An orange in an apple orchard
The best part of food like this, is that it tastes twice as better the next day. You can also smother it in cheese, at which point it is not so healthy, I suppose.
Willow would really like it if she could have all the cheese, and some of the plate too.
Probably a good thing that around here, dog treats typically follow dinner.
Having a bunch of elbow macaroni leftover, I’ve been thinking that I ought to make some beans and macaroni. It occurred to me that my heritage includes some other tasty things that go with beans, thus I arrived at beans, macaroni, spinach, and lima beans.
In my own cooking, I’ve not really done much involving spinach. But I remember well that my mother could make delicious meals around spinach, the key was cooking and seasoning. Fortunately my ancestry includes eating well even at affordable prices 😃
When I cook, typically I keep in mind the expense, and the servings in mind. But for cornbread, I find that rather difficult to estimate, aside from low cost.
Most of the ingredients in my cornbread recipe aren’t things That I use often. Cornmeal and flour are cheap, and I don’t really bake that much. Stuff like a box of baking soda, pretty much lasts forever. The only transient ingredients are the milk, and buttermilk. Not caring much for the taste of supermarket buttermilk, it’s only real use around here are things like cornbread and biscuits.
By contrast: figuring out the servings from a pone of cornbread is straight forward, and only thwarded by my habit of snacking on the stuff incessantly between meals.
My delicious plan for chili and cornbread has been realized, and I have enough cornbread to enjoy for a while 😆.
Willow’s response was not as intense as when they got their own meat and gravy based treats, but she still wanted my plate.
Actually, it’s kind of sad that the camera missed the tongue licking the edge of the plate, lol.
Somehow I find it just a bit sad there’s no dab of ricotta in the center of this, lol
I usually aim to put the meatballs to one side, and after placing the garlic bread, I kind of went “Hmm”, and then went to go eat, lol.
While my reason for going shopping tonight was driven by needing denture tickets, I think buying some lettuce, priced to move mushrooms, and dinner onions, was a good plan.
Leftover pintos, and croutons that have been in need of a salad, also round the salad. I’ve also been slobbered by two of three dogs, after giving them their snacks for the night.
Things I find oddly amusing: thought I’d give defrosting the fish in the bag a go, ‘cuz why not?
Since my mother learned the recipe in high school, my family has enjoyed the potato chip based tuna casserole. Left to my own devices, I sill make it pretty often.
Coincidentally, Willow really likes fish. Not so much that humans get dibs on the people food.
Psuedo-Random passing thoughts from mixing cornbread batter:
When you’ve got the cornmeal, flour, eggs, etc right there; or as close as a supermarket, making cornbread is really low effort. Like really, the biggest effort is to get the stuff out and ready before you start mixing. It also helps if you remember to start preheating the oven and the skillet before getting all the stuff ready.
Now if you had to grind your own corn, churn your own butter, or deal with your own chickens, and so on: maybe not so much.
The closest most people in the first world will likely ever experience to that is playing games like Minecraft.
Hmm, I wonder what our ancestors who lived off farms and mills, would think of Minecraft. Would they think it absurd given how much of that hunter-gathering-building their society was, or be equally addicted as us squishy happy go lucky descendants from the age of the supermarket be?
Yeah, I’m not inventing a time machine to find out.
For the human: rice, curry sauce, onions, peppers, beans, and mushrooms. Plus a little chicken.
Plus plenty of leftovers ftw!
And for the hungry minions: a beef and chicken patte topper added to their food.