Topic: How has your life changed?

[RAFster122s]

Here’s a tasty recipe called Corn Pone Pie, a southern dish...
If you are diabetic, then the sugar probably is not a good idea, or cut the amount in 1/2
If you can get ground beef, then here’s a recipe for you...

1 pound ground beef
1/3 to 1/2 cup chopped onion (I prefer red onion for this)
1 16 ounce can of either dark red or light red kidney beans drained and rinsed
1 can 16 ounce diced tomatoes
3-4 tablespoons of Chili Sauce
2 Tablespoons of sugar

In large skillet capable of handling the total volume, 12 inch deep skillet typically can deal with volume needed

Brown the ground beef and chopped onion and drain excess liquid and grease from the ground beef when it is about 80% cooked.
Add chili sauce and sugar and mix well and finish cooking and as it is finishing add the tomatoes and drained and rinsed kidney beans and simmer for about 15 minutes

Prepare a 9x13 casserole pan greasing the sides

Preheat oven to 400F

While beef, beans and tomatoes are simmering mix up a batch of cornbread to top the dish.
I usually will make it with 1/2 yellow cornmeal and 1/2 self rising flour...
A cup of each self rising flour and yellow cornmeal
2 eggs
1/3 cup Vegetable oil
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup milk

Pour beef, tomato, and bean mixture into casserole dish
Pour cornbread mixture on top spreading over the casserole

Bake for 20-25 minutes until cornbread is browned to your liking. (At least around the edges so it is cooked through)
Typically takes closer to 25 minutes but you don’t want to over brown the cornbread...thus the time guidance

Remove and dish out onto a plate or bowl and let it cool a few minutes.

Tastes great with a nice cold glass of milk

Variation on recipe is to add some jalapeños to the beef and tomatoes and or adding 1/2 - 2/3 can of sweet corn to the cornbread.

[Terry in Australia]

I must be hungry David, because that recipe is making my mouth water. I might have to copy and paste it into my favourites.

[Stev-o]

I must be hungry David, because that recipe is making my mouth water.

And drink milk with it? Yeah right!

[Terry in Australia]

I must be hungry David, because that recipe is making my mouth water.

And drink milk with it? Yeah right!

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I drank milk on purpose Steve.........

[bear]

*Note to Aussies trying RAF'S receipt.
Corn meal is usually sold as "polenta" here for some reason.

Cheers,
Brian

[RAFster122s]

Polenta is coarser here, it is finer than grits.  Then there is MASA corn flour which is used for making corn tortillas...

Yep, lots of variation. Corn Meal is larger grained...
Imagine it is as Bear states though...

Yeah, I still will drink milk and enjoy cornbread with milk. Little raw honey...

[Terry in Australia]

I'll have to check the pantry cupboard, but I'm sure I have either corn flour or corn meal that I bought awhile ago to make corn bread in my bread maker, and failed miserably. I'll have to give it another try, that particular recipe called for actual corn to be mixed with it, and sadly tasted like sh1t. I think this one will taste way better, but there won't be any milk drunk with it, unless I have it at breakfast time, in which case there'll be milk in my coffee.

[dave500]

corn?i got corn,its like little seeds,ya can boil em in oil and they sort of explode,then ya get a little sort of fluffy thing to eat,i tried boiling em in water,it took forever and nothing happened?

[ofreen]

[754]

Greg , is there way less traffic on the highways ?

[ofreen]

Oh, yeah the commute from work (I'm 'essential', smell me) in the afternoon is a breeze instead of the usual stop and go for 5 miles of it.  The guvner issued a stay at home order 3 weeks ago and extended it Wednesday until April 30.  Plenty of people out and around on 'essential business' but plenty of businesses somehow deemed 'non-essential' (except to those who make their living at them) are shut down.  So commuting traffic is light.

[Terry in Australia]

I bravely ventured out of my safety bubble just yesterday morning for a haircut. My 91 year old Ma had sent me a text message to advise that if the hairdresser/barber wasn't wearing a mask, not to go in. I went to the local shopping centre, where there were at least 3 different places I could get a haircut, and NONE of the workers in there were wearing masks? Well, the little asian ladies in the first place were wearing masks, but they must have pissed them off, because they were wearing them around their necks, not over their mouths and noses.

