Cornbread Supper

We had a small group on this chilly night, a bowl of petite Lady Apples -- oldest known heirloom apple variety -- that were gifts from Reed Valley Orchard , where they grow the apples but do not have enough of them to sell. Apples almost seemed to be a theme for this Supper, showing up in a couple of savory dishes and gracing one of the surprisingly large array of desserts. Interesting, and delicious. We had: Mac & Cheese, Gruyere, White Cheddar Split Peas: Salt, cayenne, Marmite, diced onion (raw), sour cream, half & half Sausage and Cabbage Chleb - Czech Peasant Bread Fresh Lady Apples, a gift from Reed Valley Orchard . World's oldest known apple Kentucky Black Skillet/Hot Water Cornbread; vegetarian; no gluten Apple Noodle Kugel Apple-Cornmeal Cheddar Tarte Tatin ; vegetarian; contains gluten Real, Fresh Whipped Cream Mocha Butter Balls Chocolate-White Chocolate Cake

Sadly, we have no pictures of this meltaway deliciousness, but Beth Ellen Rosenbaum brought an incredible rice pudding to Cornbread Supper on May 10, 2009. She shared this epicurious.com recipe: Rice Pudding "Gonzo ." The header to this Gourmet Magazine recipe, republished on Epicurious in January, 2002, says that this recipe takes it name from firefighter Steve "Gonzo" Gonzalez, of Company 18 of the FDNY, which suffered a great loss of life at the World Trade Center. Recipes connect us all.

On June 1, Beth Ellen Rosenbaum brought the beautiful, delicious noodle salad in the turquoise dish on the right to Cornbread Supper. Your documentarian barely got a shot of it. Beth Ellen shared the link to the recipe, from 101 Cookbooks: Lazy Day Peanut Noodle Salad Thank you, Beth Ellen!

Cornbread Supperian Michael Kennedy often provides this popular bread, and now has shared the recipe. Thank you, Michael! Recipe (revised) -- courtesy of Richard Henry Makes four loaves of three+ pounds each. (Adjust volume as you wish.) In a metal or glass (not plastic) measuring cup put 1 teaspoon sugar and two packets (4 tablespoons) active dry yeast. Fill cup half full of warm (not hot) water. Let yeast rise to the top of the cup. While this is occurring: In a very, very large bowl (this stuff rises a lot) mix the following: 8 cups white bread flour 8 cups whole wheat flour 3/4 teaspoon salt Prepare four cups liquid, including the cup of yeast water, a cup of honey (optional), and the rest water. (If you use honey stir it in thoroughly with the rest of the liquid.) Pour liquid into mixture and stir it up. Add 5 to 7 more cups of water, stirring it in as needed. Mixture should be between glutinous and gloppy in consistency. (Not like regular bread dough -- more

The weather outside was spectacular for MLK Day and MLK Day of Service in Lexington on January 18, 2010. And the food and warmth inside - spectacular as well. Multiple lovely bottles of wine appeared, along with these foods, as described by their providers on small white slips of paper, left behind for your documentarian's enjoyment, and yours: Bulgur Wheat with Carrots, Raisins & Almonds Bengali Curry Chicken Bengali Lentils Roasted Veggies. Some more local than others. Vegan. Snipped Sage, Local Mozzarella, Organic Tomatoes, EVOO! Posolé: Black Beans, Pork, Onions, Garlic Hominy, Tomatoes, Jalapeños, Green Pepper, Chilis Chicken Soup w/Rice Hot Skillet Cornbread/Hot Water, Not Sweet, Not w/Gluten, Vegetarian Hot Black Skillet Cornbread w/Add-ins: Parmesan, Black Peppercorn, 4th & Elm Fresh Thyme. Vegetarian Rona's Sister Paula's Mexican Cornbread w/Chipotles, Beef, Cheese. No gluten, Not vegetarian. And I spied with my eagle eye some foods without paper descriptio

I'll confess straight out and first thing: Cornbread Supper documentation has slipped these past weeks. It wasn't just the holidays - they were holidays! They were fine! It was that your documentarian missed these events, courtesy of an Uninvited Guest that stole her voice and left a sore throat as a poor replacement. So what does a documentarian do when the documenting an event that she could not attend? She relies, dear readers, on little slips of paper, tiny documents after all, that CSupperians -- some of them, anyway, the dutiful ones -- place near the dishes they bring to the supper. If the vocally-challenged documentarian is paying good attention, she posts the lists of luscious dishes each week. Your documentarian , on the other hand, didn't pay quite enough attention. She piled all the slips of paper together, and then dropped them, and, having failed to require even the dutiful-est food providers to date their Food Description Slips, she lists them all at once