Friday, September 5, 2014

The Best Cornbread In The Whole Wide World! Non-GMO

We hardly ever use boxed mixes. Mainly due to both health and cost. It's so much cheaper and healthier to DIY in the kitchen.  You must be resillient and realize you will make mistakes and we have and still eaten it. But then when you hit it with a DIY recipe you really hit it! Now being from the south, I wanted to keep a lot of traditional recipes, yet make them "good for us". And who ever said that to be healthy, you need to give up skillet baked cornbread? Just say no to the GMO's and hydrogenated oils and you've got a very nutritious treat. This recipe is my teen daughter's and it's sooo good that we have to make two skillets for dinner. It's more like a corn cake, and still very healthy. First, we grind up some white Non-GMO Grits, into a fine cornmeal, using Vitamix. Or use Orville Redenbacher's Non-GMO Popcorn, you will need to put this into a very tough grinder. Then transfer to blender such as Vitamix for a finer grind. But not quite flour consistency.  This is a fabulous cornmeal. Then using about 2 Cups Cornmeal, 1 Cup Flour she adds 1Tblspn Baking Powder mix these. Then add 1/2 Cup Organic Sugar or Honey. Now put your oil (3/4 Cup) and 2 Eggs in blender, whip together and pour into dry. I use Organic/Expeller Pressed Safflower Oil, but Coconut works good too. Add enough water to look like a batter and when skillet is hot pour into. This is the real trick to all southern cornbread, OIL AND HEAT YOUR SKILLET! Preheat oven to 400 F and put oiled skillet into it until it's good and hot. If you're doing it right, it will sizzle when you pour the batter into it. That's how you know it's gonna be good, you must hear that sizzle! So happy homemaking that Non-GMO Cornbread. You use a popcorn that's labeled Non GMO if you have a grinder or can get it to cornmeal consistency. It might dull blades to try in blender, would not suggest that. ** In place of the grits, you could also use a beautiful Indian cornmeal or grind it yourself.

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