Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
One of my favorite vegetables is cauliflower. I love it raw, grilled, steamed, sauté and au-gratin, which is my favorite way of preparing it and eating it!
But then anything that has cream, cheese and goes under the broiler will have me for life.
Just like I been craving corn for the past several weeks (and no, there is no baby in the oven) I started to crave cauliflower too.
So in no time, I made sure to include a nice cauliflower head during my weekly grocery stop.
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.