[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
I just looked at a recipe. Are the corn pieces whole in the stuff you eat? Because I couldn’t deal with that. Otherwise, it actually looks like gooey cornbread. Cornbread, I like. So if it turned up, I might try it.
Speaking of corn and the south and random foods, I love Virginia-style brunswick stew.[/quote]
Have you never had cornbread with whole pieces of corn in it?
Yeah, there’s whole pieces of corn in there. It’s not like spoonbread, which is cornbread that’s so soft you eat it with a spoon. It’s like creamed corn but taken to the next level.
Personally, I’d rather that vegetables be vegetables and bread be bread and there not be gobs of either one in the other.* So corn must be ground into meal.
(*With the exception of pot pie and chicken and dumplings. Gobs of bread are acceptable among the vegetables in these specific cases.)
Renee, your alligator mentions reminds me that last week, while getting pretty wasted with a girlfriend, I had fried calamari, which was fine, but there were little whole squid among the rings. ~erk~ My friend, more cosmopolitan than I (or drunker), happily ate them. Now she’s a squid, I suppose.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Personally, I’d rather that vegetables be vegetables and bread be bread and there not be gobs of either one in the other.*
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[quote]pushharder wrote:
Uncle Gabby wrote:
…RC cola and moon pies.
Yessssssssss…another delicacy.
That and boiled peanuts.
Raw Gulf oysters on the half shell with tabasco on saltine crackers. By the sack full.
Fried catfish and mullet with hushpuppies and cheese grits.
Fried gator tail.
Fried rattlesnake fillets.
Chitlins.
Fried okra.
Turnip greens with ham or bacon.
OG and Renton, are ya gittin all this?
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Oh hell yeah!
Any oysters with tabasco are awesome. As you say, by the sack full.
Gator is damn fine too - There’s a few places here that I have had it.
I’ve eaten snake on many occasions (but never knowingly rattlesnake).
Bhindi (Okra) being big in Indian cooking I have eaten tons of it and turnip greens with bacon sounds great. Good that turnips are just about to come into season here - I’ll give it a try.
BUT…
What the fuck are hushpuppies, chitlins and cheese grits? More to the point - where can I get some!?!?!
[quote]Renton wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Uncle Gabby wrote:
…RC cola and moon pies.
Yessssssssss…another delicacy.
That and boiled peanuts.
Raw Gulf oysters on the half shell with tabasco on saltine crackers. By the sack full.
Fried catfish and mullet with hushpuppies and cheese grits.
Fried gator tail.
Fried rattlesnake fillets.
Chitlins.
Fried okra.
Turnip greens with ham or bacon.
OG and Renton, are ya gittin all this?
Oh hell yeah!
Any oysters with tabasco are awesome. As you say, by the sack full.
Gator is damn fine too - There’s a few places here that I have had it.
I’ve eaten snake on many occasions (but never knowingly rattlesnake).
Bhindi (Okra) being big in Indian cooking I have eaten tons of it and turnip greens with bacon sounds great. Good that turnips are just about to come into season here - I’ll give it a try.
BUT…
What the fuck are hushpuppies, chitlins and cheese grits? More to the point - where can I get some!?!?![/quote]
I had cheese grits this morning! and those are pretty damn good.
I can’t believe people turn their nose up at chitlins. Ever eaten a hot dog or a sausage? Then you’ve eaten a hell of a lot worse than a chitlin.
Pork skins are called Pork Rinds. They also have Cracklins which are pork rinds that have a little bit of extra fat on them. I hated pork rinds when I was a kid.
I’d walk over to my Grandpa’s house and we’d watch Hee Haw and The Dukes of Hazard together, and sometimes we’d have popcorn and sometimes we’d have pork rinds, and I fucking hated the pork rinds. I tried one for the first time in 25 years just this summer and I am in love.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Renton wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Uncle Gabby wrote:
…RC cola and moon pies.
Yessssssssss…another delicacy.
That and boiled peanuts.
Raw Gulf oysters on the half shell with tabasco on saltine crackers. By the sack full.
Fried catfish and mullet with hushpuppies and cheese grits.
Fried gator tail.
Fried rattlesnake fillets.
Chitlins.
Fried okra.
Turnip greens with ham or bacon.
OG and Renton, are ya gittin all this?
Oh hell yeah!
Any oysters with tabasco are awesome. As you say, by the sack full.
Gator is damn fine too - There’s a few places here that I have had it.
I’ve eaten snake on many occasions (but never knowingly rattlesnake).
Bhindi (Okra) being big in Indian cooking I have eaten tons of it and turnip greens with bacon sounds great. Good that turnips are just about to come into season here - I’ll give it a try.
BUT…
What the fuck are hushpuppies deep fried seasoned cornbread balls, chitlins deep fried hog intestines and cheese grits grits with melted cheese mixed in? More to the point - where can I get some!?!?!
A man with your culinary talent should be able to whip all these up!
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Not a problem! Now I know what they are I’ll whip me up a batch. I’m getting hungry again.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Grits…Just ground corn done in a stone mill. Seems some cats in Italy make something similar the figgered needed a fancy name…they call it polenta.
Grate you a pound of sharp cheddar hoop cheese in the pot of grits and you have cheese grits.
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Cool! I’ve eaten polenta many times. Good stuff.
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Now as we say in the coastal south…that’s some good eatin’!
Since you are in Charlotte I hope you have eaten some Nabs…[/quote]
