[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Southern Food (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:36:44 PM EDT
Well as I am constantly reminded I am a god damn yankee. And have no culture or knowledge of southern food. So tell me about southern cooking. I know a few things but I keep getting blindsided  cheerwine fried pickles and mushrooms sweet tea Hot sauce liver mush and grits 
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Man I am about as southern as you can get. I don't like my tea sweet, I've never even heard of liver mush and grits and I must admit I don't know what cheerwine is. Southern cooking varies from state to state. Mississippi cooking is nothing like Louisiana cooking. I learned from my dad, who learned from his dad, who learned from his mom. I've been to other states and I must admit I like New Orleans food the best. I have family in New York. The pizza there is the best I've ever had. Other than that, give me NOLA cooking any day. |
Livermush (or Liver Mush or Liver Pudding) is a Southern United States foodstuff composed of pig liver, head parts, and cornmeal. It is commonly spiced with pepper and sage. Considered a more tolerable version of scrapple, livermush was most likely brought south through the Appalachian mountains by German settlers from Philadelphia. Livermush is colloquially known as poor man's or poor boy's pâté. ETA: the grits were a side dish.
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You can order sorghum syrup by the jar or case online from several makers. We always bought it locally with hand written labels. Grits with bacon and cheese, country fried ham, greens with the left over ham in it, butter beans, purple hull peas. |
yes its a soda, i have drank it many times, and i hear commercials for it all the time. i just didnt know it was a "local" thing. thought it was just like coke and pepsi. 
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ETA: Then joining up serve my 4 and go on with life in the south 
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Chicken fried steak at least once a week. Cabbage with sausage links, blackeyed peas with hamhocks, and cornbread are what we eat for the New Year. (real cornbread in a cast iron skillet) Run a trot line for catfish and then filet and fry them the next day. With hushpuppies. Home made biscuits with cane syrup. BBQ'd squirrel. Okay, grilled anything we can get our hands on. Crawdads stacked so high, you have the kids empty out the trash bucket constantly. Mustard, collard, and just about all greens fresh from your or your mama's garden. (along with summer squash, and everything else) Sweet potatoe pie, sweet potatoe french fries, and baked sweet potatoes. Pecan pies and praline are a staple. Cabrito, BBQ'd goat, is great with tortillas and avocadoes. (probably a Tejano thing) On the coast, you can get the best snapper, flounder, and shrimp. As long as you fry them. Peaches the size of a large grapefruit. Seriously, I don't get good produce here in Az. Salted peanuts in your Big Red bottle. Everyone thinks I'm crazy when I mention that one. In Texas, BRISKET IS KING. I could go on and on and on.  (updated for the OP) |
I'd rather have applebutter. |
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Oh, and if you cook any vegetable in water you must add a little salt and enough butter to turn the water yellow. I ate dinner with some folks from Ohio once. Their corn niblets had plain water and dillweed in it. WTF? Where is the salt and butter? Their mashed potatoes had no salt or butter. The bitch put cream cheese in them for flavor.
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Between you and KG5S, y'all have the only real stuff being mentioned. I think we have a few trying to sneak in and sound southern.  My dear old grandmother made the absolute best chicken and dumplins in the world and could make you throw rocks at your preacher with her greens and corn bread. 
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Here's what my ultimate southern plate looks like. Brisket with musard greens and beans with jalapenos. Notice the brisket doens't need BBQ sauce either.  *ignore the coaster. It has sinced been removed without my wife's knowing. Smoke ring FTW! 
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I was raised in AL and I now live in southern mid TN. I have never heard of cheerwine...but, my grandfather used to make elderberry and muscadine wine. As far as southern cooking, like the previous post said, it varies greatly from region to region and state to state. I have eaten food from all over the world...middle east, asian, european, south american etc. I am pretty adventurous in eating, I have recently been into sushi. At the end of the day I LOVE some good southern food. |
Liver Pudding (mush) is very good. I had a thick slice cooked in a skillet with butter for dinner tonight. I had it with Potatoes O' Brian, and eggs instead of grits though.
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There are a few different methods. -soaked in water, rolled in cornmeal -soaked in water, rolled in flour -soaked in milk, rolled in cornmeal -soaked in milk, rolled in flour throw buttermilk in that mix too. Is it crispy, or burned? Okra is more complex than bacon. |
No more brisket pictures!!! Making me hungry. |