Corn bread and corny jokes

There was a party at our church this evening and we started getting ready this afternoon. One of the things we had been asked to do was to bake some corn bread for the occasion. Although at first we couldn't find any corn meal or any flour, we were finally able to come up with both. In fact we had two packages of corn meal.

One looked really interesting with a picture of Caramelized Banana Cornbread on the side with an accompanying recipe. Sure, the recipe was in Spanish but we have had 5 classes in Spanish so that shouldn't be a problem. We thought we could make out the general trend of the instructions but it sure seemed like there were way too many words that weren't in our Spanish/English dictionary. Then I noticed a line at the bottom of the package indicating it had been packaged in Brazil. No wonder we couldn't read it or find most of the words - it was written in Portuguese!

Fortunately for us we have three family members who have lived in Brazil and know the language. A call to our son answered many of our questions although there were a couple of words that he couldn't figure out. We managed to put together a baking pan of corn bread that looked about right although we thought it should be lighter. And it tasted more like candy than bread. Some whipped cream would take care of that.

The party itself was a hit. We got there a half hour late and had trouble finding a place to sit and eat. Not that there was a lot left to eat but there was some. And we could always eat our own corn bread. The program started while we were still finishing up. One of the items on the program was a contest for the corniest joke. That would have been difficult because they were all bad.

After the program, they had various activities around the church such a fishing for prizes, trying to bite a donut on a string (like bobbing for apples), face painting, beanbag toss, & making a ghost from a Tootsie pop. This was followed by a costume fashion parade and costume judging. All these diversions gave those who were interested, a chance to decorate their van, SUV or trunk for "Trunk or Treat".

The final activity was gathering back inside after the Trunk or Treat for a cup of hot apple cider. By then people were beginning to drift away while those of us still left were sweeping the floor, putting away the tables, and rearranging the chairs for the meetings tomorrow. We weren't the last people in the building but we came mighty close to it.


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We had invited our grandsons over for the evening and they had invited Brenna for the evening so we had a nice little group of our own.