Cornbread Supper

Bitter outside, packed and sweet inside: that was January 10, 2011. One of the largest suppers ever filled 250 Campsie with standing diners, and sent seated ones most of the way up the front hall steps. Fun! Some of what we enjoyed, from the food description slips left behind:  Chili Meat + Cashews Reed Valley Applesauce canned with love Chicken Veggie Soup Potato Salad Guac: cilantro, onion, tom, lil heat Spicy Rice: Veggie friendly Liver Paté Rice and Jerk Chicken Pimiento Cheese  Apples, Cinnamon, Butter, Maple Syrup Mushroom Bean Deer Sausage Chili Broccoli Cauliflower Peanut Salad SPICY Pumpkin Enchilada Casserole with Green Chili Cilantro Salsa; vegetarian, gluten-free Bacon-Cheddar Cornbread Pudding. no gluten Black Bean Brownies On January 17, after a wonderful MLK Day -- one of Lexington's best days each year -- about 35 people gathered, many of them people who cannot come regularly on Monday nights because of classes or other activities that were not held

The reddest of red soups. The greenest of green salads. The sweetest of sweets on the dessert table. And underlying everything, plenty of cornbread. That's how Cornbread Suppers went during the 2010 year-end holidays. Smaller crowds in late December, followed by a whopper supper to launch the brand new baby year, 2011. For December 20, we had these left-behind food description slips: Baked Artichoke Dip; contains dairy Roasted Potato; herbs, some heat Hummus Baba ghanouj Local turnips, sweet potatoes, onion, garlic, carrot; Oliva Bella oil; Exotic rosemary, salt, pepper Chicken pot pie Turnip greens + onions + peppers Kentucky traditional black skillet cornbread Linda Blackford's Green Tomato Pickle from the London Ferrell Garden, and from her great-grandmother's recipe Snappy vegetables Meyer Lemon/Almond Brittle David Lebovitz's Chocolate Crack Cookies (almondy goodness) Homemade chocolate and peanut marshmallow fudge Banana nut cookies; ginger