I’ve been on vacation for the past week, so apologies for not updating! It was so nice to take a break and spend every day by the pool soaking in time with my cousin and her kiddos. Hanging out with her two girls makes me even more excited to be having one myself!
Now, it’s back to reality… work, cleaning, and cooking. Ah, the glamorous life of the real world. I had a box of cornmeal that needed to be used up, so I tried to make my own cornbread from scratch.
To be honest, nothing beats Jiffy’s cornbread muffin mix. AND it’s only 99 cents a box, so why even bother trying to make something better? This bread wasn’t as flavorful as I would have liked. The texture was great, though.
My loaves rose all the way to the top. Look at how tall they are!
Oh, did I tell you guys about the black widow in the back of my car? Well, when my DH dropped me off for the airport, I noticed a spiderweb in my backseat. I asked my DH to vacuum it up before I came home from my trip. My DH then texts while I’m gone to let me know that when he went to vacuum up the spiderweb, there was a fat ol’ lady black widow right smack dab in the middle of the web! When he tried to get near it or even vacuum it at all, she scurried underneath my seat.
UHHHHHHH….. I’m never driving my car again until he gets the confirmed kill! When I came home from my trip, my DH was determined to get that bugger. When he got close, the dang spider moved swiftly underneath the seat. We left my door open and waited for the spider to come back out. When she didn’t, my DH went on his forums to search for ideas.
In the end, he used a blade of grass to create vibrations in the web to lure the spider out. Sure enough, she came out to see what all the commotion was. When she did, my DH sprayed her with Raid, which stunned her and caused her to fall. One more smash with a boot and she was dead. I did a thorough cleaning of all of her leftover webs.
Don’t ever leave your windows open, guys. You don’t want to risk the same thing that happened to me.
Recipe from Very Best Baking
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup yellow corn meal
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon rosemary
- 1 cup NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
Directions
- Preheat oven to 425° F. Grease 8 x 4-inch loaf pan.
- Mix together the evaporated milk, egg, olive oil, and butter. Gradually stir in the corn meal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and rosemary until just moistened.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
- Bake for 25 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
Lovely stuff, Kim, that bread looks fantastic! It does look quite crumbly to me, I guess it’s best to eat as soon as you can.
It’s really excellent bread and preparations are very easy and friendly. May be I will try to make it, hope I will do it. Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful Rosemary Cornbread.