Skillet Cornbread ~ Cook's Thread for the "Four Ingredient MSU Challenge" Throwdown

[thirdeye]

THIS Throwdown encourages multiple entries and this cornbread will be my second entry.

Required Ingredients:

Meat Protein: Dry cured cold smoked bacon

Fruit/Peppers: 'Big Jim' chile peppers

Liquid: 7 Up

Cheese: Hi-temp cheddar cheese

And here is all of the fixins' with the exception of salad oil. I basically eye-balled the amounts of buttermilk and 7 Up until the consistency was like pancake batter, then added everything else

I baked the bacon first

This was added to the batter, and I had the skillet preheating in a 450° Egg, so it was dumped in and cooked until golden.

I turned it out immediately.

 

[Big George's BBQ]

I want some of that

 

[bowhnter]

I need to step up my game

 

[SMOKE FREAK]

You're just making stuff up now aren't you...:biggrin1:

 

[thirdeye]

You're just making stuff up now aren't you...:biggrin1:

thirdeye: So, this is like an Iron Chef kind of thing? What is 'MSU'?

DerHusker: MSU = Making Stuff Up

Moose: MSU is an acronym for "Make Something Up", as popularized by 16Adams in virtually every cook thread he posts in Qtalk.

Yes.... I just figured out what that meant. :biggrin1:

 

[thirdeye]

I need to step up my game

Cornbread, beer bread and biscuits are about the only bread things I can pull off.

 

[lzbcook]

That looks delicious!
I have to ask:
Did that plate filled with fixins make more than one wheel? If not, it really disappeared to all but taste and texture, at least so I assume based on small phone picture and less than stellar eyes.

 

[thirdeye]

That looks delicious!
I have to ask:
Did that plate filled with fixins make more than one wheel? If not, it really disappeared to all but taste and texture, at least so I assume based on small phone picture and less than stellar eyes.

No. But the amounts might be deceiving because the plate is a salad plate, same with the plate the bacon is on.

The fixin's on the plate are 1 chile pepper, 1/4 cup of sweet corn. 1/4 cup of hi-temp cheese, and 3 strips of bacon. The corn and cheese really did disperse and they did blend in color-wise. The hi-temp cheese does not fully melt, it gets sort of like a chocolate chip in a cookie. All of the specks of color you can see in the picture are either pepper or bacon. The dominant flavor was bacon, but the chilie flavor was in the background.

 

[Smoke on Badger Mountain]

Well that’s creative and delicious sounding!

 

[Stingerhook]

Solid work there!

 

[mike243]

Looks really good, I would have fried the bacon then ran the temp up on the skillet before I dumped in the cornbread, it's all about the crust for me and bacon grease is the best lol .

 

[Titch]

Looks very good,is the mouth feel on that gritty?

 

[thirdeye]

Looks really good, I would have fried the bacon then ran the temp up on the skillet before I dumped in the cornbread, it's all about the crust for me and bacon grease is the best lol .

The skillet preheated in the Egg. The batter is mixed and poured within 30 seconds. It does have the sizzle.

 

[thirdeye]

Looks very good,is the mouth feel on that gritty?

Grainy might describe it better than gritty. It's definitely not spongy soft like the recipes with sour cream and butter that resemble yellow cake.

 

[Tango Joe]

Lookin darn good!

 

[Learning to BBQ]

I like your style Thirdeye. That's an imaginative corn bread and I'm sure, delicious.

 

[jzadski]

You never disappoint with your posts. Well maybe I am disappointed that it's not in front of me :sad:

 

[Hoss]

Impressive/Outstanding.I love some good cornbread! Leftover cornbread,crumbled up in a tea glass and soaked in Bulgarian Style buttermilk with a touch of sea salt and a pinch of pepper is a tastee treat too.