Friday Friend Recipe #166 -- Cornbread Salad

Come with me as I continue to countdown my Friday Friend Cookbook!

What is it, you may ask?

In a nutshell...
About 18 years ago, 50 of my closest friends and family, who had been on an e-mail forum with me, sent in recipes in different categories and we compiled a cookbook.
I decided to count those down!
Why?

Because  one night I was looking thru the cookbook and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog"
The Handyman--who thinks he knows me better than I know myself, said,  "you'll never EVER do that."
Well,  maybe I will!  Maybe I'll show him!

Which brings me to recipes #166

 Barb's Cornbread Salad

At first I thought, seriously? Corn bread?  In a salad? It'll be soggy and gross.

But this is so good!  

So good!  So good!

Just give it a try.

Trust me.

This is Barb's gazillionth and one recipe.

We met up for a nice little visit last weekend. The Handyman and I crashed their family time at Lake Tahoe.

(Shelly is going to kill me! This is a long post and I promised her I wouldn't do so many long ones, because she is awesome and is making me a hardback cookbook from all my posts.  Thanks awesome Shelly!!)

This is part 3 of the story of our football league.

Part 1

Part 2

I am assuming you've read parts 1 and 2.

Because if you haven't this really won't make any sense.

We last left our football league with the Mongloids sending threatening letters to the football commissioner.

When that didn't work, they began to sending threatening notes to the Rottens themselves.

Please take note there is foul language in the letter. Read at your own risk.

(this is a family friendly blog and I have no recollection of the Rottons telling male anatomy jokes, but then he/they might not have in mixed company.  Also take note that foul language doesn't appear again in any of the football league correspondence or ransom notes)

The Rottens received no more threatening letters during the football season on 1994.

But when the 1995 season rolled around.....

We noticed that Annie was missing.  She no longer sat on a shelf in the playroom! What happened?

We were soon to find out.

Those nasty Mongloids!

The Rottens must have won the 1994 season!

We finally got Annie back, but she sits naked on the shelf to this day! She doesn't seem to be worse for the wear tho--always kept that smile on her face during the incident. She's a trooper.

That was the end of our football league. Or at least the end of the  threats and violence and poor sportsmanship.

Or at least the end of what I saved.

Altho, Football league never really ends, does it?... because during our visit last weekend we had to pay $10 each to go in a pool and then choose teams in order of how/who we'd think would win.

(seesh that's even hard for me to understand)

It was a weird point thing on how you won.  I could have won.  I don't know.  Maybe I did??

Only this man knows for sure!

A Mongloid!

Maybe there is a part 4 to this story after all.

So anyway---

Cornbread Salad is good and it is #166 in the Friday Friend Cookbook Countdown!

128 left to go!

Friday Friend Recipe #162 --Cheesy Bacon Quiche

My Friday Friend Cookbook Countdown #162!

(#willreallyfinishthissomeday)

Barb's Cheesy Bacon Quiche

and you know all the whys and wherefores of this countdown, right? Homemade cookbook, friends contributed, Handyman said I couldn't/wouldn't do it, I'll show him, yadda yadda yadda....

...and the rest is cookbook history!

This is one of my favorite quiches.  It's easy and delicious --a great recipe to make when you have company or a brunch.

Cheesy Bacon Quiche

Barbara Brown

Buckeye, AZ

1 1/4 cup Bisquick

1/4 cup softened butter

2 T. Boiling water

1 cup shredded Swiss cheese

1 pkg (6oz) sliced Canadian Bacon (chopped)

4 green onions, sliced

1 1/2 cups half & half

3 eggs

1/2 t. salt

1/4 t. ground red pepper (cayenne)

Heat oven to 400F.  Grease 9" pie plate.  Blend Bisquick and butter. Add water, stir till soft dough forms.  Press on bottom and up sides of pan, forming an edge on rim of pie plate.

Sprinkle cheese, bacon and onion over crust.  Beat half & half, eggs, salt and pepper. Pour into crust.

Bake 35-40 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

If you recall--we last left off with the first part of our Football league story, in Barb's story....

See the first part here. 

it ended with this:

a strange 'ransom-ish' note we think was sent from Barb's son Mike. 

(who by the way, when  recently shown a photo of this old ransom-ish note said, "whoever sent that is a creative genius!  He did not confess!)

Let me just interrupt for a moment and say if you don't know what this is all about, you

MUST CLICK HERE to read part 1.

Or else it will make no sense.

And I can't believe I saved all this stuff!!

2nd season of the BDDRML league gave us this....

Letters like this started arriving in our mail box, addressed to our 15 year old son one week, to either the Handyman or me the next.  CC'd to everybody else in the league and addressed to the commissioner!

