makes great corn bread but only use a cast iron skillet best for cooking..here's the link http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/skillet-cornbread/ I watch her show a lot and she cooks great stuff ..I always try some thing new on Sundays I live alone with a Lab and love to cook and she usually gets a cut of my efforts as long as there's nothing in it she shouldn't have,,And it shoes She's a yellow lab and goes 80 pounds..Sometimes I add a can of creamed corn to it all..Hope you can find corn meal over there

Known as Crack in A Box. Makes the BEST Cornbread ever. Stocked by the pallet at all the local stores. $0.30 a box
No way I would make homemade over this

If we got down to less than 6 boxes of Jiffy on my boats panic began to set in.

Corn bread, biscuits & gravy and chicken fried steak. That's all I need to live.

Bill Grant put a picture of Corn Muffin mix in the thread as a hilarious joke. Corn muffins are not cornbread.

Nixer thanks for the education,,I didn't know the car dude and chilli man were the sand,,,,Bill used to always make that but my late girlfriend taught me to make it from scratch,,but still have a few boxes of crack and if i'm feeling lazy I go to it..I put 2 or 3 boxes in my cast iron skillet

Thanks for the link, at least I know what it is supposed to look like when I'm done. Am I correct in thinking I should use course cornmeal? Shops also sell a fine cornmeal here too.
I used to own a black lab, best dog I ever owned. I think he must have been crossed with a cart horse because he was massive and used to intimidate people because of his size. He wasn't the smartest cookie in the jar, but was the friendliest, soppiest animal you could ever wish to meet; unless you were a sofa cushion, in which he would grab you, run outside and try to bury you somewhere!


Your crack is a damn site more expensive over here. I managed to track it down for £1.65/box +£4.50 delivery. (That's over $8 by my reckoning). Fortunately, Dart saved me before I placed an order for a pallet load to get the bulk discount!


The simplest things in life are often the best. Least that's what I keep trying to convince my wife. Must be working, she's still keeps me around


Thanks Dart, not sure local law enforcement would have understood my advert for selling the best Crack this side of the Atlantic if the pallet order had gone through!

BDB, Dart just doesn't know the secret to Corn Bread. They have called it Corn Muffin Mix forever.

Yeah Bill and the instructions on the box are for muffins,,Don't take a PHD to make bread

BDB my first dog after the military was a black lab named Charley..Dog had more brains than most people Named my son after him Never been with out a dog since then..Except when my last one passed I said no more dogs about a week later I got up and the ho8use just felt empty I told my M8 you know what's missing and she said I didn't think you would wait this long and we got Mary Sue..Now we live alone and she sleeps in bed with me and I think she hears my eyes open as soon as I do she washes my face ..I never wake up in a bad mood

Guys we're all good here and just joshing with you.

My lab was called Dibs, after I called "dibs" on him. We went everywhere together and his favourite places always involved water. He adored going to the coast and playing in the sea and we'd walk miles and miles together. I didn't get another dog after losing him because my work was taking me away from home for increasingly longer periods of time and didn't think it fair. I can empathise with that empty house feeling and still get odd moments when my wife is out and the house just seems a bit too quiet. Labs are by far my favourite breed and make brilliant companions.

Recipie looks pretty good and tasty! I can tell you, as a Texan my whole life, that traditional Texas chili does not have beans. I however enjoy beans in my chili.

Hi Jason,

How's it going?

I saw a couple of recipes in my recent searches that omitted beans. The link to Shelby's mix Russ kindly shared above also has a picture with a bowl of chilli and not a bean in sight.

I am always curious about the origin and evolution of things and wondered when and why kidney beans became so dominant in most recipes today. It seems to me that the haricot, (navy?), bean was a more obvious choice to me. Too heavily influenced by the films of wranglers eating chilli and beans around an open fire that I grew up with as a kid I guess.

Cheers,

B

P.S. Please don't tell me Hollywood isn't real, I couldn't handle learning the whole fabric of my historical references are false.

According to Hollywood, all men in the UK sound like Prince Charles and all women sound like Queen Elizabeth II when they speak. Is this not correct?

Born in London, grew up there, and I can honestly say, feck off we don't sound like that muppet....

Huuummmmm... Khai, you can't talk about Queenie's boy like that. He'll be your Lord and Royal Sovereign in the not to distant future. If he hears that kind of talk you'll be sent to the tower and forced to talk to his plants all day.

(Also, just between you and me, so keep it under your hat... We need to keep the Americans thinking we all live in castles so they keep coming to visit as tourist and spending money. I've checked and there's only £1.90 left in the government funds and I need that to buy the Crack in the Box Bill is selling).

Absolutely old boy. One does have to keep up the standards you know. Oh my is that the time? Have to toodle off and polish the battlements before tea. Hmmm... Wonder if Mumsies got cook to make cucumber sandwiches. Scrummy, my favourite.

More like Ned Stark & Davos Seaworth

I'm sorry guv, dunno wot came into the ol noggin there, cor blimey, strike a light.
I'll go to the foot of our stairs, I got that wrong, I'm a right plonker.....