What do YOU serve cornbread with?

Cafe Society
1

Got me a jug of artisanal local buttermilk from th’ hippies today, and I want to make a pan of cornbread (as well as sipping a cold glass with a sprinkle of salt on top).

Little Banjo is home for a week from college, and I’m wondering what to make as a main dish to accompany it. I usually do Soup Beans (aka Hobo Beans) — pintos cooked with onion and a slice of smoked ham. But I want something more special.

Spare ribs or fried foods seem too fatty to serve with hot buttered cornbread. What do you suggest?

2

I always like a nice bowl of Texas red chili con carne with cornbread.

3

I know some people like that, but I always take my bowl of red with plain saltine crackers.

4

Hey, chili doen’t judge, neither do I.

5

Chili.

6

I usually make it for breakfast, and serve it with bacon and eggs. Not fancy, but good. Add some honey to the butter = yummy!

7

That’s not bad but for breakfast, I prefer to thin the batter out a bit and use it for griddlecakes. Whatever floats your boat though.

8

Is there anything that cornbread doesn’t go with? I love having it with breakfast but if nothing else, make a nice bowl of soup and put some chucks of cornbread on the side.

9

Chili: Texas. Cornbread: Southeast.

If I didn’t care about fat (usually, I don’t) I would serve cornbread with fried chicken or fish filets, stewed (with a chunk of fatback) pintos or black-eyed peas, and simmered (with a chunk of fatback) greens.

I can’t picture sitting around a good bowl of red in San Antonio and eating cornbread with it.

10

Soup and cornbread is my favorite meal. One piece crumbled into the soup. The other piece buttered and on the side.

11

If you want to go fancy you could try a nice CASSOULET.

12

Oooo, THAT sounds good. Leave out the leavening though, I guess. Just cornmeal, egg, buttermilk, and seasoning?

13

If fried fish is out, maybe some black bean soup? My wife makes a killer soup with dried and canned tomatoes added, and corn bread is the default side with it.

14

I make/serve it either with chili or (typically on New Year’s Day) with black eyed peas and greens.

15

Yeah, leftover cornbread makes a great breakfast — heated up with butter and blackberry preserves!

16

Turnip greens and cornbread. Meal for royalty, around these parts.

17

Green chile cheese corn chowder. With crumbled bacon.

18

I use baking soda and I’ve experimented (with marginal success) with using a sourdough starter. Tasty but I can’t get the texture right.

19

Good Christ, classic French cuisine and CORNBREAD? Are you AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES?

20

Why add leaven at all? We don’t put it into pancake batter.