Cornbread with Ham, Onions and Tomatoes

Family favorite recipe.It never goes to waste. As for the left over cornbread you have... well make your favorite chili for the next day and you have 2 meals planned!!! Happy cooking!

This is a recipe from Alex Guarnaschelli that I amend slightly due to my liking. My family would be ashamed of me because this is not exactly southern cornbread, but I like it kind of smooth (less crumbly) and what they don’t know won’t hurt them. The other sinful thing I like, which I would strongly suggest, is putting an obscene amount of buttermilk into this cornbread (more than the recipe calls for) and pulling it out of the oven early so the middle is still raw. It sounds crazy, but try it.

It's flu season thyme is loaded with antibiotics like goodness only the natural way.

This showed up in my family about 20 years ago. Not sure where it originally comes from, but it's awesome! This is how we make it, but as with any recipe, you can make changes to make it your own. Can double dressing and cornbread, to your liking.

When it’s the holiday season and you need a quick and easy recipe for cornbread & chicken dressing !

There’s something about this combination that makes it so addictive. Once you taste this corn bread with honey whipped butter, you’ll never go back to plain old cornbread again.

There was this Italian Restaurant in Lower Manhattan that made great Polenta over Sausage and Peppers. I love polenta, but you have to stir it a lot to make. I decided to try a short cut and came up with this idea. Not as creamy as that old restaurant, but still very good. Another crowd favorite in my large and picky family.Basically, this can be made with any meat and vegetable combination. In the future, I plan on making it over Chicken & Broccoli. So far, I have made it over Chicken & Peppers and Sausage & Peppers(Twice). For the picture, I made it over Sausage &Peppers.I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. The only negative to this dish is when it is over. :-(Enjoy!

Have you ever seen a recipe that called for something you never heard of, or cannot get. Here is one that is sometimes hard to find and isn't as popular as it used to be. As folks come to your area old things can get lost and new things introduced. As generations pass so does some of the old ways of cooking, " new and improved" ways. The more impossible substitute, and genetically modified organisms we put into our bodies the more modified organisms we become. We are what we eat. We have to eat. As long as I still have a choice I want to enjoy what I eat. I want to eat my comfort food I remember eating long ago.

For a cold Winter day or night!!!

When I first learned to make cornbread, there wasn’t a written recipe! Granny just used a scoop, a pinch and a juice glass.Note: I used SELF-RISING CORNMEAL not cornmeal mix.

My favorite thing to eat with chili (or any dinner really). I love cornbread! I usually leave out the corn kernels, because of my picky children, but this recipe is delicious either way. Steps include directions and cook times for both bread and Muffin variations. Recipe from Sallysbakingaddiction.com