This is more like the stuff you get at a bbq restaurant – this stuff is Southern creamed corn. The cream cheese and butter melt into a delicious sauce that thickens up and gets absorbed by the corn as it cooks.

Everyone has their favorites at the Thanksgiving table, and heaven help the cook who takes one of them away. A colleague summed it up perfectly: “You can always add, but you can never subtract.” That creates a conundrum for ambitious cooks tired of making the same things over and over — and over again.