Fun with Food

[wbraswell]

This is supposed to be a light hearted thread, so don't anybody get their shorts in a wad. Just join in the commentary.

I'm from Texas, so I'm kind of Southern and kind of Western. The cultures blend around here. So we get a lot of different cuisines. All my life, I've heard of Southern Fried Chicken. Just what DO you Yankees do with a yard bird?
And what the heck is a Boston Baked Bean? Never seen one, even on a menu.
Georgia, are ya'll the ones responsible for this sickeningly sweet swill that some Southerners call tea? That toxin makes Kool Aid look like a diet drink.
Don't believe the chili snobs, we really do put beans in chili, just not a lot and usually smash them first so they don't stand out.
And don't believe the BBQ snobs either, when they tell you Texas BBQ is only brisket. We will smoke any dead critter that will fit on the grill or in the smoker. How bout some smoked armadillo, we like to call it Texas Escargot.

 

[JOERM]

My wife is from OK, until I married her I always called it BBQ no matter what I put on the grill. It drives her nuts when I say lets BBQ some steaks for dinner. Why such a big deal??!! She says us northern folks don't know nothing about BBQ or the difference between BBQ and Grilling. Grilling to me sounds like a girlly thing that girls do and BBQ is a bad *** thing that guys do. yeah I know, BBQ is long, low and slow and grill is short, hot and fast.

I don't care what you southern people think about us yank's up here in the NW, when I cook a steak on the grill I am BBQ'en it! Hell, do you guys put grill sauce on your steaks or BBQ sauce?

In all reality, I'd bet to say most all good BBQ recipes came from the south.

Joe

 

[nicky4968]

It's all Merkin food. (Whenever we have a Southerner as president, he addresses us as "My fellow Merkins".) Midwest chili, like my wife makes; chili in the San Luis Valley; chili in Texas; perogis (300 varieties); empanadas (300 varities); tuna salad in pita bread; moo goo gai pan; bread and butter pickles. Except for shellfish I love them all.
If I'm in your neighborhood, I'll even try the armadillo (as long as it isn't some land form of shellfish).

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

I'm from Oklahoma. Both my parents came from large family, rural origins.

I grew up eating my mothers fried chicken. Trouble was, any time I went anywhere else and had "fried chicken" it was not like my mothers.

What she did that was different was fry it in a corn meal batter. I've never seen anyone else do that. It was wonderful...but it was just different from the rest of the world.

Anyone else ever experience that?

 

[psm06270]

I,m from Louisiana, my wife is from Wisconsin. Menu time gets real crazy around my house, but it is all good eats.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

7 course "red neck meal" I be one, Armadillo on the half shell and a 6 pack of beer

 

[ingmansinc]

I have lived in the north, west, and south and one of the items that I ate in one of the above mentioned areas was, dough rolled out about 1/8" thick and cut in squares, boiled in beef stock with hunks of beef, served on mashed potatoes with vinegar poured over the top. It was really good and I will let you all figure out what part of the nation it came from and what was it's original origin in the world.

 

[truckemup97]

Originally posted by JOERM:
My wife is from OK, She says us northern folks don't know nothing about BBQ or the difference between BBQ and Grilling.

Your wife is correct.

Grilling is cooking something outside over charcoal or propane. BBQ is a process that involves a spice rub, large chunks of meat (I love brisket, but other things can be BBQ too), and smoking. And I don't mean Camels.

 

[Indiana George]

Originally posted by Gutpile Charlie:

I grew up eating my mothers fried chicken...

What she did that was different was fry it in a corn meal batter. I've never seen anyone else do that. It was wonderful...but it was just different from the rest of the world.

Anyone else ever experience that?

Similar, Charlie:

My midwestern grandmother would prepare fried chicken by dipping it in an egg/milk mixture and then rolling it in corn meal, as opposed to a batter.

Just chicken, though. Any other meat or fish that was to be fried was prepared with seasoned flour.

 

[Xfuzz]

Charlie...

Try this for yard bird, fish, shrimp, or oysters.
Half corn meal half flour.
Dip in a mix of 2 tbsp of mustard,
1 beer and 1.5 tbsp of tabasco...S&P.
Deep fry.

 

[Ron H.]

