Feeder Pigs

We were in the area and stopped to visit Baymule & her sweet DH. We were treated to a yummy bowl of beef stew and some of the best corn bread I've ever had. YUM!

I finally got to meet Bacon! She has 2 notches in each ear. We had been collecting acorns, for the pigs & delivered a half bushel basket of them. They were given a bucketful and got busy chowing down. M-m-m I can hardly wait!

We sure enjoyed your visit! It has been so cold, rainy and drizzly, that a big pot of stew just sounded good. Plus I have been sick since before Thanksgiving and that was another reason for a pot of stew. Plus I haunt what I call the Dead Meat Counter at the grocery store, where they place the date expired meat, marked down handsomely, I might add. The beef stew was a package of short ribs marked down to $2.48. Duh! I jumped on that, plus got 3 packages of rib eyes of 2 steaks apiece, marked to half price. I simmered the short ribs all day, put the pot in the frige, skimmed the congealed fat off the next day and started simmering again. I tossed in potatoes, carrots, onion, mushrooms, chopped fresh garlic and spices.

When @Devonviolet and her hubby called that they were leaving Tyler, I put cornbread in the oven and as they drove up, it was done. We ate, drank iced tea and visited. My husband waited on DV and her husband, getting them seconds and keeping their tea glasses filled. Hmmm...... maybe we should open a backwoods country road potty-stop/restaurant!

Ya'll raved about the cornbread, so here is the recipe you asked for. I used store bought cornmeal, but maybe next time I can use my own home grown corn, milled right here in my kitchen. And I'll mill some wheat too for whole wheat flour.

1 cup stone ground whole kernel corn
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk (or more if too thick)

That is my basic recipe, what ya'll got had home made cream corn in it, about a half cup. And I turned the honey bottle upside down and drizzled raw honey in it too. Dunno how much.

And my cornbread supper

Make basic cornbread mix.
Brown a pound of sausage
Grate a cup of cheese
Chop half an onion
Maybe some chopped jalapenos

Pour 1/3 cornbread mixture in smoking hot cast iron deep skillet with 1/4 cup oil in it. Layer sausage, cheese, onion and jalapenos, pour rest of cornbread mixture on top and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or until browned on top.

You could fry bacon instead of sausage, use leftover pot roast, turkey or whatever is hiding in the refrigerator. You could mix cream corn in the batter or right before you take it out of the oven, put more grated cheese on top and put it back in the oven.

For me and my DH, one piece is supper. I make this when we are doing a lot outside and I come in tired and not interested in cooking. So easy to just heat it up!

THANK YOU, thank you, thank you! I will definitely be making both recipes soon! What was the name of that Texan cornmeal, that y'all got at Brookshire's? I'm going there later today, and I want to "get me some o' dat!"

Devonviolet said:

THANK YOU, thank you, thank you! I will definitely be making both recipes soon! What was the name of that Texan cornmeal, that y'all got at Brookshire's? I'm going there later today, and I want to "get me some o' dat!"

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Appropriately, the name of the cornmeal is Lamb's. Now if my sheep would just start having their lambs......

Well, Sheepalicious' utter sure is developing nicely! It could get bigger though. Any indication, from the previous owners, about expected due dates???

They told us anytime from NOW to March.

WOW! That's really nailing it down!

No kidding. Or would that be no lambing?

Back to pigs. DH and I got their favorite hog pellets yesterday. We have to go to Alba for them, we had run out and I grabbed some at a feed store closer to us. They did not like them and dumped them out. Tough love piggies. We had 3 bags and they had to eat it. Down to the last of the unliked bag of pellets, then the prima donna piggies can have their favorite pellets again. They sure have grown. I feed them twice a day. We still have corn from the free corn, they still get a coffee can of acorns or pecans and kitchen trimmings when I have them.

What's that??? Is that BACON I smell frying???

Btw, we went to Brookshire's & got some of that Lamb's Cornmeal. I'm looking forward to making some of your sausage cornbread!