Southern country boy supper

[BC38]

Ok so every time I mention this my wife gives me the side eye. She is born and raised in NY although she did live in Kentucky for a few years. I too am born in NY state but my parents are from southern West Virginia. I grew up eating white rice with a little milk and sugar for breakfast. Especially in the winter time. Any other southerns familiar with this? I still like it, but now I use Jasmine rice. It's even better. My wife likes rice but won't even try it. I also like rice pudding but she doesn't.

Yessir I have had white rice as a hot breakfast cereal. I still can hardly gag down plain white rice, even as a side dish.
Same with Cream of Wheat, Malt O Meal, and oatmeal. When I was about 5 or 6 we lived with my mom's parents for a little while, and although they weren't dirt poor, they were just getting by.
I wanted Fruit Loops, or Frosted Flakes for breakfast, but I got one of the above hot breakfast cereals EVERY DAY - for what seemed like FOREVER.
I won't eat hot cereals to this day. None of them. I'll go hungry first.

 

[jjrr]

How about fresh creamed corn and fried okra and green beans and vine ripe tomatoes with corn bread, biscuits are also very good with creamed corn. And a blackberry cobbler for dessert.

 

[kmyers]

One of the meatless ones that my mom had regularly growing up and so did me and my brother when we got hatched was the pot of beans, cornbread, new potatoes, fried squash and fried okra.

 

[rockquarry]

Someone mentioned sweet tea. I'm sure I'm in a minority on this one, but that stuff is really foul. You get little tea flavor with sweetened tea, but sweet tea disciples may not really like real tea flavor.

It's like using ranch dressing on salad as it masks rather than enhances salad flavor. Users are likely not salad lovers anyway.

I'm not trying to convert anyone's taste buds. Eat and drink what you like.

 

[djohns6]

Someone mentioned sweet tea. I'm sure I'm in a minority on this one, but that stuff is really foul. You get little tea flavor with sweetened tea, but sweet tea disciples may not really like real tea flavor.

I drink sweet tea but not that watered down restaurant stuff . You have to be able to hold the glass up and not see through it .

 

[djohns6]

Or country smoked ham.

Well , we usually have a good supply of Deer sausage in the freezer , sooo....

 

[SMSgt]

Bread pudding would be the death of me if I allowed myself to eat it. But if you're ever in the Tampa, FL, area, go to the Tampa Bay Brewing Company in Ybor and order the bread pudding. You can thank me later.

 

[Rustyt1953]

White rice is a blank canvas awaiting a culinary Bob Ross.

Happy rice.

 

[rockquarry]

White rice is a blank canvas awaiting a culinary Bob Ross.

Happy rice.

Yes, it is indeed a blank canvas. I think there are many who don't like rice, but these folks may not be aware of the incredible versatility of rice. So many things you can do with rice; lots of ways to prepare it.

 

[jeffrefrig]

White rice: the OTHER mashed potatoes. Around here, back in the early to mid 80s, the U.S. Gov't gave us poor ex-mill hunkies a 5# chunk of American cheese, butter, and a bag of rice every month at the church or wherever their food distribution centers were set up. Show them your unemployment or welfare card and you got whatever they had on hand. People got creative pretty quickly. Those of us who had parents who grew up during the Depression had a step ahead of many others. Patio gardens popped up everywhere for those who didn't have the yard space. Ahhhh, memories, man!

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

Someone mentioned sweet tea. I'm sure I'm in a minority on this one, but that stuff is really foul. You get little tea flavor with sweetened tea, but sweet tea disciples may not really like real tea flavor.

It's like using ranch dressing on salad as it masks rather than enhances salad flavor. Users are likely not salad lovers anyway.

I'm not trying to convert anyone's taste buds. Eat and drink what you like.

I'm Southern but sweet tea has always gagged me. My mom on
the other hand put sugar in her tea until a 1/2 inch had settled
to the bottom of the glass, then stirred before she took a sip.
My use of the term sweet milk did not refer to canned milk
with sugar added, maybe I should have just said milk.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Sweet Tea, on a diet. When brewing the tea, use real stevia ground to a green powder. The tea to Stevia ratio is about 20:1. Bring to a boil and let sit until room temp. Drink as cold as possible. Be sure and drink it before the third day, 'cause it starts tasting funky!

Ivan

 

[Rustyt1953]

I seldom drink iced tea but neither sweetened or unsweetened are deal breakers. Both are palatable.

I found that the deeper into south I ventured sweet tea was more likely to be served on pancakes.

 

[Claymore33]

The key to moist cornbread is bacon grease.

 

[pawncop]

Bacon grease is the only essential oil I recognize.

 

[Kinman]

Country meals have gravy

My grandmother made biscuits and gravy with every meal cooked on the stove, with exception to oatmeal.

 

[BC38]

Country meals have gravy

Grandma made milk gravy any time she fried meat. Squirrel, rabbit, chicken, quail, venison, bacon, sausage, didn't matter, if it got fried, milk gravy was going to be made from the leftover grease & cracklins.

With beans, not so much.

Grandpa had a fried egg, a couple of pieces of bacon or sausage, biscuits with gravy, about a half cup of Raisin Bran with fresh whole milk (for fiber), and a half a grapefruit with a cup of coffee to wash it down just about every day for the 60 years he and Grandma were married.

He lived to be 79, and was still working with the horses and cattle until he had his first stroke just a few months before he turned 79. He recovered to the point that he was getting around without a walker when he had a second fatal stroke a few months after his 79th birthday.

All that cholesterol all those years had to be a big factor, but he ate what he wanted to and enjoyed it for all those years. A guy could do worse...

 

[zeke]

Refried pinto beans, complete with hot peppers/onions, is staple in this house. Even cooked healthy in a insta-pot. Jalapeno Cornbread is reserved for when it's cool enough to turn on the oven.

And am not southern by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe a little redneck, but never really grew up.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Family cookbooks are migratory. They don't rely on map coordinates.

 

[Harrison]

sounds delicious. Good eaten.