DINNER CAN BE INSPIRATIONAL & YUMMY WITH A SIDE OF BREAD!

Welcome to my new blog. Watching a movie about a famous food blog, I was inspired to start one myself. The movie highlighted the importance of following one’s passion and so that is what I set out to do. The title of my blog “A SIDE OF BREAD” was inspired by last night’s dinner.

I made jambalaya and even though that may be considered a complete meal, I could not help but to try to pair it up with a side of bread. I knew I did not want just plain sliced wheat bread with butter so I started looking for an instant box of corn bread that I could whip up fast. When looking for the corn bread I passed a canister of corn meal – determined to find an easy solution I still pushed things from left to right front to back looking for a package that I never found. Therefore, I decided to look at the corn meal canister and the first of several recipes was “Easy Corn Bread” --- I quickly scanned the ingredients and was happy to note that I had all the ingredients I needed in the house already.

The corn bread turned out to be super soft and yummy! I like my corn bread with a little more sugar than the recipe called for but following the recipe, exactly I found that the extra sweetness could come from butter once the bread has finished baking. Here is the recipe courtesy of Quaker Corn Meal ~

INGREDIENTS

1 cup milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 egg
1 1/4 cups of Quaker Cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)

ALEESHA'S ADDED INGREDIENT

Butter (not optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat oven to 400ºF. Grease bottom and side of round pan, 9x1 1/2 inches, or square pan, 8x8x2 inches.
2. Beat milk, butter and egg in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients all at once just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy). Pour batter into pan.
3. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
4. This is the good part ... Add butter to top of bread while still hot and let sit for at least 2 minutes so that it can become one with the bread ;-)

ENJOY A SIDE OF BREAD TODAY!