One week until Thanksgiving!
I don’t know about you but I am ready
to stuff my face with:
So I’m definitely not your typical kind of girl.
When it comes to receiving gifts, I love to ask for practical things
rather than gifts of glitz and glam.
Unless it’s a gift card to Anthropologie.
Now that I think about it,
a girl does need more clothes, right?
Sounds practical to me!
So when I got this incredibly huge slab of 200 year old wood
from my most wonderful boyfriend for my birthday,
I was beside myself!
(((he knows me so well!)))
Making its debut appearance in these photos!
Whenever I drive, I’m always scanning
people’s trash cans, work sites, or turning my head for garage sales
in search for scraps of wood that I can use
when photographing food.
It’s a habit I cannot seem to break.
So what better way to introduce this incredible piece of wood
than to pair it with an equally
incredible food?
Cornbread!
But not just any cornbread…
Corn-on-the-Cob Bread.
I love how the flaxseed meal gives the appearance of flecks of pepper.
I found this pan at Cost Plus World Market
http://www.worldmarket.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11769090
and knew that it would be mine…
(another essential need in any girl’s life!)
Here’s a recipe card for Gluten-Free and Vegan cornbread:
Place corn holders into each corn-on-the-cob bread pieces.
Your Thanksgiving guests will be delighted to see that
their favorite bread is cob-ified.
Giggle as you watch them attempt to eat their bread
with the holders intact.
Isn’t that wood just gorgeous?
I cannot wait to make a table out of it!
And what about those cornbread cobs?
Is it appropriate to adore your own work? haha.
a piece of wood for your birthday! it seems funny, but I KNOW how excited you had to be for that!! 😀 and even better that he knows it. it is beautiful!
I had a n old cast iron pan that was corn-shaped… I either lost it or it is in a box in my mom’s garage… I loved that thing! I never had cute holders like those though, they were the plastic corn shaped variety 🙂
Oh, now I know what to give you for your birthday… 🙂
Oh! That looks so good! Do you think it would work just using muffin tins?
Absolutely Maddy! You could put the holders into the regular sized muffins and it would still look adorable 🙂
Great thanks! This will without a doubt be on my Thanksgiving table! Bob’s red mill GF flour mix?
That would totally work nicely for cornbread, however I have found this brand called Authentic Foods: Feather Light Blend that I like a lot and used for this recipe.
Thanks so much for your help! 🙂
Of course, Maddy! Hope you like it 🙂
This is such a weird coincidence. How did you know that I would be smoking a corncob pipe while reading this? Did your boyfriend make you walk the plank when he gave you the amazing gift? Bahaha. Did you draw that fork on the recipe card too? OMG! This beautiful post just made me swallow my tobaccey. PS Ross plates are so great.
Don’t swallow it GiGi! It ruins the bowel movement cycle, so I hear… HAHA!! you make me laugh so hard!
I see those cast iron corn bread pans at flea markets all the time. I just never put it together that the result would be. this. cute. Ahhhdorable. 🙂
I want to go to said flea markets with you 🙂
eeeeeehhhhh…. corn on the cob bread… dor…
Bob. hehehe. I like that better 🙂 I especially love the “dor”–I used to say that but it sounded a little more drawn out like: “Doooooooorrrrrrrrrrr” ha
Corn on the bob bread. Awesome. Love the little holders! And your wood is awesome. And speaking of props, I like those plates, too! 🙂
Ross is seriously my go-to for fun plates!
Loves me some Ross! Second-hand stores are great, too.
YES!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhh!!! These are too fun and cute for words! What a great idea!!!! I’m the one that needs to come live with you for a month or so and follow YOU around the kitchen…I need to soak up some of your playfulness and creativity!
Ps you would make THE BEST mom 🙂
Don’t say stuff like that Nora. No kids for another million years for me!!! 🙂 How about we take turns learning from each other? I will bring my notepad and piece of chalk. hehe
HA! Well it’s true – just so you know 🙂 Kids are a far distance away for Chris and I too!
