very brief asides

[anotheranon]

• It's a lot easier to relax in the moment when you're not wasting valuable brain cycles trying to remember all the moments that are coming up.
  
  
• Facebook shrinks the world, exponentially.
  
  
• Okra should be deep fried, not boiled (via geekchick, who sides with me on the contentious issue of sugar's place in cornbread :P).
  
  

Comments

[ex-idragosa.livejournal.com]

Fried okra is the YUM!

Okra

[timcharmorbien.livejournal.com]

My mother used to boil the okra! Nothing turns off the appetite like a big bowl of steaming, slimy okra! Okra must be fried! I agree, sugar has no place in cornbread! I was an adult before I tasted such cornbread and thought it should have been dessert.

Re: Okra

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I think you nailed it re: sugared/"Yankee" cornbread. It's not bad as such, it's just so sweet that it doesn't seem to go with dinner. Yeah, it's dessert-y with sugar in!

And I'm still trying to figure out why boil ocra? I can't but imagine it would be tasteless goo (??)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

***teeny tiny voice of someone who still has half a loaf in her kitchen*** You'll forgive me my pumpkin cornbread, won't you?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I have never even HEARD of such an animal as pumpkin cornbread before. I can only suspect it is some bizarre north-of-the-border variation. As I say above - not being Southern doesn't mean it's bad, it just means it's not southern cornbread :P

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of pumpkin cornbread either, until I purchased a grains cookbook published in San Francisco (so definitely not north-of-the-border) ... that's the only place I've ever seen that combination. 'tis yummy though. :-)

P.S. The cornbread of my childhood was a non-sweet variety, traditionally served as an accompaniment to sausage or sausage-based dishes, so was presumably as close to southern-style as any Canuck version can be. ;p