Baymule’s 2021 Garden

[baymule]

I made cornmeal today with corn I had from last year. 9 cups of corn yielded 14 cups of cornmeal. So the ratio is 1.5555 cups cornmeal to 1 cup of corn. LOL

I made cornbread for supper, baked chicken, pinto beans and carrot salad. Tomorrow I’ll make dressing from the leftover cornbread.

Funny story on myself. I was maybe 20, when I hosted Thanksgiving dinner. I used an old cookbook that called for STALE cornbread for the dressing. I hit the panic button. I didn’t HAVE any stale cornbread. So I baked a couple batches of cornbread, crumbled them up and put it in a low oven to make it “stale”. Yeah, I was a dummy.

Cornbread.

 

[flowerbug]

breakfast! wish i were there...

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

That cornbread looks amazing!

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

All I can say about that corn is wow-oh-wow-oh-wow! What a beautiful and abundant harvest! Those colours! How do you grind the corn down? I've always wanted to make my own cornmeal, I love it. I use a lot of masa harina type corn flour too for homemade soft tortillas. I imagine you need a special tool or equipment only available in Texas & other popular corn growing areas?

I use my blentec blender to grind our painted mountain coen and it does a great job. I am a little jelly of @baymule grain mill tho

 

[baymule]

I used my leftover cornbread to make chicken and dressing. We had one meal from it, will have a couple more. Yummy.

Just turned off the pressure canner, got 4 pints of green beans. That makes a total of 30, my goal is 60, hope I make it before heat and grasshoppers do in the vines.

 

[flowerbug]

I made cornmeal today with corn I had from last year. 9 cups of corn yielded 14 cups of cornmeal. So the ratio is 1.5555 cups cornmeal to 1 cup of corn. LOL

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I made cornbread for supper, baked chicken, pinto beans and carrot salad. Tomorrow I’ll make dressing from the leftover cornbread.

@digitS' ^^^ carrot salad. lol someone was reading someone else's mind here...

@baymule love the cornmeal and grinding. do you have ear plugs or is it fairly quiet?

 

[digitS']

Carrot Salad !!?

 

[heirloomgal]

That cornbread looks absolutely delicious. I've only ever made my cornbread with store bought meal, I can't imagine how much more wonderful the taste is with homegrown, home milled cornmeal. Lucky!!

 

[baymule]

The mill is not loud. Reviews on some mills said they were terribly noisy.

 

[Finnie]

Funny story on myself. I was maybe 20, when I hosted Thanksgiving dinner. I used an old cookbook that called for STALE cornbread for the dressing. I hit the panic button. I didn’t HAVE any stale cornbread. So I baked a couple batches of cornbread, crumbled them up and put it in a low oven to make it “stale”. Yeah, I was a dummy.

That’s not so dumb! If you want to start out with dry bread so it will stand up to the process of making dressing, drying it in the oven is a good idea.

Growing up, my parents always used broken up pieces of dried white bread for Thanksgiving stuffing. They set the bread out on cookie trays a couple of nights ahead of time, and then it was dry for us kids to break it up on Thanksgiving morning. This is how I have always done it as an adult, too. One time I forgot to set the bread out early enough, but I figured out on Thanksgiving morning, that I could bake it in the oven to make it hard enough for breaking.