Corn is for the chickens!
Growing up, I heard my mom say it a thousand times. She exclaimed it, really. Yes, she was never neutral about corn.
Not even around late November, when our off-the-boat Italian family ventured outside of our otherwise Italian-custom entrenched home to celebrate the rather ‘foreign’ holiday of Thanksgiving.
I don’t know whether Kathryn Stockett, author of bestseller The Help, likes to cook or not, but I suspect that we share a similar sensibility about food.
I say this based on her summation of grits in her novel: ‘That’s all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.’ Continue Reading…
Dear Rustic Plate:
I am awash with anxiety. My little Johnny refuses to eat his sweet potatoes. Lord knows I’ve tried everything, even the marshmallows! I’ve told him how healthy and nutritious they are. I’ve even shared how Dr. Andrew Weil, the Harvard-educated medical doctor and best-selling author, says they are better for you than regular potatoes. But he won’t budge.
I’ve taken to sneaking them, pureed, in dishes like pasta and soup, but tricking him is tearing me up inside. How can he ever trust me again if he finds out? He almost caught me putting some puree in a batch of cookies last night, and was forced to spoon it into our fish tank instead. Johnny looked at me as though I was crazy, even as I explained that I was ‘experimenting’ with a new diet for our goldfish. Of course, it took me three hours to clean the fish tank afterwards and, even worse, the fish are now scared of me.
I can’t continue living like this. What can I do? Please help me.
Despairing Trickster Mom
Rustic Plate 