Veggies: Blackeye peas; Pinto beans 'n ham; and special off-menu order of lima beans
Bread: **Biscuits ** and Cornbread
Desert: Apple pie a la mode
Drink: **Tea ** (unsweetened, no fruit)
Now if this Louisiana boy can expand the choices a bit, I’ll take **fried catfish ** with cole slaw, **french fries ** and hushpuppies. Or maybe a **po-boy ** (fried soft-shelled crab, crawfish, or **shrimp ** depending on the season). **Banana pudding ** would be the dessert choice here.
Blackeye peas
Collards (must have Tabasco)
Sweet potatoes
Biscuits
Tea - as sweet, dark and cold as you can make it.
My mother is from Alabama, and the food around our house when I was growing up could’ve all come from Liberal’s menu. It was quite unlike the ‘native’ Minnesotan Scandinavian/German fare.
All these southerners and a few Cajuns thrown in, can someone remind me how to make sticky chicken? I made it once about 10 years ago, but forget how. Thanks.
Country Fried Steak w/ sawmill gravy (Unless there’s catfish, with a lemon wedge.) Green beans 'n corn Creamed potatoes Fried okra Cornbread (I’d only have cornbread with catfish.) Biscuit
If the pie is fresh baked and not under a heat lamp I’ll take: Apple pie (a la mode, add fifty cents)
if it’s under a heat lamp I’ll go with: Chocolate meringue pie
(I might ask if there was any strawberry rhubarb about though.)
Country Fried Steak w/ sawmill gravy
Green beans 'n corn
Fried squash
Sweet potatoes
Biscuits / Cornbread
Apple pie (a la mode) or pecan pie, if they’ve got it
Iced tea, obviously.
Smothered Pork Chops (originally fried then soaked in mushroom gravy for about three hours)
=Fried corn (NOT to be confused with deep fried corn=on=the=cob sometimes sold at fairs but corn kernels scraped from the cob and fried in butter with a touch of sugar until browned)
=blackeyed peas with jowl and or pig tail (remember, it can be up to 49% pork and still be a vegetable)
=pear salad (i.e. half a pair with mayo topped by a marischino cherry)
Beverage: tea that with two more granules of sugar would be syrup
dessert: blackberry cobbler topped with Bluebell and Marlboro Ultralight
country fried steak
mashed potatoes
(gravy on both of the above)
slaw with a tiny bit of sugar added
but only homegrown tomatoes in season with a dab of Kraft’s mayonnaise
(If I can’t have these choices, I’ll take the all starch plate please! :))
Biscuits
lemon icebox pie made with Eagle Brand milk
tea with lemon which I’ll sweeten with Sweet and Low, not Equal.
The best sticky chicken recipe I know of is Emeril Lagasse’s. That guy bugs the bejabbers outta me, but he sure can cook. Please promise that you won’t holler BAM! while cooking this:
Liberal if I had seen this tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, I would have hunted you down like a dog! Good thing for you this is Fat Tuesday and I can indulge.
It’s CHICKEN fried steak. Not country fried. You see, you make it like you make fried chicken, so the style is chicken-fried.
And it comes with a mound of mashed 'taters and WHITE (sawmill) gravy. Anyone who would serve brown gravy on a chicken fried steak must be taken out back and shot. 'luci will be around to fill out the warrant later.
For the other two sides, corn and green beans (cooked to within an inch of their lives with bacon and butter of course) are my favorites. These, however, are optional and the other choices are okay.
Yeasty dinner rolls are a must. With real butter on the side.
Banana pudding is the ultimate dessert following such a sublime meal. Bread pudding, chocolate pie or pecan pie are acceptable alternatives. Red Velvet is meant to be armadillo shaped and served as a groom’s cake.
Sweet tea, of course. Like Lib has mentioned before, it must be properly aged for best results. None of that instant or just made stuff.
Alternately, CHICKEN FRIED STEAK is a nice breakfast with eggs over easy, hashbrowns, grits, cat-head biscuits and gravy.
-Meatloaf (w/gravy of course)
-Rice 'n gravy, Creamed Corn (fried corn would be better), and Creamed potatoes (again w/the gravy)
-Biscuits
-Red Velvet Cake (But I’d prefer Key Lime Pie or a Peanut Butter cake)
-Pepsi (Served in a mason jar)
I second those deviled eggs, even though that’s a special occassion item.
Do you make the cornbread sweet or not?
I’ll be back again for a different combination. It was menus like this that put an extra 20 pounds on me.
More tea…keep pouring. Homebrew, I’d like to order two helpings of your breakfast there. In a nob to our British cousins, could I get a couple of broiled/fried tomato slices with that? Thanks.
