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Welcome to Paula's Bread
Dear Fellow Breadlovers,
Fall is here and the crisp weather is the perfect time for a bowl of chili and cornbread. Thus, I am featuring the common grain corn with fun baked goods to make with corn!
In fact, the month of October Paula's Bread blog will feature corn recipes and many more fall type cooking....apples, pumpkin. Check it out:
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Hope you enjoy and utilize some fun ideas!
God bless you,
paula :)
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Grand Tortillas Have Arrived!
It has been a long time since this wonderful kitchen tool has been available. If you have never had a fresh tortilla, you haven't lived! You can make fast flour tortillas and in honor of our corn theme, you can make a 'to die for' corn tortilla.
Did you know that most tortillas you find in the store are full of unsaturated fats and many as sundry things that you really don't want to eat. Now, you can make a good for you tortillas without spending lots of time in the kitchen. What makes it tedious making tortillas is rolling them out and then 'frying' them.....with the grand tortilla you simply make a ball of dough and press. This tortilla will smash the ball flat into a nice large tortilla and then bake both sides at the same time.
Using this tortilla press will be featured on my blog this month. You will love how easy it is! http://paulasbread.blogspot.com/
You can make flour or corn tortillas. In honor of our corn theme newsletter: See fabulous corn tortilla recipe below!!
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New Grains for our Diet!
In continuing the series on different grains, I am featuring the well known but not used to its potential, corn! There are several different types of corn: red, black, white, blue, and of course yellow. My goal this month is to help give a quick short lesson on the common little grain to help you use the little grain to get the fresh flavor in your baking. On a side note, this grain falls into the Gluten Free category!
What's the deal with colors?
Darker varieties contain greater
quantities of antioxidant pigments called anthocyanins. Blue corn tortillas contain about 20% more protein and 8% less starch
giving them a lower glycemic index than the more common version made
with white corn. (info: Dr. Luis
Bello-Perez in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture)
Below is a chart with the break down of nutrition of our common grain: corn.
How to select Great Corn:
Since heat rapidly converts the sugar in corn to starch, choose corn that is refrigerated and if
purchasing from a farmer's market or roadside stand, make sure it has at least been kept in the shade,
out of direct sunlight. Corn that
is fresh will exude a white milky substance. I won't go into cooking fresh corn as you all already have recipes and cookbooks galore addressing this.
How to make Great Cornmeal:
I use my Nutri Mill to make a wonderful fresh corn meal. I actually use popcorn to grind my fresh cornmeal! You can use dried field corn as well. I just find it is easier to use popcorn because we always have it on hand. Be sure not to use Orville Redenbacher popcorn as it has a higher moisture content. You an make the same cornbread recipe using Aunt Jamima's cornmeal and then make the same cornbread recipe with fresh ground cornmeal. The recipe with the fresh ground cornmeal will taste so much sweeter and have a better corn flavor. Fresh flour makes that much difference.
Barbecue Corn Meal!!
Grill the corn in the husk. When cooled, cut the kernels off the cob...dehydrate the corn kernels with your Profilter Dehydrator (click here) Then mill the barbecue corn kernels into fresh corn meal as you need cornmeal. This will be the best cornmeal flavored corn meal you have ever tasted!!
Nutrition Facts and Information about Corn:
Corn is rich in phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, copper, iron and selenium. It also has small amounts of potassium.
Vitamin Content: Corn has Vitamin B (Thiamine, Vitamin B6, Niacin, Riboflavin, Folate). It has traces of Vitamin A and Vitamin E.
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Corn Recipes
Instant Corn Chowder
In saucepan whisk flours into Hot water
3 1/4 cup hot water
1/3 cup corn fresh flour
3 T split pea flour *
1 T chicken or vegetable soup base
1 1/2 t salt
8-10 drops Tabasco sauce (optional)
Cook: Stirring for 1 minute (medium/high heat)
Cover: And turn to low, cook 2-3 minutes
Serve with broken corn chips
*you can make fast split pea flour/split pea soup by simply milling with your Nutri Mill Grain Grinder dried split peas.
I also increased the corn flour and pea flour as I like a thicker soup.
Jalapeno Cornbread
from my sweet mother in law!
2 1/2 cups cornmeal
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
2 T sugar (I use honey)
1 T salt
4 t baking powder
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup oil
1 can cream corn
6-8 jalapeno peppers*
2 cups grated sharp cheese
1 large onion, grated
In a bowl, stir together cornmeal, flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. In a separate bowl, beat eggs light and stir in milk and oil. Add liquid mixture to the cornmeal mixture and stir in cream corn and jalapenos, cheese and onion. Pour the batter into 2 well greased 9x13 baking pans. Bake in a hot oven 425 degrees for 25 minutes or until done in center. Almost a meal in itself.
*I don't like things hot so I omit the peppers and use a small can of green chilies! :)
Cornmeal Tortillias
by Natural Meals in Minutes (click here to learn more)
1 cup boiling water
2 t chicken bouillon *
2 t olive oil
1/4 cup fine whole wheat flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 T buttermilk
Add bouillon and oil to boiling water, and then stir in flour and cornmeal until well mixed. Stir in buttermilk. Shape into 1 inch balls and then place on Tortilla press.
Hand method: slightly flour board and roll out into 6" diameter circle. Cook in a hot, ungreased skillet until the edges are crisp and brown. OR cook only till firm and slightly browned, then turn over.
Add filling and roll.
Makes 12
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Customer Corner
We've really enjoyed our Bosch mixer and Nutrimill. My sister had
bought a mixer from Paula several years ago and it's still going strong.
From the machines, supplies or the great gadgets everything we have
bought from Paula has been top notch and delivered fast. She goes the
extra mile for her customers. Thanks Paula.
T and M, Tulsa, OK
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Tips for the Harried Woman
As many of you know, my husband worked in Houston, TX for 3 years. He commuted home on the weekends or we traveled there to be with him. We have been nomads for the past three years. This summer he retired from his job of 30 years. God has given us other occupational directions. The biggest challenge and hope for this transition was that God had called us to enter the promise land in returning to OK. I am not saying that people living in TX aren't in the promise land. In fact, most Texans will tell you that Texas IS the promise land! :) I was recently challenged with another view of what entering the promise land means. It means taking the land, it means battles to win; it means being a conqueror. I guess I always thought of the promise land would be a land of cush and ease since that was the milk and honey. Be ready dear friends with sword in hand to take your promise land that God has for us as women! See my series of posts about my journey into the promise land.
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Encouraging Thoughts:
"For a field to bear fruit, it must occasionally lie fallow. And for you to be healthy, you must rest....(God) will bring rest to your mind, to your body, and most all to your soul He will lead you to the green pastures (Psalm 23:2)...
The hills...where David kept his flock were not (naturally) lush...Even today...any green pasture in Judea is the work of some shepherd. He has cleared the rough, rocky land, (torn out) stumps...(burned) brush....
Jesus created a pasture for the soul. He tore out the thorny underbrush of condemnation. He pried loose the huge boulders of sin. In their place, He planted seeds of grace and dug ponds of mercy. And He invites us to rest there."
by Traveling Light.
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