Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
For the past month I have been craving bananas – like A LOT! It has become my morning breakfast and afternoon snack. I put them on my cereal, ice cream even smothered them with sweeten condense milk as a late night snack.
Don’t you judge now….
But, before we go any further with my love affair with the banana
Lets get one thing out of the way…
Like any new home cook, there are certain recipes that we are anxious about. For me is anything that has yeast in it. So bread making around my kitchen is not a common thing. Which is crazy considering that if there is anything I love more is fresh made breads and pastry.
Since I started Sweetbites my recipe index has been slowly filling out with various recipes that has force me to teach myself the art of making bread, and like anything in life, practice makes perfect - or in my case, not have a freak out about yeast.
Like many others before me, I was simply intimidated by the seemingly complex and work-intensive process of making bread. Most recipes seem difficult and loaded with steps and significant work. But I have learned that, once you get pass that, you realized that bread is quite easy to make a home, and you only need a few staples ingredients to make simple loaf.
And my corn craving continues.
This time I reached out to a friend of mine from Mexico, because I remember this great corn bread I had when I use to visit there for work. I remember buying them from the street vendors. Pile high with a handmade sign on top announcing it “hecho en casa” (homemade) After describing to her that wonderful sweet morsel I had, she told me simply, “mija, esta hablando de un simple pan de elote” (girl, you are talking about a simple corn bread). The she sent me the recipe and told me to enjoy it.
Pan de elote literally means “corn bread,” and it’s one of those iconic Mexican desserts I can’t get enough of.
This is not like American cornbread at all. When it’s done right, it’s like the freshest homemade creamed corn crossed with a flan or bread pudding. It’s not so much a bread as a dense, buttery cake-pudding – delish!
I easy to make, since everything pretty much can go into a blender or food processor – add, mix and pour over a prepare cake pan and in less than 1 hour you got this warm sweet treat, that you just want to bury your face in.
Today I woke up with a craving for corn bread.
But I wanted it to be sweet, soft and made with cream of corn. Have I ever mentioned how much I like cream of corn? No? Well then, there you have it, its right up there as one of my all time favorite things to make things with.
I have a great cream corn soufflé casserole recipe that I love (so does my family). The thing is that it takes a lot of steps to make it, plus is baked in a water bath, which gives you a whole other set of issues to deal with.
I was not in the mood to deal.