"Extremely corny and very moist"

Corny Cornbread squares would make a lovely accompaniment to afternoon tea. Tonight they shared the dinnerplate with a new scallop dish. Watch this space for details.

"Extremely corny and very moist," Tuck judged our Corny Cornbread -- is the name corny enough for you? -- latest star in the Cold Turkey Cookbook firmament. We started with Bon Appétit's "Easy Cornbread" and made a few changes:

Corny Cornbread

1 cup Jiffy corn muffin mix = 600 calories. See Note #1* below for the virtues of Jiffy mix. 

1 large beaten egg = 74 calories

4 ears cooked corn sliced off cobs and pureed = 3/4 cup = 332 calories. See Note #2** below for comparison of canned creamed corn and homemade puree.

5 cloves roasted garlic = 20 calories

TOTAL = 1030 calories for 9 squares = 114 calories per square

Preheat oven to 400°, spray an 8-inch-square pan with PAM and half fill a slightly larger pan with water for the square pan to sit in during baking to prevent browning of edges.

Blend Jiffy mix, egg, corn puree and garlic cloves in medium bowl, pour into 8-inch pan and bake until edges begin to pull away from pan sides and wooden toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 15-20 minutes. Cool in pan on rack. Cut into 9 squares.

Suggested serving accompanying Scallops with Snow Peas and Cashews on a bed of noodles with Sauce Sisu, recipe and calorie counts in the pipeline.

*Note #1: What's so nifty about Jiffy is that the yellow cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and fat -- lard! -- are in the box, so all you have to add is egg and corn. The roasted garlic is our signature ingredient for just about everything savory.

**Note #2: Compare the 90 calories in 3/4 cup of canned creamed corn called for in the Bon Appétit recipe with 332 calories -- over three times as many -- per 3/4 cup of the homemade puree. We used fresh corn because we had some left over from our Down East Labor Day Cookout and because we love corn sliced off the cob. Next time we'll try the creamed corn and let Tuck be the judge of which is cornier and moister. We like the idea of fewer calories, but never at the expense of taste, rib-stickiness and mouth feel.

Comments

[goomp]

Nothing beats low cal innovative recipes by Sisu.

[Teresa]

*sigh* I used to love to eat Jiffy mix corn bread... no additions to the mix, just the corn bread with the edges browned.

For that matter, when we were kids, my mom used to make it and (back then we had left overs!) she would take the left overs, skim a little butter on both sides and use a skillet to reheat them... it was a fabulous treat with jelly. *grin*

Then when I had to drop additives - I had to drop Jiffy. It has additives for shelf life. I've meant to go looking for a recipe approaching theirs, but then I forget... I think I'll google around now. LOL. Thanks for the reminder.

[pam]

Lovely! All I have to do now is print this page out and add it to my Sissy Cookbook.

Just kidding! LOL! The cornbread is totally doable, though. :D

[Sissy Willis]

Pam: I love your hints about my publishing a real, paper-and-ink cookbook, and it could happen, BUT . . . Nowadays I almost never consult snail cookbooks, instead heading to the internet to google whatever I'm looking for, including my own recipes on sisu. What I might do is set up a page under my "Cold Turkey Cookbook" category that would list and link all recipes by category. Hmmm. 'Sounds like a plan. :-)

[Gayle Miller]

And how soon may we expect that page be set up? Inquiring minds want to know.

I'm moving back into my OWN digs in about 5-1/2 weeks and will look forward to doing Cold Turkey Cookbook recipes for mine own self, thank you very much!

[pam]

See? I'm not the only one! ;)

I still -maybe because I'm not good at cooking- but I do consult my cookbooks all the time. I have 5 or 6, along with many copies of Cooks Illustrated...

I just think your photography, verbiage and style are perfect for a cookbook. And I just googled cold turkey diet and there is no such animal. YOU are #4 on the search for that term. YOU have started the Cold Turkey Diet. I love it. :D

Okay, I promise from here on out that I will stop pushing. Enough is enough. And thanks for thinking about organizing the recipes so they'll be easier to find.