No sugar in my cornbread - just in my tea!

• Sweet or not sweet cornbread? - nm
  • Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! - nm - San Francisco
  • one of my fav cornbread receipes - sm
    • My mom, a southern born girl, likes her crumbled - in a cold glass of buttermilk. nm
  • I've only had cornbread twice.... - Hayseed
    • Ah heck, she just made you a cake - Cornbread
  • No sugar in my cornbread - just in my tea! - Southern MT
  • Grandpa from Tennessee taught me to cook it - sweet. nm
    • My grandpappy from Arkansas taught - Retta
    • Sweet for me... but then again I'm a "sweet kinda gal" nm - medtype
      • LOL! Now that I'm older and more tolerant -sm - tnmt
    • Ya, but was he from the HILLS? - tnmt
      • Totally agree, cornbread, milk, egg - Eastern Tennessee here
      • and don't forget...sm - southern girl
        • LOL that's what my MIL does! - tnmt
          • No Crisco, no lard here but using - Southern girl #2
  • Definitely not sweet...nm - southern girl
    • No sweet cornbread, never! - Southern girl #2

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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.

no sugar made me feel 20 years younger.  sounds strange but it is true. 

if you are presently on sugar, it will be hard for a few days, but really worth it.  i personally cannot do a gradual weaning off sugar but need to go cold turkey.  same with white foods - white bread, white flour, white crackers, white whatever.  i eat protein, protein, protein when getting off sugar.  fish, skinless boneless chicken, every 1/2 hour if you are hungry. after a day or two, you will not want sugar or white foods.  you will be satisfied with lean protein - the less beef the better - and vegetables.  and no milk or milk products.  sounds strange, i know, but i would be willing to bet my next paycheck that you would feel 150% better.  eat like that for awhile and then start adding back in the foods you cut out.  one at a time.  gradually.  maybe one food every 2 weeks.  and notice how you feel.  your body will tell you what it does not like.  yogurt was the first food i added back in and right away my nose started running, clear drainage, knew that i could not handle yogurt.

that is just what i have done and what works for me.  not medical advice at all.  just my experience.

When my mother was dx as being diabetic, I started using sweetener substitutes, thinking that would be better than real sugar.  Dr. Gott, a physician who responds to letters much like Dear Abby in our local newspaper, had a patient write in that when she went on vacation and no longer used the sweeteners during that time, her leg pain went away. When she got back from vacation and started drinking her diet sodas and artificial sweeteners, her pain came back.  She was able to determine that she has an "allergy" to the stuff.  I only drank one diet soda a day and one cup of tea with artificial sweetener a day, but I thought I'd try this with my leg pain/issues.  Hard to believe, but it's made a world of difference.  I've been 3 weeks without the stuff and can't believe the difference.

Dr. Gott is a supporter of the no flour, no sugar diet. If it contains flour or sugar, to not eat it.  A lot of people have wrote to him with success with being on the diet. I did it for a while, did great, but like all diets I didn't make it a lifelong commitment. 

Is anyone out there a good baker?  Looking for a good recipe for the B I G sugar cookies, not those small ones you can buy, slice and bake at the store.   I think some also call them sour cream cookies . . . not sure.  They are about 3 inches round and maybe 1/2 inch high.  You can top them with icing or sprinkles or colored sugars.  Thanks in advance.

I was just wondering, because I think that's what happened to me today just as I was finishing up with getting a little exercise this afternoon.  Usually a piece of meat or cheese and I'm completely normal again, but this time it's much slower to go away.   Just as I was about to call it a day anyway, I suddenly got very weak-feeling and slightly nauseous, & a little light-headed.  Sat down until it passed, then skipped going to the market afterward, like I'd planned, and came home.  While driving home I was sweating so much that in about 10 minutes I was soaked.  I came inside, had some cheese and some slices of chicken, then lay down, using a big bath towel as a blanket since that's what was handy.  Soon that was soaked, too.  Felt better about 30 minutes later, took a hot shower and had some dinner.  Now I'm almost back at baseline.  I've had similar spells very occasionally in the past, but they always cleared up within minutes of having either some protein or a banana.   Does that sound like a hypoglycemic episode to you?  I'm not diabetic, in fairly good shape, not overweight, and do tend to eat a lot of sweets.

This little smiley shows how quickly it comes on, and how it feels! 

I love sugar free stuff (soda, kool-aid, etc), but i've heard that phenylkeroturic (not sure if i spelled it right) wasn't good for you.  have any of you heard this or know of a place to find out more info?  i'm going to try google.  my kids like the sugar free kool-aid and i don't want to give it to them if it's not good. 

thanks

If that offends some people, I'm sorry.  The only mistake I made in my previous post was to make the assumption that the original poster was a Christian and in making that assumption, I posted the passage of scripture from Matthew.  I don't know if the OP is a Christian or not.  So my post may or may not have been relevant to her.

But going on the assumption that she is a fellow Christian, we (Christians) are taught in Paul's Epistles to admonish one another which is what I was doing.  Her focus is on her neighbors.  Their reaction is where she is deriving her happiness.  If her focus was where it should be, she would never be disappointed.

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