Nothing like cornbread made in an iron skillet. In this area we never put sugar in cornbread.
I like mine with some I can't believe its not butter and honey lol.

I like to save bacon grease and use to grease the skillet I make my cornread in. I have to go easy with stuff like that because of my gallbladder. I still love lettuce and green onions with cornbread but I make a nice vinaigrette out of white wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper to go on mine. My Mom used to get those huge buckets of lard every month and everything we ate swam in it. Probably the reason I have a bad gallbladder now lol.
I remember my Mom and her sisters picking wild greens and Mom used to pick me something they called wild lettuce when it was little in the spring that was really good.

I always thought we were as country as you get til I got a cookbook called White Trash Gatherings..now thats country.

I agree jglass... that fun White Trash Cookbook makes folks from the show "Cops" look like snooty Antebellum-dwellers... & makes Nascar look like Monte Carlo card-playing! Hee-Hee!

lol Exactly.

Hey Gang,

I was tickled when the mail-gal delivered my new-member box of five freebies from "The Good Cook" today! This is about my millionth membership!

My box included a new copy of 1.) "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen" (left old one w/ Arturo in Alaska) 2.) "The Deen Bros. 'Ya'll Come Eat' ", 3.) Susan Spicer's "Cresent City Cooking", 4.) Patty Pinner's "Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations with Pie", and 5.) Martha Hall Foose's "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea".

Although I'm exctied about all the books- I am particularly thrilled about the last two, as both promise to be not only cookbooks w/ awesome recipes and pics, but they also appear chock-full of essay-writings, kinda in the vein of Maya Angelou's "The Hallelujah Table".

(If I ain't showin' up much here in the next couple days it simply means that I'm side-tracked with the new books- and the new job at State Farm, which starts-up tomorrow! (notice the "new job"- though exciting, is in the shadows of, and plays second fiddle to the NEW COOKBOOKS!)

Very best wishes on your new job, I do so hope you will like it. First day on the job is always akward but you will do just fine! State Farm oh brother how could you? Hee-hee!