My mom was from Alabama, and she used to make pig feet and hoppin John in the pressure cooker. Lawdamercy, that was sooo good with some Louisiana hot sauce and grape Koolaid to wash it all down. Talk about cloggin your arteries, can't eat too much of it now. You're asking for a heart attack.

it's good for the soul.

OldFriends4Sale said:

morningsong said:

The list is very long with things I haven't eaten, I can pretty much say mostly everything you've listed. Use to love hogshead cheese when I was a child, one couldn't pay me to eat it now. I've just eaten Alligator meat lousiana style, loved it. Eaten escargot, enjoyed it at the time. Nope can't stand lobster but I like crayfish, barely tolerate shrimp and will only eat alaskan king crab. Still will devour some chicken gizzards.

I would try anything when I was young... My parents would let us try it but not tell us what it was.

Can't eat it anymore.

Oh I had cow tongue too. My uncle & dad tricked us on that one too.

I've heard Alligator meat is good. Never escargot.
I get chicken gizzards at least once a month now, love em with rice and onionIs

Oooo, you don't know what you're missing! They are sooo good cooked in butter and garlic in their shells.

LBrent said:

Horsefeathers said:

Horsefeathers said:

morningsong said:

We lost domaintor a while ago it seems. We scared him.

Naw, I'm still here But I checked in on this thread AFTER a long time though...

I feel so good reading this thread, thinking about the glop *I* eat every day here in India - some of it tastes like DOG VOMIT, I swear! But some of the pics you guys've been posting here looks worse than MY SHIT!!!...

Horsefeathers said:

LBrent said:

Y'all pretty much covered it all, but I just thought I'd mention that my mother in law used to fry chicken in bacon grease. I can't describe how delicious it was.

I wonder if the mason jar of saved bacon grease is a white people thing. Every southern white mama and grandma I know had it and seasoned everything with it.

No, it's not just a "white people thing." I think it has its roots in southern black folks' kitchens. My mom is from Alabama, and she kept a tin canister on the kitchen countr by the stove, and after every batch of fried bacon, she would deposit the bacon drippings in that can. She used it to season almost everything that called for some type of fat, be it greens, string beans, cabbage, fried chicken, liver and onions, and even pancakes, the kind that called for milk, egg and fat. I do the same thing to this day. I know it's not particularly healthy, but you can't beat the flavor it adds to southern cooking.

domainator2010 said:

CharlieGriffin said:

vainandy said:

Fried everything. Fried chicken, fried catfish, fried okra. Hel, we even fry cabbage. Put that cabbage in a skillet with some bacon and some grease and cook it until it's brown. Season everything with some sort of pork such as bacon or hamhocks. Bacon is your best friend. Never throw your bacon grease away....ever. Save it in a jar and scoop it out like Crisco and use it to season and simmer everything in from greens, string beans, butter beans, black eyed peas....hell, even pour a little bacon grease in the batter when you make your cornbread.

.

Greens such as mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, or a mixture of both mustards and turnips. My favorite is straight up mustard greens. But whatever kind of greens it is, it has to be absolutely soaked in some sort of grease while cooking such as bacon or hamhock. Same thing with string beans. The best are the flat "Kentucky Wonders" and once again, simmer them in that grease. Cabbage, either boiled or fried....fried is the best....once again, simmer them in the grease. Baked corn casserole....once again, save a little of that bacon grease to put in there. Just remember, down South, vegetables aren't meant to be "healthy" . Fuck that. EVERYTHING has to taste good and if it means making healthy foods unhealthy to do it....well then, so be it. Just remember honey, save that bacon grease for damn near everything.

.

As for cornbrean. Never....EVER....use Jiffy mix. Honey, you're eating cornbread not cake. Cornbread is not supposed to taste "sweet". The only cornbread that's good is made from Martha White buttermilk cornmeal. And to my understanding, they only sell it in the South so if you're not from the South, you better stock up on it and ship it up tYehere because you ain't eating good cornbread if it ain't Martha White.

.

And just remember....if it's good for you, it doesn't taste good to you. Throw the healthy mentality out the window and season it to taste good. Grease, grease, and more grease. Hell, you only live once.

