| Down Home Southern Cooking All right everyone...this may take a lil time & memory but I would like for everyone to get those recipe cards together and come up with some REAL southern dishes! Also if anyone has the recipe for cajun hot boiled peanuts feel free to pass that along asap!!  |
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 boognishPremium
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kudos:6 | A true southern delicacy 2 pounds bull testicles (lamb/sheep, calf or turkey testicles can also be used)
1 cup flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1 cup red wine
salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste
Louisiana Hot Sauce
hog lard (cooking oil can be substituted)
Split the tough skin-like muscle that surrounds each "oyster." (use a sharp knife) You can also remove the skin easily if the "oysters" are frozen and then peeled while thawing. Set into a pan with enough salt water to cover them for one hour to remove some of the blood and drain.
Transfer to large pot. Add enough water to float "oysters" and a generous tablespoon of vinegar. Parboil, drain and rinse. Let cool and slice each "oyster" into 1/4 inch thick ovals. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of sliced "oyster" to taste.
Mix flour, cornmeal and some garlic powder to taste in a bowl. Roll each slice into this dry mixture. Dip into milk. Dip into dry mixture. Dip into wine quickly (repeat the procedure for a thicker crust).
Place into hot cooking oil.
Add Louisiana Hot Sauce to cooking oil (it'll sizzle some, so be careful!). Cook until golden brown or tender, and remove with a strainer (the longer they cook, the tougher they get).
Just playing. I will have to get back to you. Growing up every morning we always had fresh bacon, sausage, or country ham, bisquits, gravy (on special occasions we had red eye gravy) and home fries. I will think about some dinner items. We always had some sort of meat because my Dad did not believe it was a meal unless you have at least one meat.
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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Re: Down Home Southern Cooking Welcome to the sout ItalPrncss. I'm at work right now but I got a whole book full of recipes at home. The most southern of recpies are quite easy. Like this morning. 2 scrambled eggs mixed in about 1 1/2 cups of grits. 2 slices of buttered bread. Pour the grits/eggs on the bread and bon apetite. If you don't like grits then add a bunch of cheddar chease and make soe chease grits. Boiled Peanuts are easy as well. Lots of salt and peanuts in boiling water. I think for cajun you just add cajun seasoning to the water. Some people also put ham hocks in far extra flavoring. Any local gas station should have some pork cracklins. Eat them, get addicted, then find out what they are.
Are bisquits and gravy southern?
Edit: I think gator tail is a southern thing too. It should be double-cubed before cooking. If you go to a place that doesn't cube it it's often too tuff to enjoy. Eat gator tail with honey mustard sauce.
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Are bisquits and gravy southern?
Is the Pope Catholic? 
Some people like sausage gravy, but I prefer bacon gravy for my biscuits.
Since I'm from New York, I can get away with not making home-made biscuits. I check in with the doughboy to get mine. Grands butter flavor work really well.
I cook by feel, so my recipes are very vague.
For my gravy, I chop a pound of thick-sliced bacon into small pieces and put 'em in a cast iron skillet and fry on low-medium heat until crispy. Take the bacon bits out and about half the grease.
Add some flour (about 2-3 tablespoons) and make a roux with the bacon grease. Cook it on low heat until it starts to turn blonde. If the roux is runny, stir in a little more flour until it becomes fairly stiff, but all the flour is able to absorb grease. Likewise, if you add too much flour and it dries out, add a bit more grease.
Once the roux is a nice light golden color, slowly stir in milk until the gravy is the desired thickness. Some folks swear by whole milk, and others prefer skim. I'm a 2% kind of guy. Good flavor, but not too heavy.
When things have thickened nicely, give things a taste and adjust seasoning as necessary. I like a good amount of black pepper in mine, and you shouldn't need any salt since bacon is pretty salty.
If you prefer sausage, substitute a 1-pound chub of sausage for the bacon, and do everything else the same.
Biscuits and gravy stand well on their own, but are incredible with eggs over easy.
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Tallahassee, FL | Huh, I thought they were eaten everywhere. What do people eat up north for breakfast? Just omelets I guess. That's how I make my biscuits in gravy as well. Come to think of it I haven't made any in a while. I think I'll be doing that sometime next week.
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Re: A true southern delicacy lmao I wasn't sure if I should've been rude & asked if you were joking! You totally had me going there! haha Have any sauage gravy & biscuit recipes? And what's that red eye gravy? |
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Re: Down Home Southern Cooking *drooooooool* mmmmm it's getting good in here! Yeah we usally eat either cold cereal or scrambled eggs & bacon w/toast. |
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Now that you're in Florida, you can also find yourself some good Cuban and other Hispanic recipes!
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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Re: A true southern delicacy said by ItalPrncss:
And what's that red eye gravy?
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Re: Down Home Southern Cooking No southern Sunday dinner is complete without banana pudding. The best recipe is right on every box of Nabisco vanilla wafers (or, at least it used to be).
Or, for a shortcut, instead of the real pudding, you can substitute Jell-o instant pudding made with too much milk. It is almost as good.
Tim
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| mm mmm mmmm I love banana anything! Hey now, behave, you pervs! hehe j/k Definitely thanks for the idea though, gonna have to find the recipe for that one! |
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Anyone ever try pinto beans boiled up with hog jawl? I had it when I was about 5 in WV & I liked it then, would like to try it again sometime! Any recipes for dumplings (blueberry, blackberry, etc)? |
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you gonna come over & whip something up for me? hehe |
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Re: A true southern delicacy well that is certainly something different. Even though I am not a coffee/espresso drinker I just may have to try that one sometime! |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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Tallahassee, FL | reply to timcuth
Re: Down Home Southern Cooking Wait a second. Banana pudding is southern too? Damn, I'm glad I was born in the south. I never even considered the idea that these things weren't eaten elsewhere. I guess I need to get out more.
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 neutralfaith in the futurePremium
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I just had a southern meal for the first time in awhile. grits, sausage, gravy, toast.
I don't really have any recipes though...grits I just buy and mix, the sausage is Morningstar Farms. The gravy is the only part I really make. It's flour, oil, broth base, grease left from cooking.
Oh and how could I forget?! Plenty of Texas Pete....
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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said by neutral:
I just had a southern meal for the first time in awhile. grits, sausage, gravy, toast.
I don't really have any recipes though...grits I just buy and mix, the sausage is Morningstar Farms. The gravy is the only part I really make. It's flour, oil, broth base, grease left from cooking.
Oh and how could I forget?! Plenty of Texas Pete....
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Hah! I don't think I've ever seen anyone attemptt a southern vegan meal. I think I'll change over to my sausage and gravy to Vegan sauage and gravy so my vegan roomate can join in.
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timcuthBraves FanPremium
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said by Maxo:
Wait a second. Banana pudding is southern too? Damn, I'm glad I was born in the south. I never even considered the idea that these things weren't eaten elsewhere. I guess I need to get out more.
Well, I have no idea if it is exclusively southern, or not. I don't even care. But it is certainly an integral part of most down home southern cooking I've ever seen.
Biscuits aren't exclusively southern, either. But southern cooking wouldn't be southern cooking without them.
Tim
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timcuthBraves FanPremium
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Pelham, AL | reply to ItalPrncss
Texas Pete is a hot sauce. IMHO, not even a particularly good hot sauce. Original Tabasco Sauce is the real deal.
Tim |
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