Cooking 1, restaurant 0 - this is not the usual here!

[susandennis]

Generally I can restore restaurant fries pretty successfully. Not so with last night's fries of which I have a ton. I had them for dinner tonight and they were not impressive so I tossed all the rest.

Today I went to the little Red Apple market and discovered that they had the pickles I asked for on the shelf!! They are the only place in town that carries Sonomo Brinery pickles. They carried the bread and butter but last time I was in, I left a note for the manager asking him if he could please add the whole koshers to the shelf and he did! And they are sooo good.

But also they had Jiffy corn muffin mix!! Around here, corn bread is sugar sweet. I mean really sweet. I nearly choked the first time I buttered up a hunk of cornbread expecting it to be like I was used to only to find it had the sugar of an iced cinnamon bun. Ok, I exaggerate but...

Jiffy, those cheap little mixes that used to be everywhere when I was young and broke are really hard to find these days. But the Red Apple came through. They have sugar in them but it is not the first or even the second ingredient.



Tonight I made up a batch of muffins with about a cup and half of shredded cheese mixed in. They smelled so good when they were done that I had to have one and YUM!!!! Yeah for Jiffy. $.79. You can't beat it. These will be great with my pre-swim coffee in the mornings.

Comments

[meowmensteen]

I use my mom's old Texas cornbread recipe. You're right, Seattle does do it too sweet. Seems like we like to make everything into cake.

[susandennis]

I couldn't even find a recipe that looked like it would be right. But, Jiffy saves the day.

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

I always have some of those Jiffy corn muffin mixes in the cupboard! They sell them in 6 packs at Winco, the local discount supermarket chain.

[susandennis]

I am totally following your example from now on!

[restoman.livejournal.com]

I love Jiffy corn muffins! Their blueberry muffins are good too, but not as cheap. Their pie crust mix is my preferred crust. Good, basic products at a reasonable price!

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

Sounds worth trying! But I've also done well with this corn bread recipe. (http://recipe-sharing.livejournal.com/18632.html) Jiffy is probably roughly the same as Bisquick plus corn meal, I suspect.

[susandennis]

Cool! The Jiffy mix uses only egg and milk so it has all the dry plus the butter.

Your recipe looks very interesting. I may just give it a go. Thanks!!

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

It's been perfect every time.

[one-raido.livejournal.com]

I used to make those Jiffy muffins all the time when I was married. I still see them on the shelf at grocery stores here.