Post: #1

you better eat your black-eyed peas on New Years Day for luck. my mom MADE me eat the damn things, so i bought some today. i think i'm supposed to eat some greens too. Cracker?

Post: #2

Yup. Black eyed peas and greens. I eat collards, hate mustard greens and turnip greens. It has something to do with money and luck coming to you in the new year. I have heard 1.) peas are coins and collards are dollars, 2.) collards are dollars and peas are luck.

The secret to good collards is hard fried salt pork or fat back, not ham hock. Families that go way back use salt pork.

Cracklin corn bread is the correct accompaniment.

Cracklins:


Cracklin are one of two things: the hard fried pieces of rind made especially to be cracklins, or the REAL deal, hard bark scraped off the outside of the smoked pig that you can only get at good BBQ places. The place I eat has the cracklins on the condiment bar by the dill pickle slices, onions, extra sauces (including the spicy mustard sauce I love), and pepper rings.

Canned peas are ok to fix (southern term similar to cooking, but not made from scratch) if you doll them up, but no matter what you read, collards have to cook for way more than an hour and canned collards are NOT ok.

Post: #3

will you be my Mom?

i love collard greens, and have always used salt pork like my Mom did.
and cracklin' from the pork shoulder roast was a treat! crisp and broken up and salted. mmmmm! pigskin! not just for footballs! hahaha

Post: #4

We've had blackeyed peas and greens every New Years for as long as I can remember. Even if we're on vacation at a hotel I'll still run out to the nearest grocery store and buy a crappy can of blackeyed peas and greens so we can all at least take one bite.

Post: #5

(12-29-2011 03:33 PM)Lady Cop Wrote:  will you be my Mom?

Yes, and I will fry you up extra salt pork with the rind cut off.

Post: #6

nope, my Mom left the rind on. and we ate it.
growing up the kitchen was great, my Southern Mom, my Italian Grandma, they got in each others' face more than once (my poor Dad) but WOW what food!

Post: #7

They call it strickolean in the soul food restaurants downtown by the projects. Best food ever, just don't eat the pork dishes or soups (pigs feet, ears, and chitterlings in them).

Post: #8

My Dad's mom is a true Southern Belle. Born in Galveston, TX. Currently 87 years old and lives in Biloxi, MS.

I've been there many, many times and have always enjoyed Southern hospitality. I've never really eaten 'true' southern food (collard greens, grits), though I guess Catfish and 'crawdaddy's' would count.

I also lived in the Texas Metroplex for a couple of years, and loved it (I should say the women, in particular). What a mix! Country girls, city girls, latinas, etc. What a blast!

Don't like fireants. I've stepped in their anthills on two different occasions and it could've been one of the worst things I've ever done. NOT recommended.

My grandparents had a home on a golf course that was set among the bayou's of MS. Pretty, pretty scenery.

Post: #9

I'll start mine simmerin saturday morning sometime, have a bowl for breakfast sunday and hit the road.

Post: #10

I'm about as Southern as you can get (Chula Vista, California) and I wouldn't touch that nasty ass shit with my cat's asshole.

Post: #11

(12-29-2011 08:11 PM)Smegma Wrote:  I'm about as Southern as you can get (Chula Vista, California) and I wouldn't touch that nasty ass shit with my cat's asshole.

I have NEVER classified a Californian as 'Southern'.

I also don't blame you for NOT subjecting your cat to some of that food.

Post: #12

Well, geographically speaking, that's pretty Southern, amirite?

Post: #13

(12-29-2011 08:17 PM)Smegma Wrote:  Well, geographically speaking, that's pretty Southern, amirite?

It's pretty far WEST. Are you drinking?

Post: #14

What the fuck does West have to do with South? Are you stupid?