Recipe: Spoon Bread
For a gal born and raised in New England, I often find myself enamored with traditional foods from the South rather than the North. Brace yourself Mabel, I’m about to cross the line…
Recipe: Maple Corn Muffins
Is there anything quite as lovely as a simple corn muffin?
Its sunny interior perfectly reflects the color of the corn from which it springs.
You know the liquid-yellow hue of a just-shucked ear of corn? It’s not Crayola yellow, nor golden, nor even bright lemon.
No, fresh corn is a pale but rich yellow, the color you might expect an opal to be – if opals came in yellow.
The muffin pictured above isn’t exactly corn-colored; it’s a deeper tone, a combination shucked corn and mahogany. But its slightly less sunny color is the result of a secret ingredient…
