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Mmmm, that frybread dipped in berry sauce sounds mighty good.
Also like cornbread with berry stuff.
Dang it, I just ate and am now hungry again.
This is Cherokee, but a pretty neat program with some tasty dishes. That thar fried hog jowl was a favorite Sunday breakfast item at my house, growing up. Also was part of the New Year lucky meal (with the black eyes and greens n cornbread). Oh, man, it’s like I’ve never had a meal, I’m so hungry.
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I like the fact that the elders are teaching the next generation about all this. I know our kids have had a learning experience watching Ken do his braintan thing this winter.
Can’t say I have ever had hog jowl, but, we did have plenty of liver…..every week. Can’t stand it now!! That’s a memory best forgotten. But, now you talk greens, beans and cornbread….that’s my language. And for the New Year meal all have to eat them…..we usually have ham or porkchops for the meat.
With the way the gas prices keep going up every few days…..the more we grow at home, the less I have to buy at the grocery store, so we have planted various greens this year to have to eat. Will be sad if we to make the choice between eating or driving to work in the future, eh?
Lots of people in my family are talking about planting gardens. I’m going to have to look into that. The thing is, not only is gas going to get more expensive for us but the trucking companies are going to start going out of business which will mean certain items won’t be avaiable at any price at the stores.
A horse is sounding better all the time.
I used to hate the garden…mainly because my mom MADE me work in it all summer….never given the opportunity to chose what I wanted to do and when or what we planted.
Now I see why she was so adamant about it….with the prices getting higher for food..plus, not knowing what is on our food, it makes that garden she planted that much more precious. She was raised during the depression when they only very limited food for a large family.
And we have even started planting our own stuff…not that we have a big one like my mom does, but, we do have some different stuff. I can see something coming….something has to give because we can’t keep paying these prices with the income not keeping up with rising gas prices and food prices. And going out in my yard and picking my own lettuce, tomatoes, turnips, and spinach…..is very fulfilling. We will be planting the rest later…we have hit a cool spell right now.
Aho
Becky
Mousini78 wrote: Techteach…we still cut off corn for freezing..every year my mom grows about 500-1000 ears.
We blanch it first and then sit down with a pan and cut it off and then scoop the kernels into bags and freeze. My mom does take the raw ears, wrap them in wax paper, then aluminum foil and freeze them that way. Then later they can be unwrapped and microwaved and taste just as good as the day they were picked.
Ed, your talk about shelling the beans brings to mind the shelling of butter beans…if my mom would let them mature a bit more I would probably like them better….LOL. She picks them barely grown and then tries to shell them…talk about aching thumbs…WOW! Now shelling peas like cowpeas, crowders…purple hulls, those I can do while talking or watching tv. My mom calls it her resting work.
Ok, making list of all those that love to shell and shuck…you can expect a phone call about mid July…..
Aho
Becky
Wow, Becky–mmm, mmm, mmm! I was waiting for somebody to come in with these peas! Crowder peas, pigeon peas, field peas… yum, yummy!
Yeah, shelling peas was “kid-friendly” labor. I loved to do it! Unfortunately, you can only get these at the farmer’s market now. Even out there, not everybody carries them. They’re often of poor quality, too.:(
It’s that time of the year for fried corn! Fried up in bacon grease–best stuff ever! Yeah, it’s messy to get those kernels off but so worth it. BTW, I ordered a bread pan from William-Sonoma and they sent me a catalog that had a corn kernel catcher in it. My Mom was trying to get me to get it–“as much fried corn as you eat!”. No thanks, a knife and a rag to clean up afterward works just fine.
Speaking of food, what about salt pork? Sliced, boiled, and fried?
Pigs are the only good thing de Soto left behind for us!
(Yikes–like I really need to be gobbling this stuff!)
I always say, “The only thing that will kill you more than smoking is salt pork, gravy, and fried potatoes.”
I live in the desert, on the side of a steep hill, so what isn’t sheer rock is under the shade of trees. The flattest sunny spot on my property is the roof of the house.
Needless to say, gardening options are few for me. Water rates doubled this winter, so I killed as much as my lawn as I could without creating a dust bowl and planted native desert plants (why water something you gotto cut and can’t eat?). I’m still terrified to see what my water bill will be in the summer though. So far its been unusualy cold, but its supposed to be pushing 100F in a few days.
