Buttermilk Cornbread

On Thanksgiving morning, from the dawn of time–our family has had a special breakfast–fit, as-they-say, for the pilgrims themselves. It usually involves three very important things.

1) Gingerbread and whipped cream

2) Blueberry muffins and butter

and the star of the show—

3) CORNBREAD and honey butter!!

Now, typically–in the past, we’ve let Marie Calendar do most of the work in the cornbread department, but this year, we’ve stumbled upon a lovely recipe and tweaked it just a bit to suite our no yeast, no sugar adventure. It’s incredible and liable to give Miss Calendar quite a run for her money. Perfectly perfect!

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Buttermilk Cornbread

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1/3 cup honey

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 cup cornmeal

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 tsp. salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 8 inch square pan or round pie pan. Stir together dry ingredients and set aside. Beat butter and honey until creamy. Add eggs and mix well. Add buttermilk and dry ingredients and beat until no lumps remain. Pour batter into pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until slightly golden on top.

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Buttermilk Cornbread
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • ⅓ cup honey
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 cup cornmeal
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ tsp. salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease a 8 inch square pan or round pie pan.
  3. Stir together dry ingredients and set aside.
  4. Beat butter and honey until creamy.
  5. Add eggs and mix well.
  6. Add buttermilk and dry ingredients and beat until no lumps remain.
  7. Pour batter into pan.
  8. Bake for 25 minutes or until slightly golden on top.

One Little Indian…

This moment…

A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from our lives.

A simple, special, memorable moment.

A moment I want to pause, savor and keep close to my heart.

If you are inspired to do the same–leave us a link in the comments.

Happy Thanksgiving weekend my dear friends.

So Thankful…

…that my sweet daughter has such a kind and generous heart.

…that there’s cranberry juice in that goblet.

…that this year we have a sagey, roasted turkey for our feast.

…to have my family–

who are my most treasured friends.

…for a new perspective now and then.

…to have those strong, turkey carving hands back again.

…for all that Heavenly Father has blessed us with this year…family, home, love and friends.

Hope your feast…

was positively perfect!

On This Grateful Day

In this season of gratitude, we’d like to wish you and your family all the time and space you need to truly focus on the good things that are yours. We at Gracious Rain count you, our friends, as some of our greatest blessings.

Happy Thanksgiving!

(Fruity Turkey is made from a pear half, cashew, chocolate chips, pinch of taffy, apple slices, and mandarin oranges)

Personal Native American Placecards

Oh, baby–here they come. Pocahontas and her pals. Just in time for Thanksgiving!

Remember last year when we filled the table with Pilgrims? Well, we have their counter parts all ready for you.

You can download your very own Personal Native American Placecards–right this minute. Color them or use them as a pattern for colored paper cut outs…

or let the papooses do it for you…either way.

Cut out the pieces–clip the fringe strip so it looks like…fringe.

Now you can do this a couple of ways. Either roll the dress and staple it–like we did for the pilgrims–or wrap the dress and fringe around a tissue tube–which is what we did.

Next, glue or tape the family face of your choice above the neck of the dress…

or whatever you call it when you force a brave to wear it.

You can tape or glue the fringe at the neck or at the bottom…or in the middle for that matter. But that would be kind of ugly. We’re letting the older kiddos make their own –so I’ll show you the results of that soon. But I wanted you to have the pattern now so that you could get going on them before the table is set. 

I think your little babies will love these little babies.

Ours did. 

Pilgrim Placecards

Turkey Placecards