Cowboy Cornbread

A dear friend recommended this recipe to me.  The original recipe used a different bean mix but I recently made an indecent amount of vegetarian chili and if I didn’t start finding creative ways to sneak it onto the dinner table then my family was going to revolt.  Hence the slight tweaking of the recipe to substitute chili for cowboy beans.

Cowboy Cornbread

Time: 45 minutes  Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 cups chili (I used vegetarian chili because that’s what I had sitting in my fridge)

2 large eggs

1 ¾ oz cornmeal

½ cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 ¾ oz cheddar cheese, shredded (I’m a notorious cheese substituter.  I had three kinds of unmarked yellowish cheese in my fridge so that’s what went into my recipe.)

Salt and pepper

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Grease a pie pan.

Topping – mix dry ingredients together.  Beat eggs in a separate bowl with 3 tablespoons of water.  Add to dry ingredients and mix in cheese.

Assemble – Add chili to casserole dish and top with cornbread mix.  Bake for 25-30 minutes.  Let sit a few minutes before serving because it’s gonna be nuclear hot.

Notes:

I made a half recipe in two small casserole dishes because I love individual serving containers.  Young Master John only had a few bites of the cornbread because I added too many jalapenos to the chili for a toddler and he thought it was great.

Mommo’s Coleslaw

This is one of my favorite easy salad recipes.  It’s always delicious.  It’s inexpensive.  You probably have 4/5^th of the ingredients necessary to make it in your house right now.

Mommo’s Coleslaw

Time: 10 minutes  Serves: 6ish

Ingredients:

¼ cup apple cider vinegar

½ cup white sugar

1 cup Miracle Whip

1 head of cabbage, thinly sliced

2 carrots, peeled and shredded

Directions:

Mix vinegar, sugar, and miracle whip together. Mix in cabbage and carrots.

Notes:

This was my grandmother’s recipe and she always used a bag of coleslaw mix.  Slicing your own cabbage is easy and fast.  It took me less than five minutes to do a head of cabbage and two carrots so that’s the way I do it.

Five minutes later-

She also used to add onion to her coleslaw and then my aunt married a gentlemen who does not like onion in coleslaw since then onion has been banished from our family’s recipe.   Mommo also only added the dressing to the coleslaw right before serving and preferred to use fresh cabbage because she didn’t like the “cabbage to get too strong or the mix to get too watery”.

This goes great with any kind of grilled meat or BBQ sandwich.