Your best southern recipes (USA)?
It’s the food I grew up with- grits, fried green tomatos, sweet tea, biscuits and gravy, and all that.
Maybe you could share you’re favorite, it doesn’t matter if it’s deep south home cooking or cajun/creole.
I’m going to make a huge meal of southern food and want a lot of variety. 
thanks
SOUTHERN BEEF & BEANS CASSEROLE
1 lb ground beef
1 28 oz can Bush’s Baked Beans
1/2 cup chopped green peppers
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 6 oz tomato paste
1 8 1/2 oz package Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix
1/2 cup package shredded Cheddar cheese
1. In a skillet, sauté ground beef, onion and green peppers until meat is browned. Drain excess grease.
2. Combine meat mixture, Bush’s Baked Beans and tomato paste. Spoon into a lightly greased 8 inch square baking dish.
3. Prepare muffin mix according to package directions. Spead evenly over bean mixture.
4. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes, sprinkle with cheese and continue baking 5 minutes more, or until cheese melts.
SOUTHERN CORN CHOWDER
1/4 lb lean salt pork or pancetta
1 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chopped green bell pepper
2 potatoes, cubed
3/4 cup diced celery, strings removed
1 1/2 cups boiling water or stock
1 cup undiluted evaporated milk
1 medium can whole kernel corn (or 1 1/2 cups frozen)
1/2 teaspoon salt (or 1 chicken bouillon cube)
1 tablespoon butter (room temperature)
2 teaspoons flour
Cut salt pork or pancetta into 1/4 inch dice and brown in bottom of a saucepan. Add onion, garlic and pepper; sauté 5 minutes.
Add potatoes, celery and boiling water or stock. Add salt or bouillon cube. Cover and simmer over low heat until potatoes are tender. Add corn and evaporated milk (Fresh milk or Cream may be substituted for evaporated milk). Blend together butter and flour evenly and gradually add to chowder.
Cook, uncovered over low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until soup is thickened. Be careful not to scorch bottom (it’s best to use a heavy bottomed pan and watch heat carefully).
Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve with milk crackers.
Note: Creamed corn may be substituted.
Variations:
Add 1 package frozen chopped broccoli for cream of broccoli soup.
Add 1 can chopped clams or 1 cup chopped fresh clams for a quick New England clam chowder.
with chowder peas n smoked sausageAmerican food preferences?
Which American cuisine do you like the best? Here are the options:
~ New England (clam chowder, boiled dinners, baked beans, lobster, maple syrup, etc.)
~ New York Deli style (mostly German/Jewish cuisine)
~ Pennsylvania Amish (doughnuts, egg noodles, etc.)
~ Southern (Chesapeake seafood, BBQ, Smithfield ham, Low Country, Cajun/Creole, Appalachian, cornbread, biscuits, grits, blackberry cobbler, etc.)
~ Southwestern (AKA Tex-Mex)
~ Midwestern (basic meat and potatoes type dishes, Chicago deep dish pizza, Pierogies, etc.)
This is done out of boredom, just curious.
Southern all the way! I love me some BBQ sauce! And potoatoes. And cornbread. And biscuits. And steak. And butter. And corn. And blackberry stuff. And cotton. And grits.
what exactly are clams?
and how do they taste? I am curious because I was watching food network and they had a show where the guy was trying fried clams and I was just curious to try them. I am not a big seafood fan but I like cajun shrimp and tilapia and crab cakes.
and to this jackass who said oysters, I didn’t ask you all that so you could have kept that dumb ass answer to yourself.
and you spelled it wrong!
A clam is a kind of mollusc that has a shell divided into two pieces called valves; in other words, a clam is a bivalve mollusc.The word "clam" has no real taxonomic significance in biology. However in the USA the word can sometimes be used to mean any bivalve mollusc. It can also be used to mean a bivalve other than an oyster, mussel, or scallop, and that has a more-or-less oval shape, or a freshwater mussel.
The word clam is also very often used to mean any one of many edible bivalve species which live buried in sand, hence, "digging for clams" or clam digging. Not all edible clams are round or oval in shape: the razor clam has an elongated shell whose shape suggests a straight razor.
In October 2007 an Arctica islandica clam caught off the coast of Iceland was discovered to be at least 405 years old, and was declared the world’s oldest living animal by researchers from Bangor University.
A clam’s shell consists of two valves which are connected by a hinge joint and a ligament that can be external or internal. Two adductor muscles close the shells. The clam has no head, and usually has no eyes, (scallops are a notable exception), but a clam does have kidneys, a heart, a mouth, and an anus.
Clams, like most molluscs, also have open circulatory systems, which means that their organs are surrounded by watery blood that contains nutrients and oxygen. Clams eat plankton, and they themselves are eaten by small sharks and squid.
In culinary use, the term "clam" most often refers to the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria but it may refer to several other species such as the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria. Clams can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, baked or fried; the method of preparation depends partly on size and species. Clam chowder is a popular soup in the U.S. and Canada. In Italy, clams are often an ingredient of mixed seafood dishes, or are eaten together with pasta.
The Maxima clam Tridacna maxima, a species of giant clam, is popular with saltwater aquarium hobbyists.
The Moche people of ancient Peru worshiped the sea and its animals. They often depicted clams in their art.
Hope this helps! =)
What did you eat for Valentine’s Dinner?
I went to Pappadeaux (Cajun seafood place). I had two stuffed shrimp, two stuffed crab and garlic mashed potatoes. HEAVENLY!
I had possum chops,pickled paw paws and a bowl of cat chowder.
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