{"id":252,"date":"2012-06-12T02:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T02:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-06-15T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:20:29","slug":"the-me-n-martha-project-day-20-skillet-cornbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Me n&#8217; Martha Project: Day 20, Skillet Cornbread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?attachment_id=254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?attachment_id=254\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1349\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1339450459&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;42&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cornbread_0014\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141-1024x767.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"cornbread_0014\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cornbread_00141.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today took off to the Southwest and did up a skillet cornbread from page 322.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff and I really enjoyed this recipe.\u00a0 In fact, Jeff liked it so much he said &#8220;I like Martha&#8217;s cornbread recipe better than yours!&#8221;\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help but wonder why men say things like that when their wives are within inches a of big, heavy cast iron skillet?\u00a0 Ah, but I jest!\u00a0 This is better than my cornbread recipe and I&#8217;m woman enough to admit it.\u00a0 I did get a bit creative with this cornbread.\u00a0 I added some extra spices to the batter, a little cayenne and some freshly grated ginger.\u00a0 Instead of adding jalape\u00f1os directly to the batter, I did up a topping of caramelized onions and jalape\u00f1os; by caramelize, I don&#8217;t mean I simply browned them, I cooked down them with some butter and about a tablespoon of sugar until it had a nice brown, sugary glaze, threw in the jalape\u00f1os in the last few minutes and deglazed the pan with a splash of orange liqueur.\u00a0 The topping was sweet and spicy and the cornbread had subtle tang and a fantastic texture!<\/p>\n<p>The book notes that this skillet cornbread is traditionally served with a Southwestern barbecue.\u00a0 I think that would also make a perfect accompaniment for a big brunch with a western omelette, strong\u00a0espresso and some spicy bloody marys.\u00a0 Mmmmm&#8230;that sounds good, I&#8217;m going to have to try that sometime soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today took off to the Southwest and did up a skillet cornbread from page 322. Jeff and I really enjoyed this recipe.\u00a0 In fact, Jeff liked it so much he said &#8220;I like Martha&#8217;s cornbread recipe better than yours!&#8221;\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p77v4L-44","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}