On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:40:39 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 3/19/2013 4:45 PM, notbob wrote:
>> On 2013-03-19, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
>>> Tamale pie fulfills the idea of a casserole and there are no noodles,
>>> canned soup or rice.
>>
>> ....and no canned corn, no beef, no tomato sauce, and no blk olives.
>> Plus, it has tastes-like-stale-cigarette-butts chipotle (gag!) in it
>> and beans! Beans!? What the....
>>
>> I don't know where you dug that recipe up, but classic tamale pie is
>> so good and so easy to make I can't imagine why anyone would wanna
>> change it so drastically.
>>
>> http://southernfood.about.com/od/gro...r/bl20908c.htm
>>
>> RRs version is so wacky (honey? milk?) I'm jes gonna walk away.
>>
>> nb
>>
>>
>I'll agree honey and milk don't belong in anything called Tamale Pie.
>I'm not a fan of recipes calling for canned corn or sliced olives,
>either. I don't like olives and I have to avoid whole corn. As for
>chipotles, they're fine in dried ground form
>
>Jill

Did you see that she was using the honey and milk to make the polenta
-- a tablespoon isn't very much. Even if she had used the honey (sub
for sugar) in the meat portion, that would not be unusual. I've seen
that use often to balance out flavors.
Janet US