Big bowl of poor man's beans(no meat), sweet jalapeño cornbread with real butter and a large glass of iced tea!
When I was going to school, beans and cornbread was one of my staples. The Skaggs/Albertson's around the corner used to sell marked down ham. They would basically cut it up into chunks and sell it for $1 per pound. Add a few boxes of Jiffy cornbread and I swear I could eat all week on only $5.
........ I swear I could eat all week on only $5.
Once when I was low on funds I needed some meat to put in a pot of beans. I found a jar of redhots, like the ones you used to get in bars. I slice em up, cooked them in the beans. When it was done the hotlinks tasted just like they did when fresh out of the jar. Practically ruined the beans.
Guys, I'm from Georgia. My Mom, aunts, etc. are all gone, now. If there is ANYONE here who knows how to make proper cornbread, I'm begging you to teach me! I'm talking grease and a cast iron pan. Anyone?
Gotta have fresh/hot horseradish with those beans.
No problem. Get you some cornmeal mix, add your wet stuff, stir till slightly lumpy. Take your iron skillet, dump is some grease, melt it around the pan on a burner, and pour in your batter. Leave it on the burner on low/med while your oven finishes heating. That makes crispy bottom that won't stick. Pop in oven and bake till top is a color you like. push down the center to see if it is done. Slice, butter, and eat, or better yet, let it cool and bust it up in a glass of sweet milk or buttermilk.
Use the directions off the bag of meal mix for liquid and oven temp. If you want to go old school on the mix, use stone ground meal and some soda,salt, and buttermilk. Some use sugar, flour, baking powder, eggs, bacon grease and on. Lots of ways to mix it, hard to screw up, and it depends on what part of the South on sweet or not, white or yellow meal, sweet or buttermilk and adds.
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