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I just joined yesterday so my comments are too late to help with your competition ...... :(

But... if you are serious about your cornbread, here's a link to the National Cornbread Festival held each year in Tennessee. Super recipes!! Most dishes are one skillet dinners with good stuff on the bottom of the skillet and then topped off with amazing cornbreads. I've been making some of these dishes for years and they are extremely popular around my house.

Be sure to use a good quality cast iron skillet. I find that the American made brand "Lodge" is excellent. (Here's a tip...It's available on the camping aisle at Walmart quite inexpensively). Other stores sell it much higher.

http://www.nationalcornbread.com/index.html

(There's a link on there to past recipes) Enjoy!

This is really a late answer... forgive me as I just joined today.

Here is a crowd pleaser breakfast that we make all the time. It's perfect for a large group, camping or even just at home for your family. I will usually make some sort of a potato dish and a fruit salad to go along with it.

The best part of this breakfast is that everyone participates and it turns into a social get-together and it allows everyone to sit down and eat together at the same time.

At home, our biggest pot allows about 5/6 baggies at a time to cook. If you have a turkey fryer setup, you can do this outside using the big turkey pot and can cook 10-15 baggies at a time.

Do this part the night before, or have people help:
Chop/slice/shred up omelet "fixins" such as green onion, cheese, mushrooms, precooked bacon or sausage, crab, shrimp, anything that you like in an omelet. Have each item in a bowl or on a plate laid out in an "assembly" line.

Have each person write on a QUART-SIZE ziplock FREEZER baggie their name with a "sharpie pen". Funny names/nicknames allowed!

Take two eggs, scramble in a bowl and pour into each baggie. For large appetites, use three eggs.

Have people go down the "assembly line" of omelet fixins that you put out and ask them to add into the baggie any type of fixins that they may want in their omelet.

Gently squeeze the baggie so the eggs and omelet fixins blend together.

While keeping the baggie upright, zip the baggie closed most of the way, push as much air that you can from the baggie and zip it closed the rest of the way.

Gently drop the baggie into boiling water for 12 minutes.
For 3 eggs, boil a minute or two longer.

Don't let any part of the baggie hang outside the pot. It will melt and make a mess on your pot.

Watch the baggies, sometimes the egg mixture will collect to one side of the baggie resulting in a very wierd shaped omelet. You might have to move the baggies around abit so they stay "level" in the pot.

Remove the baggie from the boiling water, unzip and slide it out onto a plate. Have salsa, sour cream for those who like to add that.

It is the most flavorful omelet you'll ever eat.