I eventually settled on option #3, staffed by young Middle Eastern blokes who all looked like recruiting posters for Islamic State, but all looked fit and healthy. My barber was a little jockey sized feller who couldn't speak English, so that was good, I didn't have to exchange pleasantries or chat about the weather. One of the questions I'm always asked when getting a haircut is "what do you do for a living?" and considering the recent terrorist threats, anyone who works for the department of defence is best not to advertise the fact, especially when someone from the middle east is working on you with sharp instruments.

Anyway, he did a good job, I thanked him, and was pleasantly surprised that I was only charged the "Pensioner" rate. I'm not a retiree, but I'm 60 and do receive a couple of pensions, so I suppose I kind of qualify. I scurried home and sprayed myself in the face with an isopropyl alcohol based sanitiser, (which really stings.......) so hopefully I'm Wu-flu free, it'd be awful if I snuffed it before I finished my latest project bike.

[scunny]

I presume it's to early to wash your mouth and esophagus with "ginger Slut"

[Terry in Australia]

I presume it's to early to wash your mouth and esophagus with "ginger Slut"

Ha ha, well I'm struggling a bit at the moment mate, I ran out of Ginger Slut, and my newest brew, "Ginger Virus", that I bottled 10 days ago is still a little "raw" (you should leave it to carbonate properly for a minimum of 2 weeks before consuming) but desperate times call for desperate measures, so I've been "sampling" just one bottle per day, and I can confirm that while the taste isn't perfect, the alcohol content is, I was almost legless after just one 500 ml stubbie yesterday.

I'm going to head out to the garage to do some more Kawasaki 1428 building shortly, so I suppose I should open one up just to make sure that any possible remaining pockets of CV are destroyed by my self-proclaimed (and highly doubtful) "cure".......    

[Stev-o]

I bravely ventured out of my safety bubble just yesterday morning for a haircut.

I need a haircut but all the shops are closed.  My wife offered to do it but after she butched the dog, aint no way I'm going to let her!

[Don R]

 I'm getting a little hairy myself. We needed light bulbs and shipping tape and I wanted a 52" 8 drawer hutch top craftsman tool box, Lowes marked them down $50 so I ordered it all on line and got curb service, I justified the trip to get bulbs since they are necessary. The wife masked up and ran into the store for some meat, I got 2 five gallon cans of no alky premium for my 40 chevy since the old gas is starting to varnish. Wiped my hands a lot and glad my wife keeps some sanitizer wipes because you can't find any now. I did get within 6 feet of the little gal at Lowes who didn't seem to care about distancing. 9 cases in town now even with the stay at home and distancing plan. 3 are in the prison so far.

[scottly]

My mom told me this morning that the greatest concentration of cases in Santa Barbara county is at the Lompoc federal prison...

[madmtnmotors]

I bravely ventured out of my safety bubble just yesterday morning for a haircut.

I need a haircut but all the shops are closed.  My wife offered to do it but after she butched the dog, aint no way I'm going to let her!

As seen on TV!

https://www.flowbee.com/

[Stev-o]

I bravely ventured out of my safety bubble just yesterday morning for a haircut.

I need a haircut but all the shops are closed.  My wife offered to do it but after she butched the dog, aint no way I'm going to let her!

As seen on TV!

https://www.flowbee.com/

Made in Texas, Wilbur!   I'm considering it....

[70CB750]

My daughter promised to cut my hair today, we shall see.  This is what my son did to me few years back 

[ekpent]

 MOHAWK !!

[Don R]

 I got the reverse mohawk but it happened over the course of many years. I remember it well, my acne cleared up and two days later my hair started falling out. I did find it though, it fell inside my shirt and took root on my back.
 I went to the barber and told him I was moving my part, he said looks like you're getting the big part. He asked how do you want it cut? I said no combover, I got nothing to hide and nothing to hide it with. I got a nose hair trimmer for Christmas, not my fault, my wife is short and is always looking up my nose.
  I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waiters.   

[Don R]

  Reread the above post like Rodney Dangerfield was saying it. It's funnier that way.

[spotty]

Some of you may remember me saying that this lockdown thing has driven me to take up paid gardening......I hate gardening

Today reminded me why

Chainsaw 1 knee 0

It has now been stitched back together and it's starting to hurt quite a bit

Must be time for a pint or two of my finest anaesthetic cider

[dave500]

whoa!