There is a difference between comfort food and comfort cooking, though sometimes the two marry to result in a quiet afternoon in the kitchen, followed by a glorious meal well worth the effort.

Ingredients ・2 boxes cornbread mix, with the ingredients to make the cornbread 8.5oz each ・2 tbsp butter ・2 stalks celery, diced ・1 small onion, finely diced ...

Stir together eggs in a very large bowl; stir in crumbled cornbread, onion mixture, stuffing mix, chicken broth, black pepper, and kosher salt until blended. Spoon mixture into 2 lightly greased ...

Make the cornbread: You’ll need 1 (10-inch) cast-iron skillet’s worth of cornbread. Any recipe that doesn’t use sugar will do. When the cornbread is cool enough to handle, crumble it into a ...

As a Southerner, I grew up with cornbread dressing, which is cooked in a baking dish separately from the turkey, goose or duck. The following ingredients will make one 9x13 pan of dressing.

Volunteers package cornbread dressing at a 2009 Feed the Needy holiday program. The secret to cornbread dressing: Both cornbread and light bread. (The NOLA.com / Times-Picayune archive) Twenty ...