Honey, you talkin bout hot water cornbread for pot licquor! Make you wanna slap yo mama!

Where you been, hon? I've missed you!

.

My family is having soul food on Christmas We usually make the traditional Christmas dinner (ham,stuffing,etc) but this year we want to try something different.We're gonna have gumbo,fried fish,black eyed peas,greens,etc.I can't wait.

....with pecan pie and sweet potato pie for dessert!

vainandy said:

Fried everything. Fried chicken, fried catfish, fried okra. Hel, we even fry cabbage. Put that cabbage in a skillet with some bacon and some grease and cook it until it's brown. Season everything with some sort of pork such as bacon or hamhocks. Bacon is your best friend. Never throw your bacon grease away....ever. Save it in a jar and scoop it out like Crisco and use it to season and simmer everything in from greens, string beans, butter beans, black eyed peas....hell, even pour a little bacon grease in the batter when you make your cornbread.

.

Greens such as mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, or a mixture of both mustards and turnips. My favorite is straight up mustard greens. But whatever kind of greens it is, it has to be absolutely soaked in some sort of grease while cooking such as bacon or hamhock. Same thing with string beans. The best are the flat "Kentucky Wonders" and once again, simmer them in that grease. Cabbage, either boiled or fried....fried is the best....once again, simmer them in the grease. Baked corn casserole....once again, save a little of that bacon grease to put in there. Just remember, down South, vegetables aren't meant to be "healthy" . Fuck that. EVERYTHING has to taste good and if it means making healthy foods unhealthy to do it....well then, so be it. Just remember honey, save that bacon grease for damn near everything.

.

As for cornbrean. Never....EVER....use Jiffy mix. Honey, you're eating cornbread not cake. Cornbread is not supposed to taste "sweet". The only cornbread that's good is made from Martha White buttermilk cornmeal. And to my understanding, they only sell it in the South so if you're not from the South, you better stock up on it and ship it up there because you ain't eating good cornbread if it ain't Martha White.

.

And just remember....if it's good for you, it doesn't taste good to you. Throw the healthy mentality out the window and season it to taste good. Grease, grease, and more grease. Hell, you only live once.

Bull fucking shit

Yes Jiffy is low budget cornbread and not the best on the market but you can doctor that

shit up like my mom. The secret to good cornbread is getting that right mix of oil in it so

that it can taste fluffy. And shit what's the use of eating cornbread if it don't have a little sweetness to it. You might as well eat fucking plain white bread. I prefer cornbread made

from real corn meal like Martha White but don't be stingy with the tugah.

phunkdaddy said:

vainandy said:

Fried everything. Fried chicken, fried catfish, fried okra. Hel, we even fry cabbage. Put that cabbage in a skillet with some bacon and some grease and cook it until it's brown. Season everything with some sort of pork such as bacon or hamhocks. Bacon is your best friend. Never throw your bacon grease away....ever. Save it in a jar and scoop it out like Crisco and use it to season and simmer everything in from greens, string beans, butter beans, black eyed peas....hell, even pour a little bacon grease in the batter when you make your cornbread.

.

Greens such as mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, or a mixture of both mustards and turnips. My favorite is straight up mustard greens. But whatever kind of greens it is, it has to be absolutely soaked in some sort of grease while cooking such as bacon or hamhock. Same thing with string beans. The best are the flat "Kentucky Wonders" and once again, simmer them in that grease. Cabbage, either boiled or fried....fried is the best....once again, simmer them in the grease. Baked corn casserole....once again, save a little of that bacon grease to put in there. Just remember, down South, vegetables aren't meant to be "healthy" . Fuck that. EVERYTHING has to taste good and if it means making healthy foods unhealthy to do it....well then, so be it. Just remember honey, save that bacon grease for damn near everything.

.

As for cornbrean. Never....EVER....use Jiffy mix. Honey, you're eating cornbread not cake. Cornbread is not supposed to taste "sweet". The only cornbread that's good is made from Martha White buttermilk cornmeal. And to my understanding, they only sell it in the South so if you're not from the South, you better stock up on it and ship it up there because you ain't eating good cornbread if it ain't Martha White.

