Sweet Cornbread

I have loved cornbread since I was a child; however, I have never made it before. It always seemed like it would be hard to make. For Southern Night I decided to give it a shot, this recipe made it sound very easy to follow.

It turned out awesome! Everyone loved it even the kids. We ate it for days and it is what they asked for at snack time.

Ingredients

• 1 c. cornmeal
• 3 c. all-purpose flour
• 1⅓ c. sugar
• 2 Tablespoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup. melted butter
• 2 Tablespoons. honey
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 2 1/2 cups whole milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9×13 inch baking dish.
2. In a large mixing bowl, stir the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
3. Pour in the vegetable oil, melted butter, honey, beaten eggs, and milk, and stir just until moistened.
4. Pour the batter into the greased baking dish and bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Watch the cornbread towards the end, you want it to be turning golden and starting to show some cracks.

This is the website that the recipe is found on.
This is the Pinterest  link.

Southern Dinner Night

I decided to start doing a cultural night each week. For the first week I decided to go with a southern night. I love southern cooking.

I made pulled pork in my crock pot. I didn't use a recipe for this as I have made it many times. I shredded the left over ham from the night before put it in the crock pot with about 3 bottles of BBQ sauce, salt, pepper and garlic. I turned it on high for about 3 hours. Stirring it whenever I happened to walk by.

Next was maple brown beans these just came from a can.

Roasted potatoes. These are simple and I love to make them. Slice up as many potatoes as you need. Lay them in tin foil, through a glob of butter in add salt and pepper fold tin foil over and either place right on the BBQ or if doing them in the oven put them on a cookie sheet. Cook for about 20 minutes or so, flipping half way. Sometimes I add onions or bacon to these as well.

Corn on the cob. Everyone knows how to make this. I use local fresh corn.

Cornbread, now this is something you can never forget. I love cornbread but have never made it before. I found a recipe on pinterest. It turned out awesome even all three kids LOVED it. I will make this again. cornbread recipe 

Last but not least the peach pie made with fresh local peaches. I cut stars into the crust to make it more southern like. Peach Pie recipe.