Thursday, December 31, 2020

CHALLENGE: 2020 December fitness Happy New Year


 Read this carefully.  I earned this award by moving 178.4 miles in the month of December.  This translates to over 5.75 miles per day....14,400 steps EVERY SINGLE DAY in the 31 days in this month.  It  reflects this whole darn year of 2020, doesn't it?  Some days are easy with no reminders of the big picture and some (like Monday---rained hard all day long--) days I was reminded of every challenge.  I am proud of reaching this goal.  Congratulations to you too for meeting all of the challenges of 2020 and I hope that 2021 will be a good one for us all.   Now go out and move a little!

Edit note:  At the end of this day I added a couple more miles making the total 180 miles exactly!

Thursday, December 10, 2020

The BEST CORNBREAD ever

 Who doesn't love a good piece of cornbread?    I have tried a lot of recipes.....some simple.....some loaded with cheese, jalapeño chilis, creamed corn.....but I just love this one.  King Alfred Baking Company, formerly King Alfred Flour has a plethora of great baking recipes but I do go back to this one 



Try it with Brad's quince jam:
Try it with a bowl full of vegan chili

Or just try it warm with butter....have you tried Goat milk butter?  It's about $5/pound but so worth it

Mis en place
I use buttermilk in place of regular milk when I have it



  • Wet Ingredients:
  • 1 1/4 cups (283g) lukewarm milk I use buttermilk whenever I have it
  • 4 tablespoons (57g) unsalted butter, melted, cooled
  • 1/4 cup (50g) vegetable oil
  • 1 large egg


Method:
  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly grease a 9" square or round pan (a cast-iron skillet will work fine, too), shallow 1 1/2 quart casserole dish, or 12 muffin cups.

  2. Weigh your flour and cornmeal; or measure each by gently spooning into a cup, then sweeping off any excess. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

  3. In another bowl or large measuring cup, whisk together the milk, melted butter, vegetable oil, and egg.

  4. Pour the liquid all at once into the flour mixture, stirring quickly and gently until just combined. Don't over mix: stir the batter just enough to bring it together and evenly moisten the ingredients.

  1. Spread the batter into the prepared pan, or scoop into the muffin tin. I love these silicone muffin cups

  2. Bake the bread for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges just begin to pull away from the pan and a cake tester or paring knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

  3. Remove the bread from the oven and cool it on a rack for 5 minutes before cutting; serve warm.

  4. If you have any leftovers and they go stale try making them into croutons.........really you almost wish there were some stale ones.

This is what they look like after 20 minutes in the muffin cups in a convection oven:



  

Bon Appetit, y'all