Imagine Our Surprise!

Our weekends are always the time we enjoy cooking together. One of the best scores from our wedding registry is a terrific waffle maker from our friend, Nate.  

Needless to say, we've been experimenting with waffle recipes over the past few months, which has been a lot of fun - whole wheat, whole wheat with nuts and bananas, regular with fruit - you get the idea.  

Sometimes we eat them without syrup and just top them with fruit and other times we use our favorite syrup, "Delta Cane."  QB picked up this syrup some time ago at our local grocery store chain, McDade's, formerly the Jitney Jungle No. 14, famous for being the place where Eudora Welty bought her groceries.  

The Delta Cane syrup is a good bit thicker than regular syrup, with a consistency akin to molasses.  It also has a bit of a sorghum flavor, too, which is the clincher for me.  

Look at how the sunlight illuminates the syrup bottle.  Can't you just hear the angels sing?  Ha!

We think it hung the moon.  

So, imagine our surprise when we eventually looked at the label to see where it was made (because somehow I just had a feeling it wasn't from these parts):

At least it wasn't made in Milwaukee. 

It always makes me giggle on the inside when we use it!  Then it makes us both crave real sorghum molasses with hot buttered cornbread.  **drool**  I'll be visiting French Camp for work soon and will definitely get sorghum then.  They make it  there the traditional way each October.


I looked at the Griffin Foods website and it looks like they put out some good and interesting products - open since 1908 and still run by the Griffin family.  The "Sizzle Toppers" sound really good - haven't ever seen them around here but I also haven't paid attention.   You can order online, though!  

I'm going to have to try the Bleu Cheese Butter recipe and it suggests you top it with either Peach Pepper or Mandarin Orange Pepper Sizzle Toppers and serve with pork tenderloin.  Can we handle that?!