Coffee

[Zeedman]

As I have mentioned, back when I was a kid, I'd melt American cheese into mine (which was unsweetened oatmeal) as did my mother when she was a kid. So to me, the idea of sweet oatmeal actually sounds disgusting (probably as disgusting as non-sweet oatmeal sounds to most other people.)

Hmmm... that melted cheese trick might be good with cornmeal, or the multi-grain/seed hot cereal I sometimes make. If butter goes great with grits, why not cheese?

 

[flowerbug]

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And I am happy to have found a collaborator this year close to me (also in SSE) who might be able to help maintain parts of my collection.

thanks to @meadow for point this out (somehow i missed this post by you) and i'm really glad to hear this happening.

i think all longer term seed savers after a while get rather anxious that all their efforts are going to get lost because you may never hear back from people you've given samples or seeds to for knowing if a variety has been successfully adopted and propagated or not.

 

[meadow]

Oatmeal with coffee this morning. Wish I could figure out how to enjoy it without so much brown sugar!

Try a little maple syrup.

Or both at once!

It's funny though @ducks4you how quickly we lose the taste for sweets if we ever stop eating them (completely) for a week or two. Same with salt. The hard part is complete elimination because they are in so many prepared foods and most people don't read labels.

 

[flowerbug]

Hmmm... I that melted cheese trick might be good with cornmeal, or the multi-grain/seed hot cereal I sometimes make. If butter goes great with grits, why not cheese?

i've put cheese in cornbread for eons (along with other things too like hot pepper chunks or green pepper and onions and ...).

 

[meadow]

I've only had grits once in my life and it had cheese in it.

 

[flowerbug]

Are corn muffins the same as cornbread but made in a muffin tin?

not really for us because Mom adds flour, but maybe for others.

 

[flowerbug]

i like all sorts of cheeses so asking me if any one is good in something my answer is likely "All of them are good!" even the stinky sock smelling ones are delicious.

 

[meadow]

not really for us because Mom adds flour, but maybe for others.

Cornbread is made differently in different regions. My mother's family makes it with both flour and cornmeal. No sweetening. Some people add sugar. Some people use cornflour and it is more cake-like.

 

[flowerbug]

Cornbread is made differently in different regions. My mother's family makes it with both flour and cornmeal. No sweetening. Some people add sugar. Some people use cornflour and it is more cake-like.

right. i was allowing for all of that. just that i know Mom would turn her nose up at a simple corn meal based chunk of corn bread or a corn muffin made only with corn meal. i'd eat them all. i'm not a picky eater at all... (i'm getting to be more picky as i get older but that is because i can be, if i had to be i could revert to non-picky because i do remember what it was like growing up when food wasn't always easy or available. you ate what was put in front of you and you learned how to get more if you could other ways).

 

[canesisters]

It took me nearly 20years but I think I've finally become a morning person. Having a backyard cow has been the main influence, I think.
I used to be grumpy when I had to get up WELL before dawn... well, truthfully it was more like angry.
But I've seen SOOO many amazing, stop-you-in-your-tracks, singing praises Sunrises.
And I've learned that there is a marked difference between the quiet of the home before dawn and the quiet late at night. Mornings have a beauty to them that is missing from the same home surrounded by the same dark late at night.
And, of course, there's COFFEE in the mornings!