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Cornbread goes in a large glass with buttermilk. Then you eat it with a long handled teaspoon, right?
Ive forgotten but--what is the proper name to call this meal? Cornbread thread.
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You know--its amazing what all you can dowith cornbread. Ill never look at it as a specialty or seasonal food again.
I had a meal one time and ever since I first read the op I have tried to remember the name of it. I can't. So I'm gonna just tell my story and describe the meal and hope some a y'all have had it or heard of it or some how know what it's called.
Back in the mid '70s I was a big time bass fisherman. Had me a bass boat and all. One of my favorite "holes" was a place on Toledo Bend reservoir, formed from the Sabine River which divides Texas and Louisiana.
Our favorite place was on SH 21 just a hop, skip and a jump across the state line. And on SH 21, a little ways before you cross over from Texas To Louisiana you go through a little wide spot in the road called Hemphill, Texas. The original town jail was still standin' the last time I went through there. A tiny little shack make out of mud brick it looked like and was about 10' square IFIRC, certainly no bigger. City limit signs back to back...one stop light...post office, barber shop and general store all in the same building...you get the idea.
Some years ago a famous C&W music star named Conway Twitty owned a cafe there. There was even a small set of bleachers on a small cement pad in the back where he and is some-time singin' partner Loretta Lynn would perform if/when they were in the area. He had long since sold it by the time I discovered it but I always like the food there and stopped for a meal anytime I was in town.
My favorite meal was as follows:
Fresh sweet cornbread baked in a black iron skillet split open and covered with a concoction called "hoppin' John". Hoppin John is blackeyed peas with ground beef, rice, jalapeno pepper, onions and when I cook it, bell pepper and celery. If I want to get fancy I'll cut up a little andouille (cajun sauge pronounce an-doo-ee) and toss it into the mix.
That served on a Texas size platter with a nice green salad and a monster size glass of iced tea.
Now I can cook cornbread. And I can make hoppin John any way you like it. But for some reason I can NOT get that meal to come out as good as I got at Twitty's. Still my version ain't all that bad.
Back in the mid '70s I was a big time bass fisherman. Had me a bass boat and all. One of my favorite "holes" was a place on Toledo Bend reservoir, formed from the Sabine River which divides Texas and Louisiana.
Our favorite place was on SH 21 just a hop, skip and a jump across the state line. And on SH 21, a little ways before you cross over from Texas To Louisiana you go through a little wide spot in the road called Hemphill, Texas. The original town jail was still standin' the last time I went through there. A tiny little shack make out of mud brick it looked like and was about 10' square IFIRC, certainly no bigger. City limit signs back to back...one stop light...post office, barber shop and general store all in the same building...you get the idea.
Some years ago a famous C&W music star named Conway Twitty owned a cafe there. There was even a small set of bleachers on a small cement pad in the back where he and is some-time singin' partner Loretta Lynn would perform if/when they were in the area. He had long since sold it by the time I discovered it but I always like the food there and stopped for a meal anytime I was in town.
My favorite meal was as follows:
Fresh sweet cornbread baked in a black iron skillet split open and covered with a concoction called "hoppin' John". Hoppin John is blackeyed peas with ground beef, rice, jalapeno pepper, onions and when I cook it, bell pepper and celery. If I want to get fancy I'll cut up a little andouille (cajun sauge pronounce an-doo-ee) and toss it into the mix.
That served on a Texas size platter with a nice green salad and a monster size glass of iced tea.
Now I can cook cornbread. And I can make hoppin John any way you like it. But for some reason I can NOT get that meal to come out as good as I got at Twitty's. Still my version ain't all that bad.
My FIL has been trying to get me to try that for 44 years. NO WAY. I can't get a glass of buttermilk that close to my nose. Maybe you can answer a life long question I've had. How do you tell when buttermilk goes bad?
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Johnny or Hoe Cake is with flour...
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We always used "sweet milk" but invariably made the cornbread with buttermilk.
I grew up drinking buttermilk and loving it. My mother would always ask us before supper, "Sweet or butter?"
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WJ, not only have I eaten that, I've eaten THERE. My old Daddy's family was from Hemphill, and I used to visit as a kid. My three uncles and their families were there. (My father left for the war then wound up in Galveston in 47( until Johnny Klevenhagen made him leave!)....one uncle moved on up to Vidor.I had a meal one time and ever since I first read the op I have tried to remember the name of it. I can't. So I'm gonna just tell my story and describe the meal and hope some a y'all have had it or heard of it or some how know what it's called.
Back in the mid '70s I was a big time bass fisherman. Had me a bass boat and all. One of my favorite "holes" was a place on Toledo Bend reservoir, formed from the Sabine River which divides Texas and Louisiana.
