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Three sisters is indeed squash, corn, and beans. I am the name comes from the idea that when planted in a triangle the plants each supply nutrients that the others need to grow and produce thereby supporting each other. Hence the name Three Sisiters.
I have never heard of grits in a pie form. How does that work?
The Mabrys who started that mill were ancestors of my wife. Small world isn’t it?
I remember liking Spam when I was a kid. Tried it again a few years back as a demo for my kids and none of us liked it. Never tried that again.
My grandpa lives in Meadows of Dan VA, just down the road from Mabry Mill
The Mabrys who started that mill were ancestors of my wife. Small world isn’t it?
Wow, y’all, very small world. At the least, your kinfolk were my family’s neighbors. One of the Pucketts (from down the road thar) lived next door to us for awhile, down in Collinsville. One day maybe we can feast together on some buckwheat pancakes at that restaurant by the mill. Their coffee is the best anywhere, too.
Tanya got me wanting to go get some of them good grits. They make a good supper food, too. Throw some cheese in ’em. Have with some home-grown maters. ;~)
LOL…Jack, sweetie, clean off your screen or get another cup of coffee….it was PILE of grits. That’s how we eat ’em here….with cheese…yumm. And then I do take the leftover grits and add some egg and more cheese and then bake them in the oven until they are set, making a grits casserole. That is really good for a supper with some greens and such. Side note: Keep uncooked grits in the freezer or frig to keep the bugs out of ’em.
Don’t do Spam….nope….a childhood thing, too.
Three Sister’s can grow together, but you have to get the corn going first or the other two will take over. We tried it last year, but, with the drought, didn’t have much luck. When I make the soup I use corn/hominy, yellow squash, and any type dry bean. Add some chicken stock and onions….simmer until done….add a big pone of cornbread…yumm. You can also add any type meat you want for some added flavor.
Mmmm…succotash…love it….and mom used to make a succotash pie too….and grits well, mom and dad both ate that alot but I never cared for grits too much. I do enjoy fried potatoe cakes…the kind that were made with leftover mashed potatoes and fried up with onions etc into a patty. As to homemade buscuits and gravy for breakfast that is MY all time fave….learned how to make that before I was old enough to even go to school…and my youngest, who is 4 just loves it too. We ate alot of greens and of course hominy. Since mom grew up in KY and we visited every summer and fall I came to enjoy the “home cookin” from a very early age. I used to eat Spam when I was younger too Jack but I can’t get past the LOOK nor Smell of it now….we also ate that nasty Underwood Devilled Ham that came in tiny lil cans too…we’d spread it on toast with a huge dollup of mustard…what were we thinking? I remember mom making alot of Salmon croquets too….and this dish she called Vichishwa (dunno how in heck that is spelled) but it was gross: it was vienna toast with bacon strips on top…then fresh cut tomatoe slices and then this very yellow neaon orange cheese sauce ladelled over it…Lord, I hated that stuff. I remember her serving lamb too…served with this mint green jelly…the thought made me queasy as a kid. Mom worked as a cook and then as a chef all her life so she really did make a very varied selection of foods. I recall dandelion greens and Kale alot and mustard and collard greens…and she also had a way with dandelion wine. We always wintered down with snow cream of course…vanilla is my fave. I never did care for frog legs and only as an adult learned to enjoy fish. I think I od’d on homemade turtle soup back in the 70’s….enough is enough of that! My brother remembers turtle days in KY…when the boys and men woudl head out with gunny sacks and not come back til late in the day with bags full…then we gals and teh ladies would have big pots ready for steaming and cooking…after the lil turtles were cracked out of their shells…it was pitiful but no doubt a neccessity but it was gruesome nonetheless. Corn bread in a cast iron skillet can’t be beat in my opinion…and soup beans with a ham hock rock to this day. Sorry to ramble….toodles…enjoy~~~~Laurie
Just gotta say….70’s today, things are really starting to pop! It is almost time…here in MN anyway to get my herbs in…don’t plant veggies, my mom always plants way too many, and how many maters, cukes, zukes, peppers, etc can even a spry 85 year-old eat?? I always end up with oodles:)
My mom said that her mother would cook everything that was shot wild or killed on the farm as such: soak in salt water to draw out the blood, then boil and bake with onions and stuff till golden brown on top. She has eaten just about everything and she said that it always tasted very good!!! All I can say is thank God for Moms (smile)!!!
I don’t know if I could get behind eating a turtle. Mainly because most of them are old beings and I just won’t eat something older than me. Out of respect, I guess. They do eat them here in Chiefland FL. They call them cooter and every year they have a Cooter Feast where they fry up turtle. I haven’t made it there.
Shame on you guys hatin’ Spam!:D
Okay–I can’t stand it now, either. And my mother just asked me to pick her some up at the grocery store!:eek: Used to eat the little cans of Underwood Deviled Ham, too–spread on crackers. Used to eat chopped canned sardines on crackers, too. Vienna sausages. Had to be Ritz crackers. True “cracker” cuisine!
Can’t stand canned meat anymore.
Hoe cakes anybody? Fish-frying Fridays?
Anybody’s family make a regular practice of eating local honey? Nanni and I would go pick some up from a place. I’d be terrified because of all the bees there but I’d brave it anyway for the free piece of honeycomb I always got from the beekeeper!
I must say those little oysters in a can are good on a cracker smothered with Texas Pete. I have a Japanese friend who is now addicted to them like that.
I admit that I am a picky eater, but when I was younger we would have fried frog legs (they would be quivering in the pan) and turtle soup…both were very good. I would eat them today if given the chance.
Going to go to the lake soon, where our ancestors originated and the little clams there are sooo tasty, just ask Linda. I had left here my supply of clams, by mistake, and well she ate them up. I told her to pop them on the grill and melt a little butter with garlic, slice of lemon on the side. I’ll bet that we will be getting some more this year! 🙂
I’ve eaten rattlesnake, bear, elk, deer, rabbit, squirrel, grasshoppers, ants, frogs, etc, but never turtles. What would the earth sit on?
I have had family members tell me that a squirrel has to be in Brunswick Stew or else it would not be called that. That was interesting but made sense because of the white meat and using what you had!
I read somewhere that Brunswick Stew originally contained rabbit and squirrel also. I read this a loooonnnggg time ago so, I can not remember the source. But, I’ll bet it was a cookbook of some sort.
I’ve made helmet stew before, which is the USMC version of hobo stew cooked in the metal part of a combat helmet. The supply section hated when we did that.
John Lawson, in his explorations of the Upper South tribes ca. 1711, mentioned a dish with lima beans, tomatoes, corn and squirrel.
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