Originally posted by ingmansinc:
I have lived in the north, west, and south and one of the items that I ate in one of the above mentioned areas was, dough rolled out about 1/8" thick and cut in squares, boiled in beef stock with hunks of beef, served on mashed potatoes with vinegar poured over the top. It was really good and I will let you all figure out what part of the nation it came from and what was it's original origin in the world.

Sir, that sounds British.

Semper Fi,

Ron H.

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

Originally posted by Xfuzz:
Charlie...

Try this for yard bird, fish, shrimp, or oysters.
Half corn meal half flour.
Dip in a mix of 2 tbsp of mustard,
1 beer and 1.5 tbsp of tabasco...S&P.
Deep fry.

__________________________________________________

Xfuzz, that sounds great....but....right now I'm on a diet! No fried foods!

Seriously, I'll give it a try.

 

[ingmansinc]

Originally posted by Ron H.:

Originally posted by ingmansinc:
I have lived in the north, west, and south and one of the items that I ate in one of the above mentioned areas was, dough rolled out about 1/8" thick and cut in squares, boiled in beef stock with hunks of beef, served on mashed potatoes with vinegar poured over the top. It was really good and I will let you all figure out what part of the nation it came from and what was it's original origin in the world.

Sir, that sounds British.

Semper Fi,

Ron H.

The recipe came from an old German lady and she married into an English family, so lets go with your answer of English unless someone has a more informed reply. Semper Fi

 

[35Rem]

do you guys put grill sauce on your steaks or BBQ sauce?

NEITHER!!!! If you GRILL them right, you don't need no stinkin' sauce!

 

[USAF385]

In my area of north east PA, many of us have a lot of eastern European ancestors.. in my case Polish and Ukrainian.... so it's common for me to be grilling kielbasa or zrazy while frying up some pierogi.

 

[gr8AmericanBash]

Originally posted by wbraswell:
This is supposed to be a light hearted thread, so don't anybody get their shorts in a wad. Just join in the commentary.

I'm from Texas, so I'm kind of Southern and kind of Western. The cultures blend around here. So we get a lot of different cuisines. All my life, I've heard of Southern Fried Chicken. Just what DO you Yankees do with a yard bird?
And what the heck is a Boston Baked Bean? Never seen one, even on a menu.
Georgia, are ya'll the ones responsible for this sickeningly sweet swill that some Southerners call tea? That toxin makes Kool Aid look like a diet drink.
Don't believe the chili snobs, we really do put beans in chili, just not a lot and usually smash them first so they don't stand out.
And don't believe the BBQ snobs either, when they tell you Texas BBQ is only brisket. We will smoke any dead critter that will fit on the grill or in the smoker. How bout some smoked armadillo, we like to call it Texas Escargot.

Originally posted by truckemup97:

Originally posted by JOERM:
My wife is from OK, She says us northern folks don't know nothing about BBQ or the difference between BBQ and Grilling.

Your wife is correct.

Grilling is cooking something outside over charcoal or propane. BBQ is a process that involves a spice rub, large chunks of meat (I love brisket, but other things can be BBQ too), and smoking. And I don't mean Camels.

Alright guys, here it is one more time for the uninformed members of Northern persuasion.
And the rest of ya who don't know the difference:

Barbecue (BBQ if you must) is a noun. It is pork that is slow cooked over hot coals for the better part of a day (or night) and served best right off the grill.

Barbecue is never a verb. Cooking is a verb. Grilling is a verb. Barbecue is a noun.
Used in the wrong context just shows ignorance. Or evidence of Yankee upbringing.

 

[USAF385]

Weird.. Merriam-Webster has two listings.. one for Barbecue and one for Barbeque. The former is listed as a verb, the latter a noun.

barbecue
Main Entry:
1bar·be·cue
Pronunciation:
\?bär-bi-?kyü\
Function:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):
bar·be·cued; bar·be·cu·ing

1 : to roast or broil on a rack or revolving spit over or before a source of heat (as hot coals)

2 : to cook in a highly seasoned vinegar sauce


barbeque
Main Entry:
2barbecue
Variant(s):
also bar·be·que
Function:
noun

1 a: a large animal (as a steer) roasted whole or split over an open fire or a fire in a pit b: barbecued food <eat barbecue>
2: a social gathering especially in the open air at which barbecued food is eaten
3: an often portable fireplace over which meat and fish are roasted.


BY THE WAY.... I'm a Yank and proud of it... I just grill.