Soooooouuuulll Food!

[HardyGirl]

Ok, so today in honor of Black History Month, the staff cooked a "soul food lunch" for the kids. I packed my own lunch, not expecting there'd be any leftovers. They made enough for an ARMY. I'm sitting here stuffing my face w/ fried chicken, red beans and rice, mac & cheese, sweet potatoes, potato salad and cornbread. YUMMY! Good way to end the work week!

[kingdom warrior]

Mmmmmmmmmmm YUM!!!!!! Sounds like your tummy is very happy

[Bizarro Amy]

I am so freakin jealous of you right now. The only thing that could make that meal better is fish and collard greens.

[HardyGirl]

I am so freakin jealous of you right now. The only thing that could make that meal better is fish and collard greens.

They did make greens, but I don't like them.

[Mr.Krusher]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh baby....pass the hot sauce and kiss the cook! Just made red beans and rice a few days ago...and some fried catfish as well...mmmmmmm...

[Mikey]

I got me a taste for something (anything) fried in fatback

[Adam West]

Oh yeah...that's good eating. I tasted collared greens recently and loved it.

My dad grew up as a farmer so I have tried some pretty strange stuff....like scrapple. Not exactly sure if that qualifies as soul food but I actually like it if it is fried.

[Bizarro Amy]

Oh yeah...that's good eating. I tasted collared greens recently and loved it.

My dad grew up as a farmer so I have tried some pretty strange stuff....like scrapple. Not exactly sure if that qualifies as soul food but I actually like it if it is fried.

I didn't eat much soul food until I met my husband, but I grew up eating Scrapple - I think that alone disqualifies it from being soul food. I've always thought of that as Pennsylvania Dutch, or at least country food.

[torgospizza]

Around here, we call scrapple "pon haus." A lot of German immigrants settled in this area, my paternal great-grandparents among them. On my Mom's side, we'd eat poke. A lot of that stuff doesn't strike me as African American, so much as just stuff poor rural people ate. Whatever the case, it's all good, minus chittlins.

[Mr.Krusher]

I'm coming up on my 20th year in the rest. business, and these two 'categories' of foods are pretty much the same...

Fried chicken, fried fish, greens, biscuits, casseroles, yams, sweet corn, green beans w/salt pork, pot. salad, slaws, ban. pudding, fruit pies, chitlins, mac and cheese, monkey bread, ham hocks, turkey legs, sausages w/onions, chicken wings, ribs, brisket, cornbreads, etc etc...

Back home in NY, its known as 'soul food' , here in Kentucky its called 'country cooking'....in my experience there is little to no difference.

[Random Axe]

^^^So what part of KY did you end up in? My mother's family is from western Kentucky and that's just normal food and meals there. Here in Ohio, dumplings are balls of dough with a fried crust. Dumpling I get are rolled flour cut into stips and boiled with either turkey or chicken. Cornbread is made on a skillet like a pancake, not like a muffin.

Scott

[torgospizza]

Cornbread is made on a skillet like a pancake, not like a muffin.

If you ever bake it in a cake pan, mix it with yellow cake mix. Eat it with ham and beans, and it'll change your life.

[Mr.Krusher]

Scott - We live in the Lexington area. Yep, I know what you mean about those dumplings. Back home, mom would float the dough balls in beef or lamb stew, they were egg-sized. Around here, they are rolled out and cut into strips, like tiny playing cards. As for the cornbread, its all the same at heart - johnny cakes, hoe cakes, spoonbread, blah blah...its a cornmeal cake cooked to varying degrees.

I will say, the greens in particular that I have had throughout the south are FAR superior to the ones back home. They are always more supple, have far better flavoring, and seem fresher. Now, dont get me wrong, the Fish House in Queens, and Miss Sylvia's in Harlem DONT play around either, but the greens are just better here to me.

Ohio? We drove over one day, for the hell of it, to see the aquarium in Cincinnati, but it was closed. From the outside, it looks awesome...though not as awesome as the Montreal Aquarium.

Torgo - This is partially true sir....but instead, try this - Mix the cornmeal slurry with: frozen/fresh corn, lots of hot sauce, 1 clove garlic, shredded sharp cheddar, a pinch of Goya Jamon Sazon, and a small spoon of Media Crema, and you are ready to roll.

("Torgo"...lol....isnt that the strange igor guy from the 'Moon Beast' movie? lol)

[Duncan]

If you ever bake it in a cake pan, mix it with yellow cake mix. Eat it with ham and beans, and it'll change your life.

Well, now I've got a project for this weekend.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Fried Okra - I could eat that like popcorn.