Melanie W.'s Cornbread

I have yet to find a homemade cornbread recipe that I love. I was hoping this one would do it for me, but it didn't. It was a little dry (could be my fault), not sweet enough (even though I quadrupled the sugar), I don't like chunks of corn in my cornbread, or perhaps it was the strong rosemary flavor from my creamed corn, I don't know. For now I'll stick to my boxed mix (those little Jiffy boxes are great!)

Aside from increasing the sugar and decreasing the salt a pinch, I followed the recipe. If I were to go back and remake it I might add a little extra buttermilk, maybe it would have helped with the dryness? And, as you can see, I don't have a cast iron skillet so I cooked it in this glass dish. (but a cast iron skillet is on my kitchen wishlist!)

Melanie W.'s Creamed Corn

This was simpler than I expected. Sure, it took a little bit of time to cut the corn off the cob (I decreased the recipe down to 5 ears), but once that was done it took no time at all! I did have to go buy some turmeric because I didn't have any, but it was worth it because I've made a handful of recipes lately that call for it.

I didn't use a fresh sprig of rosemary so I threw in some dried rosemary leaves. I wish I had read all the directions beforehand because then I would have known you're supposed take the rosemary sprig out at the end and it doesn't stay in the corn! Knowing that I wouldn't have used dried rosemary, or at least used less than what I did. My corn had a nice rosemary flavor, but it was a bit on the overpowering side.

I like this corn recipe a lot, but I don't think I'd make it very often. I'm not really into creamy vegetables and plain corn is equally as good, and healthier. Like someone else said this would be good for Thanksgiving or something.

Cami's Creamed Corn

Let me just say it's hard to get a good picture of corn.

Corn hasn't ever a favorite of mine. I think it's because I only had canned corn growing up and when we had corn on the cob stuff got stuck in my teeth. It didn't seem worth it. Since I've been married I've made more corn on the cob because Jason really likes it. I've grown to appreciate it but this is awesome! It's all the flavor and firmness of corn on the cob without the junk getting stuck in your teeth.

I didn't have rosemary but I did buy turmeric. I am going to search out more recipes to add it to because I like the flavor. I liked having onions in it as well. I never would have thought to do that on my own.

This will definitely be a go to side dish. I served it with spinach, strawberry and poppyseed salad. It was perfect for a summer meal. Although I agree with Maren that this would be good on Thanksgiving too.