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In honor of the rodeo…

February 11th, 2010

In honor of the upcoming Houston livestock show and rodeo, I will be cooking up a few recipes from this book in the next couple of weeks:

The Texas Cowboy Cookbook

… which I borrowed from our local library recently. It’s so interesting and full of fascinating recipes, I might just buy myself a copy.

First up for tonight, Jalapeno Corn Bread, which will go nicely with a soup from Simply Recipes that I’d already planned on making. (It’s definitely a soup-kind-of-a-day; cold and rainy) Starting with my next grocery trip, I’ll be trying some of the more adventurous recipes from the Texas Cowboy cookbook. I’ll most likely make some changes along the way, like I usually do - substituting chicken, pork, or buffalo for the beef, since we are mostly off of beef these days.

Growing up as a Yankee, I’d never had cornbread much at all. Since my husband loves it, I’ve learned to like it and almost always make corn bread with chili and maybe now and then for other meals. This will be the first time I’ve put jalapenos in it, though.

My normal recipe for cornbread can be found here.

And special thanks to my friend Aly, and her blog, who always makes me feel good about my cooking.

Entry Filed under: Bread, Mixed bag, Old-Fashioned Foods, Table talk