I love cooking and I love eating! My favorite foods are Southern, down-home foods that I grew up eating. My mother always had cornbread with almost every meal, and none of this jiffy sweet yellow cornbread either..it was the real deal! I like fried chicken. collards, black eyed peas, bar-b-q-(yes that is a food not just a way of cooking). I decided to search for some southern cooking websites today, for ideas on this week's menu. It's a little harder than I thought. For all you people out there that want to learn southern cooking, let me give you a list of things generally not found in your recipes.
1. Olive oil- We use butter, Crisco or other type of cooking oil. We tend to use a lot of oil, and it wouldn't be economical to spend 7 or 8 bucks on olive oil for one meal.
2. cooking spray-see above
3. shallots WHAT the hell is a shallot??
4. cilantro, lime and any mixture of things involving those two, or like items. I understand out west this may be acceptable, but then in my opinion it becomes southwest cooking not southern cooking.
5. There is absolutely nothing wrong with bacon grease of fat back used as a flavor enhancer!
All of these things should go without saying, but if you look up southern cooking, you will find all sorts of sites claiming to be just that, with all sorts of yankee-type recipes.