Sounds like a plan, I have my notebook and sharpened pencil ready!
Deal!
Ha! I love it! Both the corn on the cobs (and those evil looking corn cob holders… are they just tiny steak knives?!) and the slab of wood. This whole post is delightful to the eye!
I grew up on the corn-shaped, yellow, plastic-y holders as a kid so when I asked G’s mom if she had any and she brought these out–I couldn’t believe my eyes. I have never seen nice corn holders before, not to mention ones that look like tiny steak knives, until I met these 🙂
We definitely had the yellow plastic corn-cob ones when I was a kid and I looooved them… as a kid I thought that was so clever, you use them to eat your corn and they’re SHAPED like corn!
But I’m kind of in love with these tiny knives too. You could arm a very small militia with them.
haha, Like if a whole bunch of dolls wanted to attack, they so could use these holders.
I’m not going to lie, I kinda got a little sad when I saw she didn’t have the corn-shaped holders. But these definitely grew on me. It’s like they are holders for the wealthy, or something 🙂
oooooh, reclaimed wood is the best (but an anthro gift card is totally acceptable!). and, i can’t believe you figured out what to do with one of those corn cob pans. it seems so obvious now…
I’m definitely discovering how amazing it is–I keep looking at it in adoration and wonder what kind of life it had 150 years ago… (I’m a total sap)
Are you and I going Anthro shopping soon? …. Eh???!
ah! if i wasn’t on the opposite coast i would so be there for some shopping. well, probably window shopping mostly, but still!
For some reason I thought you were westcoast! Why am I thinking this?? <–crazy, that's why…
Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing.
(nothing left to say)
Those are super cute! Love the wood as a background too. It gives a really nice warmth to your pictures! Definitely not bad t adore your own work, yours is totally adorable!
Phew, thank you 🙂 Maybe it’s not so much my work that I am adoring now that I think about it but the fact that someone decided to make a pan in the shape of corn cobs! It makes anyone’s food adorable…
And the wood *does* give a nice warmth, you are so right! xo
Now I have to go find a corn cob pan.. definitely something every kitchen needs! This is brilliant!
forgot to mention.. I LOVE the reclaimed wood! It looks absolutely awesome! My husband is going to be making a harvest table for our dining room out of reclaimed barn wood this next year.
Tell your husband to stop by over here and make us a table as well! 🙂 Take pics of it when it’s finished–I would *love* to see it!
Isn’s that pan the best? I passed out when I saw it from cuteness. People and their clever ideas! xo
I wood love a slab like that too!
And your corny cobbingtons.
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It’s so good to see your face! I have missed you, Jeni! Are you going to be writing up some cleverly written posts any time soon? I miss your humor…
Ah Cara – you’re so sweet. I’ve just started a new job and it’s rather demanding, 10am til 9pm 7 days a week! However a girl still needs to eat so I’ll definitely be posting something soon.
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Ohmygoodness! You are a hard-working woman. What job is it, if you don’t mind me asking? Thank you for still stopping by and commenting despite being so tired. Now I feel even luckier to see your face over here… 🙂
The job I’ve just started is technical website support for an online newspaper, I am a website designer by trade, and no, I don’t mind you asking at all. I just strated my new job at the end of MoFo which was rather good timing ‘cos I don’t think I’d have managed MoFo otherwise which would be a crying shame. I’ll need to start prepping for next year right about now me thinks.
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That would have been a hot mess! Good thing you are preparing in advance for next year. I would be sooooooooooo sad to not read your posts. Hope you are enjoying the new gig! xo Do something fun this weekend.
Wow, I know you said you were gonna do something cool with the board, but these cobs are amazing!
It looks like a real corn on a cob, well at least from my iPhone 🙂
Enjoy your 200+ year old piece of barn wood 🙂
Love this post even if I can’t eat it 🙁
Maybe just a bite 🙂