.

And just remember....if it's good for you, it doesn't taste good to you. Throw the healthy mentality out the window and season it to taste good. Grease, grease, and more grease. Hell, you only live once.

Bull fucking shit

Yes Jiffy is low budget cornbread and not the best on the market but you can doctor that

shit up like my mom. The secret to good cornbread is getting that right mix of oil in it so

that it can taste fluffy. And shit what's the use of eating cornbread if it don't have a little sweetness to it. You might as well eat fucking plain white bread. I prefer cornbread made

from real corn meal like Martha White but don't be stingy with the tugah.

I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE Jiffy cornbread it's really the only kinda cornbread that my family has ever used

SoulAlive said:

phunkdaddy said:

Bull fucking shit

Yes Jiffy is low budget cornbread and not the best on the market but you can doctor that

shit up like my mom. The secret to good cornbread is getting that right mix of oil in it so

that it can taste fluffy. And shit what's the use of eating cornbread if it don't have a little sweetness to it. You might as well eat fucking plain white bread. I prefer cornbread made

from real corn meal like Martha White but don't be stingy with the tugah.

I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE Jiffy cornbread it's really the only kinda cornbread that my family has ever used

A family friend taught me to add a can of creamed corn to Jiffy. Makes it sweet, fluffy and yummy.

I'm going to have a go at making my first ever corn bread today. This is the recipe that I will be using: http://www.foodnetwork.co...ecipe.html

Any tips are welcome.

phunkdaddy said:

vainandy said:

Fried everything. Fried chicken, fried catfish, fried okra. Hel, we even fry cabbage. Put that cabbage in a skillet with some bacon and some grease and cook it until it's brown. Season everything with some sort of pork such as bacon or hamhocks. Bacon is your best friend. Never throw your bacon grease away....ever. Save it in a jar and scoop it out like Crisco and use it to season and simmer everything in from greens, string beans, butter beans, black eyed peas....hell, even pour a little bacon grease in the batter when you make your cornbread.

.

Greens such as mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, or a mixture of both mustards and turnips. My favorite is straight up mustard greens. But whatever kind of greens it is, it has to be absolutely soaked in some sort of grease while cooking such as bacon or hamhock. Same thing with string beans. The best are the flat "Kentucky Wonders" and once again, simmer them in that grease. Cabbage, either boiled or fried....fried is the best....once again, simmer them in the grease. Baked corn casserole....once again, save a little of that bacon grease to put in there. Just remember, down South, vegetables aren't meant to be "healthy" . Fuck that. EVERYTHING has to taste good and if it means making healthy foods unhealthy to do it....well then, so be it. Just remember honey, save that bacon grease for damn near everything.

.

As for cornbrean. Never....EVER....use Jiffy mix. Honey, you're eating cornbread not cake. Cornbread is not supposed to taste "sweet". The only cornbread that's good is made from Martha White buttermilk cornmeal. And to my understanding, they only sell it in the South so if you're not from the South, you better stock up on it and ship it up there because you ain't eating good cornbread if it ain't Martha White.

.

And just remember....if it's good for you, it doesn't taste good to you. Throw the healthy mentality out the window and season it to taste good. Grease, grease, and more grease. Hell, you only live once.

Bull fucking shit

Yes Jiffy is low budget cornbread and not the best on the market but you can doctor that

shit up like my mom. The secret to good cornbread is getting that right mix of oil in it so

that it can taste fluffy. And shit what's the use of eating cornbread if it don't have a little sweetness to it. You might as well eat fucking plain white bread. I prefer cornbread made

from real corn meal like Martha White but don't be stingy with the tugah.

I too prefer it when cornbread tastes sweeter.
I'm thinking of replacing the sugar with honey or maple syrup.

CherryMoon57 said:

morningsong said:

CherryMoon57 said:

I too prefer it when cornbread tastes sweeter.
I'm thinking of replacing the sugar with honey or maple syrup.

