– Beth Moore’s latest Bible study, Esther: It’s Tough Being a Woman, is hot off the presses, and there’s a giveaway for a free Esther DVD leader kit over at LifeWay Women All Access, oh yes there is.
– We’re Newsweek subscribers at our house, and their “Secrets of the 2008 Campaign” special election coverage has ensured that I’ve been up late reading every single night this week. It’s seven chapters long, and the behind-the-scenes perspective of both candidates’ campaigns is completely riveting. Two thumbs up (and a snap in a circle) from me.
– Several of y’all commented or emailed about where to buy the White Lily White Cornmeal Mix. Well, you have options. You can check out the White Lily website to see if any stores in your area carry it. Or you can order it online. And if you go buy yourself a new cast iron skillet, here’s how to season it.
Now doesn’t that just bless your heart?
your recipe just about exactly matches my Grandmama’s cornbread recipe. It is SOOO good!
and that seasoned skillet?
Nothing in the kitchen makes me more proud to own. It was Grandmama’s and I’m so proud to have it. Good memories.
(don’t you wish sometimes an old skillet could talk?)
Don’t you just love southern food? I had cornbread last night. After I have my first piece, I like to cut the crust off and eat it until I am ashamed and then I quit.
I love it with pinto beans and chow chow.
I inherited my grandmothers cast iron skillet. ‘Nuf said. Also, I read in the B’ham news that White Lily was closing a plant or something – but I’m glad to see you can still get it online. I’m sad to see it go off the grocery shelves. So far its hanging on though!
Reckon how that recipe would do with buttermilk instead of sweet milk?
Can I just say that I’ve enjoyed having the Linky Awesomeness on the front page? Now I don’t miss it.
Thanks for the skillet seasoning link! I have my grandma’s cast iron skillet (what a wonderful gift!), and recently purchased a different sized skillet and have been wondering how to get is seasoned.
Thanks for the heads-up on Esther!! I ran over there immediately – but then returned to you!
Two thoughts on cornbread:
1) For those of you new to iron skillets – don’t forget it’s an iron skillet and grab the handle without an oven glove or some type of protection! I’m not saying I’ve ever done that – I just want this lesson to be learned on the blog and not in real life.
2) If you have a cornbread recipe using buttermilk – buttermilk is often too salty. You can substitute with plain yogurt thinned to your preferred consistency with regular milk or sweet millk as my grandmother used to say.
Anna
Your always thinking of your interpeeps. A snap in a circle to you, my friend.
Oh, you snap in a circle? Awesome. And I send you a “Z” snap back.
Your conrbread recipe is the same as mine – including and especially the hot oil. That’s the secret. And the corn meal MIX is soooo much easier.
And if I win the Esther DVDs, I just might cry. Just lettin you know ahead of time.
The Newsweek article sounds great. I always get a copy when I fly so I can make up for frying my brain with People.
White Lily…oh yes and their flour too is great.
Just a thought on cast iron skillet…this would bother some people I know, but having said that….my mother bought my brother a seasoned cast iron skillet at a yard sale. (He had asked for my grandmother’s but that didn’t come too pass…so that’s what she did. She truly did.)
He washed it of course, and had a perfect old old well-seasoned skillet for basically nothing. And when I say washed it, I mean hand-washed, not dishwasher, and immediately and thoroughly dried.
(I wash my cast iron cornbread skillet…and you’re right – you have to have cast iron – really really quickly –swish, swish, no soaking, etc. , dry it, and then I place it in the oven on a low temp just to make sure all the moisture is gone.)
I’m another one with grandmother’s skillet and an affinity for White Lily. And yes, the hot oil is the KEY.
Thanks for the heads-up on the Esther give-away. I went and entered.
I.can.not.wait to do this Bible study. we are not starting it until January, but I am going to go ahead and get my book NOW and start studying. I lead a small group in our study so i wanna be ready!!!
Girl, you are so awesome I think you are reading minds now! I read your cornbread recipe, then clicked on the link to the Blackeyed peas and thought I have got to make this next week, but I don’t have an iron skillet and even if I went and bought one, I think your supposed to season them….and I have no idea how to do that?? Then, lo and behold….you even tell us how to do that! Thanks!
I hope you don’t think next you will be telling some of us how to stir! :)
Been on a crazy business trip and am just now getting around to MY usual daily linky interwebby awesomeness (you and the other blogs I follow) – but I had to say that I also discovered the Newsweek series. facinating.
Cheers!