Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
Down home cooking. Southern cuisine. I grew up eating southern style cooking. Many times the dishes or recipes were fairly simple, but oh so good! Many times my grandmother used very little in the way of seasonings when she cooked, but used other things to bring out the natural good flavors of food. Bacon drippings, lard, butter, (real butter!) salt pork, or fat back was used to cook with. Most of her recipes were cooked from scratch, never from a box or can!
Some of my favorites were, pinto beans with skillet cornbread, some sweet onion, soft fried potatoes, and pan fried pork chops. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and biscuits. Chicken fried steak,country gravy, soft fried potatoes, home made bread and green beans.
Tabasco sauce, pepper sauce were staple condiments on the table along with the salt and pepper. Granny served cantaloupe with just about every meal when they were in season. Cucumbers, sliced and soaked in vinegar was regularly see ed as well. Green onions and banana peppers were served quite a bit as well.
Fried chicken was a normal Sunday meal, as well as a huge pot roast, loaded with potatoes, carrots, onions and mushrooms. Sometimes, Saturdays during the summer meant fresh fried catfish, hush puppies, and french fries. Also we did hamburgers and hot dogs as well outside during the summer months.
Breakfast at my Granny's house was great. She cooked the eggs in the skillet, after cooking the bacon. Huge home made biscuits, gravy, and sausage. Sometimes we even had pork chops, or steak with breakfast, along with hash browns cooked with lots of onions. My brother and I would take a couple of leftover biscuits, load them up with a sausage patty and egg, wrap them in wax paper, and eat them for a late morning snack!
I was fortunate, to learn quite a bit about cooking from my Granny. Over the last ten years or so, I have gone back to the ways of my grandmother. I cook much more from scratch, and gone back to many of the same ingredients she used to cook with. And the food just seems to taste better!
Some of my favorites were, pinto beans with skillet cornbread, some sweet onion, soft fried potatoes, and pan fried pork chops. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and biscuits. Chicken fried steak,country gravy, soft fried potatoes, home made bread and green beans.
Tabasco sauce, pepper sauce were staple condiments on the table along with the salt and pepper. Granny served cantaloupe with just about every meal when they were in season. Cucumbers, sliced and soaked in vinegar was regularly see ed as well. Green onions and banana peppers were served quite a bit as well.
Fried chicken was a normal Sunday meal, as well as a huge pot roast, loaded with potatoes, carrots, onions and mushrooms. Sometimes, Saturdays during the summer meant fresh fried catfish, hush puppies, and french fries. Also we did hamburgers and hot dogs as well outside during the summer months.
Breakfast at my Granny's house was great. She cooked the eggs in the skillet, after cooking the bacon. Huge home made biscuits, gravy, and sausage. Sometimes we even had pork chops, or steak with breakfast, along with hash browns cooked with lots of onions. My brother and I would take a couple of leftover biscuits, load them up with a sausage patty and egg, wrap them in wax paper, and eat them for a late morning snack!
I was fortunate, to learn quite a bit about cooking from my Granny. Over the last ten years or so, I have gone back to the ways of my grandmother. I cook much more from scratch, and gone back to many of the same ingredients she used to cook with. And the food just seems to taste better!
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