{"id":9336,"date":"2014-10-11T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2014-10-11T20:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:33:21","slug":"buckwheat-cornbread-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2014\/10\/buckwheat-cornbread-and-learning.html","title":{"rendered":"buckwheat cornbread and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my family, there are certain things you don’t eat w\/out cornbread. It’s just not done. These would include: any kind of beans (but especially bean soup), almost any kind of soup (but especially chicken noodle or potato-based chowders), and chili.<\/p>\n

There are more (anything Grandma or Aunt Bonnie served w\/ cornbread, for instance). Suffice to say, cornbread is pretty serious business at my house. And especially<\/em> when company comes.<\/p>\n

Last night, I committed heresy. I served a variation of my mother’s cornbread recipe TO COMPANY. And I had the temerity to cook it in Great-Grandma’s cast-iron skillet!<\/p>\n

Because the deal is, I have family (whom I adore) who have celiac disease (gluten intolerance, often very serious). And even our cornbread — which has a high proportion of cornmeal (the secret to good cornbread, in case you wondered) — still has wheat flour. A no-no for two nieces.<\/p>\n

So I’ve been experimenting w\/ gluten-free breads. I like to cook, and it’s fun. BUT… It can’t just be ‘gluten-free.’ It has to also taste good. Hence my working w\/ my new favourite ingredient: BUCKWHEAT!<\/p>\n

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It’s a very old grain substitute (turns out buckwheat <\/a>is neither a grain nor a cereal; who knew??). And I grew up eating buckwheat pancakes. But that was about it, until we went to Asia, where buckwheat noodles (soba<\/em>) are common. I like it.<\/p>\n

But it doesn’t cook like wheat. It needed some…reflection. Some tinkering. And since I know how to make cornbread almost in my sleep, that was a good place to start. Turns out? All it needed was more moisture, a little more fat, and a shorter cooking time. And voil\u00e0<\/em>! Wonderful buckwheat cornbread! TOTALLY gluten free!<\/span><\/p>\n

My husband was skeptical — all modesty aside, my usual, traditional cornbread is pretty spectacular. Buckwheat wasn’t high on his list of things to try. Still, he’s a good sport, and when I offered to make it last night, when his sister came in to visit for a couple of weeks, he was game to try it. It was a\u00a0 HUGE success.<\/p>\n

So: what’s this have to do w\/ beginner’s heart, I hear you wondering? IF you’ve even made it this far…<\/p>\n

Don’t let well-enough alone, folks. Don’t ‘settle,’ or become ‘that person’ who won’t play w\/ his or her food. \ud83d\ude42 Seriously — what can you do, to your ordinary life, that might make it more of a gift for someone else? I know — I won’t belabour it. But think about it: who might need buckwheat cornbread in your life?<\/p>\n

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