[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 31, Issue 7

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In a message dated 12/02/2005 6:00:54 PM Central Standard Time, 
sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:


> I'm afraid my cold weather comfort food seems awfully plebian in this  
> company.

Not here!

> 
> Good old Campbell's Tomato Soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.  Best  
> on a night of thunderstorms and blowing winds.

You are a man after my own heart-but do not forget to follow it up with nice 
warm egg custard pie, fresh from the oven. 

> 
> (Yes, I really am from the South).  Of course, then there's fried egg  
> samwiches (has to be pronounced that way, per my father), sometimes  
> with fried bologna (not in my house) or ham stuck in the middle.

No bologna (shudder), but ham or bacon would be doable. I prefer mine with 
just butter on the toasted bread with the fluffy scrambled eggs. 

> 
> Cornbread (with a -little- sugar) -- lots of butter. 

Sacrilege and here I thought you were doing so well!

 
> several loaves of homemade "Jared" bread (my own cobbled-together  
> recipe) and leave them on the stove to rise, then the baking smell  
> FILLS the house.

That, with fried chicken, rice and gravy and green beans, and my Grandfather 
is in heaven-that is his favorite meal!

> 
> Chicken and dumplings!  Yum! -- that's probably my closest to the  
> "throw it in the pot to simmer" favorite

Oh, yes!  This is welcome, regardless of the weather, at our house! 

> 
> (Why in heaven's name do I find myself thinking of Nannie's black- 
> eyes peas and hamhocks?  Probably because she always served fresh  
> cornbread with it.)

Because that is another Southern Comfort food, along with Pinto Beans and 
hamhocks, (and cornbread), Turnip Greens, Collard Greens, and anything that can 
be served with a nice thick gravy. 

> 
> Fresh, homemade chocolate chip cookies.

Jared, you are NOT helping my diet...(my spiced oatmeal cookies are good, 
too).

A good Cold Weather dish from this house is corned Sausage casserole. This 
was a 
> recipe that dates back to before cholesterol
> cooked bulk Sausage, whole kernel corn, a white sauce made with the 
> drippings from frying the sausage, top with cheese, mark an 'X' with ketchup on the 
> top, bake till the cheese is bubbling a little...Serve only on one of those 
> nights when the North wind is finding all the chinks in the house, it is too 
> cold to snow, and just too nasty to do more then sit by the fire and doze under 
> an afghan <G>
> 
> Helen
>