Chili Beef Corn Bread

This recipe turns up a notch on plain corn bread recipes. The chili, ground beef, cheddar cheese and Mexican spices make this recipe the bomb. If you love cornbread with a new direction try this one.

What ever the function maybe, you will be impressed with this chili beef casserole cornbread.

You can leave this cornbread casserole in the baking dish to let your guests spoon it out into their plates or you could cut it into squares and serve it as appetizers.

Instructions

Cornbread Recipe:

2 cups self rising cornmeal

2 cups self rising flour

Two eggs beaten

1 1/2 cup whole milk ( maybe a little bit more for smoothness)

1 stick melted butter

1/4 cup canola oil or bacon dripping

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Set oven at 350. pour oil or bacon dripping in a 9x13-3qt baking dish.

 Place baking dish in the oven and let it get hot, not burning hot.

Add flour and cornmeal in a bowl and mix together. Add milk and blend together.
adding eggs and mix together very well. add the butter stir into the mixture. if the mixture to thick add more milk until smooth. add shredded cheese and blend very well.

Pour halve cornbread mixture in baking dish with hot oil or bacon dripping. Set aside

Ground beef mixture:

2 pounds Ground beef

One large chopped green bell pepper

One medium chopped red bell pepper

One large jalapeno pepper

One large onion chopped

4 cloves garlic chopped

4 teaspoons cumin

4 teaspoons chili powder

Teaspoon salt

Teaspoon black pepper

1/2  teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 can rotel mild or hot tomatoes

2 can wolf brand chili with beans {mix 1 cup water with the two can of chili). this will thin it out.

3 cups shredded cheddar cheese

1 cup whole kernel corn

In a large skillet add ground beef cook until meat is done and crumbly drain excess grease and add onion, peppers, and garlic and cook until vegetables are transparent add corn and rotel tomatoes. add spices and simmer for five minutes. taste for profession adding more spices to your taste bubs.

Cornbread mixture is waiting, so add half meat mixture on top of half cornbread mixture in the baking dish evenly about 1/2 inch thick from ends to center.

Add cheese evenly over the meat mixture and add half wolf brand chili mixture on top of cheese..   pour the remaining cornbread mixture on top of cheese and add meat mixture. then add wolf brand chili mixture and place in oven 25 mins.take out oven and place shredded cheese to melt on top.

If you cannot find wolf brand chili .....

Three Cans Come In a Package

Baked Apple Dumplings

You, know what? There nothing better than a hot dessert on a cold day, guess??? what??? I am thinking about >>> "Baked Apple Dumpling" with a lot of concentrated flavor.

These Dumplings will warm your very soul and make you smile. remember the classic animated film Snow White and the seven dwarfs...well Snow White baked apple dumplings, so she could stay with the seven dwarfs.

Now, how about those baked apple dumplings this weekend....

Dough:

2 1/2 cup all purpose flour

3 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 stick butter cold butter pieces

5 tablespoon shortening cold pieces

3/4 cup cold buttermilk

Apple Dumpling

4 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3 tablespoon butter

3 tablespoon golden raisins

4 golden delicious apples

3 egg white lightly beaten

making dough

process dry ingentant in food process until combined. add butter and shortening and pulse until mixture resembles wet sand.

take the dough out process and place in  bowl. stir in buttermilk and forms into a ball.place on floured surface and knead into a ball. place refrigerate about hour.

next combine sugar and cinnamon in a bowl, in a second bowl,combine butter,
raisins and three tablespoons cinnamon sugar mixture.

peel apples and cut in halve. scoop out the core and seeds. be careful not to cut bottom part of the apple.

divide the butter mixture among the apple halves filling the hollows.

on lightly floured  surface, roll each dough half into 12 inch square

brush edge of dough square with .egg white and place apple cut side up, in center of each square.

fold the corner of the dough up to enclose the apple halves. overlapping and crimping to seal

arrange dumplings on a baking sheet, brush with egg white. and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

bake until dough is golden brown and juices are bubbling.

Serve with Cider Sauce

Cider Sauce Recipe:

1 cup apple cider

1 cup water

1 cup sugar

1/2  teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon lemon juice

bring cider water,sugar and cinnamon to simmer in saucepan and cook and cinnamon over medium high heat until thickened and reduced about 10 or 15 minutes.take off heat, and whisk in butter and lemon juice.

use this sauce to drizzle over  apple dumplings