True cornbread- you and I are alike

• Cooking HELP!! - Sunshine
  • there is also a jello with fresh cranberries receipe - my 2 cents
  • Cranberries in dressing sm - me2
  • Look at this Southern Dressing with Cranberries - mtmt
    • This looks a lot like it - except it did not have nuts. TY!!! - Sunshine
  • Easy to make, cant find recipe. Google. It has - whole cranberries you cook, nuts, pineapple, jello
  • I'm sure you could find it easily on google, BUT it sm - Southener
    • True southern, never had dried cranberries in dressing. - Here we go again
      • You misread my post. I was saying the usual dressing (since that is what they sm - Southener
        • I just said yuck to the cranberry dressing - Here we go again
        • dressing - marilyn
      • :) I feel that way, too. Cranberries don't grow down here! - tnmt
        • southern dressin' - sm
          • I use Jiffy cornbread and it is SO good (sm) - N FL MT
        • True cornbread- you and I are alike - Here we go again

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WARNING:  I do everything by eye....a pinch here, a smidgeon there...I just throw it all in a bowl and guesstimate.

Ya make 'em kinda like pancakes in a cast iron skillet on the stove and it doesn't heat the house up as much as baking. 

Boil at least a cup of water in the microwave

Put about 1 to 2 cups of self-rising cornmeal in a bowl.  Add 1 beaten egg and mix thoroughly.  Then you add the boiling water in bits, slowly mixing it until the right consistency....not thin like pancakes.... kinda like what you would make for regular cornbread almost.  

Heat skillet with about 1/8 to 1/4 inch oil heated med to med/hi.... then use a good sized serving spoon to dollop the mixture into the pan.  Watch carefully and try not to burn      

DO NOT, under any circumstances use jiffy mix.   

After 25 years I've finally gotten it nearly right (darn Yankee that I am).   Happy vows tomorrow!      

The first time when I was a kid and my mom tried making (bland New England palate here) it.  It was so dry and yucky I swore I'd never eat any ever again.

About 10 years ago a co-worker made cornbread to go with lasagne (she's 1/2 black 1/2 italian and a 100% spitfire!) and OH MY GOSH it was soooo good!  She had like this layer of sugar on top that was kinda melted and it was so moist...I could've eaten that whole pan myself.  I asked her for the recipie but she said something like, "Ancient family secret" or some such thing to bum me out.  Cornbread with lasagne.  Never had it since and probably never will.  :(  I wicked miss her but yeah, she made one heck of a cornbread and that sweet style certainly suited my tastebuds!

Vidalia Onion Cornbread (from Paula Deen)

1 box Jiffy corn muffin mix

1/2 stick butter

1 large Vidalia or other sweet onion, chopped

1 egg, beaten

1/3 cup whole milk

1 cup sour cream

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese, divided

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp dill weed (which I leave out)

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Spray an 8-inch square baking pan with vegetable oil cooking spray. In a medium saucepan, melt the butter and saute the onion until tender, but not browned, for about 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and add the muffin mix, egg, milk, sour cream, 1/2 cup of the cheese, the salt, and dill weed. Stir to combine. Pour into the prepared pan and top with the remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Bake for 30 minutes, until set and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cornbread comes out clean. Allow to cool slightly before cutting into squares.

I double the recipe and bake it in a 9x13 or even 11x15 pan and it comes out great. And to keep the cheese from getting too dark, I add it the last 10 minutes instead of at the beginning. So yummy!

Second favorite is corn casserole, very similar to the onion cornbread.

Corn Casserole

1 pkg Jiffy corn muffin mix

8 oz sour cream

1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

1 egg

1 can whole kernel corn (do not drain)

1 can cream-style corn

1 stick of butter

Melt the butter in an 8x8 baking dish in a 400-degree oven. Meanwhile, mix the corn muffin mix, juice from whole kernel corn, egg, and sour cream until well mixed. Add remaining ingredients and pour into dish with butter. Stir slightly to mix in the butter. Bake 30-45 minutes or until set in the middle.

Again, I have doubled this recipe and baked in a 9x13 pan; however, do not double the butter or it is too greasy.

I've heard the Wal-Mart brands are the worst (like Old Roy).

I have to feed my dog a special dog food I get from the vet for dogs with kidney and bladder problems because he gets bladder stones. Hill Science Diet makes it.

I also get regular boneless chicken breasts from the grocery store, usually about 10 pounds at a time, cook them up in the crock pot (I have a 5-6 quart crock pot), put them into plastic bowls and freeze them. Since he is a small dog, that makes enough food for his "supper" for a month or more. I usually try to catch sales for $1.99 a pound (sometimes $1.49 a pound). That's only $20 for a month's worth of food that you know is at least reasonably healthy.

In our state they had instituted a program called "young 5's", which was basically a year of pre-K where they did the exact same cirriculum as K.  I saw no point in it as my child was K ready, so I insisted they just go ahead and put him in Kidnergarten.  His teacher kept hassling me about it during conferences.  She was an old battle-ax that insisted she knew better than me and he belonged in pre-K.  She couldn't give any reason other than "emotionally immature" (what 5 year old isn't?).  She informed me that sooner or later, he'd be held back a year because of my arrogance about his ability and pushing him into something he wasn't ready for - SHE knew, SHE had been in the business a long time and SHE was the expert.

He started high school this year at the age of 13 (he'll be 14 next month), and still hasn't been held back a grade due to "emotional immaturity" - in fact he's doing just fine.  I think when he graduates I'm going to track her down and rub her face in his diploma - I'm still peeved at her after all this time for trying to bully me into keeping him back a year .

The majority are expected (and actually counted on) not to think, to focus on themselves and only what's beneath their very noses, the acquisition of products nobody truly needs, and fluff entertainment only, and not take an interest in any real issues. 

The government and media expect, and actually think they need, people to stay shallow, uniformed, marginally educated, and childishly willing to be led wherever "authority" tells them to go as long as it sounds good.

Perfect example of this is the housing crisis.  People were told by "professional experts" they could afford too much house, and that they could always refinance, so they signed for it.  They didn't bother to question or think, and now are up a creek.

Many people are lazy and don't want to think too hard.  They don't want to take responsibility for themselves, much less responsibility for issues affecting others, their country, or their world.  They learn to care about MS Spears by staring blankly at the tube, and whatever they see there often will be what they are interested in and care about.  They'll only touch a newspaper to find a sale or a job, a magazine for the pretty pictures and short, breezy tales that don't strain their attention span.  And books - if you can get them to touch one - only for entertainment, and not too thick, please!

We are being trained to be like this.  We are letting ourselves be trained.  We are letting our children be trained.  You are not crazy.  It is the truth.