[Mo_Gearhead]

My mother used to make great cornbread. It had just that perfect, grainy texture and yet remained moist enough that it didn't crumble apart as you tried to cut it in the pan - or as you took those delicious, slightly sweet bites as you held it in your hand.

She passed in 2002 - so I would find myself, on occasion, ordering it in restaurants, in place of a bread or rolls. But it always fell short of the standards set above and (of course) the comparison to my mom's.

We were recently in Kentucky and found ourselves having lunch with relatives at a place called Sonny's Bar-B -Q in Somerset (I highly recommend it!) The cornbread brought all those memories flooding back in an instant. And since my wife now seems to have an aversion to wheat/gluten and is looking for more corn-based menu items ... the gauntlet is now put before you Pelicans - I want to hear ANY and ALL of your home recipes that can bring back my, almost cake-like, sweet-cornbread loving days!