Imagine you're Michael Scofield. Imagine your significant other is Michael Scofield. Imagine Michael Scofield loves you and loves you right...
Sorry. Distracted. So, you're Michael Scofield, and you're a wealthy structural engineer, architect, something like that, and your estranged older brother, Whatshisname, is slated for execution for a crime he didn't commit. What do you do? You grab the plans to the prison, have yourself completely tatted up, full sleeves, the whole nine, with blueprints and information on how to break your brother out of prison hidden in plain view on your rockin' body. You pretend to rob a bank, shoot a couple of bullets in the air, plead guilty and get sent to the same prison where your bro is awaiting the needle so you can bust him out. You meet D.B. Cooper, you schmooze a prison doctor, you enlist the help of one of the planet's best actors, you implicate your sweet but maybe not so bright short-timer celly, and you get the hell outta Dodge. Too bad you don't leave the series at that point...
Anyway, life could have been a lot easier if you'd just made this buttermilk cornbread and thrown it against the wall, thrown it at any guards. Pfft. It's likely bulletproof. Yeah, it's not the same as a file baked in a cake, but they've got metal detectors and shit now. This cornbread is a lethal weapon on its own.
Golden? Uh, sort of. Apparently my oven has hot spots, so the cornbread got a little, um, brick like and too brown on one side. (Note to self: buy oven thermometer and turn food halfway through.)
Day 1: Cornbread a little dry but no too dry to choke down with tons of butter.
Day 2: It's what's for breakfast with a little
Day 3: Whoa. Is this just stone-ground cornmeal dumped in a Pyrex dish?
Day 4: Munchies! Shit. All I've got is that damned cornbread.
Day 5: Son resorts to eating it because, well, that's all we've got.
Day 6: Hard enough to sharpen knives
Day 7: Yes, we still have some in case of nuclear winter or zombie attack...
Have you tried a little Gulf Coast BP 'syrup' on it to moisten it up a bit. It adds a piquant flavor, too.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Well, we'll still have it when the oil hits the Mid-Atlantic, that's for shore.
ReplyDeleteI just overcooked it. I've made it before, and it's usually great. I also use it in sausage and sage stuffing. I just haven't used this crappity oven much, and I'm guessing that the thermostat is off. The apartment floor is so unlevel that pancakes end up shaped like tear drops. I can't wait to move...