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We are in for a solid run of global warming winter, with sub-zero daytime highs, and a night temp on Wednesday to come of about -25. Looking at 6-8� of snow, Sunday evening into Monday morning. Stiff winds out of the Northwest will make for unpleasant outdoor conditions next week.

Good heavens. What to do?

Chilli, of course:




Hamburger, ground pork, chuck steak, poblanos, Anaheim�s, bell peppers, oregano, masa heraina, and some other stuff. It is not overly hot tasting, white guy chilli, I guess.



Johnny cake (cornbread) in cast iron, the only way Johnny cake should be attempted. I prefer it over charcoal, but, that wasn�t in the cards this evening:



I have a honey/butter concoction that goes on the Johnny cake. The beer is a Brazilian import, sort of a wheaty pale that would offend no one. It was good with dinner.



Hope you guys are warm, and eating well.

Best,
Ted

Funny, we are having the same weather, same dinner.

Good looking supper ........... bad sounding weather.

SRH

I waited until just before dark to run the dog for a few miles, trying to beat the wind. -1 is not too bad, if there is no wind.

It worked. The wind died down to nothing at dark. Good run, no birds to be seen, although I did see their tracks in the snow.

The wife and I have conspired to keep chilli, pasoli, stew, and a variety of bread on the dinner menu this week.

Gas in the snow blower, the garage furnace keeps the shop at 40 degrees (vehicles that start and run are a good thing) we are ready.

Best,
Ted

Ted;
Don't in any way take this wrong, A mighty fine looking supper, except I would just go with a cup of water, or coffee since you aren't making it very Hot.
However, that cornbread is not JohnnyCake, it's way too thick for that.

Here is a description I found for JohnnyCake;
"Johnnycake is a cornmeal flatbread. An early American staple food, it is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaica. The food originates from the native inhabitants of North America. Wikipedia
Place of origin: United States of America
Alternative names: Jonnycake, shawnee cake, hoecake, johnny cake, journey cake, and johnny bread
Main ingredient: Cornmeal."

Notice the term "FlatBread". One, of course, does not have to be on the coast to enjoy it, I've been eating JohnnyCakes for about 80 years now, likely didn't eat any my first year of life. Here in TN though, we always called them Hoe Cakes, either way, they were less than half as thick as the bread in your picture. Folk-Lore has it in slave days they would take some cornmeal & a jar of Sorghum to the field with them. Come lunchtime they would build a fire in the corner of the field & heat their hoe over it to fry their Hoe Cakes, which they then smeared with the Sorghum. For that meal, I'd even be willing, old as I am, to chop some weeds out of a Cotton Field.

As I write this, -25F with -36F wind chill.
Um.... good to be inside.
Did a little in the shop, also at 40F

Miller,
The recipe for the bread came from the next door neighbor to my parents, when I was a boy. He was a member of the White Earth band of Indians, lived on the reservation most of his life, and moved back late in life. That is what he called it. I was born on the East coast, and moved here as a child.
I don�t doubt there is flat cornbread called Johnnycake. I also know this guy, were he still alive, would call what I made the same thing. Unless you tried to make it in a pan that wasn�t cast iron, in which case he would have called it shit.
No coffee after 2:00pm or so for me, it makes me fidget in bed. Beer is water. I drink at least one per day.

Today, I will have two.

Best,
Ted

Can you imagine how cold it would be if we didn't have some of that "global warming"?

70 and sunny here today. Dinner in the oven now, roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary, oryx burgers with shallots and melted cheddar, bottle of cheap Shiraz. Takes the chill off. Winter is just brutal.

Where is "here", Replacement?