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datsdethspicable

Hominy grits were the best. Beans and cornbread. white gravy made with the grease from frying chicken. bacon grease was for everything. My granny made biscuits from memory but could not write the recipe (they were sooo good) so went her tea cake recipe to the grave with her. I have tried and tried to match her recipes but they never have come out the same. Homemade ice cream.MMMmmmm

Did you ever walk home from school and before you got there you knew your granny was cookin'?

When my boyfriend and I were first dating, he would say to me "Girl you are so good I could sop your up with a biscuit" hee hee

Aztec

We have grits here too y'know! I like them with butter and pepper. My grandmother was raised in the South somewhere and she taught me how to make proper grits, cornbread and fried green tomatoes. I really dig Southern food. As much as I love Southern food and people you'll never get me to live there..Too damn hot! As much as I complain about Michigan I don't know if I'll ever leave, unless I move somewhere else in the midwest.

~Aztec

LyinEyes

Hey Teejay, I don't know them personally but I have heard the name of that family. My husband is working in Homer right now, so it is about 40 miles from us, he is working on hail damaged cars , they had a beating of a hail storm .

You are right about the food down here too, and we just don't know how to cook for 2,,,,,,,it has to be for a whole mess of folks, and ya can just eat on cookin ya done in one day. It is not unusal to make at least two main meat dishes. Fried chicken, dirty rice w/ hamburger meat in it, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravey, ( yeah more than two starches), collards, salad, greenbeans( made with a hunk of salt pork or smoked neck bones) and biscuits, or cornbread( especially cornbread with purple hull peas, beans, or collards). Wow , this is makin me want to go cook. It really does make happy to feed people, it was something my grandmother taught me, and she always had special things she made just for you. It always made you feel like you were special, even out of her other 35 grandkids,,,,,she had something special to make for each one of us. My favorite thing she made was some kind of thick roux , with tomatoes , okra, and hot as hell peppers,,,,,, it was so gooooooood with her cornbread.

Like you said Teejay, everyone waves at everyone, and if you don't , it is like a slap in the face...lol..

I often went to Denver, CO, with my hubby to work and I loved it there , it was breathtaking in beauty, but it was so different from our southern ways I got homesick.

But it is nice to be able to enjoy going places , seeing the beauty of the world, other cultures etc. but is nice to come home too.

Bendrr

11. If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.

Oh now I'm laughing! I say that one!

Now I can add a few things to that one about falling out of the ugly tree. There's a couple of variations and a few others that bear repeating:

"Beat with the ugly stick".

"Dragged through the whole ugly forest".

"Mash his/her face in dough and you can make gorilla cookies".

"Could make a pit bull climb a plate glass window."

"Could make a freight train take a dirt road."

Oh and someone mentioned collard greens. I learned how to cook them properly. Start with fresh greens and cut them yourself. The cooking takes the better part of a day. Big pot, never boil them. Add.....hmmmmm do I want to tell y'all this?....ok. No I won't tell you.

Mike.

Mary

Fiddle-dee-dee! Ashley Wilkes told me he liked to see a girl eat possum and grits at a party!

Gwydion

two years ago my wife and I went to North Carolina. She fell in love with sweet tea. It wasn't exactly a vaction trip, but it did erase alot of preconceived notions about the south. We liked it so much infact we returned the following year with a more relaxed vacation like agenda.

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