Cornbread and a Shell

Recently, I've been baking a lot of cornbread. Here is the recipe I like the best. It's an adaptation of the Silver Palate's recipe for "Crackling Corn Bread":

• Melted butter and oil for greasing the pan
• 1 cup stone-ground cornmeal
• 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 6 tbs unsalted butter (melted)
• 1 egg (lightly beaten)
• Around 1 cup of fresh corn kernels

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Grease a 9" metal (ideally cast iron) pan. 
2. Stir together dry ingredients. Then add wets.
3. Pre-heat the pan in the oven, then take it out and pour in the batter. It should sizzle. Then bake for around 25 minutes. 

I like this recipe because it's super dense and moist.

In other news:
I made my first website. It will hopefully be fully edited and we'll get a domain in not too long.
I found a Cher autograph in a $1 record of hers I bought.
Here is a shell I painted that had a bunch of other shells and creatures imprinted in it: