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Delpit "Average as Grits"
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That was kind of my reasoning on fried chicken. Many cultures make it in some fashion so I’m not sure it’s completely southern. Grits are essentially polenta and several African names. But especially for those of us not entirely “southern”, they just feel like they fit the bill better than other things. But I definitely get the chicken argument.
And actually, to be honest, I’ve really just always just had this lifelong dream of derailing an entire thread into a 7 page discussion about grits. I hope to get There one day.[\QUOTE]
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definitely not like they pronounce it in Egypt...
they say k-ro in Illinoise too.
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1. Grits
2. Sausage (links, patties, bulk, I love it all)
3. Biscuits and sausage gravy
4. Pecan pie
5. Cobbler (peach or blackberry) We’d pick a bucket full of blackberries and that cobbler mom made was unforgettable. Preserves were pretty good, too.
I’m a huge breakfast guy. I could eat breakfast 3 times a day.
Fried chicken is good, but honestly I prefer it grilled.
2. Sausage (links, patties, bulk, I love it all)
3. Biscuits and sausage gravy
4. Pecan pie
5. Cobbler (peach or blackberry) We’d pick a bucket full of blackberries and that cobbler mom made was unforgettable. Preserves were pretty good, too.
I’m a huge breakfast guy. I could eat breakfast 3 times a day.
Fried chicken is good, but honestly I prefer it grilled.
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I can tear up some lemon meringue, never had the guava as a cobbler or cheesecake but like it as a fruit. Going back to chicken, I can eat a 5 gallon bucket of fried chicken livers but every time I do I have a problem with gout for 3 or 4 days. I make em for the dogs all the time and it kills me not to have some.
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Surprised to see no one has added chicken fried steak with country gravy. Definitely one of my favorite breakfasts, with some over easy eggs and plenty of hash browns so soak up the yolk and gravy!
I'd also add pork chops to the list. I realize that pork chops are ubiquitous, but they seem to taste much better in the south. I grew up hating the ones my Wisconsin born mother made, but Mrs. G's are to die for. Fried chicken the same; you can get it anywhere, but it's not the same in the rest of the country. My SIL grew up in rural Alabama and her fried chicken is as good a yard bird as you will ever find. Same with her biscuits; no recipe, she just mixes it up and they turn out perfect every time. I never put anything but butter on them. They are that good.
I'd also add pork chops to the list. I realize that pork chops are ubiquitous, but they seem to taste much better in the south. I grew up hating the ones my Wisconsin born mother made, but Mrs. G's are to die for. Fried chicken the same; you can get it anywhere, but it's not the same in the rest of the country. My SIL grew up in rural Alabama and her fried chicken is as good a yard bird as you will ever find. Same with her biscuits; no recipe, she just mixes it up and they turn out perfect every time. I never put anything but butter on them. They are that good.
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You guys have me missing my mom and her smothered fried chicken. She would take left over fried chicken and cook it in a electric frying pan in gravy until it would fall off the bone. I could eat a pan full.
My wife's a great cook but this dish isn't even on the menu.
She could also make you think fried liver in gravy was cubed steak until you bit into it. The lady knew her gravy.
My wife's a great cook but this dish isn't even on the menu.
She could also make you think fried liver in gravy was cubed steak until you bit into it. The lady knew her gravy.
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Looking back at this thread I'm surprised neither coon or possum are found on any of these lists (ya'll know who you are).
Here's a little known fact: In southern cooking the nutrients are in the gravy. Gravy is the basis for the foundation of the food pyramid along with biscuits and sweet tea.
Here's a little known fact: In southern cooking the nutrients are in the gravy. Gravy is the basis for the foundation of the food pyramid along with biscuits and sweet tea.
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In the 90's I had a co-worker bring in a coon rib sammich for lunch. Damn thing had a rib bone sticking 4 inches out the side of two pieces of light bread. I couldn't eat myself thinking he was gonna put an eye out with that damn thing
Also we always call the greens "gravy" liquor, not sure if that is right or not now.
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I liked the white mullet roe; yellow wasn't in my wheelhouse. We had mullet all the time. I started throwing a castnet when I was 5; dad had it custom made for me. It was only a 5 or 6 foot net and I don't think I ever caught anything in it. Not enough diameter. Sure miss going fishing with him. Throwing a net, gigging flounder (at night with a 6 volt battery powered light), crabbing, cane pole fishing in river and lakes. Seems like a lot of good memories are about food and catching it. BTW: where did the phrase in my wheelhouse come from?
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Harold and James were two black fellows that helped me some up in Lincoln County. Harold was pretty attentive to directions, James not so much. Whenever I would make datil pepper sauce, I would take Harold a jar. He really liked it, using it to sauce his weekend barbecue. I found out he and James were buying coons from this guy on Thursday or Friday night and they would get right drinking shine and eating "bobacue".
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I have gigged flounder with a flambeau, a lighted asbestos twine ball fed with kerosene. Also, as a boy, enjoyed the camaraderie of being with the grown men running trotlines for catfish using carbide lamps.
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We always used a 6 volt light powered by a car battery floating in a washtub held up by an inner tube. The light was on a pole and you had to keep it under water to cool. Later, we got Coleman mantle lanterns with the reflecting dish. Worked like a champ. Still had to drag the washtub to put your catch in. Needle fish would pick at little scabs and start some light bleeding. It wasn't until I saw Jaws that I ever worried about that.
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We graduated to Coleman lanterns as well. I think modern technology is back to lights on a plastic pole under water, which (as you know) avoids the reflection at the water surface.
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LEDs have changed a lot for the better. Yea for chip manufacturing technology. It's amazing how photoresist has made the world a better place.
