{"id":505,"date":"2012-07-04T03:21:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T03:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2012-07-17T03:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T03:19:32","slug":"me-n-martha-project-day-40-spoon-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Me n’ Martha Project: Day 40, Spoon Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday I tried a new recipe that I had never heard of, Spoon Bread from the South on page 198.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite things in doing the Martha Project is trying out recipes like this.\u00a0 Because it’s always good to broaden your horizen and embark on the adventure of making\u00a0 interesting new recipes.\u00a0 I also like the way Martha’s American Food takes dishes that have been\u00a0lost to the past in a sea of\u00a0haute cuisine and encourages us to bring these\u00a0forgotten treasures back to our dining rooms.<\/p>\n

Spoon bread is very interesting.\u00a0 It has a light and airy\u00a0texture\u00a0that\u00a0tasted like a\u00a0hybrid of quiche and cornbread.\u00a0 Since I didn’t have any chorizo, I used the left over kielbasa from the night before.\u00a0 I think chorizo would have been better, its sharp spiciness would have been a nice contrast to the mild taste of the spoon bread.<\/p>\n

I’d like to try this one again not just because I want to use the suggested chorizo, but because it was hard for me to truly enjoy eating last night.\u00a0 I didn’t\u00a0write about my Martha adventures\u00a0last night because I had just recieved very sad news about my elderly cat, Trixie.\u00a0 She’s been with me my entire adult life and while I’m grateful for our 20 years together, I’m also shaken by her illness.\u00a0 Yesterday, I was\u00a0devasted by her cancer diagnosis, and that made it hard to taste food in the way it’s meant to be tasted.\u00a0 My experience was somewhat clinical; giving thought to how the food tasted and the contrasting flavors and textures.\u00a0 Eating should be something we experience emotionally — I want to feel the sensation of eating a delicious meal with my heart, not think about it with my brain.<\/p>\n

I know if Trixie could talk she’d probably say “Snap out of it and keep blogging!”\u00a0because that’s the kind of cat she is —\u00a0strong and tough!\u00a0 And this spoon bread is a truly unique recipe, so I intend to not only make it again, but also blog about it again as well, so that I can truly do justice to this old fashioned treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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