Southern foods

Leah

Leah

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If you are from the south you know that fried chicken is a must to eat .Sweet tea is always on the table and gravy and biscuits with grits is your most wanted breakfast .So being a southern lady that I am these are some of my favorite foods .May I ask what are some of yours ?Leah
 

Pimento cheese sandwiches!

Greens or green beans with smoked pork, garlic, a hot pepper pod or two and maybe a few walnut sized red potatoes to make it a meal.

Soup beans and corn bread.

Coconut cake, the kind that sits in the refrigerator for a couple of days before it is served.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Pimento cheese sandwiches!

Greens or green beans with smoked pork, garlic, a hot pepper pod or two and maybe a few walnut sized red potatoes to make it a meal.

Soup beans and corn bread.

Coconut cake, the kind that sits in the refrigerator for a couple of days before it is served.
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My grandmother who's passed used to make me Hershey chocolate cake every time we came to visit it's still one of my favorite.and I also love pimento cheese sandwiches my mom makes them for me when I go home to visit ,love potato's too ..Sounds good to me..��
 

I am not from the south, but always work black eye peas into the menu on New Years day. My husband loves grits. Other favorites, include chicken and biskets with gravy..I have learned to make it well. I love a good batch of chili, dirty rice, or a meatloaf with mashed taters.
 
Marie5656 said:
I am not from the south, but always work black eye peas into the menu on New Years day. My husband loves grits. Other favorites, include chicken and biskets with gravy..I have learned to make it well. I love a good batch of chili, dirty rice, or a meatloaf with mashed taters.
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Grits was always a favorite in our home and still is .My grandmother used to make the best gravy ,I can make it but not like hers ,and her fried chicken was the best . I miss her so much..Leah
 
Cheese grits, pimento cheese and coconut cream pie.

There's a hilarious book called "Being Dead is No Excuse" about how to properly see someone into the grave in the South. You must serve the right food at the funeral dinner or the dearly departed will never be able to move toward the light. Great recipes.
 
jujube said:
Cheese grits, pimento cheese and coconut cream pie.

There's a hilarious book called "Being Dead is No Excuse" about how to properly see someone into the grave in the South. You must serve the right food at the funeral dinner or the dearly departed will never be able to move toward the light. Great recipes.
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I'll have to check it out ..Lol .Leah
 
My dad was from the South. He put hot sauce on everything, drank buttermilk with dinner and his favorite......take a piece of white bread and 'toast' it in the pan where you had just cooked bacon, using the bacon fat. He died at a very young age.....
 
My mother was from the south, but I never tasted grits or black eyed peas until I was an adult. We didn't drink "sweet" tea either. She did make great biscuits and gravy.
 
debbie in seattle said:
My dad was from the South. He put hot sauce on everything, drank buttermilk with dinner and his favorite......take a piece of white bread and 'toast' it in the pan where you had just cooked bacon, using the bacon fat. He died at a very young age.....
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Well southern is normally real rich and not so great for you but I still enjoy it it's part of who I am...Leah
 
Pinto beans and cornbread
Collards or turnip greens
Meatloaf
sausage, bacon or ham and eggs, with grits, biscuits and gravy.
Chicken and dumplings
Tabasco sauce on the table for most meals
BBQ ribs or pulled pork
fried or boiled okra
Pecan pies
sweet potato pie
RC cola and moon pies
 
rkunsaw said:
Pinto beans and cornbread
Collards or turnip greens
Meatloaf
sausage, bacon or ham and eggs, with grits, biscuits and gravy.
Chicken and dumplings
Tabasco sauce on the table for most meals
BBQ ribs or pulled pork
fried or boiled okra
Pecan pies
sweet potato pie
RC cola and moon pies
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Ditto here, too!!
 
I had boiled peanuts once about 12 years ago when visiting the south. They're very good- I'd never heard of them before.

I love BBQ and all southern foods except the "gravy" on the biscuits.
 
How about red eye gravy. Made from strong coffee used to render the country ham bits off the pan.
Country ham biscuits.
Pig pickin cake.
Pig Picken.
Eastern Carolina bbq.
Peach cobbler.
Collard liqueur- cures all!
Just to name a few.....
 
Not sure if actually southern, but I did a pretty good job buttermilk baked chicken not long ago. Mixed up a buttermilk and egg wash, dipped the chicken and then covered it in bread crumbs and baked. Loved the flavor.
 
Oh buttermilk is wonderful, and I love collards and the liquor.

I never had much of the eastern southern things like bbq, what is Pig pickin cake or Pig pickin?

I did have red-eye gravy, forgot about that but I don't know how, because it's great!
 
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