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I never tire of tripping down to the dock to dip my toes in the water as the fiery evening light adorns the soft waves at sunset, the Blue Mountains in the background and the lush Summer foliage rendered to a perfect silhouette. A backyard to die for indeed!
I bought some tasty Cornbread at the Davidson Farmer’s Market on the weekend made by Chef Charles, but thought that it lacked a little ‘something’ and decided to have a go at making some myself. After peering through a number of cornbread recipes I took a little of this, and some of that and came up with my own recipe which you are welcome to try. 2 cups of (Self Raising) Yellow Corn Meal Mix Salt, Pepper and other herbs for seaoning and taste ~ Preheat your oven to 400F. Grease a couple of small loaf pans. ~ Finely chop the Peppers and Sun Dried Tomatoes and place them in a mixing bowl. Add the cup of grated cheese and toss till well mixed. Add the finely diced cooked bacon. Dice further if necessary, it needs to be really fine. ~ Add the two cups of Cornmeal Mix to the bowl and blend well with the cheese, peppers, tomatoes and bacon. ~ Beat your egg in a separate bowl. Add the buttermilk and whisk a bit more. Add the melted butter and whisk again. ~ Fold the liquid into the dry ingredient until combined well. Do not over work the mixture. ~ Spoon the mixture into your loaf pans until they are barely full. (The mixture rises somewhat but not lots!) Sprinkle a little of the extra cheese on top. ~ Bake in your pre-heated oven for 20 – 25 mins or until you do the “poke” test with a skewer and it comes out clean. ~ Allow to cool on a wire rack. Slice and serve by itself or if you are not counting calories, with a nice slather of “good” butter!!! NOTE: I’m pretty sure this recipe would work well as a sweet Cornbread too, if you exchange the peppers, tomatoes, bacon and cheese with fruit …… say blueberries and add a couple of tablespoons of honey. These little loaves turned out beautifully and will become a frequent visitor to our table for sure!! Oh how I love cornbread! My mom makes the best too…the real southern way, ha! Howdy. This looks really yum. I like cornbread with spice but not with heat! don’t know how this would work for me, but I love the taste of jalapeno. Had a family cancer, a family death, and before that trips so things have been wonk. It’s good to see what you’ve been doing. I’ll be catching up and try not to comment every. single. time.
Taking off from some of my Award Winning Black and White images, I will be hosting a Fine Art, Black and White Creative Photography workshop here in Charlotte, NC on the 2nd and 3rd of November, 2013. The workshop will cover two daytime photo walks to collect images, (with the option of a night time adventure if you are up for it!) plus two 4 hr sessions of Photoshop post processing where we will cover a number of techniques to turn your so so color images into AMAZING Black and Whites and also look at some techniques for Creating Fantastic Composites. Charlotte has a wealth of delightful architecture and it’s uptown has fabulous possibilities for creating amazing photographic works with both people and structures and I will be sharing my pre and post photography tips and techniques for both. This Workshop will have limited availability for no more than 12 students, three places of which are already spoken for so if you are interested I suggest you email me asap to register interest. The Workshop cost will be $275 for the two days with the “free” option of the Photo Walk on the Friday night. The workshop will be added to my website and posted to various local Meetup Groups in the coming days so if you are keen and interested, I suggest you let me know as soon as you can! I’d love to have you join me on this fun and interesting voyage. Great stuff, I’m excited. K A I would like to register 🙂 This sounds awesome, Marie! So looking forward to it! Looking forward to having you both there! Wish I lived closer. You’ve been busy! Just trying to catch up. Oh how I wish I lived closer! Awesome b&w captures!
Cruising Uptown Charlotte, visiting the Mint Museum and various other good spots today. Scoping out eye candy for a workshop that I want to run in October (details to be posted soon!)
With a focus on Black and White photography …. and creative image processing.
great pictures. I look forward to details about the class.
I just learned today that this image, “Wave Watcher” gained the Gold Medal award in Creative Section at the South Devon International Photographic Salon for 2013. Pretty chuffed as I had not danced it out for public inspection before now.
I also gained an award for ” Fractured Thought”, which seems to have been a consistent winner in the comp circuit. A nice start to the weekend indeed! Well deserved congratulations! Fantastic! Congrats, I can certainly see why they were chosen! |
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gotham girl - This is so awesome!!
Karen Burns - Save a sunset for November 🙂
~K
Joanne Thieme Huffman - Lovely.