[Sca-cooks] Southern cooking, was yippee - oop, ot

[Olwen the Odd]

I eat grits with butter or jelly.  I also eat hominey baked with cheese.
For some reason (I suppose the lye treatment) I can eat these without the
adverse reaction I get from corn, hense, no cornbread.  I cook Southern and
Northern BBQ quite well.  I put fatback in with the greens (instead of bacon
grease) along with a little grains of paridise and hotsauce.  But
chicken...chicken is probably my favorite.  I eat chicken every way I can
think of.  Anyone ever try it double dusted and rolled in shredded coconut
and fried??  My my.
Olwen

>I don't eat them together! I eat grits with butter and salt and pepper.
>I don't do red-eye gravy. And I save my bacon grease to cook greens
>(Well, OK, usually kale or beet greens or turnip greens - collards
>aren't my favorite.
>
>I admit, I've never fried okra. Chicken, but not for a long time. And
>BBQ is a bit tough in the city. I only sweeten cornbread if I'm making
>it for breakfast or something like that - I don't like sweet breads with
>dinner.
>
>I'm looking in Greenmarket for fiddleheads...
>
>Anne
>
>
>Philippa Alderton wrote:
>
>>--- A F Murphy <afmmurphy at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>But, but, you know, even I eat grits! (And even
>>>sometimes black-eyed
>>>peas, though that's not a regular on my table. ) And
>>>I'm not exactly
>>>Southern... I think you all know by now that I'm a
>>>real live New Yorker!
>>>
>>
>>Well, grits and black-eyed peas are pretty bland.
>>Adamantius told me about cooking red-eye gravy, too.
>>
>>But, those are minor. After all, you Yankees need to
>>try good food occasionally.....
>>
>>Never yet met a Yankee who could make proper fried
>>chicken, fried okra and green tomatoes, or BBQ- you
>>just don't have the background. And most of y'all
>>think bacon grease and lard are to clog your sinks,
>>and collard and other greens to decorate with, a la
>>Martha Stewart....
>>
>>Never mind, making good biscuits and corn bread (what
>>in HELL is it with the sugar y'all put in it?).
>>
>>You're just culturally, and dietetically deprived, and
>>thereby depraved. I don't think a Yankee alive can
>>smoke a ham right, or cook it right after it's
>>smoked.....
>>
>>Ah, well. Keep looking out the front door for that
>>poke weed to come up. Any day now, with the weather as
>>it is.....
>>
>>Phlip


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