Did anyone get today’s Independent or Daily Telegraph? FABULOUS picture of the Shellac Sisters at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival – but would you believe it, I was in the LOO so am not in the picture! I don’t mind at all, I always look too goofy in photos and it was just gorgeous to be there and fabulous to get such a lovely picture in the papers. Thank you Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway and your team for creating such a glorious thing!
Another thing that has made me exceedingly happy this week is more reports coming in from new test cooks. Coming into the fold via the lovely movietone-news blog is C. Aubrey Smith who is going great guns on the testing. I’ve had problems with the Tamale Pie myself so I laughed out loud when I read his feedback form. Saying that he didn’t take a photo because it looked like a “dog’s dinner” made me guffaw! So true. I think part of the problem is that here in the UK we don’t really know what a Tamale Pie should look like… Still, the missus (Mrs F. Binnie Barnes) asked for seconds but C. Aubrey clarified this by saying, “that may be because it took me so long to make and she was starved.” Ha ha! I’ve never met C. Aubrey or F. Binnie but I like to think of them sitting at a table covered with a chenille tablecloth drinking from crystal glasses and eating from a bone china 1930s dinner service! Some nice suggestions were made for jazzing up the recipe so I may have another go at this one sometime soon. María Guadalupe Vélez de Villalobos will get another crack of the whip. La comida Mexicana es deliciosa!
12 responses
Remind me to bring you the necessary ingredients (like Masa flour) at Christmas so you can try this out and see if it works. I imagine it’s likely to look a bit messy but it probably tastes pretty good.
Remind me to bring you the necessary ingredients (like Masa flour) at Christmas so you can try this out and see if it works. I imagine it’s likely to look a bit messy but it probably tastes pretty good.
That description is us down to the last detail (apart from everything).
I think I’ll give the tamale pie another go if only to get rid of the half used pack of corn meal for wich I have no other use, although judging from my last effort if I ever need any walls plastered it could come in handy then.
That description is us down to the last detail (apart from everything).
I think I’ll give the tamale pie another go if only to get rid of the half used pack of corn meal for wich I have no other use, although judging from my last effort if I ever need any walls plastered it could come in handy then.
Ha ha! I hear what you are saying about the corn meal. May I propose that you could try Gary Cooper’s Buttermilk Griddle Cakes which contain aforementioned corn meal and are really rather delcious.
Unless you fancy having a go at Lum & Abner’s Corn Meal Souffle?! I see them referred to on the interweb as “corn-stars” – I need to know more!
Ha ha! I hear what you are saying about the corn meal. May I propose that you could try Gary Cooper’s Buttermilk Griddle Cakes which contain aforementioned corn meal and are really rather delcious.
Unless you fancy having a go at Lum & Abner’s Corn Meal Souffle?! I see them referred to on the interweb as “corn-stars” – I need to know more!