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Custard Filled Corn Bread

doused with maple syrup

I just finished reading A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table, by Molly Wizenburg.  Wow...just wow!  What a lovely food memoir. I devoured it whole and it's haunted me in such a good way.  Every recipe has a story behind it.  A tradition. It makes me think of all of the recipes that I hold so dear.  The ones that came from the women of my family...and the ones that I hope to impart on my children some day.  Food has the power to bring people closer together and because I am half Italian I live by that.

maple syrup from my father in law

I had a good laugh at the tale of her husband and his maple syrup loving habits.  Mine looooves anything maple syrup related.  You would be surprised at how fast he can polish off a box of maple candies.  It's the New England gene in him.  He was born to love it.  He doesn't go as far as Buddy the Elf...but if I was gone for the weekend, I am pretty sure he'd be putting syrup on everything. Continue reading→

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