jubilation t cornbread

what happens when you spy a bag of sweet corn in the freezer and you have a bunch of beef tallow about to expire? 

Pudding-like cornbread happens: savory, sweet, full of real kernel corn bread. 

No milk, so I used a can of organic coconut milk that I normally save for my hair's henna treatments. I eyeballed everything because I didn't feel like measuring:

cornmeal, big ol bag of frozen corn, beef tallow (instead of the normal melted butter), cane sugar, salt, a little bit of baking powder and 4 eggs. 

It filled a 9X13 rectangle pan about halfway when spread out and about the same when cooked. 

Please put sauce on the trumpet(s)

Another week, another pot of sauce to get me through till Thursday. This one has short ribs, ground beef (someone else at the butcher got my ground pork, oh well) and sausage.

Herbs: Thyme, basil, oregano, bay leaf

Other stuff: onion, garlic, most of a bottle of wine, 2 cans of crushed tomatoes, some honey + molasses, beef tallow.

Cook till the short ribs fall apart. 

Trumpet pasta by Sfoglini.

Clatter, crash, clack, crunchy rice cakes

These took a while to make: Mostly because it's humid and drying out brown rice takes 3 days + a brief stint in the oven, vs the one day out in the sun that I'd like to have done.  Crunchy, chewy (some weren't quite dry), salty and ok for a brown rice version of my second favorite crunchy snack from the Chinese food takeouts of my childhood (shrimp chips ftw!)

i am not a pretty brunch

...but I did taste damn good. This was leftover garlic shiso rice and fried chicken from En with an egg and bacon for an added protein kick. Picture is fuzzy, but I ate it already so no take backs.

neckbones and kale didn't miss her

I like em real smoked and meaty... This is comfort food from my childhood, and it's just what I needed this week. 

Ok, OK It's been 3 years.  Ya girl is back, maybe. It's been a trip and a half. Catch you later when I have more time.