Honey works in place of sugar, white corn meal adds a unique sweetness. None of it s actually cake sweet, but it's sweet.

Thank you morningsong, I'm just about to start it now.

[Edited 9/18/16 9:47am]

LBrent said:

SoulAlive said:

I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE Jiffy cornbread it's really the only kinda cornbread that my family has ever used

A family friend taught me to add a can of creamed corn to Jiffy. Makes it sweet, fluffy and yummy.

mmmm.I'll have to try that

Horsefeathers said:

LBrent said:

Y'all pretty much covered it all, but I just thought I'd mention that my mother in law used to fry chicken in bacon grease. I can't describe how delicious it was.

I wonder if the mason jar of saved bacon grease is a white people thing. Every southern white mama and grandma I know had it and seasoned everything with it.

Mom and Grandma didn't use the mason jar. It was an actual container with a strainer on top to pour bacon grease and leftover fried chicken grease into. It was some sort of metal (not stainless steel). And this was used into the 1980s. Chicken was cooked in a cast iron skillet but not fully immersed in the grease. You cooked one side, then the other.

And they cooked it in Crisco! As a little girl I thought it was icing and when the adults were down for the Sunday afternoon nap I grabbed a fingerful of what I thought was going to taste like butter creme. I ruined a couple of toothbrushes trying to get that out of my mouth. Then had to go get my own switch for ruining the toothbrushes.

CharlieGriffin said:

Horsefeathers said:

LBrent said: I wonder if the mason jar of saved bacon grease is a white people thing. Every southern white mama and grandma I know had it and seasoned everything with it.

No, it's not just a "white people thing." I think it has its roots in southern black folks' kitchens. My mom is from Alabama, and she kept a tin canister on the kitchen countr by the stove, and after every batch of fried bacon, she would deposit the bacon drippings in that can. She used it to season almost everything that called for some type of fat, be it greens, string beans, cabbage, fried chicken, liver and onions, and even pancakes, the kind that called for milk, egg and fat. I do the same thing to this day. I know it's not particularly healthy, but you can't beat the flavor it adds to southern cooking.

A wilted lettuce salad is heaven.

Horsefeathers said:

A lot of people also used to use coffee cans for their saved fat. Remember metal coffee cans? #old

My play auntie did it a lot, my grandmother did it. I tried going back to it but I don't use the "real" stuff it tasted and smelled horrible, I dumped it with a quickness.

I hated my auntie's pancakes cooked in Crisco. She was a good cook overall, but those pancakes sent me running for the hills.

morningsong said:

Horsefeathers said:

A lot of people also used to use coffee cans for their saved fat. Remember metal coffee cans? #old

My play auntie did it a lot, my grandmother did it. I tried going back to it but I don't use the "real" stuff it tasted and smelled horrible, I dumped it with a quickness.

I hated my auntie's pancakes cooked in Crisco. She was a good cook overall, but those pancakes sent me running for the hills.

I was in the grocery store to buy cooking oil and I laughed when I saw Crisco makes coconut oil.

I was like, "Well, alright, Crisco, gettin with the healthy thing, huh?"

A friend of mine growing up, her grandmother used Crisco on her feet. She kept a small tub of Ponds Cold Cream mixed with Crisco to coat her feet every night then cover in socks to keep away what she called "slave feet" (tough crusty skin on the feet)

Old folks can be so politically incorrect LMAO

LBrent said:

morningsong said:

My play auntie did it a lot, my grandmother did it. I tried going back to it but I don't use the "real" stuff it tasted and smelled horrible, I dumped it with a quickness.

I hated my auntie's pancakes cooked in Crisco. She was a good cook overall, but those pancakes sent me running for the hills.

I was in the grocery store to buy cooking oil and I laughed when I saw Crisco makes coconut oil.

I was like, "Well, alright, Crisco, gettin with the healthy thing, huh?"

A friend of mine growing up, her grandmother used Crisco on her feet. She kept a small tub of Ponds Cold Cream mixed with Crisco to coat her feet every night then cover in socks to keep away what she called "slave feet" (tough crusty skin on the feet)

Old folks can be so politically incorrect LMAO