Simple No-Frills Cornbread

Maris Callahan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

I love irony. I grew up in a small suburb in New Jersey where there wasn’t very much history or culture. When you wanted history or culture you took a train for an hour in either direction and visited New York City or Philadelphia. However, there was a former dairy farm in our town that had a little bit of notoriety: in its heyday, it was the home of the Borden icon, Elsie the Cow. As a child, my mother had visited the very farm on a field trip with her Long Island an elementary school. Thirty-five years later, she and my dad purchased a new house for our family in a neighborhood that happened to be an up-and-coming homeowners association with almost four hundred properties — on the same piece of land as the former Borden dairy, Walker Gordon Farm. I imagine that when she was six, my mother wasn’t thinking that one day, she would be married with two children and living on a quarter-acre plot of land on the former stomping grounds of Elsie the Cow. I took the above photograph in July when I visited Chicago. The bus, the 147 route, is one that I see […]

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Skillet Cornbread with Caramelized Onions

Maris Callahan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Ever since I was in college, when I would go home to visit my mom, at some point I would wind up rummaging through her pantry scavenging for groceries. It wasn’t that I couldn’t easily go to the store to buy my own, it was just that whatever already lined her shelves seemed practical and necessary. I could rest assured that all of the brands were high-quality and none of the expiration dates would have lapsed (though you would have never suspected my mother’s quality-control vigilance based on the 18-month old salad dressing that lived in our refrigerator once. In all fairness, it was a fluke incident. You could probably eat off her kitchen floors). Even though I live on my own now and can afford my own groceries most of the time, it seems that just about every visit home ends with a good long stare in the cabinet that seldom leads me walking out the door empty handed. Last time I was home, one of my prizes wound up being a half-empty container of coarse cornmeal, that she claimed she had bought for one recipe but likely would never use again. Since I pride myself and my creativity […]

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Simple No-Frills Cornbread

Skillet Cornbread with Caramelized Onions