Went through a thread a few minutes ago that made me miss some good ole' Southern home-cooked foods that my Mom/Grandma/aunts would make that I haven't had in a long time. Thinking I'll get a big grocery list together soon and try my hand at some dishes that I've been missing.
Might try some out from the comments too.
Posted Mar 6, 2018, 6:54 AM UTC
My mom would make this mix of black beans, peppers, tomatoes & diced ham. Served with tortillas & rice; MMMMM, so good.
Some foods I miss:
My Grandma would make a beef stew with rice and tomatoes (with tomato puree or something). Serve with some cornbread or collard greens. Probably a pretty simple recipe but definitely one of the best things about going back home for a visit -- she'll always make this for me if she hasn't seen me in a while.
My mom has made this potroast for years with peppers, a dry ranch dressing packet and some other basic ingredients. Only realized not long ago that it is a recent hit over at r/slowcooking called a "Mississippi pot roast". I asked her the other day where she got the recipe but she had never heard it called that and doesn't really remember where she got the recipe from. Definitely makes your tastebuds explode and seems pretty simple to make. Think this might be one of the first ones I try to make for myself.
My aunt makes the best damn mac & cheese I've ever had (I'm sure a bunch of people have that one family member who can knock M&C out the park). It's the kind that seems like it has to be served in those large aluminum pans where the top layer is kinda burnt perfectly but every bit below it is nice, hot 'n cheeeeeesy. Like, you gotta raise your fork about two feet off your plate to break the cheese link from fork to plate kinda cheesy.
Random foods I also miss: collard greens w/ pepper vinegar sauce, cornbread with tomato soup, chicken bog, Beaufort stew, buttery toast made in the oven with cinnamon + sugar, this King Vitamin cereal that I'm not sure if they still make, black eyed peas with pieces of bacon cooked with it, fatback, and venison steaks/sausage.
Mrs poop makes a sausage-pierogie-bell pepper bowl that’s amazing. Now that I can’t eat red meat we use turkey sausage but it’s still awesome.
Whoawhoawhoa you can't do red meat?! I'm so sorry
Yeah my liver doesn’t filter iron and red meat is super high in iron. I basically use a turkey substitute for all meats. It sucks.
No way!! I'm so sorry to hear that.
I don't know what they're actually called but soft fried potatos are amazing. I also like creamed corn and cornbread.
My mom also makes really good mashed potatos with chives and sour cream and other stuff, and my favorite shoepeg corn casserole
Grandma's potato gnocchi alla vodka. Bellissimo.
My mom makes the best gumbo. Its usually either a seafood and ocra gumbo or chicken and andouille sausage gumbo. If you havent tried putting potato salad IN your bowl of chicken gumbo you havent truely lived. Nothing is better than a bowl of gumbo thats too hot to eat with some cold potato salad to cool it down.
My mom is an amazing cook, she would go through phases depending on what cookbook she read last. Some of my favorite foreign dishes include japanese curry with tofu (only time I enjoyed tofu) and somosa chaat (mashed samosa, some type of yogurt, peas, and a bunch of indian spices). For my birthday she would spend two or three days preparing turtle soup. I forgot how or why it became a tradition, but every year her soup is half the cause of celebration during the party.
I wish I took more time to just sit and watch her cook when I lived there, she's definitely influenced my tastes in a big way. Now that I eat at a cafeteria everyday I eat as much as I can get back home.
LOVE cooking :3 my favorite is prob ribs.
Trim and prep your ribs and then rub it down with brown sugar, garlic powder and a little honey. Preheat oven to 350 and put it in for 45 min covered. Take off the foil and throw it back in for another 45 min.
After that it’s kinda up in the air. I cook it a tiny bit longer to ensure that it falls off the bone but to each their own.
I like to put it on the grill over a flame for ~5 min to char and give it a yummier taste. While it’s on the grill I baste it with honey and bbq sauce and you’re good to go :3 resting meat is v important and I usually do ~8-10 min before eating.
My mom has an awesome Chicken and Wild rice soup recipe. I'm not the biggest soup fan but I love this one. Great for cold weather, it's filling and a cream-based soup.
There's also a really good chicken tetrazinni casserole she makes. And a black garlic chicken with fingerling potatoes and mushrooms that's roasted.
Personally, a quick favorite of mine if I'm cooking (I'm lazy) is making pulled pork/chicken BBQ in the crock pot. I use the recipe on sweet baby ray's website I think. I dunno. It's damn good and it's a good "throw shit in crock pot and leave it" recipe!
All my grandparents are in China so I miss their cooking all the time.
Aside from that, nothing beats a good homemade steak frites. Red wine optional.
Oh gosh I love cooking so much...
Roast beef and mashed potatoes & gravy for sure.
Love a good Turkey dinner too.
Probably my all time fave is medium rare steak. Baked potato & salad.