Joanna Gaines Jalapeño Cornbread
(Taken from Magnolia Table Cookbook, Page 262)
You will need the following ingredients:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled; plus, softened butter for the skillet and for serving
1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
1 cup fine stone-ground yellow cornmeal
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 cup heavy cream
2 large eggs
1 cup drained canned white corn
1/4 cup chopped drained jalapeños (optional)
1/4 cup chopped drained roasted pimientos (optional)
1. Position a rack in the top third of the oven and preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Butter a 10-inch cast-iron skillet.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, salt and garlic powder.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the melted butter, cream and eggs.
4. Add the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture along with the corn and the jalapeños (if using) and pimientos (if using). Stir until moistened, but not overmixed; batter will be thick.
5. Scrape the batter into the prepared skillet and smooth the top. Bake until the top is lightly browned, the edges are browned and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
6. Slice the warm cornbread into 6 wedges and serve at once with pats of butter.
NOTE FROM ENCHANTING BELINDA - After 25 minutes, I always lay a loose piece of aluminum foil on top of a cake, pie or bread to keep it from browning too much.
Nana B Stuff
Coloring Nana's Way
When more than one Grand-Tot is coming over, I sometimes put the Marker/Crayon Caddy in the middle of the kitchen floor. I then tape (all four corners) color sheets all over the floor. The Grand-Tot(s) can color one or more. They can go from one pic back to another.
Instead of being a two- or three-minute activity, the placement and variety makes it last much longer. Sometimes five to seven minutes!
Also, no one has to share a coloring book, and the pages are ready to take home for their refrigerators when they leave.
NOTE FROM ENCHANTING BELINDA - I always Google Free Printable ________ Coloring Sheets, and print them one by one. Fill in the blank with words like "fall," "camping," "food," "animal," etc. Any theme you want.
I am able to sit in the middle of the kitchen floor and keep everything going smoothly.
Once you color on a sheet, no one else is allowed to color on that particular piece of paper.
Also, if I see one Judith would like, I will put a purple star in the corner. If it is something RT would love, he gets a red star. If they see their star, they know that is THEIR color sheet.
One more thing...
I have two of every color in the big crayons. Even when there are three or four coloring, having extra big crayons makes sharing much easier, and the wait for the crayon much shorter.
Judith is going to be Minnie Mouse this Halloween, so this sheet is for her.
RANDOMNESS #1 - Picking Out Aunt Ro's Pumpkins - It just so happens, RT has been around every time any of us needed a pumpkin or two or three.
When he heard Aunt Ro needed a couple more for her front porch, he offered his services.
Once again, wagon-pullin' was his favorite activity.
I keep a bunch of Dollar Tree pumpkin decorating kits on hand. Sometimes you can get a packet that will decorate three or four pumpkins with stickers, and out of one of those packages, RT picked the Pirate Pumpkin.
It now sits on my front porch steps, along with Judith's cat pumpkin. (That pic will be in next week's post.)
I told you last week about RT's VERY blurry pics coming down the hill in the car.
Aunt Ro and I re-enacted it a few times so you could see his face this time.
RANDOMNESS #2 - Hangin' with Eden - We also got to spend some one-on-one time with Eden.
She's a good anchor when you're doing crunches.
NOTE FROM ENCHANTING BELINDA - I should say, "when Aunt Ro is doing crunches."
Nana is a crunch-free zone.
RANDOMNESS #3 - Cullman's 4-D Family Farms - This was my first time to visit 4-D Family Farms, and we all had a lot of fun. Austin and RT spontaneously joined us, so except for Melia and Roxie (both out-of-town), we were mostly all together.
Mostly, but not quite.
I've decided I'm going to ask Mikie for a giant blob for the backyard as my Christmas gift this year.
It's one of those things I think would be low maintenance...
And fun for just about everyone.
Nana may be a "crunch-free" zone...
But I have a feeling I would be VERY blob-friendly.
Precious...
And even more precious.
This is a Cookies-n-Cream Funnel Cake topped with a ton of whipped cream.
I have no other words.
The giant slides were another favorite...
For no other reason than you never knew what direction someone would be shooting out at the bottom.
Nothing says FARM FUN more than bouncing on Hippity Hop Balls in the hay.
Fun fact for you...
Cowboys and farmers used to do it ALL the time after a long, hard day of herding cattle or working the crops.
At least, that's what I've always heard.
I hope you and yours have a wonderful weekend. I'll be back in a few days with more Fall-type stuff, pics of Grand-Tots and a little of this and a little of that.
Sincerely,
The Enchanting Belinda
"Do you ever just like flex your foot and it cramps, and you're just like this is it. This is how it ends."
"If I was Snow White you would never be able to kill me with an apple. You would have to poison an éclair or something."
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