A mixed marriage -- Cornmeal bacon waffles and miso soup
'cause i know there is strength
in the differences between us
and i know there is comfort
where we overlap
-- Overlap, by Ani Difranco
Not long after marrying my husband we stumbled into my college's coffee shop one night and paid $2 a piece to hear who ever showed up. Who showed up was a shaved-head chick with a guitar who had us sitting slack-jawed for two hours as she muscled and teased and whispered her way through the best lyrics I'd heard since my mom started playing me Bob Dylan records.
My husband and I don't have much in common when it comes to all the things people list in personal ads. But we agree on Ani. And the rest of the time we've learned to embrace the occasional morning of cornmeal-bacon waffles and miso soup.
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Here is the true marriage of east and west. Even though I'm a Southeast Asian kinda girl, I'd much rather the bacon cornmeal waffles. Must be the Irish in me.
Have you tried making cornbread with bacon fat instead of the butter? Just fry up a half-pound or so of bacon until crisp, which makes just the right amount of bacon fat, and crumble and stir that crispy bacon into the batter just before pouring into the baking dish.
When it comes out, if you really want to go over the top, melt a stick of butter and pour it all over the cornbread before you cut it up. Good for a big crowd because no one should eat more than a small piece.
Oh, one more note - use stoneground cornmeal (aka polenta) instead of the regular, more finely milled cornmeal, for more texture.
- by Gabrielle on Nov 30, 2007 at 4:53 PM | link