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Monday, April 4, 2011: Cornbread Supper with a tornado watch


Your documentarian forgot to shoot photos until all the people were gone and all the food cleared away, but the flowers, from the Campsie garden, remained fresh and crisp.

On a dark, stormy night, with a tornado watch in effect, and with lots of families on spring break, intrepid Cornbreadians kept right on going, bringing food and drink, eating and drinking and talking, and playing with the two children who graced our meal this week.
  • Irish Stew (lamb)
  • Egg Salad
  • Salad: Greens, Mango, Feta, Cashews; Dressing: Lemon Juice, Olive Oil
  • Rosemary Bread
  • Pine Mountain Settlement School Whole Wheat Bread
  • Almost Traditional vegetarian black skilled cornbread
  • Almost Traditional black skillet cornbread with pork drippings
  • Swiss Chard Crisps
  • Homemad butter (non-pasteurized milk)
  • Oatmeal raisin/sugar cookies
  • Banana Bread
  • Bourbon Pie
  • Lemon Almond Cornmeal Pound Cake/Upside Down Blueberries (nuts, gluten)
  • Whipped Sour/Sweet Cream; contain unpasteurized dairy

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