"The Ranger" > wrote in message
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> Janet Bostwick > wrote in message
> ...
> [snip recipe]
>> Isn't this a version of Tamale Pie?
>
> It's been too many years since I made Tamale Pie; I'd have to dig up my
> father-unit's recipe and check to be able to discuss it with you.
>
> Looking at the different recipes on Da 'Net, there seems to be a lot of
> them containing "corn" and other assorted crap that wasn't in my
> father-unit's recipe. The one-pot chili casserole didn't have corn but did
> use tomatoes indirectly (salsa) so that might be a "yes" after all. It
> would be much simpler than attempting to find his recipe.
>
> The Ranger
>
> Except the original used cooked corn
>> meal then morphed to corn muffin mix and now apparently corn bread.
>> Janet
>>

I tend to look at a recipe in the broadest sense. Yes, tamale pie usually
has corn in it. In your chili casserole recipe, in my view, the corn has
been replaced by beans. Nothing good or bad about either. It just
entertains me to see the roots of a recipe or to see diverse cultures rely
on what is essentially the same dish. Actually, once you understand the
underpinnings of the base idea, only your pantry limits how you put a dish
together. (End of lecture.;o))
Janet