Our favorite place was on SH 21 just a hop, skip and a jump across the state line. And on SH 21, a little ways before you cross over from Texas To Louisiana you go through a little wide spot in the road called Hemphill, Texas. The original town jail was still standin' the last time I went through there. A tiny little shack make out of mud brick it looked like and was about 10' square IFIRC, certainly no bigger. City limit signs back to back...one stop light...post office, barber shop and general store all in the same building...you get the idea.
Some years ago a famous C&W music star named Conway Twitty owned a cafe there. There was even a small set of bleachers on a small cement pad in the back where he and is some-time singin' partner Loretta Lynn would perform if/when they were in the area. He had long since sold it by the time I discovered it but I always like the food there and stopped for a meal anytime I was in town.
My favorite meal was as follows:
Fresh sweet cornbread baked in a black iron skillet split open and covered with a concoction called "hoppin' John". Hoppin John is blackeyed peas with ground beef, rice, jalapeno pepper, onions and when I cook it, bell pepper and celery. If I want to get fancy I'll cut up a little andouille (cajun sauge pronounce an-doo-ee) and toss it into the mix.
That served on a Texas size platter with a nice green salad and a monster size glass of iced tea.
Now I can cook cornbread. And I can make hoppin John any way you like it. But for some reason I can NOT get that meal to come out as good as I got at Twitty's. Still my version ain't all that bad.
)My Aunt lived in Beaumont and made it pretty good.
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These post are scary. I guess I can see why the Texans want peppers in the cornbread as they have been rubbing up on Mexico for years. Then you got the Yankees screwing it up other ways but that is not a big surprise just look what they have done to the Northeast and now Florida. 
WJ, not only have I eaten that, I've eaten THERE. My old Daddy's family was from Hemphill, and I used to visit as a kid. My three uncles and their families were there. (My father left for the war then wound up in Galveston in 47( until Johnny Klevenhagen made him leave!)....one uncle moved on up to Vidor.
My Aunt lived in Beaumont and made it pretty good.
Now that is amazing. Guess it really is a small world.
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Yessir, it is a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it...
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Corn Bread is one of life's basic building blocks.
Sometimes, I'll add a little extra milk to the mix and some agave nectar and cook it like I would pan cakes.
Sometimes, I'll cook it with corn and jalapenos and LOTS of cheese.
Just depends on which way the wind is a blowin'.
Sometimes, I'll just cook it according to package directions.
Don't be afraid to put stuff in your cornbread.
PS: I LIKE buttermilk-I'll actually drink a big old glass of it on occasion. I just wish they would sell it by the pint since I'm the only one in the house that will drink it.
Sometimes, I'll add a little extra milk to the mix and some agave nectar and cook it like I would pan cakes.
Sometimes, I'll cook it with corn and jalapenos and LOTS of cheese.
Just depends on which way the wind is a blowin'.
Sometimes, I'll just cook it according to package directions.
Don't be afraid to put stuff in your cornbread.
PS: I LIKE buttermilk-I'll actually drink a big old glass of it on occasion. I just wish they would sell it by the pint since I'm the only one in the house that will drink it.
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I had a meal one time and ever since I first read the op I have tried to remember the name of it. I can't. So I'm gonna just tell my story and describe the meal and hope some a y'all have had it or heard of it or some how know what it's called.
Back in the mid '70s I was a big time bass fisherman. Had me a bass boat and all. One of my favorite "holes" was a place on Toledo Bend reservoir, formed from the Sabine River which divides Texas and Louisiana.
Our favorite place was on SH 21 just a hop, skip and a jump across the state line. And on SH 21, a little ways before you cross over from Texas To Louisiana you go through a little wide spot in the road called Hemphill, Texas. The original town jail was still standin' the last time I went through there. A tiny little shack make out of mud brick it looked like and was about 10' square IFIRC, certainly no bigger. City limit signs back to back...one stop light...post office, barber shop and general store all in the same building...you get the idea.
Some years ago a famous C&W music star named Conway Twitty owned a cafe there. There was even a small set of bleachers on a small cement pad in the back where he and is some-time singin' partner Loretta Lynn would perform if/when they were in the area. He had long since sold it by the time I discovered it but I always like the food there and stopped for a meal anytime I was in town.
My favorite meal was as follows:
Fresh sweet cornbread baked in a black iron skillet split open and covered with a concoction called "hoppin' John". Hoppin John is blackeyed peas with ground beef, rice, jalapeno pepper, onions and when I cook it, bell pepper and celery. If I want to get fancy I'll cut up a little andouille (cajun sauge pronounce an-doo-ee) and toss it into the mix.
That served on a Texas size platter with a nice green salad and a monster size glass of iced tea.
Now I can cook cornbread. And I can make hoppin John any way you like it. But for some reason I can NOT get that meal to come out as good as I got at Twitty's. Still my version ain't all that bad.
Texan Shepards Pie??
Speaking of the name of Hemphill.That was the last name for the first Major I worked for when in LE.
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I hope not because, ill be making two pans full of this for a neighbor whose sister just passed away.
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