go together.
A couple of years ago I decided that when you have a lemon glut you should make limoncello. But not for me the old cheat’s way of simply throwing a bit of lemon skin into a bottle of vodka and [...]
Posted in Garden on 24. Nov, 2008
Our compost bin is nearly as far away from the house as is geographically possible so it isn’t always convenient or appealing to go skipping across the wet back lawn of an evening to empty the vegetable scraps.
I finished up with a Dr Seuss-like three-step process where I started with a scrap bowl on the [...]
Posted in Garden on 24. Nov, 2008
Last year my home vege garden came under attack from every parasitic insect known. An entire TV series could have been based on the whitefly colony alone. The battles were legendary and we lost every time – except, that is, for the lettuces. They were fine. Nothing touched them. So this year I’m doing my [...]
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