This one below was to our son Luke.....

It said:

Which prompted Barb to send a fax to the Handyman

(they both managed JCPenney stores at the time)

Which prompted the Handyman to contact his attorney Simon Schmuck, who countered with his own letter representing the Rottons, sent to the BDDRML league.

And this---THIS is how we spent our leisure time with our friends the Browns!

part 3 coming soon.

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The creative genius!

The creative genius is also camera shy and this is the best I can do---this photo from 1999 with his family.

Mike, our good friend and cookbook publisher/original typist, Barb, Doug and Kim.

I will work on the photo dilemma soon.

And to close -- I just wanted everyone to see that Doug sent an envelope addressed to me THE SIREN!

(???)

This is recipe #162

132 left to go!

PS  oh...this is a cookbook countdown!  Not a football league recap.  sorry!  The quiche is really good. Give it a try!

Friday Friend Recipe #158 - Cousin Doss Sauce (spaghetti sauce #11)

My Friday Friend Cookbook Countdown #158!

(#willreallyfinishthissomeday)

Barb's Cousin Doss Sauce

and you know all the whys and wherefores of this countdown, right? Homemade cookbook, friends contributed, Handyman said I couldn't/wouldn't do it, I'll show him, yadda yadda yadda....

...and the rest is cookbook history!

It's funny how we can take the same ingredients and put them all together and when combined by separate people, they all taste so different.

I mean spaghetti sauce, really?  You got some tomato sauce, some oregano, some garlic---pretty basic, right?  Yet there are always a few that stand out... this is one of them!

Now for my Barb story.

(I've lost track of how many times she's submitted a recipe)

First, let me talk about love and relationships.  You know how it is in a happy marriage, right?  How you shudder to think no one else could possible know you like your spouse? And to have to date again to find a partner? YIKES!  I mean who would know what I mean when I say  "no nosing", except the Handyman?  Who would know what the hell me and my kids are talking about when we call each other Irene? (okay, EVERYBODY in my family calls me Irene--and it is not my name!!  I have been known to spill food on my chest--it just falls off my fork!  My Grandma Irene did the same thing, BUT my kids never knew her, but they've knows to call anyone who spills on their chests, Irene.  It's a weird family thing )

Having to invite a new person into your lives with all your past, would be very difficult I think.

We have our own little oddities and eccentricities.

And they would just not 'get you' the way your spouse, kids, and old friends do. (sigh)

It's kind of like that in this friendship.

Not that I don't love new friends...I do.

It's just that this story is between old friends and it is going to seem--so odd.

But we all will 'get it'.

I'm not so sure you will.

Just go with it.

As you know our friends Barb and Doug are mega-game players.  A bit competitive and a bit zealous in their games.

Below is a photo of Doug and I who were losers in the game of Outburst and one of the Handyman and Barb who were winners!  (she obviously loves her country too)

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Many years ago--1993 thru 1997 the Browns and The Stones had our own Fantasy Football league.

We called it the BDDRML league.

It stood for

Barb

Doug

Debbie

Rich

Mike (their son)

Luke (our oldest son)

And we named ourselves.

I was the Demons

Doug the Divots

Barb, the Bullfrongs

Rich the Rottons

Mike the Mongloids

Lucas the Looneys

In 1995, their daughter Kim and our youngest son Mark joined the league.

(our middle son--no way.  He was going thru his middle child phase and thought it was stupid)

So Kim's Krushers

and Mark's Mutilators were added.

What we had to do, was to predict the winners of each week, for each game.  So for week one, those Demons (me) got 7 games right, 8 wrong.

It was a fun little betting game--no prizes or anything for winning--just the glory.

We were a couple years in where the story gets kind of weird.....

One day in the mailbox was a  'newsletter' which Doug had sent (which I have saved these many years--and now I know why) One envelope to each of us out of the blue.

And then a letter that no one understood....

He started calling himself "Bookie Brown" and a mysterious, invisible commissioner arrived on the scene.

But the strangest thing of all...

....is when The Handyman (aka Rich) received this ransom like note in the mail from Barb and Doug's son Mike.

(I have kept it all these years in case we need it for evidence!)

The Handyman just laughed and laughed when he opened this.  I, on the other hand, was a bit concerned.

I'm stopping this little story here, but this is not the end...

oh no...it goes on.

Just wait.

Read the newsletter carefully---

I'll be back to explain... (in another recipe post because Barb has tons!)

This is a weird old friendship.

We probably need a secret handshake or something.

And this is

Cousin Doss Sauce

recipe #158

only 136 left to go!