So I just finished digging up more lawn remnents and planted watermelon, lettuce, squash, and onions, also got pots of strawberries and tomatos. Corn just don’t grow here.
Our corn time has not hit here yet…around July for us. Well, you can find some in the grocery store, but, I shy away from that because it’s usually dried out and stale. Never tried it fried…may have to do that this year. We usually have some bacon grease around since I alternate between sausage and bacon on the Sundays.
Don’t do salt pork, would rather season with bacon grease or chicken stock. Now Ken loves fried fatback……my fav is the RIBS!!
Tanya….you have the same sentiments about grass I do….can’t stand the stuff. We are planting flowers or food as much as we can to eliminate the grass. Will keep enough for the circle, though. We have been blessed with some warm weather but so far have had the cool nights to balance off the hot days. I was thinking on the way in that I need to get my herb garden planted and soon. I have the seeds just haven’t gotten them in the ground because of the wet, cool weather the last two weeks.
I love hearing all of your food traditions…having grown up in the West (MT) and now living in the Midwest (MN) I don’t have much that resembles what you all shared. See in Montana, we were pretty much meat and potatoes…the meat could be Beef, Pork, Moose, Elk, Deer…and always potaoes, cooked many different ways. Even now, I hold to this as I really dislike Hot Dishes (pasta, rice or something mixed together with many other things)…I just can’t do it…lol. We did eat all kinds of veggies, only a couple I don’t care for…yellow wax beans and beets…I’ll eat all the rest. One of my favorites growing up was hominy…and it worked great for catching cutthroat (trout). We eat a lot of fish…spend time in the Boundary Waters (N. Minnesota Arrowhead)…trout, walleye, bass, northern pike…it is my favorite meat:)
Now, about that Southern cookin’…I love it!:) The only place I can find grits around here is Wal-mart…and a small local cafe. We stopped at this little cafe in WV, Sally Joe’s diner I think…what an awesome breakfast…enough to keep one going all day long. One of my dad’s faves is biscuits and gravy…me too:)
Hope I haven’t bored you too much…but wanted to share anyway.
Shirley
You may not believe this but, my favorite breakfast is French Toast (plain with just eggs) with bacon and tomatoes between the slices, smothered in syrup and coated with black pepper and a little salt.
I’ve only met one other person, who lived in Missouri, who ate it this way.
Mmm, Shirley. T-r-o-u-t!!
One of my favorite bad-for-ya breakfasts is gravy and homegrown maters, with homemade biscuits. Yum!
Also good is a mater and butter biscuit. Or grits n butter with maters.
Not really a fan of frying things that don’t need it, so will stick to fresh corn on the cob, preferably the crispy white kind. With a side of homegrown maters, of course. ;~)
Ya know I had never had a mater and butter biscuit until the 90s….of course, my mama wasn’t a biscuit maker. Really missed out growing up, I guess….love ’em now. Or throw some ‘lasses on it……Ken’s favorite.
Hey, what can I say??? I was raised in the south……fried everything……so ya don’t eat fried maters???
Shirley, just started eating hominy when my first SIL came along…and then when we started making three sister’s soup…..I will never forget my first taste of that soup….Forest made it for the pow wow where Ken proposed.
so ya don’t eat fried maters???
Hey Becky. No, I don’t care for them.
Fried taters is another story, though. With onions and a little garlic.
Mmm, hominy!
Isn’t that 3 sisters soup beans, squash and corn? My mom used to make that, called it sucatash. Anyone ever eat bean bread? Grandma made that for me when I was a kid and I loved it, but everytime I try to make it, it comes out nasty.
I eat grits several times a week. Lately, I’ve been cooking a whole pile of it every Sunday, then I feed off of it for breakfast for a week. My grandpa lives in Meadows of Dan VA, just down the road from Mabry Mill were he buys these bags of grits that take forever to cook. He sends me a huge box every year. Taste beter than any grits I can buy here.
One of my favorite breakfasts is eggs, spam, and rice. Actually, thats also a favorite dinner. And lunch.
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