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peach cobblerYour 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.
Spuds Boy, Quick & simple mealAmerican 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 would be good sides (side dishes) for a Cajun chicken recipe?
If the chicken is spicy, I prefer to go simple with the sides so the flavours don’t "argue" – mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, steamed veggies.
What style of cuisine do you prefer?
I am interested in learning about which styles of cooking the general public prefers. Italian pastas or Greek ourzi? Do you prefer Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, or is it a Thai? Does your palate crave Hungarian goulash or Ethiopian rice? Do you know the difference between Creole and Cajun?
I personally prefer the cuisine of my hometown, New Orleans. I love Creole food and will go out of my way to get the right ingredients to make it. Give me spice and the Holy Creole Trinity: green peppers, onions, and celery! I can make a roux, I can eat hot sauce and garlic on ice cream if I have to, and I cannot live without Creole tomatoes and red beans.
What about you?
Hello Vatican Lokey !
My mother’s family comes from South Carolina; nothing beats southern food; smothered pork chops, dirty rice, biscuits, gravy, peach cobbler, creamed potatoes, gravy, chicken fried steak, blueberry cobbler, gravy, fried chicken, apple pie, potatoe salad, and more gravy..
I also love Thai food, Chinese, Indian, Congolese, Mexican, Greek, Dominican, Italian; need I go on ?
If you put your heart in it when you prepare your food, it officially becomes "soul food" ; it doesn’t matter what you look like, or where you come from…
Now let’s talk New Orleans, I can’t wait until I try craw fish etouffee, the famous red beans and rice, creole gumbo, and a po’ boy sandwhich, to name a few.. Lawdy !!!
Good Lord !! I am hungry !
I will try anything, I love all foods; I can’t wait until I go to New Orleans! I’m going to the best restaurants, and every little fast food eatery, and I’m going to take millions of pics !!
I do not discriminate against food; although, I have just started to eat lima beans; who knew they could be so tasty ?
Love, light, and peace
tishy
How do I get him to try different types of food?
I eat almost anything but Pork. I love Sushi, Cajun Food, Caribbean Food, Chinese food, and Thai food. I eat very exotic things like Shark, baby alligator, frog legs, clams, sweet potatoe fries, spinich pie, seafood gumbo, fried oysters, escargo, calamari, eel, and even chicken gizzards. I’m trying to get him to eat some of my Caribbean Southern fusion dishes. He likes my fried sweet potatoes and gumbo and my pies, but i’m trying to make him eat everything else.
probably for the same reasons you don’t eat pork, cuz it grosses him out. A lot of that stuff sounds good, but i could never eat escargo or frogs, simply because of the thought of eating that animal.
mmmm you should invite me to eat some yummy calamari, clams,or oysters. i luv seafood!
what is something i can buy from a grocery store thats cajun and doesnt require preparation?
I need something that represents New Orleans, doesnt have to be a big deal, just fast and easy and requires no cooking.
Cajun Peanuts
Creole Delicacies Pralines
Zapps Potato Chips w/Cookin’ Cajun Mardi Gras Dip
Tabasco Jalapeno Cheese Tabs
Beignets are the state doughnut of Louisiana. Pronounced, "ben-yay",
http://www.neworleansshowcase.com/food-beignet-mix.html
hope this helps..I did alot of on line searching to find these ..I live in Maine and we don’t have alot of cajun food here, so I didn’t have a clue what to look for…but I love to surf the net